The Oxford handbook of John Donne

The Oxford handbook of John Donne / edited by Jeanne Shami, Dennis Flynn, and M. Thomas Hester.

With over 50 newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars, 'The Oxford Handbook of John Donne' links past scholarship with current and future re-definitions to provide a distinctive response to Donne and the significance of his work, and forms an essential contribution to...

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Other Authors: Shami, Jeanne, Flynn, Dennis, Hester, M. Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Donne, John, > 1572-1631 > Criticism and interpretation.
Donne, John, > 1572-1631
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • General introduction / Jeanne Shami, M. Thomas Hester, and Dennis Flynn
  • Introduction / Jeanne Shami
  • The composition and dissemination of Donne's writings / Gary A. Stringer
  • John Donne's seventeenth-century readers / Ernest W. Sullivan
  • Archival research / Lara M. Crowley
  • Editing Donne's poetry : from John Marriot to the Donne Variorum / Gary A. Stringer
  • Editing Donne's poetry : the Donne Variorum and beyond / Richard Todd
  • Modern scholarly editions of the prose of John Donne / Ernest W. Sullivan
  • Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies / Donald R. Dickson
  • Collaboration and the international scholarly community / Hugh Adlington
  • Introduction / Heather Dubrow and M. Thomas Hester
  • The epigram / M. Thomas Hester
  • The formal verse satire / Gregory Kneidel
  • The elegy / R.V. Young
  • The paradox / Michael W. Price
  • The paradox : Biathanatos / Ernest W. Sullivan
  • Menippean Donne / Anne Lake Prescott
  • The love lyric / Dayton Haskin
  • The verse letter / Margaret Maurer
  • The religious sonnet / R.V. Young
  • Liturgical poetry / Kirsten Stirling
  • The problem / Michael W. Price
  • The controversial treatise / Graham Roebuck
  • The essay / Jeffrey Johnson
  • The anniversary poem / Graham Roebuck
  • The epicede and obsequy / Claude J. Summers
  • The epithalamion / Camille Wells Slights
  • The devotion / Kate Narveson
  • The sermon / Jeanne Shami
  • The prose letter / Margaret Maurer
  • Introduction / Dennis Flynn and Jeanne Shami
  • The English Reformation in the mid-Elizabethan period / Patrick Collinson
  • Donne's family background, birth, and early years / Dennis Flynn
  • Education as a courtier / Alexandra Gajda
  • Donne's education / Dennis Flynn
  • Donne's military career / Albert C. Labriola
  • The Earl of Essex and English expeditionary forces / Paul E.J. Hammer
  • Donne and Egerton : the court and courtship / Steven W. May
  • Donne and late Elizabethan court politics / Andrew Gordon
  • Donne's wedding and the Pyrford years / Dennis Flynn
  • New horizons in the early Jacobean period / Anthony Milton
  • The death of Robert Cecil : end of an era / Johann Sommerville
  • Donne's travels and earliest publications / Dennis Flynn
  • Donne's decision to take orders / Jeanne Shami
  • The rise of the Howards at court / Alastair Bellany
  • Donne and court chaplaincy / Peter McCullough
  • The hazards of the Jacobean court / Kenneth Fincham
  • Donne's readership at Lincoln's Inn and the Doncaster embassy / Emma Rhatigan
  • International politics and Jacobean statecraft / Malcolm Smuts
  • Donne : the final period / Clayton D. Lein
  • Donne, the patriot cause, and war, 1620-1629 / Simon Healy
  • The English nation in 1631 / Arnold Hunt
  • The death of Donne / Alison Shell
  • Introduction / Dennis Flynn
  • Donne and apostasy / Achsah Guibbory
  • Donne, women, and the spectre of misogyny / Theresa M. DiPasquale
  • Donne's absolutism / Debora Shuger
  • Style, wit, prosody in the poetry of John Donne / Albert C. Labriola
  • Do Donne's writings express his desperate ambition? / Hugh Adlington
  • "By parting have joyn'd here" : the story of the two (or more) Donnes / Judith Scherer Herz
  • Danger and discourse / Lynne Magnusson.

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