• ISBN13: 9780631220916
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
• Publication Date: June 15, 2011
• Pages: 432
• Original Price: 50.95 USD
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 622 grams

About the Book The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time. <ul> <li>Provides a coherent narrative of the entire century of literary history as well as an easy-to-use guide to the principal literary works and figures</li> <li>Offers an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time</li> <li>Describes the continuities as well as the radical changes in this century of civil war and reformation</li> <li>Combines a central narrative account of "texts and contexts" with a selection of brief essays on key texts and topics</li> <li>Includes an alphabetical selection of capsule descriptions of important writers</li> </ul>