Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 91

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Preface

L iterature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC) presents critical discussion of world literature from the ﬁfteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The literature of this period is especially vital: the years 1400 to 1800 saw the rise of modern European drama, the birth of the novel and personal essay forms, the emergence of newspapers and periodicals, and major achievements in poetry and philosophy. LC provides valuable insight into the art, life, thought, and cultural transformations that took place during these centuries.

Scope of the Series

LC provides an introduction to the great poets, dramatists, novelists, essayists, and philosophers of the ﬁfteenth through eighteenth centuries, and to the most signiﬁcant interpretations of these authors’ works. Because criticism of this literature spans nearly six hundred years, an overwhelming amount of scholarship confronts the student. LC organizes this material concisely and logically. Every attempt is made to reprint the most noteworthy, relevant, and educationally valuable essays available.

A separate Gale reference series, Shakespearean Criticism, is devoted exclusively to Shakespearean studies. Although properly belonging to the period covered in LC, William Shakespeare has inspired such a tremendous and ever-growing body of secondary material that a separate series was deemed essential.

Each entry in LC presents a representative selection of critical response to an author, a literary topic, or to a single important work of literature. Early commentary is offered to indicate initial responses, later selections document changes in literary reputations, and retrospective analyses provide the reader with modern views. The size of each author entry is a relative reﬂection of the scope of the criticism available in English. Every attempt has been made to identify and include the seminal essays on each author’s work and to include recent commentary providing modern perspectives.

Volumes 1 through 12 of the series feature author entries arranged alphabetically by author. Volumes 13-47 of the series feature a thematic arrangement. Each volume includes an entry devoted to the general study of a speciﬁc literary or philosophical movement, writings surrounding important political and historical events, the philosophy and art associated with eras of cultural transformation, or the literature of speciﬁc social or ethnic groups. Each of these volumes also includes several author entries devoted to major representatives of the featured period, genre, or national literature. With volume 48, the series returns to a standard author approach, with some entries devoted to a single important work of world literature and others devoted to literary topics.

Organization of the Book

An LC entry consists of the following elements:

© The Author Heading cites the name under which the author most commonly wrote, followed by birth and death dates. Also located here are any name variations under which an author wrote, including transliterated forms for authors whose native languages use nonroman alphabets. If the author wrote consistently under a pseudonym, the pseudonym will be listed in the author heading and the author’s actual name given in parenthesis on the ﬁrst line of the biographical and critical information. Uncertain birth or death dates are indicated by question marks. Topic entries are preceded by a Thematic Heading, which simply states the subject of the entry. Single-work entries are preceded by the title of the work and its date of publication.

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1931. © 1931 Yale University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Hume, Robert D. From The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century. Clarendon Press, 1976. © Oxford University Press 1976. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Huntley, Frank Livingstone. From Bishop Joseph Hall, 15741656: A Biographical and Critical Study. D. S. Brewer Ltd., 1979. © 1979 Frank Livingstone Huntley. Reproduced by permission.—Kaufmann, U. Milo. From The Pilgrim’s Progress and Traditions in Puritan Meditation. Yale University Press, 1966. Copyright © 1966 Yale University Press. Reproduced by permission.—McCabe, Richard A. From Joseph Hall: A Study in Satire and Meditation. Clarendon Press, 1982. © Richard A. McCabe 1982. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Meakin, H. L. From John Donne’s Articulations of the Feminine. Clarendon Press, 1998. © Oxford University Press, 1998. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Sabine, Maureen. From ‘Desire of More’: The Subject of Anne More Donne in His Poetry. Edited by M. Thomas Hester. University of Delaware Press, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Staves, Susan. From Players’ Scepters: Fictions of Authority in the Restoration. University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by the University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Tourney, Leonard D. From Joseph Hall. Twayne Publishers, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by G. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.

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Donne, John, illustration. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Hall, Joseph, bishop of Norwich, engraving. Mary Evans Picture Library. Reproduced by permission.

Literary Criticism Series Advisory Board

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Dr. Toby Burrows Mary Jane Marden

Principal Librarian Literature and General Reference Librarian The Scholars’ Centre St. Petersburg Jr. College University of Western Australia Library

Mark Schumacher David M. Durant

Jackson Library Joyner Library

East Carolina University University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Steven R. Harris Gwen Scott-Miller

English Literature Librarian Assistant Director of Materials and Programming University of Tennessee Sno-Isle Regional Library System