Secondary Reading: 17th Century Literature

Secondary  Readings

We will spend the first week talking about contexts. During the semester you will be asked to read sections of two key secondary sources and take notes. You will need to know about these throughout the semester in order to understand the texts.

Kishlansky, Mark A. A monarchy transformed : Britain 1603-1714. London : New York : Penguin Books, 1997, c1996 . DA 375 K55 1997

Smith, David L. A history of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707 : the double crown. Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, c1998: DA 375 S63 1998.

Thanks to the efforts of Luminarium.org,  there are links to essays on Early 17th Century English Literature available freely to you here. NB: There are some great essays on Wroth, Cavendish and Phillips.  Please be sure to cite all your borrowings. 

There is a dedicated Anne Bradstreet page with all of her poems and a bibliography that you can access here.  

Here is an article by Edward Carr on Jonson's The Masque of Blackness. 

A Selection of Supplementary Reading Materials:

Hoxby, Blair. "The Wisdom of their Feer: Meaningful Dance in Milton and the Stuart Masque." English Literary Renaissance 37: (2007), pp. 74-99.

Boose, Lynda E. "'The Getting of a Lawful Race': Racial Discourse in Early Modern England and the Unrepresentable Black Woman". In: Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker (eds.). Women, 'Race,' and Writing in the Early Modern Period. London/New York 1994, pp. 35-54.

General:

Achinstein, Sharon. 'Milton', pp. 130-53 in Literature and Dissent in Milton's England (Cambridge UP, 2003).  

Barash, Carol. 'Women's Community and the Exiled King: Katherine Philip's Society of Friendship'  in English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714 (OUP, 1997), pp. 55-100.

Beal, Peter. '`The virtuous Mrs Philips' and 'that whore Castlemaine': Orinda and her Apotheosis, 1664-1668' in In Praise Of Scribes (OUP, 1998), pp. 147-191.

Butler, Martin. “Ben Jonson and the Limits of Courtly Panegyric.” pp. 91-116 in Kevin Sharpe and Peter Lake (eds), Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England (Basingstoke, 1993).

- - -, ‘Courtly Negotiations’, pp. 20-40 in David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (eds.), The Politics of the Stuart    Court Masque Cambridge, 1998).

Corns, Tom, A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature (London: Blackwell, 2007)

Daems, Jim, Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture (London: Continuum, 2006)

Danielson, Dennis. The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1997.

Ford, Boris, ed., The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: Donne to Marvell (London: Penguin, 1982)

Friedman, Donald. 'Marvell' in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell. ed. Thomas N. Corns (Cambridge University Press, 1993). 

*Grossman, Marshall. The Seventeenth Century Literature Handbook. (Wiley-Blackwell: London, 2011. You should read Part 1 of this text. It is on reserve in the library.

Hamilton, Donna B., A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006)

Hattaway, Michael, ed., A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

Hebron, Malcolm, Key Concepts in Renaissance Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008)

Hopkins, Lisa, and Matthew Steggle, eds., Renaissance Literature and Culture (London: Continuum, 2006)

Lewalski, Barbara. ‘Enacting Opposition: Queen Anne and the Subversions of Masquing’ in Writing Women in Jacobean England (Harvard, 1993), pp. 15-43.

Loewenstein, David and Mueller, Deborah, eds., The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Parry, Graham, The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700 (London: Longman, 1989)

Scott-Warren, Jason, Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005)

*Shell, Alison and Arnold Hunt, “Donne’s Political World” in The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, ed. Aschah Guibbory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). This book is on reserve in the Booth UC library.

Shohet, Lauren. Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Strong, Roy. Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals, 1450-1650. University of California Press: Berkley, 1984.

Wynne-Davies, Marion, Sidney to Milton, 1580-1660 (London: Palgrave, 2003)

Zwicker, Steven, ed., The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Early Modern Utopias 
Cambridge University hosts this site devoted to Utopian writing. It provides a detailed bibliography.
Luminarium has a lengthy list of articles and MA dissertations on Margaret Cavendish available .

Albanese, Denis.  New Science, New World. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

Appelbaum, Robert. Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Boesky, Amy. Founding Fictions: Utopias in Early Modern England. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Davies, J C . Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Houston, Chloë, ed. New worlds reflected: travel and utopia in the early modern period. Ashgate, 2010.

Hughes, Derek ed. Versions of Blackness: key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century. Cambridge UP, 2007.

Kenyon, Timothy. Utopian Communism and Political Thought in Early Modern England. 1989.

Logan, George M. The Meaning of More's Utopia. Princeton University Press, 1983.

McKnight, Stephen A (ed). Science, Pseudo-Science and Utopianism in Early Modern Thought. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992.

Price, Bronwen (ed). Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis: New interdisciplinaary essays. Manchester University Press. 2003.

Sarasohn, Lisa T. The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish: Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 

Scheckter, John. The Isle of Pines, 1668: Henry Neville's Uncertain Utopia. Ashgate, 2011.