Detailed Table of Contents

General Editors’ Introduction

1 Introduction Eric J. Sterling Pre-Civil War Literature by and about Women Restoration Literature by and about Women Literature and Science (Fiction) Literature and World Exploration Literature and Death Literature and Carpe Diem Metaphysical Poetry Literature and Religion Literature, Satire, and Social Class Restoration Political Satire Restoration Dramatic Satire Uses of this Handbook

2 The Seventeenth-Century Timeline Deborah Cosier Solomon 3 Historical Contexts Richard Harp Introduction The Sixteenth-Century Background to the Civil War The Road to Civil War: Philosophy and Political Thought The Road to Civil War: Church and State in the Reign of James I The Road to Civil War: Church and State in the Reign of Charles I The Road to Civil War: Arts and Popular Culture The Civil War The Era of Oliver Cromwell Church and State, 1660–1888 London London as Trade Center Science

4 Literary and Cultural Contexts Brian Blackley and Lara M. Crowley Figures: Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Aphra Behn (1640–1689) Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) King Charles II (1630–1685) John Donne (1572–1631) John Dryden (1631–1700) George Herbert (1593–1633) Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) King James VI & I (1566–1625) Ben Jonson (1572–1637) John Locke (1632–1704) Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) John Milton (1608–1674) John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Genres, Movements, and Contexts: Cavalier Poetry The Civil War and the Interregnum Manuscript and Print Culture Masques Metaphysical Poetry Restoration Comedy The Royal Society

5 Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts Matthew Steggle Close Reading Reading Closely to Establish Meaning Case Study 1. John Donne, ‘The Flea’ (printed 1633) Reading Closely with Computer Assistance and for Performance Criticism Case Study 2. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (1613, 1623) Reading Closely for an Examination Case Study 3. John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) Reading Closely to Establish an Independent Critical Perspective Case Study 4. William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675)

6 Case Studies in Reading Critical Texts: Four Classics of Scholarship James Hirsh Stanley Fish, Self-Consuming Artifacts (1972) Barbara Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1979) Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy (1984, 1993) Leah Marcus, The Politics of Mirth (1986) Concluding Comments

7 Key Critical Concepts and Topics Nancy Mohrlock Bunker and James S. Baumlin Blank Verse/Heroic Couplet Caroline Comedy City Comedy Closet Drama Comedy of Humours Comedy: ‘old’ vs. ‘new’ Commedia dell’arte/ commedia erudita Country House Poem Elegy Formal Satire Genre Heroic Drama Ignatian Meditation Imitation Jacobean Comedy Jacobean Tragedy Masque Neoclassicism Pamphlets Prophetic Mode Protestant Poetics Restoration Comedy Restoration Drama Revenge Tragedy Romantic Comedy Tragedy Tragicomedy Wit

8 Fourteen Ways of Looking at Literature: A Survey of Current Approaches Robert C. Evans Traditional Historical Criticism Thematic Criticism Formalist Criticism (Anglo-American ‘New Criticism’) Psychoanalytic Criticism Archetypal (or ‘Myth’) Criticism Marxist Criticism Structuralist Criticism Feminist Criticism Deconstructive Criticism Reader-Response Criticism Dialogical Criticism New Historicist Criticism Multicultural Criticism Postmodernist Criticism

9 Changes in the Canon Bruce Boehrer New Attention to the ‘Minor’ Works of Major Authors New Consideration of ‘Non-Literary’ Genres New Attention to Previously ‘Neglected’ Authors Developments in Bibliographical and Editorial Scholarship

10 Issues of Sexuality, Gender, and Ethnicity Robert C. Evans and Eric J. Sterling Recent Trends Writings by and about Women Writings by and about ‘Homosexuals’ Writings by and about Members of Ethnic and Racial Minorities 11 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape: Seventeenth-Century English Literature Albert C. Labriola The New Historicism Feminist Criticism Gay and Lesbian Studies Ecocriticism Conclusion

Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terminology Laura Schechter

Appendix: Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning Julie Sutherland (Available at www.continuumbooks.com/resources/9780826498502) Core Topics and Sample Writers: Texts and Contexts Books and Articles on Teaching Seventeenth-Century Literature The Internet Films Final Words

Notes on Contributors Notes Annotated Bibliography Jonathan Wright Index