Finding Books - LITR 314 - English Renaissance Prose and Poetry 1500-1660 - Research Guides at Eastern Michigan University

Search for Books

Relevant Call Numbers

If you like to browse the shelves, many books on the literature of the English Renaissance fall within the following call number ranges (on the Third Floor of the library):

PR 421-429 History of English Renaissance literature

PR 521-541 Poetry of the English Renaissance

PR 2199-3195 Literature written during the English Renaissance

Recommended Titles

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage by M. Floyd-Wilson
Call Number: PR2965 .F56 2013, Third Level
Publication Date: 2013
Explores belief in the occult in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world.
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy by E. Smith
Call Number: PR658.T7 C36 2010, Third Level
Publication Date: 2010
Combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical texts.
Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imagery of Early Modern England by P. Herman
Call Number: PR535.K56 H47 2010; Third Level
Publication Date: 2010
Addresses the poems produced by the Tudor-Stuart monarchs, which often revealed the need to defend themselves against opposition. Places monarchic verse within the visual and other cultural traditions of the day.
The Sacred and Profane in English Renaissance Literature by M. Papazian (Editor)
Call Number: PR438.D48 S325 2008, Third Level
Publication Date: 2008
Addresses the intertwining of the sacred and profane in early modern English literature.
A Companion to Renaissance Poetry by Catherine Bates
ISBN: 9781118585191
Publication Date: 2018
A Companion to Renaissance Poetry analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more.
The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel by Rachel A. Kent
ISBN: 9781137541338
Publication Date: 2015
Dramatically refreshing the age-old debate about the novel's origins and purpose, Kent traces the origin of the modern novel to a late medieval fascination with the wounded, and often eroticized, body of Christ.
A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies by John Lee (Editor)
ISBN: 9781118458785
Publication Date: 2017
Provides an overview of literary theory, beyond Shakespeare, focusing on most major figures, as well as some lesser-known writers of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney (Editor); Thomas Warren Hopper (Editor)
ISBN: 9781118824030
Publication Date: 2017
A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period.
Literature and the Scottish Reformation by Crawford Gribben (Editor); David George Mullan
Publication Date: 2009
This collection launches a full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between literature and reformation in early modern Scotland.
Poet of Revolution by N. McDowell
Publication Date: 2020
Provides a new account of the poet's political radicalization -- how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton's program of self-education to instill the beliefs that would shape both his political prose and later epic masterpiece.