The Seventeenth – Century Literature Handbook

<i>The Seventeenth Century Handbook</i> 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>