Overview
John Kerrigan is one of the foremost critics of English literature. This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figures as Sir Philip Sidney and Milton, but also less celebrated writers, including Thomas Carew and - in a new piece - William Drummond, to reconfigure the familiar and help extend the canon. Shakespeare looms large; his plays and poems, and his influence on Keats, are the subject of half the book. But themes and issues are pursued from the 1580s to the late Restoration. Kerrigan acutely reassesses the nature of early modern texts-their production and reconstruction by writers, printers, theatre companies, and readers-and their relationship with socio-political circumstance.This original and eloquent book shows what criticism can do when closely engaged with verbal fabric and form. Always alert to the scholarly and theoretical debates that have raged within literary studies, it concentrates on drawing out the distinctive qualities of poems and plays.
Full Product Details
Author: John Kerrigan (, Professor of English 2000 at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.362kg
ISBN: 9780199269174
ISBN 10: 0199269173
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 05 February 2004
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
John Kerrigan is a close reader with a broad knowledge, ready with the big picture and the small detail. --Leonard R.N. Ashley, Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance<br> .,. John Kerrigan's pithy and polymathic essays in On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature (reissued in paperback)...an enthusiastic piece on 'Shakespeare as Reviser' and a more cautious one on 'The Editor as Reader.' --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900<br> These essays consolidate Kerrigan's position as one of the outstanding scholars of the English Renaissance of his generation. --Times Literary Supplement<br>
<br> John Kerrigan is a close reader with a broad knowledge, ready with the big picture and the small detail. --Leonard R.N. Ashley, Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance<br>. ..John Kerrigan's pithy and polymathic essays in On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature (reissued in paperback)...an enthusiastic piece on 'Shakespeare as Reviser' and a more cautious one on 'The Editor as Reader.' --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900<br> These essays consolidate Kerrigan's position as one of the outstanding scholars of the English Renaissance of his generation. --Times Literary Supplement<br>
