Overview
The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. OHOPE both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes.By taking as its purview the full seventeenth century, 1603-1700, this volume re-draws the existing literary historical map and expands upon recent rethinking of the canon. Placing the revolutionary years at the centre of a century of poetic transformation, and putting the Restoration back into the seventeenth century, the volume registers the transformative effects on poetic forms of a century of social, political, and religious upheaval. It considers the achievements of a number of women poets, not yet fully integrated into traditional literary histories. It assimilates the vibrant literature of the English Revolution to what came before and after, registering its long-term impact. It traces the development of print culture and of the literary marketplace, alongside the continued circulation of poetry in manuscript. It places John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips and other mid-century poets into the full century of specifically literary development. It traces continuity and change, imitation and innovation in the full-century trajectory of such poetic genres as sonnet, elegy, satire, georgic, epigram, ode, devotional lyric, and epic. The volume's attention to poetic form builds on the current upswing in historicist formalism, allowing a close focus on poetry as an intensely aesthetic and social literary mode. Designed for maximum classroom utility, the organization is both thematic and (in the authors section) chronological. After a comprehensive Introduction, organizational sections focus on Transitions; Materiality, Production, and Circulation; Poetics and Form; Genres; and Poets.
Full Product Details
Author: Laura L. Knoppers (George N. Shuster Professor of English, University of Notre Dame)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 25.30cm
Weight: 1.146kg
ISBN: 9780198852803
ISBN 10: 0198852800
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 08 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Author Information
Laura L. Knoppers is George N. Shuster Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely on seventeenth-century British literature and political culture, particularly the works of John Milton. Her books include Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve, The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing, and The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution. From 2010 to 2018, she served as editor of Milton Studies. In 2018, she was named an Honoured Scholar of the Milton Society of America.
