目录
Acknowledgements General Editors Preface General IntroducUon l Contexts:History,Politics,Culture HistoricalIntroduction The Book Trade Catholicism Chain of Being The city Cosmos(1):The Old Cosmology(geocentric) Cosmos(2):The New Cosmology(heliocentric) The Court The Courtier Economy and SocietyAcknowledgements
General Editors Preface
General IntroducUon
l Contexts:History,Politics,Culture
HistoricalIntroduction
The Book Trade
Catholicism
Chain of Being
The city
Cosmos(1):The Old Cosmology(geocentric)
Cosmos(2):The New Cosmology(heliocentric)
The Court
The Courtier
Economy and Society
The Elements
EnRlish Reformation
Golden ARe
Humanism
Humours
Magic(Alchemy.Astrology,Witchcraft)
Manuscripts
Medicine(Medical Profession,The Mind,Women)
Patronage
Platonism
Printin~
Protestant Theologw
Raca and StranRers
Science,Knowledge and Philosophy
The Self
Sex and Sexuality
Stoicism
Travel and Colonialism
Women
2 Texts:Themes,Issues,Concepts
Introduction
Actors and Acting
The Bible
Conceit
Decorum
Epic
Genre
History and the Nation
Imitation
Logic
Lyric
Masque
Metaphysical Poetry
Metre
Mimesis
Non—FictionaI Prose
PastoraI
Prose Style
Rhetoric
The Sonnet
Theatres
Theory of Poetry
3 Criticism:Approaches,Theory,Practice
Introduction
Cultural Materialism
Ecocriticism
Feminism
Language Criticism:Practical Criticism,stylistics,Rhetoric
New Historicism
Textualism
Chronology
Bibliography
Index