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The Cambridge companion to John Donne

Guibbory, Achsah2006
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16 essays, by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including Sermons and occasional letters). Providing studies of his text as well as setting them in the history
Main title:
The Cambridge companion to John Donne / by Achsah Guibbory (Editor)
Imprint:
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2006
Collation:
288 p illustrations
Contents:
Chronology; 1. Donne's life: a sketch Jonathan F. S. Post; 2. The text of Donne's writings Ted-Larry Pebworth; 3. The social context and nature of Donne's writing: occasional verse and letters Arthur F. Marotti; 4. Literary contexts: predecessors and contemporaries Andrew Hadfield; 5. Donne's religious world Alison Shell and Arnold Hunt; 6. Donne's political world Tom Cain; 7. Reading and rereading Donne's poetry Judith Herz; 8. Satirical writing: Donne in shadows Annabel Patterson; 9. Erotic poetry Achsah Guibbory; 10. Devotional writing Helen Wilcox; 11. Donne as preacher Peter McCullough; 12. Donne's language: the conditions of communication Lynne Magnusson; 13. Gender matters: the women in Donne's poems Ilona Bell; 14. Facing death Ramie Targoff; 15. Donne's afterlife Dayton Haskin; 16. Feeling thought: Donne and the embodied mind A. S. Byatt; 17. Select bibliography L. E. Semler.
ISBN:
0521540038 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.3 DON
Local class:
821.3
Language:
English
BRN:
4632
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
PenrithNonfiction821.3 DONAvailable
St MarysNonfiction821.3 DONAvailable
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