The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 MODES AND MEANS OF LITERARY PRODUCTION, CIRCULATION AND RECEPTION -- Chapter 1 LITERACY, SOCIETY AND EDUCATION -- The rudiments -- Vernacular elementary schools -- Literacy levels -- The passionate reader -- Print: availability and use -- Grammar schools -- Universities -- Women -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 MANUSCRIPT TRANSMISSION AND CIRCULATION -- Preservation and circulation of lyric, dramatic and prose texts -- Manuscript circulation - authors' choices, collectors' connoisseurship -- The political underground of manuscript circulation -- Chapter 3 PRINT, LITERARY CULTURE AND THE BOOK TRADE -- The advent of printing in England -- The triumph of the book -- The consolidation of the book trade -- The emergence of the author -- Chapter 4 LITERARY PATRONAGE -- Chapter 5 LANGUAGES OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE IN BRITAIN -- The Protestant Reformation and the 'reformations' of language -- Language and Renaissance medical writing -- Poetry and the terms of imaginative art -- English a universal language? -- Chapter 6 HABITS OF READING AND EARLY MODERN LITERARY CULTURE -- Reading and the problem of evidence -- Exemplarity and admiration -- Reading and rebellion -- Ironies and subversions -- 2 THE TUDOR ERA FROM THE REFORMATION TO ELIZABETH I -- Chapter 7 LITERATURE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- England -- Scotland -- Wales and Ireland -- Regional and civic loyalties -- Chapter 8 LITERATURE AND THE COURT -- The dynamics of literature in the early Tudor court -- Lyric and didactic projections -- Dramatic representations: England and Scotland -- The impact of the Reformation at court -- Tottel's moment: Wyatt and Surrey as Marian poets -- Chapter 9 LITERATURE AND THE CHURCH -- From papal supremacy to royal supremacy: Henrician measures.

Old faith, new learning: Henrician contestations -- Reformation unleashed: the Edwardian turn of events -- Comprehensiveness and community: Cranmer's contributions -- Papal - not royal - supremacy: Marian counter-measures -- Postscript: Elizabeth in prospect -- 3 THE ERA OF ELIZABETH AND JAMES VI -- Chapter 10 LITERATURE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- Scottish models of national identity -- English models of national identity -- Shakespeare and national identity -- Studies in contrast: Wales and Ireland -- Chapter 11 LITERATURE AND THE COURT -- Chapter 12 LITERATURE AND THE CHURCH -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 13 LITERATURE AND LONDON -- Ministers and magistrates -- Minstrels and moralists -- Pamphlets and prose fiction -- Satire and society -- Chapter 14 LITERATURE AND THE THEATRE -- 4 THE EARLIER STUART ERA -- Chapter 15 LITERATURE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- Nationhood and the Union -- Allegiance and absolutism -- English liberties and the opponents of royal policy -- Scottish liberties and nationhood -- Religion, nation and literature in Ireland -- Chapter 16 LITERATURE AND THE COURT -- Chapter 17 LITERATURE AND THE CHURCH -- Sites of production -- Aesthetics, ethics and inwardness -- 'The Christians Life what' -- A church divided -- 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' -- Chapter 18 LITERATURE AND LONDON -- Chapter 19 LITERATURE AND THE THEATRE TO 1660 -- The early Jacobean theatre -- Later Jacobean and Caroline theatre -- Drama without a court -- Chapter 20 LITERATURE AND THE HOUSEHOLD -- 5 THE CIVIL WAR AND COMMONWEALTH ERA -- Chapter 21 LITERATURE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- Travails of a kingdom -- In the throes of a republic -- Abroad and at home -- Chapter 22 LITERATURE AND RELIGION -- The context -- Literature and church government -- Poetry and religious conflict -- The literature of the Holy Spirit and radical religion.

Chapter 23 LITERATURE AND LONDON -- Contexts and conditions -- Contested space -- competing visions -- John Milton and the 'City of refuge' -- London's liberty in chains: Leveller writing and the city -- London and Interregnum writing -- Chaos: revived republic and Restoration -- Chapter 24 LITERATURE AND THE HOUSEHOLD -- Literary images of the household -- Genres of domestic literature -- Chapter 25 ALTERNATIVE SITES FOR LITERATURE -- Chapter 26 FROM REVOLUTION TO RESTORATION IN ENGLISH LITERARY CULTURE -- 1660: the world turned right side up? -- 1660: panegyrics for the new regime -- Culture as anarchy: Restoration triumphalism and the 'Sons of Belial' -- Bunyan and Milton in the Restoration context -- 'Augustan' London and the shift in literary modes -- Poetic careers and 'conformable' forms -- Science, religion and the plain style -- Towards 'Restoration' drama -- Chronological outline of historical events and texts in Britain, 1528-1674, with list of selected manuscripts -- Historical events 1528-1558 -- Literature of Europe 1528-1558 -- Literature of Britain 1528-1558 -- ENGLAND -- SCOTLAND -- WALES -- IRELAND -- Historical Events 1558-1603 -- Literature of Europe 1558-1603 -- Literature of Britain 1558-1603 -- ENGLAND -- SCOTLAND -- WALES -- IRELAND -- Historical Events 1603-1641 -- Literature of Europe 1603-1641 -- Literature of Britain 1603-1641 -- ENGLAND -- SCOTLAND -- WALES -- IRELAND -- Historical Events 1642-1674 -- Literature of Europe 1642-1674 -- Literature of Britain 1642-1674 -- ENGLAND -- SCOTLAND -- WALES -- IRELAND -- SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS -- Select bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.