{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-john-donne-9780198715573","title":"The Oxford Handbook of John Donne","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of John Donne \u003c\/em\u003epresents scholars with the history of Donne studies and provides tools to orient scholarship in this field in the twenty-first century and beyond. Though profoundly historical in its orientation, the \u003cem\u003eHandbook\u003c\/em\u003e is not a summary of existing knowledge but a\u003cbr\u003eresource that reveals patterns of literary and historical attention and the new directions that these patterns enable or obstruct. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart I--Research resources in Donne Studies and why they they matter--emphasizes the heuristic and practical orientation of the \u003cem\u003eHandbook\u003c\/em\u003e, examining prevailing assumptions and reviewing the specialized scholarly tools available. This section provides a brief evaluation and description of the\u003cbr\u003escholarly strengths, shortcomings, and significance of each resource, focusing on a balanced evaluation of the opportunities and the hazards each offers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart II--Donne's genres--begins with an introduction that explores the significance and differentiation of the numerous genres in which Donne wrote, including discussion of the problems posed by his overlapping and bending of genres. Essays trace the conventions and histories of the genres concerned\u003cbr\u003eand study the ways in which Donne's works confirm how and why his fresh invention illustrates his responses to the literary and non-literary contexts of their composition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart III--Biographical and historical contexts--creates perspective on what is known about Donne's life, shows how his life and writings epitomized and affected important controversial issues of his day, and brings to bear on Donne studies some of the most stimulating and creative ideas developed in\u003cbr\u003erecent decades by historians of early modern England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart IV--Problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne Studies--introduces students and researchers to major critical debates affecting the reception of Donne from the 17th through to the 21st centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeanne Shami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.70w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198715573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeanne Shami\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, where she has taught since 1977. In 1992, she discovered a manuscript of a John Donne sermon corrected in his hand. She published a parallel-text edition of this sermon in 1996, \u003cem\u003eJohn Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon: A\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eParallel-Text Edition\u003c\/em\u003e. Shami is the author of \u003cem\u003eJohn Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRenaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e. She is past president of the John Donne Society (2002-03) and has won its award for distinguished publication three times (1996, 2000, 2003). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDennis Flynn\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Bentley University and a past president of the John Donne Society. He has published numerous reviews and articles in Donne studies, authored \u003cem\u003eJohn Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-edited three volumes in the ongoing Donne Variorum project as well as John Donne's Marriage Letters at The Folger Shakespeare Library. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM. Thomas Hester\u003c\/strong\u003e is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author\/editor of numerous books and articles on Renaissance literature---most recently, \u003cem\u003eDonne's Marriage Letters\u003c\/em\u003e in the Folger Shakespeare Library, with Dennis Flynn and Robert P. Sorlien, and \u003cem\u003eTalking Renaissance Texts: Essays on the Humanist Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e with Jeffrey Kahan. At present he is an editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Edition of the Prose Letters of Donne\u003c\/em\u003e, with Dennis Flynn and Ernest W. Sullivan, II. He is also Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe John Donne Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40189592207475,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3737a012-977a-4b0d-8642-7c1fbd8c279e.jpg?v=1655816897","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-john-donne-9780198715573","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}