The Undergraduate's Companion to English Renaissance Writers and Their Web Sites - by Steven Galbraith (Paperback)

About the Book

This latest addition to the Undergraduate Companion Series confirms that the literature of Renaissance England is alive and well in the new millennium, presenting undergraduate students with an abundance of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research. The most authoritative, informative, and useful Web sites and print resources have been carefully selected to represent important writers of the English Renaissance, including figures in religion, philosophy, and political history who are not strictly literary, such as Thomas Hobbes and Queen Elizabeth I.

In addition, this volume moves beyond the traditional canon, considering writers such as Aemilia Lanyer and Thomas Dekker alongside giants like Shakespeare, Milton, and Spenser. For each author you will find concise lists of the best Web sites and print resources, including biographies, criticisms, dictionaries, handbooks, indexes, concordances, journals, and bibliographies.

Book Synopsis

This latest addition to the Undergraduate Companion Series confirms that the literature of Renaissance England is alive and well in the new millennium, presenting undergraduate students with an abundance of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research. The most authoritative, informative, and useful Web sites and print resources have been carefully selected to represent important writers of the English Renaissance, including figures in religion, philosophy, and political history who are not strictly literary, such as Thomas Hobbes and Queen Elizabeth I.

In addition, this volume moves beyond the traditional canon, considering writers such as Aemilia Lanyer and Thomas Dekker alongside giants like Shakespeare, Milton, and Spenser. For each author you will find concise lists of the best Web sites and print resources, including biographies, criticisms, dictionaries, handbooks, indexes, concordances, journals, and bibliographies.

Review Quotes

?An excellent and ready-to-use reference for finding key references.?-Midwest Book Review

"An excellent and ready-to-use reference for finding key references."-Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Steven K. Galbraith, PhD, is curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology' and former Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Books at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.