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Recognizing that every literary era presents scholars with particular challenges, this volume covers the best practices and describes important reference resources, both print and electronic, that can be used in conducting literary research of the British Renaissance and Early Modern period. Although the primary emphasis is on literature produced in England, the guide also covers literature from Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. This book addresses specific research characteristics integral to studying the period, including a more inclusive canon and the predominance of Shakespeare, a dual environment of print and manuscript production, the challenges of reading early modern handwriting, a lack of reviewing media, the role of translations, and researching non-standardized genres, among others. Central to this volume and to literary research of the era are the equally valid approaches to studying this literature through the more traditional Renaissance lens or through the varying theoretical approaches falling under the rubric early modern. Bowers and Keeran explore primary and secondary research resources of this era, including general literary research guides; union library catalogs;

Who reads Literary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period: Strategies and Sources (Volume 8) (Literary Research: Strategies and Sources, 8)?

Author

Jennifer Bowers; Peggy Keeran; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Scarecrow Press, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810856974

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Reference