Research Catalog

Title

John Donne in context / edited by Michael Schoenfeldt.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl

Description

xxxvi, 360 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"John Donne produced some of the finest writing in any language about the pleasures and mysteries of love and religion. His restless imagination and voracious intellect invested his poetry and prose with an unprecedented dramatic energy and metaphoric intensity. His work is formally inventive, aggressively pushing against the very generic boundaries it enters. Even commonplace sentiments are rendered breathtakingly vivid and witty when filtered through Donne's singular intelligence. Yet wit and intelligence sometimes come at a cost. Donne can be difficult, deliberately difficult. Even his friends and contemporaries sometimes had trouble understanding his works. Ben Jonson, the Renaissance dramatist and poet, thought "That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.""--

Series Statement

Literature in context

Uniform Title

Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)

Subjects

• Donne, John, 1572-1631
• Donne, John, 1572-1631 > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Series statement from publisher's web page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Donne's literary career / Patrick Cheney -- Donne's texts and materials / Piers Brown -- Donne and print / Katherine Rundell -- Language / Douglas Trevor -- Donne's poetics of obstruction / Kimberly Johnson -- Elegies and satires / Melissa E. Sanchez -- The unity of the Songs and Sonnets / Richard Strier -- Divine poems / David Marno -- Letters / James Daybell -- Orality and performance / Ilona Bell -- Reading and interpretation / Katrin Ettenhuber -- Education / Andrew Wallace -- Law / Gregory Kneidel -- Donne's prisons / Molly Murray -- Donne and the natural world / Rebecca Bushnell -- Money / David Landreth -- Sexuality / Catherine Bates -- Donne and the passions / Christopher Tilmouth -- Pain / Joseph Campana -- Medicine / Stephen Pender -- Science, alchemy, and the new philosophy / Margaret Healy -- Donne and skepticism / Anita Gilman Sherman -- The metaphysics of the metaphysicals / Gordon Teskey -- Controversial prose / Andrew Hadfield -- Devotional prose / Brooke Conti -- The sermons / Lori Anne Ferrell -- The self / Nancy Selleck -- Portraits / Sarah Howe -- Donne in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Nicholas D. Nace -- Donne in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / James Longenbach -- Donne in the Twenty-First Century: thinking feeling / Linda Gregerson.

Call Number

JFE 19-7072

ISBN

• 9781107043503
• 1107043506

LCCN

2018052008

OCLC

1050561904

Title

John Donne in context / edited by Michael Schoenfeldt.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literature in context

Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7072