Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England

by Neil Rhodes

Book Overview

This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues that making common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation just as making common the literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192844814
• ISBN13: 9780192844811
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"