The Oxford Handbook of John Donne

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218608.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of John Donne

Edited by:
Dennis Flynn
Dennis FlynnEnglish, Bentley UniversityClose

,
M. Thomas Hester
M. Thomas HesterEnglish, North Carolina State UniversityClose

, and
Jeanne Shami
Jeanne ShamiEnglish, University of ReginaClose

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of John Donne presents the history of Donne studies and provides tools to orient scholarship in this field in the twenty-first century. Part I, which deteails research resources in Donne Studies and why they matter, emphasizes the heuristic and practical orientation of the book, examining prevailing assumptions and reviewing the specialized scholarly tools available. Part II, on 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. Articles trace the conventions and histories of the genres concerned and 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. Part III, which is about 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 recent decades by historians of early modern England. In Part IV, problems of literary interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important in Donne Studies are introduced along with major critical debates affecting the reception of Donne from the seventh through to the twenty-first centuries.

Keywords: genre definition, genre conventions, genre histories, literary context, non-literary context, biographical context, historical context, Donne's life, early modern England, literary interpretation, critical debates

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Feb 2011

ISBN:: 9780199218608

Published online:: Sep 2012

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218608.001.0001

Editors

Dennis Flynn, editor
Dennis Flynn is Professor of English, Bentley University.

M. Thomas Hester, editor
M.Thomas Hester is Professor of English, North Carolina State University

Jeanne Shami, editor
Jeanne Shami is Professor of English at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. She is author of John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon: A Parallel-Text Edition (Pittsburgh, 1996), John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit (Cambridge, 2003), editor of Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England (Pittsburgh, 2008), and General Editor of The Oxford Handbook of John Donne (Oxford, 2011).

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Front Matter
General Introduction Jeanne Shami, M. Thomas Hester, and Dennis Flynn
Research resources in Donne studies and why they matter
- Introduction Jeanne Shami
- The composition and dissemination of Donne's writingsGary A. Stringer
- John Donne's seventeenth-century readersErnest W. Sullivan, II
- Archival researchLara M. Crowley
- Editing Donne's poetry: From John Marriot to the Donne VariorumGary A. Stringer
- Editing Donne's poetry: the Donne Variorum and beyondRichard K. Todd
- Modern scholarly editions of the prose of John DonneErnest W. Sullivan, II
- Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studiesDonald R. Dickson
- Collaboration and the international scholarly communityHugh Adlington
Donne's genres
- Introduction Heather Dubrow and M. Thomas Hester
- The epigramM. Thomas Hester
- The formal verse satireGregory Kneidel
- The elegyR. V. Young
- The paradoxMichael W. Price
- The paradox: BiathanatosErnest W. Sullivan, II
- Menippean DonneAnne Lake Prescott
- The love lyric [Songs and Sonets]Dayton Haskin
- The verse letterMargaret Maurer
- The religious sonnetR. V. Young
- Liturgical poetryKirsten Stirling
- The problemMichael W. Price
- The controversial treatiseGraham Roebuck
- The essayJeffrey Johnson
- The anniversary poemGraham Roebuck
- The epicede and obsequyClaude J. Summers
- The epithalamionCamille Wells Slights
- The devotionKate Narveson
- The sermonJeanne Shami
- The prose letterMargaret Maurer
Biographical and Historical Contexts
- Introduction Dennis Flynn and Jeanne Shami
- The English Reformation in the mid-Elizabethan periodPatrick Collinson
- Donne's family background, birth, and early yearsDennis Flynn
- Education as a courtierAlexandra Gajda
- Donne's educationDennis Flynn
- Donne's military careerAlbert C. Labriola
- The Earl of Essex and English expeditionary ForcesPaul E. J. Hammer
- Donne and Egerton: the court and courtshipSteven W. May
- Donne and Late Elizabethan Court PoliticsAndrew Gordon
- Donne's Wedding and The Pyrford YearsDennis Flynn
- New Horizons in The Early Jacobean PeriodAnthony Milton
- The Death of Robert Cecil: End of An EraJohann Sommerville
- Donne's Travels and Earliest PublicationsDennis Flynn
- Donne's Decision to Take OrdersJeanne Shami
- The Rise of The Howards At CourtAlastair Bellany
- Donne and Court ChaplaincyPeter McCullough
- The Hazards of The Jacobean CourtKenneth Fincham
- Donne's Readership At Lincoln's Inn and The Doncaster EmbassyEmma Rhatigan
- International Politics and Jacobean StatecraftMalcolm Smuts
- Donne: The Final PeriodClayton D. Lein
- Donne, The Patriot Cause, and War, 1620–1629Simon Healy
- The English nation in 1631Arnold Hunt
- The death of DonneAlison Shell
Problems of Literary Interpretation That Have Been Traditionally and Generally Important in Donne Studies
- Introduction Dennis Flynn
- Donne and apostasyAchsah Guibbory
- Donne, women, and the spectre of misogynyTheresa M. DiPasquale
- Donne's AbsolutismDebora Shuger
- Style, Wit, Prosody in The Poetry of John DonneAlbert C. Labriola
- Do Donne's writings express his desperate ambition?Hugh Adlington
- ‘By Parting Have Joyn’d Here’: The Story of The Two (Or More) DonnesJudith Scherer Herz
- Danger and discourseLynne Magnusson
End Matter

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Edited by:
Dennis Flynn
Dennis FlynnEnglish, Bentley UniversityClose

,
M. Thomas Hester
M. Thomas HesterEnglish, North Carolina State UniversityClose

, and
Jeanne Shami
Jeanne ShamiEnglish, University of ReginaClose