That would be the Oxford history. The Lewis and Bush volumes are in the
older series (Oxford History of English Literature). The new (c. 2002)
Oxford English Literary History has a great volume covering 1350-1547 by
James Simpson. Bate and Maus have the next two volumes up to 1660; I haven't
read them. -Dan Knauss
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter C. Herman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:50 AM
> Subject: Re: history texts
>
>
> The student might want to consult the introductions to the
> Norton and the Longman anthologies. But also, there's a new
> Cambridge History of English Literature for this period (I
> know that David Loewenstein is one of the editors), although
> looking at the old ones by Douglas Bush and C.S.Lewis might
> still be useful for lining up names and dates.
>
> Peter C. Herman
>
> At 04:41 AM 11/30/04, you wrote:
> >A friend of a friend is taking her orals in English Renaissance
> >literature and asked me what there was in the way of good period
> >background writing on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that
> >would enable her to put together the individual authors she has
> >studied. In part this would concern literature and in part
> history.
> >The history texts got discussed a couple of weeks ago, but
> what general
> >discussions of the literature and its contexts would people
> recommend?
>
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