The SeventeenthCentury Literature Handbook Edited by Robert C. Evans and Eric J. Sterling continuum Contents Detailed Table of Contents General Editors' Introduction vii xii 1 Introduction Eric J. Sterling 2 The Seventeenth-Century Timeline Deborah Cosier Solomon 27 3 Historical Contexts Richard Harp 43 4 Literary and Cultural Contexts Brian Blackley and Lara M. Crowley 58 5 Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts Matthew Steggle 85 6 Case Studies in Reading Critical Texts: Four Classics of Scholarship James Hirsh 7 Key Critical Concepts and Topics Nancy Mohrlock Bunker and James S. Baumlin 8 Fourteen Ways of Looking at Literature: A Survey of Current Approaches Robert C. Evans 9 10 1 108 132 147 Changes in the Canon Bruce Boehrer 170 Issues of Sexuality, Gender, and Ethnicity Robert C. Evans and Eric J. Sterling 184 Contents 11 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape: Seventeenth-Century English Literature 206 Albert C. Labriola Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terminology 221 Laura Schechter Appendix: Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning 225 Julie Sutherland (Available at www.continuumbooks.com/resources/9780826498502) Notes on Contributors 227 Notes 230 Annotated Bibliography 242 Jonathan Wright Index VI 259