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Saddik Shakespeare, Gabriel Egan  \nAsian American Literature, Bella Adams Children’s Literature, M. O. Grenby Contemporary British Fiction, Nick Bentley Renaissance Literature, Siobhan Keenan Scottish Literature, Gerard Carruthers Contemporary American Fiction, David Brauner Contemporary British Drama, David Lane Medieval Literature 1300–1500, Pamela King Victorian Literature, David Amigoni Contemporary Poetry, Nerys Williams  \nForthcoming Titles in the Series:  \nRestoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Hamish Mathison Crime Fiction, Stacy Gillis  \nModern American Literature, Catherine Morley Modernist Literature, Rachel Potter  \nAfrican American Literature, Jennifer Terry Postcolonial Literature, Dave Gunning  \nMedieval Literature 1300–1500  \nPamela M. King  \nEdinburgh University Press  \nFor my parents, Eileen and Donald King, with love  \n© Pamela King, 2011  \nEdinburgh University Press Ltd  \n22 George Square, Edinburgh [www.euppublishing.com](www.euppublishing.com)  \nTypeset in 11.5/13 Monotype Ehrhardt by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire and printed and bound in Great Britain by  \nCPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne  \nA CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 3459 0 (hardback)  \nISBN 978 0 7486 3460 6 (paperback)  \nThe right of Pamela King  \nto be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nContents  \nSeries Preface vi  \nAcknowledgements vii  \nChronology viii  \nIntroduction 1  \nChapter 1 The Ideal World 13  \nChapter 2 Social Change 56  \nChapter 3 Religion and Morality 95  \nChapter 4 Complaint and Dissent 143  \nChapter 5 The Literary World 177  \nConclusion 213  \nStudent Resources 216  \nGlossary 216  \nReference Materials 218  \nIndex 226  \nSeries Preface  \nThe study of English literature in the early twenty-first century is host to an exhilarating range of critical approaches, theories and historical perspectives. ‘English’ ranges from traditional modes of study such as Shakespeare and Romanticism to popular interest in national and area literatures such as the United States, Ireland and the Caribbean. The subject also spans a diverse array of genres from tragedy to cyberpunk, incorporates such hybrid fields of study as Asian American literature, Black British literature, creative writing and literary adaptations, and remains eclectic in its methodology.  \nSuch diversity is cause for both celebration and consternation. English is varied enough to promise enrichment and enjoyment for all kinds of readers and to challenge preconceptions about what the study of literature might involve. But how are readers to navigate their way through such literary and cultural diversity? And how are students to make sense of the various literary categories and periodisations, such as modernism and the Renaissance, or the proliferating theories of literature, from feminism and marxism to queer theory and eco-criticism? 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