Introduction: New Lamps for Old?

Author: Pincombe, Mike

Source: The Yearbook of English Studies, Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, 1 July 2008 , pp. 1-16(16)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

The term `Tudor literature' is increasingly being used to denote a new period, but it has not yet become certain when this period begins or ends. This chapter argues that there are two ways of interpreting the term: a `long' Tudor period, which tracks the royal fortunes of the house of Tudor from 1485 to 1603; and a `short' period, from roughly 1530 to 1580, which might be designated `mid-Tudor literature'. This central period witnessed the catastrophic termination of medieval literature as a result of the Henrician Reformation and its immediate aftermath in the tumultuous decades of the mid-sixteenth century.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Newcastle University

Publication date: 2008-07-01

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A supplement to the Modern Language Review, this journal includes articles and reviews on the language and literature of the English-speaking world. Most of the volumes published so far are 'Special Numbers', collections of between fifteen and eighteen commissioned articles on particular topics, such as the impact of the French Revolution on English writers; literature in the modern media; and colonial and imperial themes in literature.