Books by Andrew Hadfield

A new account of the life and work of poet, scholar, soldier and cleric John Donne.

Essays in this volume offer interdisciplinary studies of a county that was at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation to the outbreak of Civil War, the volume brings together scholars from the fields of art history.

Andrew Hadfield offers a challenging reinterpretation of the sixteenth century through the work of major writers of the time, their involvement in the establishment of a vernacular literary tradition as a crucial component of English identity, and the development of 'literature' as a site of critical and political debate.

Presents a survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England. This book explores the meaning and significance of the term 'popular culture' when applied to the early modern period: how did people distinguish between high and low culture - could they in fact do so?

This is a collection of recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser. The essays cover the whole of Spenser's work, from such early literary experiments as "The Shepeardes Calendar" to his unfinished crowning work "The Faerie Queene". A review of critical responses to Spenser is also included.