Dr Robert C. Evans & Dr Eric J. Sterling 
The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook [PDF ebook] 

The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century.  It provides a one-stop resource for literature students, with the essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to the development of more advanced knowledge and skills.

It includes:

— introductions to authors, texts and contexts

— guides to key critics, concepts and topics

— an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research

— case studies in reading literary and critical texts

— an annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms.

Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for students beginning their study of seventeenth-century literature.