Author: A. W. WardPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521045179
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780
Author: John RichettiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521781442
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.
The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: George SampsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521095815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Based on The Cambridge history of English literature.
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature
Author: Laura MarcusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521820776
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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The New Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Clare A. LeesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781107035034
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 6400
Book Description
A set of reference works on the history of English literature throughout the major periods of its development.
The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
Author: Clare A. LeesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131617509X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Author: David WallacePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Author: Jane MillingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650682
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Author: Michael O'NeillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1117
Book Description
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
The Cambridge History of the English Language
Author: Norman Francis BlakePublisher:
ISBN: 9780511468469
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Volume two of this set covers the Middle English Period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyses developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.