Author: Peter ConradPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The History of English Literature
Author: Peter ConradPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald CarterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
English Literature
Author: William J. LongPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
"English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World" by William J. Long resents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It's a useful and interesting guide for students as well as teachers of English literature, specially European and American, despite over a hundred years passing since the time of its first publication.
A Brief History of English Literature
Author: John PeckPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350309532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This new edition of an established text provides a succinct and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle combine close readings of key texts with recent critical thinking on the interaction of literary works and culture. Providing a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day, the authors write in their characteristically lucid and accessible style. A true masterpiece of clarity and compression, this is essential reading for undergraduate students coming across the vast areas of English literature for the first time and looking for a way of making critical sense of the texts being studied. In addition, the concise nature and narrative structure of this book makes it excellent reading for general readers. New to this Edition: - Revised chapter on twentieth century literature - Complete new chapter on twenty-first century literature - Updated Chronology and Further Reading section
A History of English Literature
Author: Alastair FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engelska litteraturen Medeltiden
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
Author: Pat RogersPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192854377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.
A Literary History of England Vol. 4
Author: A BaughPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136892990
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
A History of Old English Literature
Author: Robert D. FulkPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118441125
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture, this new edition covers an exceptionally broad array of genres. These range from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, as well as lyric poetry and heroic legend. The authors also integrate discussions of Anglo-Latin texts, crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This second edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship that has evolved over the past decade, with new chapters on both Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and on incidental and marginal texts. There is expanded treatment throughout, including increased coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts. The book concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.
History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne
Author: Andrew LangPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809532298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Andrew Lang's survey of English literature is a remarkably thorough look at the history of English writing, covering authors from Abbot Adamnan to Edward Young, and everyone of note in between.
A History of English Literature
Author: Michael AlexanderPublisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: 9780333913970
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This text provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and oldest literatures in the world. Presented as a narrative, and usable as a work of reference, this text offers an account of literature from the beginnings of English until the year 2000.