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Publisher Summary 1
Aimed at students and the general reader, this volume presents a chronological narrative of all of the main periods in English literature. Selected canonical and non- canonical texts are placed within their social, political, and cultural contexts. Some of the authors discussed include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, and James Joyce. The authors teach English at Cardiff University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Publisher Summary 2
A Brief History of English Literature provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day. The authors write in their characteristically lucid style which enables the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and cultural contexts in which they were written. A masterpiece of clarity and compression, this book is a must have for anyone interested in the history of literature from the British Isles.
Publisher Summary 3
A Brief History of English Literature provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulfto the present day. The authors write in their characteristically lucid style which enables the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and cultural contexts in which they were written. A masterpiece of clarity and compression, this book is a must have for anyone interested in the history of literature from the British Isles.
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Preface p. ix
Acknowledgements p. xiii
Old English Literature p. 1
Beowulf p. 1
The Seafarer' and 'The Wanderer' p. 7
Battle Poems and 'The Dream of the Rood' p. 10
Old English Language p. 12
Middle English Literature p. 14
From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer p. 14
Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight p. 17
Geoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson p. 22
William Langland, Medieval Drama, Thomas Malory p. 28
Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose p. 34
Sir Thomas Wyatt p. 34
Sixteenth-Century Prose and the Reformation p. 37
The Sonnet: Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare p. 42
Edmund Spenser p. 48
Shakespeare p. 53
Shakespeare in Context p. 53
Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories p. 55
Shakespeare's Tragedies p. 62
Shakespeare's Late Plays p. 68
Renaissance and Restoration Drama p. 73
Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlowe p. 73
Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy p. 79
Ben Jonson and the Masque p. 83
Restoration Drama p. 87
Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose p. 91
John Donne p. 91
From Ben Jonson to John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell p. 96
John Milton p. 106
John Dryden p. 111
The Eighteenth Century p. 114
Alexander Pope p. 114
The Augustan Age p. 121
Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson p. 126
Sensibility p. 129
The Novel: The First Hundred Years p. 133
Daniel Defoe p. 133
Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett p. 137
From Eliza Haywood to Mary Shelley p. 143
Walter Scott and Jane Austen p. 147
The Romantic Period p. 151
The Age of Revolution p. 151
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 154
Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats p. 161
Radical Voices p. 165
Victorian Literature, 1837-1857 p. 169
Charles Dickens p. 169
Charlotte and Emily Bronte p. 173
William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell p. 179
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning p. 183
Victorian Literature, 1857-1876 p. 188
Victorian Thinkers p. 188
George Eliot p. 191
Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel p. 197
Anthony Trollope, Christina Rossetti p. 201
Victorian Literature, 1876-1901 p. 206
Thomas Hardy p. 206
George Gissing, George Moore, Samuel Butler, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson p. 212
Rudyard Kipling p. 217
George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Late Victorian Poetry p. 219
The Twentieth Century: The Early Years p. 224
Joseph Conrad p. 224
Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield p. 230
D. H. Lawrence p. 234
Georgian Poetry, War Poetry, W. B. Yeats p. 238
The Twentieth Century: Between the Wars p. 246
T. S. Eliot p. 246
James Joyce p. 251
Virginia Woolf p. 257
The 1930s p. 261
The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to the End of the Millennium p. 267
Wartime and Post-War Britain p. 267
Drama p. 271
Novels p. 277
Poetry p. 282
Postscript p. 287
The Twenty-First Century p. 287
Periods of English Literature and Language p. 293
Chronology p. 295
Further reading p. 333
Index p. 335
Acknowledgements p. xiii
Old English Literature p. 1
Beowulf p. 1
The Seafarer' and 'The Wanderer' p. 7
Battle Poems and 'The Dream of the Rood' p. 10
Old English Language p. 12
Middle English Literature p. 14
From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer p. 14
Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight p. 17
Geoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson p. 22
William Langland, Medieval Drama, Thomas Malory p. 28
Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose p. 34
Sir Thomas Wyatt p. 34
Sixteenth-Century Prose and the Reformation p. 37
The Sonnet: Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare p. 42
Edmund Spenser p. 48
Shakespeare p. 53
Shakespeare in Context p. 53
Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories p. 55
Shakespeare's Tragedies p. 62
Shakespeare's Late Plays p. 68
Renaissance and Restoration Drama p. 73
Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlowe p. 73
Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy p. 79
Ben Jonson and the Masque p. 83
Restoration Drama p. 87
Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose p. 91
John Donne p. 91
From Ben Jonson to John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell p. 96
John Milton p. 106
John Dryden p. 111
The Eighteenth Century p. 114
Alexander Pope p. 114
The Augustan Age p. 121
Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson p. 126
Sensibility p. 129
The Novel: The First Hundred Years p. 133
Daniel Defoe p. 133
Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett p. 137
From Eliza Haywood to Mary Shelley p. 143
Walter Scott and Jane Austen p. 147
The Romantic Period p. 151
The Age of Revolution p. 151
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 154
Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats p. 161
Radical Voices p. 165
Victorian Literature, 1837-1857 p. 169
Charles Dickens p. 169
Charlotte and Emily Bronte p. 173
William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell p. 179
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning p. 183
Victorian Literature, 1857-1876 p. 188
Victorian Thinkers p. 188
George Eliot p. 191
Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel p. 197
Anthony Trollope, Christina Rossetti p. 201
Victorian Literature, 1876-1901 p. 206
Thomas Hardy p. 206
George Gissing, George Moore, Samuel Butler, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson p. 212
Rudyard Kipling p. 217
George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Late Victorian Poetry p. 219
The Twentieth Century: The Early Years p. 224
Joseph Conrad p. 224
Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield p. 230
D. H. Lawrence p. 234
Georgian Poetry, War Poetry, W. B. Yeats p. 238
The Twentieth Century: Between the Wars p. 246
T. S. Eliot p. 246
James Joyce p. 251
Virginia Woolf p. 257
The 1930s p. 261
The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to the End of the Millennium p. 267
Wartime and Post-War Britain p. 267
Drama p. 271
Novels p. 277
Poetry p. 282
Postscript p. 287
The Twenty-First Century p. 287
Periods of English Literature and Language p. 293
Chronology p. 295
Further reading p. 333
Index p. 335
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