The Oxford Concise Companion to English Literature

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of the bestselling Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature, this wide-ranging, compact guide has been fully revised and updated. In over 5,500 A-Z entries, it covers all aspects of English literature and constitutes an indispensable reference for English students, teachers, and anyone else who loves literature. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Preface


* Abbreviations


* Note to the Reader


* Concise Companion


* Appendices


* Literature Timeline


* Poets Laureate


* Nobel Prize for Literature


* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction


* Library Association Carnegie Medallists


* Man Booker Prize for Fiction


* Children's Laureates


* King's and Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry


* T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 

Kritik

Review from previous edition This is a scrupulously produced, smartly laid-out, academically serious and at the same time relishably browsable book. Henry Hitchings, The Times Literary Supplement 

Autoreninfo

Dinah Birch is Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, and has edited novels by Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her books include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), and Our Victorian Education (2007).

Katy Hooper is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Liverpool Library and Assistant Editor for The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7/e.

Previous editions of the Concise Oxford Companion to Literature were edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer.