The Short Oxford History of English Literature

Produktbeschreibung

The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, including a full treatment of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh writing in English. The chapters are arranged chronologically, covering all major periods of English literature from Old English to the post-war era, including the medieval period, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorians, Modernism, and Postmodernism. In addition to a detailed discussion of all major figures and their works, Andrew Sanders examines throughout the relationship between the literary landscape and wider contemporary social, political, and intellectual developments. This edition contains a range of new entries on important contemporary authors and an increased focus on female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as a fully updated and revised bibliography. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature
1: Old English Literature
2: Medieval Literature
3: Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620
4: Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690
5: Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780
6: The Literature of the Romantic Period
7: High Victorian Literature
8: Late Victoria and Edwardian Literature 1880-1920
9: Modernism and its Alternatives: Literature 1920-1945
10: Post-War and Post-Modern Literature 

Autoreninfo

Andrew Sanders' research interests are centred on the Nineteenth-Century Novel and particularly on the work of Charles Dickens. He was the editor of the Dickensian from 1979-87 and is the author of Charles Dickens: Resurrectionist and The Spirit of New Age. He is the editor of the Oxford World's Classics editions of Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers, Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays. His edition of Eliot's Romola was published by Penguin Classics.