Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 478 p. — ISBN: 978-0-631-22082-4. Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 726 p. The literary history of people reflects the richness of the culture and society, in which they were composed. It does not just trace the history of literary works, it also reflects the social, political and other aspects of the society. English literature is rich and diverse and has a long history. History Of English...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 179 p. — (Very short introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-19-177757-8, 978-0-19-956926-7 This title discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 185 p. — (The New Middle Ages). This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they...
Routledge, 1990. — 496 p. In revising A Short History of English Literature Harry Blamires has thoroughly updated his final three chapters to bring the discussion on the plays, poetry and novels of the twentieth century into the 1980s; the bibliography has also been fully revised and now provides up-to-date guidance for further study. The second edition has lost none of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 203 p. This text presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon 'Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog', along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and assizes.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - 265 p. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection of essays by American, British, and Iberian scholars examines the literary, historical, and artistic exchanges between England and Iberia from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Ranging from analyses of royal marriages and political alliances to examinations of literary, artistic, and...
A Survey for Students, Pearson Schools, 1974, 288 p. It is a great book for students who study English literature and for those who want to learn more about the historical background of English writers.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 258 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Wordsworth’s Italian Encounters Sitting in Dante’s Throne: Wordsworth and Italian Nationalism Byron Between Ariosto and Tasso Byron and Alfieri Picturing Byron’s Italy and Italians: Finden’s Illustrations to Byron’s Life and Works Realms without a Name: Shelley and Italy’s Intenser Day...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 237 p. — ISBN 0 –19 –927082–1. Christopher Cannon's The Grounds of English Literature deals with the neglected texts of early Middle English literature in a straightforward, and also in a more subtle, sense. Most straightforwardly, it considers these early texts as a cluster of provisional points of departure for subsequent English literature....
HarperCollins, 2017. — 307 p. Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in the years during and after the Second World War. They drank beer on Tuesdays at the ‘Bird and Baby’,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 289 p. Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.
First published 1997 by Routledge. 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. Book length: 613 p. ISBN: 0-415-12342-9 (hbk). ISBN: 0-415-12343-7 (pbk). ISBN: 0-203-13767-1 Master e-book ISBN. ISBN: 0-203-17878-5 (Glassbook Format). From the Publisher: This new guide to the main developments in the history of British and...
Cambridge University Press, 2009 - 794 p. ISBN10: 0521790077 ISBN13: 9780521790079 (eng) The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction, and reform in politics, and by the invention of imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. This History presents an engaging account of...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 289 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Claire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. These decades saw the emergence of a group of talented Irish writers who developed and advanced such innovative forms as the national...
Blackwell Publishing, 2009. — 276 p. This Concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the literature of other periods. The book includes discussion of such issues as...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 348 p. Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales played an important role in the development of Romantic women’s poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - 264 p. This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision through his varied constructions of masculinity. Because medieval theories of vision relied upon distinctions between active and passive seers and viewers, optical discourse had social and moral implications for gender difference in late fourteenth-century...
Oxford University Press. First Edition. 2013. 432 p. Includes index. ISBN: 0199668124. Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars, reformers, and others who helped create its character. The book relates a real journey. David and...
Paperback, 2nd Revised Edition, 544 p. Published August 30th 1994 by Mandarin (first published August 26th 1968). ISBN: 0749318937 (ISBN13: 9780749318932). Professor David Daiches' Critical History gives the reader a fascinating insight into over twelve centuries of great writing. With enormous intelligence and enthusiasm, he guides the reader through this vastly complex and...
Paperback, 2nd Revised Edition, 688 p. Published August 30th 1994 by Mandarin ISBN: 0749318945 (ISBN13: 9780749318949) Professor David Daiches' Critical History gives the reader a fascinating insight into over twelve centuries of great writing. With enormous intelligence and enthusiasm, he guides the reader through this vastly complex and rich tradition, finely balancing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 02306029754; ISBN13: 9780230602977. Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 311 p. Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period. The author tries "to determine what Elizabethan fiction writers were trying to do and how they did it." Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 140 p. — ISBN: 0-631-23485-3; ISBN: 0-631-23486-1 The book presents a detailed analysis of ancient texts in close connection with the historical context of the events described in them. This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls "figures" from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2016 — 135 p. — ISBN10: 1137411309; ISBN13: 978-1137411303. This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wroth in particular, relating their forms of deixis to cultural and generic developments; but it also suggests parallels with both iconic and...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 280 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Offering a genuinely fresh set of perspectives on Shelley's texts and contexts, Cian Duffy argues that Shelley's engagement with the British and French discourse on the sublime had a profound influence on his writing about political change in that age of revolutionary crisis. Examining Shelley's...
Sidestone Press, 2015. — 290 p. The popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and miracles. They are not only fun but indicate a great deal about the ideals and values of the society they were written in. Yet the genre of Middle...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 203 p. Introduction: Gnosticism and Late-Medieval Literature Pearl’s Patience and Purity: Gnosticism in the Pearl Poet’s Oeuvre The Truth about Piers Plowman Gower’s Bower of Bliss: A Successful Passing into Hermetic Gnosis
Penguin UK, 1999. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0140134646 ; ISBN13: 978-0140134643. The first edition of Lord Ifor Evans A Short History of English Literature was hailed by the Observer: 'Professor Evans writes to the classical model, brief and lucid. He relates the arts to society instead of penning them in the study. As a judge, he is tolerant and undogmatic, but never slack in his...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 249 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Focusing on the relationship between England and Scotland and the interaction between history and geography, Penny Fielding explores how Scottish literature in the Romantic period was shaped by the understanding of place and space. The book examines geography as a form of regional, national and...
A History of English Literature - Robert Huntington Fletcher. This book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities and others beyond the high−school age. The first purposes of every such book must be to outline the development of the literature with due regard to national life, and to give appreciative interpretation of the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 504 p. This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts. This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 571 p. This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 313 p. The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.
Publisher: Macmillan Literature Series. Date: 1984. Pages: 974. Format: PDF. PART ONE: ENGLISH LITERATURE (The Anglo-Saxon Period; The Medieval Period; The Elizabethan Age; The Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Romantic Age; The Victorian Age; The Twentieth Century). PART TWO: WESTERN LITERATURE (The Classical Heritage; The Medieval Period; The Renaissance; The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 248 p. Reading semiotically against the backdrop of medieval mirrors of princes, Arthurian narratives, and chronicles, this study examines how Ren? d’Anjou (1409-1480), Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame (ca. 1375-1380), and Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) explore fame’s visual power. While very different in approach, all three individuals reject...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 334 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Conservative culture in the Romantic period should not be understood merely as an effort to preserve the old regime in Britain against the threat of revolution. Instead, conservative thinkers and writers aimed to transform British culture and society to achieve a stable future in contrast to the...
MIT Press, 2010. — 343 p. In ThermoPoetics , Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature, but literature can influence science,...
London; New York: Routledge, 2011. — (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies 18). — 273 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-88984-1. Introduction: Around the World in Eighty Plays Imperial Theatrics: Spectacle and Empire in the Nineteenth Century Recasting the Castaway: The Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Robinsonade Introduction to Part I The Novel Is Not Enough: Text and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 301 p. Constructing Chaucer examines the scholarly appropriation and manipulation of Geoffrey Chaucer since his death in 1400 and seeks to enhance the theoretical dialogue on the famous author’s reception history by challenging long-standing assumptions about the “Father of English Poetry.” In response to the academy’s recent disregard for the...
Routledge, 1998. — 612 p. Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen. This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 352 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). English literary culture in the fourteenth century was vibrant and expanding. Its focus, however, was still strongly local, not national. This study examines in detail the literary production from the capital before, during, and after the time of the Black Death. In this major contribution...
NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1904. — 47 p. Since the publication of my King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, which appeared in 1902, I have been at work on this translation. With the faith that the unique importance of the work justifies its being given this form for the benefit of the general reader, and with the encouragement from scholars that my...
John Wiley & Sons, 1994. — ISBN10: 0253208580; ISBN13: 978-0253208583. These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text. Together these essays ask how medieval English writings might pose in a distinctive way...
Routledge, 1998. — 305 p. Who's Who in Dickens is an accessible guide to the many characters in Charles Dickens' fiction. Dickens' characters are strikingly portrayed and have become a vital part of our cultural heritage - Scrooge has become a by-word for stinginess, Uriah Heep for unctuousness. From the much loved Oliver Twist to the fact-grubbing Mr Gradgrind, the obstinate...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 224 p. Introduction: Listen Up! The Talking Dead Christ’s Lips Move The Master’s Voice Cursed Speakers Belly Speech Playing the Prophet Conclusion: Resounding Voices
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – 2003. – 175 p. In Milton and Ecology, Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our current environmental crisis. Focusing on Milton’s rejection of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early modern subjectivism, Hiltner agues that Milton anticipates...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 194 p. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Bookspace as Public Plaza The House of Fame: “I Wot Myself Best how Y Stonde.” The Book of the Duchess: The Space of Self Perle: The Pedagogy of Soul and Self Patience: The Space of Play The Cloud of Unknowing: The Dimensionless Space of the Seeking Spirit Epilogue
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 329 p. A study of the medieval idea that defined the "world" as recorded in I John 2:16-the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Conflict in Troilus and Criseyde, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is explored. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 278 p. The Medieval Works of Terry Jones Young Jones at Oxford, 1961–62 The Earl of Arundel, the War with France, and the Anger of King Richard II Terry Jones’s Richard II Terry Jones: The Complete Medievalist Medieval Monks and Friars: Differing Literary Perceptions Gower’s Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis Gower in Winter: Last Poems The Naughty...
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1913. — 348 p. An outline history of English literature. This monumental work from the celebrated author William Henry Hudson is not only a chronological account of various books written in English Literature but is also about the various authors who wrote them. It takes us back immediately behind those whose genius and thoughts their books...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 212 p. The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, this book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language literatures. It considers issues of form and style alongside – and often...
Scarecrow Press, 1997. — 610 p. This first U.S. edition of Collins Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (1993) was prepared with the the general reader in mind and students of literature of all ages. The lives and principal literary achievements of over 1500 writers are outlined in brief essays that emphasize the links between the life and art of each writer. Authors...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 227 p. In Victorian Britain an array of writers captured the excitement of new scientific discoveries, and enticed young readers and listeners into learning their secrets, by converting introductory explanations into quirky, charming, and imaginative fairy-tales; forces could be fairies, dinosaurs could be dragons, and looking closely at a drop...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - 233 p. The Birth of Langland. A Proliferation of Plowmen. Langland Anthologized. Langland Recontextualized. Fictions of Authorship, Fictions of English Literature.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - 300 p. Middle English Texts and Welsh Contexts. Where Was Wales? The Erasure of Wales in Medieval English Culture. The Lichfield/Llandeilo Gospels Reinterpreted. “Feorran Broht”: Exeter Book Riddle 12 and the Commodification of the Exotic. “By The Authority Of The Devil”: The Operation of Welsh and English Law in Medieval Wales. Trevisa’s Translation...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011 - 256 p. ISBN10: 0748634606 ISBN13: 9780748634606 Medieval Literature, 1300-1500 offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. Famous works, like The Canterbury Tales, are discussed alongside lesser-known poems, prose, and plays, in five thematically-organized chapters, accompanied by a helpful...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 221 p. Introduction: Avian Subjectivity, Genre, and Feminism A Bestiary Portrait of the Artist in the House of Fame Traveling: The Cuckoo and the Carnivalesque in the Parliament of Fowls The Squire’s Tale: Romancing Animal Magic Domesticating the Fable: The Other in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale Mythological Censorship and the Manciple’s Tale Epilogue:...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 218 p. This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 426 p. King Arthur is perhaps the central figure of the medieval world, and the lore of Camelot has captivated literary imaginations from the Middle Ages to the present. Included in this volume are extended entries on more than 30 writers who incorporate Arthurian legend in their works. Arranged chronologically, the entries trace the pervasive influence...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 765 p. Informed by multi-cultural, 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...
2nd ed. - Springer, 2016. — 214 p. In this updated second edition renowned amateur comet-searcher David H. Levy expands on his work about the intricate relationship between the night sky and the works of English Literature. This revised and expanded text includes new sections on Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerald Manley Hopkins (both amateur astronomers), extending the time period...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 528 p. Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the seventh through eleventh centuries. The contributors focus on texts most commonly read in...
Cambridge University Press, 2003 - 1050 p. ISBN10: 0521631564 ISBN13: 9780521631563 (eng) This is a comprehensive history of English literature written in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While it focuses on England, literary effort in Scotland and Ireland is also covered, with occasional references to Wales and Ireland. This literary history by an...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 185 p. This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields of the new British history and...
Cambridge University Press, 2005 - 900 p. ISBN10: 0521820774 ISBN13: 9780521820776 (eng) Covering the complete range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period. It analyzes the ways in which conventional literary genres were influenced by the cultural...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 208 p. Shame and Guilt, Now and Then Shamed Guiltless in Chaucer’s Pagan Antiquity Honor, Purity, and Sacrifice in The Knight’s Tale and The Physician’s Tale Structures of Reciprocity in Chaucerian Romance The Ills of Illocution: Shame, Guilt, and Confession in The Pardoner’s Tale and The Parson’s Tale Conclusion: Chaucer and Medieval Shame Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Date: 2000 Pages: 400 A History of English Literature 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 present day. The author begins by examining the scope of such...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 199 p. Introduction: Conceptual Personae. On Fortune, Philosophy, and Fidelity to the Event. Love and Ethics to Come In troilus And Criseyde. Consolations of Pandarus: The Testament of Love and the Chaunce Of The Dyse. Gower’s Confessio Amantis and the Nature of Vernacular Ethics. Telling Fortunes in Lydgate’s Fall of Princes. Moral Luck and Malory’s...
Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008. — 248 p. The complex topics of colonialism, empire and nation run throughout English Renaissance literature. Here, the author moves beyond recent work on England's "British" colonial interests, arguing for England's self-image in the sixteenth century as an "empire of itself", part of a culture which deliberately set itself apart from Britain and...
Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. - 374 c. Many of the great books of English literature were published without their authors' names on them. But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity of their first readers? Ranging from the 16th century to the present day, this book looks at the ways in which the disguises of writers were used to tease readers....
Wiley Blackwell, 2016. — 355 p. — (Blackwell Guides to Criticism). — ISBN: 9781118598832. This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and authors from the...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. – 2002. – 368 p. (Series for Science and Culture) This book is intended for those wishing to understand, in simple term, what Chaucer is doing with the references to celestial objects that he scatters throughout The Canterbury Tales, and what these have to do with the Tales as a whole The main purpose of Time and the astrolabe in The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 209 p. Introduction: Chaucer’s Feminine Subjects: Feminism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis Figures of Desire in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale The Rhetoric of Desire in The Franklin’s Tale The Martyr’s Purpose: The Rhetoric of Disavowal in The Clerk’s Tale Chaucer’s Wolf: Exemplary Violence in The Physician’s Tale Afterword: A Question of Politics
Leiden: Brill, 2009. — 329 p. The "Knight's Tale" is one of the most controversial of all the Canterbury Tales. Does Chaucer portray Theseus, the duke of Athens whose actions dominate the tale, as an ideal ruler, one who is noble, wise and chivalrous, or does the duke's behaviour reveal him to be immoral, self-seeking and tyrannical? This book assesses the duke's conduct and...
Rosen Educational Publishing, 2010. — 265 p. Perhaps the Ixrst way to start appreciating early English literature is to not think of it as literature at all. The earliest stories in the English language were not written for academic study hut as an extension of the oral tradition ot relating grand and fanciful tales for entertainment. These stories, then, were the blockbuster...
Cambridge University Press, 1942. — 1118 p. This book is based on the fourteen volumes of The Cambridge History of English Literature. Each chapter (except the last) takes for its subject-matter the volume that bears its title, and reference to its parent work is therefore easy. Paragraphs and sentences in their original form have been incorporated into the narrative when such...
Oxford: Claredon Press, 1994. — 656 p. A Note on the Text Introduction: Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature Old English Literature Medieval Literature 1066-1510 Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620 Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690 Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780 The Literature of the Romantic Period 1780-1830...
Oxford: Claredon Press, 1996. — 681 p. A Note on the Text Introduction: Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature Old English Literature Medieval Literature 1066-1510 Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620 Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690 Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780 The Literature of the Romantic Period 1780-1830...
D.S. Brewer, 2010. — 314 p. — (Studies in Medieval Romance). Classical and Biblical Precedents. The Classical Period. The Bible. The Middle Ages: Prohibitions, Folk Practices and Learned Magic . Transitions: Saint Augustine. Prohibitions and Punishments. Folk Beliefs and Practices. Learned Magic. White Magic: Natural Arts and Marvellous Technology . Healing Magic. The Virtue of...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 — 704 p. — ISBN10: 1405159634; ISBN13: 978-1405159630 "A" "Companion to Medieval Poetry" presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15th century. Organised into three parts to echo the chronological and stylistic divisions between the Anglo-Saxon, Middle...
U.M.I., 1975. — 706 p. This dissertation examines the role of Freemasonry and related secret societies in the transmission of the occult traditions in English literary history from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The study draws upon recent Renaissance and Hebrew scholarship to define those elements of vision-inducement and magical theories of art which were developed...
U.M.I., 2006. - 41 p. Written by a leading William Blake scholar, this is an intriguing and controversial history of the poet and artist, which reveals a world of waking visions, magical practices, sexual-spiritual experimentation, tantric sex and free love.
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 240 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the parliamentary union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth- and early...
Date: 2003 Pages: 253 Handbook of the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The author discusses the major works and literary currents. The book is intended as an academic textbook for students of English department and a compendium of knowledge about the subject for all those who are interested in English literature.
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 289 p. Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric,...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2003, -271 p. Jane Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron’s poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies of publishing and audiences in the Romantic period, Stabler argues that Byron’s poetics developed in response to contemporary cultural history and his reception by the...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 233 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period, as Englishmen and women rethought their relationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 321 p. — ISBN: 0521-64115-2 hardback, ISBN: 0521-64680-4 paperback This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an up-to-date introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious...
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman ELT Division (a Pearso. Date: 1985-12. Pages: 216. A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of Great Britain and Ireland from earliest times to the 1980s.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 286 p. Introduction: In Hir Corages: Chaucer and the Animal Real Among All Beasts: Affective Naturalism in Late Medieval England Feathering the Text Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in “The Pardoner’s Tale” Chaucer’s Chicks: Feminism and Falconry in “The Knight’s Tale,” “The Squire’s Tale,” and The Parliament of Fowls Foiled by Fowl: The Squire’s...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 220 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). This historically grounded account of Gothic fiction takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 257 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period--the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 320 p. This comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context of English Literature covers the core periods of literature, and history, from the English Renaissance to the present. It introduces and outlines key terms, concepts and developments and provides a series of timelines showing political, social, cultural and literary events for each...
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Serie: Glencoe Literature: Teacher Edition Date: 2009 Pages: 1577 Literature: British Literature contains a comprehensive collection of outstanding literature and connected, relevant nonfiction. Throughout the program, there is strong, integrated skill instruction in literary analysis, literary elements, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary....
Dedalus Limited, 2015. — 163 p. — ISBN: 1903517265. Avatars and acolytes Byron, De Quincey, Wilde and more, are here, all at their unwholesome best. English Decadence was not a polite response to French invention, but the hothouse blossoming of long, indigenous researches into the perverse. Like Imperial Rome, England could hardly subdue and rule the globe without becoming...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 336 p. In this book, Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. Professor Wright traces the Irish background of the distinctive contents of Vercelli Homily IX and its remarkable exemplum, 'The Devil's Account of the Next World', and traces the...
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