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Author : Robert McCrum,William Cran,Robert Macneil
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106016003110
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Author : Michael Alexander
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333913973
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.
Author : WILLIAM J. LONG
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012182054
Author : John Mullan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691139418
Some of the greatest works in English literature were first published without their authors' names. Why did so many authors want to be anonymous--and what was it like to read their books without knowing for certain who had written them? In Anonymity, John Mullan gives a fascinating and original history of hidden identity in English literature. From the sixteenth century to today, he explores how the disguises of writers were first used and eventually penetrated, how anonymity teased readers and bamboozled critics--and how, when book reviews were also anonymous, reviewers played tricks of their own in return. Today we have forgotten that the first readers of Gulliver's Travels and Sense and Sensibility had to guess who their authors might be, and that writers like Sir Walter Scott and Charlotte Brontë went to elaborate lengths to keep secret their authorship of the best-selling books of their times. But, in fact, anonymity is everywhere in English literature. Spenser, Donne, Marvell, Defoe, Swift, Fanny Burney, Austen, Byron, Thackeray, Lewis Carroll, Tennyson, George Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and Doris Lessing--all hid their names. With great lucidity and wit, Anonymity tells the stories of these and many other writers, providing a fast-paced, entertaining, and informative tour through the history of English literature.
Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192854372
Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.
Author : John Peck,Martin Coyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350309531
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
Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134942107
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988-12-12
Category : English language
ISBN : 0517639955
Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English-from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockney, Scouse, and Scots to Gulla, Singlish, Franglais, and the latest African American slang, this sweeping history of the English language is the essential introduction for anyone who wants to know more about our common tongue.
Author : Edmund Kemper Broadus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:395488354
Author : William Vaughn Moody
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473351080
First published in 1902, this volume contains a detailed history of English literature beginning in the Anglo-Saxon Period and ending with contemporary literature. “A History of English Literature” is highly recommended for all students of literature, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Contents include: “The Anglo-Saxon Period”, “The Norman-French Period”, “The Age of Chaucer”, “The Renaissance: Non-Dramatic Literature to the Death of Spenser”, “The Renaissance: Shakespeare”, ‘The Seventeenth Century: Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and Successors in the Drama”, “The Seventeenth Century: Non-dramatic Literature before the Restoration”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134942107
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191614293
Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : William Henry Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:590510257
Author : William J. Long
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547343240
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Literature" (Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World) by William J. Long. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.