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基本説明
Provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day. The authors write in their characteristical style which relation to the social, political and cultural contexts in which they were written.
Full Description
"A Brief History of English Literature" provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from "Beowulf" to the present day. The book is written in a lucid style to enable 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.
Contents
Preface Old English Literature Middle English Literature Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose Shakespeare Renaissance and Restoration Drama Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose The Eighteenth Century The Novel: The First Hundred Years The Romantic Period Victorian Literature 1837-1857 Victorian Literature 1857-1876 Victorian Literature 1874-1901 The Twentieth Century: The Early Years The Twentieth Century: Between the Wars The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to the End of the Millennium Postscript Chronology Further Reading Index