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class Keble and Newman, or to radical thought of the upper class Shelley and the middle class Godwin. The contrast, in an upper class context, between earnest Victorians and the world of Victorian swells is beautifully made in Left Hand, Right Hand, the first volume of Osbert Sitwell’s reminiscences. He compares the
Jan 1, 1997 · For literary works, prototypical. characteristics include careful use of language, being written in a literary genre (poetry, prose fiction, or drama), being read aesthetically, and containing ...
20 ENGLISH LITERARY PERIODS • • Literary Periods and the History of Ideas Timeline of Texts Studied in this Course Chronos and His Child (ca 1650) Giovanni Francesco Romanelli ENGLISH LITERARY PERIODS AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS BRITISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO 1700 (ENG 2105) Ancient (pre-English roots) Literary Period 2000 BCE – 450 CE Authors Homer Aeschylus Aristophanes Virgil ...
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Michael Abbott Robert Ackerman James Aikens Margaret Allen Susan Ang Stephen M. Archer Marie-Louise Ayres Christopher Baldick Cameron Bardrick Gillian Beer Alan Bell Misha Berson Delys Bird Jeremy Black M. H. Black Alison Blair-Underwood Paul Bongiorno John L. Bradley Andrea Brady Andrew Brown Frances Bzowski Jo-Anne Carty Paul Chipchase Jean Choth...
The following contributors deserve a special mention for their substantial work on this new edition: Andrea Brady, Christopher Innes, Neil Lazarus, Daniel Lea, David Madden, Tim Middleton, Stuart Murray, Patrick O’Donnell, John Thieme, Elizabeth Webby and Don B. Wilmeth. I have enjoyed unerring support, advice and encouragement from the following e...
Since the first edition of this Cambridge Guide was published it has sometimes seemed that the priorities of academics working in the various (and expanding) fields of literary study have not always corresponded with the priorities of non-academic enthusiasts: those so-called ‘ordinary’ or ‘general’ readers. In a practical sense, for an editor of a...
This edition has been revised and expanded with the central aim of previous editions in mind: to provide a handy reference guide to the literature in English produced by all the various English-speaking cultures throughout the world. It embraces literature from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, the South Pacific and the ...
Writers. This includes not just poets, novelists and playwrights but also those ‘non-literary’ authors who were an important influence on the literary culture of their age, including: theologians, philoso-phers, economists, naturalists, scientists, essayists, critics and historians. Individual plays, poems, novels and other works. Generous coverage...
Arthurian literature Baconian heresy Bible in English, The bluestocking Booker Prize boys’ companies canon children’s literature Cockney School, The cognitive poetics include dialogic/dialogism dub poetry dumb show English dictionaries English language estates satire ethical criticism expressionism feminist criticism genre fiction Condition of Engl...
Entries are listed in alphabetical word-by-word order. Entries on people come before those on works when names and titles are the same. Headings for writers, movements, literary terms, and so on, appear in bold face. Headings for titles of books and magazines in bold face italics. The appearance of small capitals or small italic capitals in the cou...
English Literature in Context Comprehensiveandaccessible, thistextbook supports thestudy ofEnglishliterature from the Middle Ages to the present, and is designed as a main resource for all English Literature students. The book is carefully structured for undergraduate use, with a rich range of illustrations and textboxes that enhance and ...
The Routledge history of literature in English: Britain and Ireland/Ronald Carter and John McRae.—2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English literature—History and criticism. 2. Great Britain—Intellectual life. 3. Ireland—Intellectual life. 4. English language—History. I. McRae, John. II. Title. PR83.C28 2001
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May 25, 2024 · The Church. The most important philosophical influence of the Middle Ages was the Church, which dominated life and literature. In medieval Britain, “the Church ” referred to the Roman Catholic Church. Although works such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales reveal an exuberant, and often bawdy, sense of humor in the Middle Ages, people also ...
