Encyclopedia of British Writers
Title | Encyclopedia of British Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Christine L. Krueger |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 881 |
Release | 2014-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438108702 |
This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Title | Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Book Builders LLC. |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 817 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Authors, English |
ISBN | 1438108699 |
Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
Encyclopedia of British Writers
Title | Encyclopedia of British Writers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Authors, English |
ISBN | 9780816051328 |
Volume 1 covers the English Renaissance, with entries on Shakespeare and other major Elizabethan writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, and more. Also profiled are writers of the early 17th century, including John Milton and metaphysical poets such as John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, and others. Volume 2 covers the Restoration period and the Age of Reason, with entries on such writers as Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Robert Burns, and many others. Volume 3 covers the writers of the 19th century, profiling such influential figures as Jane Austen, Robert Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Keats, Bram Stoker, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, and William Wordsworth. Volume 4 profiles British writers of the 20th century, with entries on such significant authors as W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Roald Dahl, E.M. Forster, Graham Greene, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Tom Stoppard, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf.
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th-18th Centuries
Title | Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th-18th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Authors, English |
ISBN |
Encyclopedia of British Writers: Encyclopedia of British writers, 20th century
Title | Encyclopedia of British Writers: Encyclopedia of British writers, 20th century PDF eBook |
Author | Christine L. Krueger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 844 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Authors, English |
ISBN | 9780816046690 |
Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries
Title | Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Authors, English |
ISBN |
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th-20th Centuries
Title | Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th-20th Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | George Stade General Editors Christine L Krueger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1712 |
Release | 2005-03-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780816061426 |
A four-volume set, this encyclopedia is a reference for the study of British literature's history from 16th to the 20th centuries. A-to-Z volumes cover approximately 1,400 major British writers - primarily dramatists, poets, essayists, and fiction writers, with an emphasis on those who are part of the high school curriculum.