The Oxford History of English
Title | The Oxford History of English PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Mugglestone |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 613 |
Release | 2012-11-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199660166 |
This text traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its 21st-century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of English within the British Isles, its changing roles in different places, and its rise to global pre-eminence.
The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Title | The Short Oxford History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sanders |
Publisher | |
Pages | 732 |
Release | 2000-01 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 9780198186960 |
A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing.
The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Title | The Short Oxford History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Sanders |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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The Short Oxford History of English Literature 2e provides a comprehensive beginners guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in one volume. This book is an established introduction to English literature, with separate chapters tracing the development from Beowulf to the post-modern fictions of Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter including a new section on late 20th century prose and British and Irish poetry of the 60s. The Historyprovides detailed discussion of Old and Middle English literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing. Discussions of key writers and works from Anselm and Chaucer to Spenser andBunyan, and from Swift and Johnson to Dickens and DH Lawrence, are combined with analysis of the impact on literature of contemporary political, social, and intellectual developments. The book includes Scottish, Irish, and Welsh writers, and it asks about the future of the canon in the light of thefragmented condition of British writing in the post-imperial period. Lively, accessible, and up-to-date, The Short Oxford History of English Literature will be an invaluable source for general readers and a key textbook for sixth-form students, first year undergraduates, and foreign students of English literature.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of English
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the History of English PDF eBook |
Author | Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste) |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 983 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190627883 |
This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.
The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Rogers |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 580 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780192854377 |
Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.
The Oxford History of Britain
Title | The Oxford History of Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth O. Morgan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 838 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 0199579253 |
̀An essential part of the high culture of our times, something which every educated person will be expected to have read.' Vernon Bogdanor, Encounter --
The Oxford History of English Art
Title | The Oxford History of English Art PDF eBook |
Author | Oxford History ... |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1952 |
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