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 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 Oxford History of Literary Translation in English:
Title | The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: PDF eBook |
Author | Peter France |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 2006-02-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199246238 |
Translation has played a vital part in the history of literature throughout the English-speaking world. Offering for the first time a comprehensive view of this phenomenon, this pioneering five-volume work casts a vivid new light on the history of English literature. Incorporating critical discussion of translations, it explores the changing nature and function of translation and the social and intellectual milieu of the translators.
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
Title | The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | David Hopkins |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 749 |
Release | 2012-09-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199219818 |
"The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.
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 |
ISBN |
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 History of English Literature
Title | The History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Conrad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 760 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The Victorian Novel
Title | The Victorian Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Francis O'Gorman |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0470779853 |
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.