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A Short History of English Literature

Robert Barnard (Author)

9780631190882, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 1994

248 pages
23 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.426 kg

Thoroughly updated, this book remains the best overall survey of English literature available.

  • Brings this successful book up to date with new material on, among others, Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel, Martin Amis and Graham Swift
  • Very accessible

1. The Age of Chaucer.

2. Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose.

3. The Beginnings of Drama.

4. Shakespeare.

5. Stuart Drama.

6. Poetry - Donne to Milton.

7. The Restoration.

8. The Eighteenth Century.

9. The Rise of the Novel.

10. The Birth of Romanticism.

11. Romantics and Anti-Romantics.

12. The Early Victorian Novelists.

13. The Early Victorian Poets.

14. The Late Victorians.

15. The Birth of Modern Poetry.

16. The Birth of the Modern Novel.

17. Depression and War.

18. Twentieth-Century Drama.

19. From the `Fifties to the Nineties'.

Index.

Subject Areas: Language: reference & general [CB]
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