ISBN: 9780199263387

The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the pres… Mehr…

The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, including a full treatment of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh writing in English. The chapters are arranged chronologically, covering all major periods of English literature from Old English to the post-war era, including the medieval period, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorians, Modernism, and Postmodernism. In addition to a detailed discussion of all major figures and their works, Andrew Sanders examines throughout the relationship between the literary landscape and wider contemporary social, political, and intellectual developments. This edition contains a range of new entries on important contemporary authors and an increased focus on female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as a fully updated and revised bibliography. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, Oxford University Press Core >1 >T<

2004, ISBN: 9780199263387

Buch, Softcover, 3rd Revised edition, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN: 9780199263387

[PU: Oxford University Press]