A Companion to British Literature, 4 Volume Set

Herausgegeben von DeMaria, Robert; Chang, Heesok; Zacher, Samantha

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensiveguide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that haveshaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries.Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places inBritain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studyingthe subject.
Provides the most inclusive and far-reaching overview ofBritish literature from 700-2000, across four volumes and over 100chapters
Discusses the historical, social, political, domestic,linguistic, institutional and material contexts in which Britishliterature has been produced
Written by an internationally diverse range of expertcontributors including both distinguished academics andup-and-coming young stars
Joins readings across geographical, cultural, institutional,economic and mediological contexts
Demonstrates to students and teachers alike a wide range ofpossible approaches to the study of British literature
Includes a general index and a thematic table of contentsto enable readers to navigate the development of BritishLiterature
For more information about the online edition viait www.britishliteraturecompanion.com

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Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14565604000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 2160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 281mm x 215mm x 178mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780470656044
• ISBN-10: 0470656042
• Artikelnr.: 38605104

Autorenporträt

Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College, USA. He is the General Editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, the editor of the Johnsonian News Letter, and the author of Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning (1986), The Life of Samuel Johnson (Blackwell, 1993), and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997). He is also the editor of Classical Literature and Its Reception (with Robert Brown, Blackwell, 2007) and British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1996; 3rd edn, 2008). Heesok Chang is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, USA. He is the author of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell title Handbook to British Modernism, and is currently working on a book on literary modernism and media technologies. In addition, he is the author of articles on critical theory and literary modernism. Samantha Zacher is an Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Cornell University, USA, where she teaches Old and Middle English Literature. She is the author of Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (2009) and co-editor, with Andy Orchard, of New Readings in the Vercelli Book (2009). Her new monograph, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People is forthcoming (2013). She is also editing a new collection of essays entitled Imagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture (forthcoming, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Volume I: Medieval Literature 700 - 1450 Full Table of Contents ix Editors
xix Notes on Contributors to Volume I xx General Introduction xxiv Robert
DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Medieval Literature xxxi Samantha Zacher
Chronology 43 - 1476 xlvii 1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral
Composition, Performance, and Reception 1 Karl Reichl 2 Old English
Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16 Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30 Emily V. Thornbury 4
Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48 Paul
E. Szarmach 5 The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints' Legends
in John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium 65 Virginia Blanton 6 Racial
Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard,
Coer de Lion 81 Suzanne M. Yeager 7 The Norman Conquest and English
Literary Culture After 1066 97 Neil Cartlidge 8 Writing the Self:
Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 114 Liz Herbert McAvoy 9 Courtly Love and
Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 130
Christine Chism 10 Writing Revolution 146 Marion Turner 11 The Romance
Genre 161 Corinne Saunders 12 Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream
Vision Genre 180 Michael Calabrese 13 British Chaucer 202 John M. Ganim 14
Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 215
Andrew Galloway 15 Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative
Culture 232 Denise L. Despres 16 Sources, Analogues, Creativity 243 Tim
William Machan 17 Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices
in Medieval England 256 Christina M. Fitzgerald 18 Old English and
Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 273 Andy Orchard 19 Before the Makars: Older
Scots Literature Under the Early Stewart Kings 293 Rhiannon Purdie 20
Originating Britain: Welsh Literature and the Arthurian Tradition 308 Helen
Fulton 21 Writing from the "Other Shore" and the Beginnings of Vernacular
Literature in Ireland 323 Joseph Falaky Nagy 22 The Circulation and
Compilation of Devotional Books: Assessing the Material Evidence of Women's
Reading 337 Jacqueline Jenkins 23 Collectors and Collections: Libraries and
Their Social and Private Functions 355 David N. Bell 24 In Praise of Power:
Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry 369 Robert J. Meyer-Lee
25 Word and Image 384 Elaine Treharne 26 New Technologies: From Manuscript
to Print 403 Sian Echard Selected References and Further Reading 418 Index
to Volume I 435 Volume II: Early Modern Literature 1450 - 1660 Full Table
of Contents ix Editors xix Notes on Contributors to Volume II xx General
Introduction xxv Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Early Modern
Literature xxxii Robert DeMaria, Jr. Chronology 1450 - 1662 xxxix 1 The
Spectral Past: Medieval Literature in the Early Modern Period 1 David
Matthews 2 The Fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton 16 Willy Maley and Adam
Swann 3 Robert Burton and the Discontents of Print 29 David J. Baker 4
Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century 40 Alessandra
Petrina 5 Mapping the British Archipelago in the Renaissance 54 Stewart
Mottram 6 Renaissance or Reformation? 70 Michael Payne 7 Religious Reading
and Writing in an Age of Bloodshed 82 Achsah Guibbory 8 Translations of
Virgil from Gavin Douglas to Sir John Denham 98 Robin Sowerby 9 England,
the "Orient," and the Ocean 116 Benedict Robinson 10 Politics and Religion
in Elizabethan Drama 129 Lisa Hopkins 11 Women's Literary and Intellectual
Endeavors: A Case for the Anonymous Riposte 142 Marcy L. North 12
Shakespeare and the Arts of Persuasion 164 Michael Macdonald 13 Texts and
Performances in the Age of Elizabeth 181 Tom Rutter 14 Physics,
Metaphysics, and Religion in Lyric Poetry 197 Wendy Beth Hyman 15 The Early
English Essay 213 Joshua Scodel 16 Francis Bacon and Aristotelian
Afterlives 231 Christopher Crosbie 17 Scots Literature in the Age of the
Makars and Beyond 249 Katherine H. Terrell 18 Violence in Jacobean Drama
264 Zoltan Markus 19 First Folios: Jonson and Shakespeare 280 Adam G. Hooks
20 Riding Westward: Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and the Literature of
Empire 295 Jonathan Locke Hart 21 Cheap Print and Popular Reading During
the Civil Wars, 1637 - 1660 309 Joad Raymond 22 Republican Writing from
Milton to Locke 326 Nigel Smith 23 John Bunyan and the Spaces of Religious
Writing 342 Cynthia Wall 24 Paradise Lost: Contexts and Poetic Creation 359
Barbara K. Lewalski 25 Human, Animal, and Machine in the Seventeenth
Century 375 Lucinda Cole and Robert Markley Selected References and Further
Reading 391 Index to Volume II 402 Volume III: Long Eighteenth-Century
Literature 1660 - 1837 Full Table of Contents ix Editors xix Notes on
Contributors to Volume III xx General Introduction xxiv Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Introduction to Long Eighteenth-Century Literature xxxi Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Chronology 1658 - 1835 xxxviii 1 Understanding Genre: Epic, Mock Epic, and
Some Versions of Heroism from Milton to Pope 1 David Venturo 2 History and
Literature from Milton to Wollstonecraft 19 Ruth Mack 3 Shakespeare in the
Eighteenth Century 35 Neil Rhodes 4 Aphra Behn and the Profession of
Writing in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century 49 Catherine
Ingrassia 5 The Virgilian Way from Milton to Wordsworth 62 Adam Potkay 6
Women Readers and the Rise of the Periodical Essay 78 Manushag N. Powell 7
Female Satirists of the Eighteenth Century 95 Paul Baines 8 Ireland,
England, and Anglo-Irish Writers in England 113 David Oakleaf 9 Alexander
Pope: Religion, Politics, and Poetry 127 Pat Rogers 10 Eighteenth-Century
Science and the Literary Imagination 143 Tita Chico 11 Epistolary Writing
in the Long Eighteenth Century 159 Thomas Keymer 12 Poetry Anthologies,
Taste, and the Canon 174 Adam Rounce 13 Performance in Eighteenth-Century
English Verse: Oral Expressiveness 189 John Richetti 14 Ranging Knowledge
by the Alphabet: The Literature of Categorization and Organization 1700 -
1830 207 Lynda Mugglestone 15 History, Biography, and Anecdote 223 Freya
Johnston 16 The Other in the British Eighteenth Century 240 Lynn Festa 17
Aesthetics and Taste: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Beyond in the
Eighteenth Century 258 G. Gabrielle Starr 18 The Poetry of Melancholy from
Finch to Keats 277 John Sitter 19 Jane Austen and the Conditions of
Knowledge 298 Jenny Davidson 20 Genius and Originality 1750 - 1830: Young,
Wordsworth, and Shelley 312 Christopher R. Miller 21 Blake and His
Contemporaries 329 Laura Quinney 22 Romantic Celebrities: Poets in an Age
of Print 345 Richard Cronin 23 Gothic and Celtic Revivals: Antiquity and
the Archipelago 361 Nick Groom 24 Romantic Women Writers in the Lecture
Room 380 Sarah M. Zimmerman Selected References and Further Reading 396
Index to Volume III 408 Volume IV: Victorian and Twentieth-Century
Literature 1837 - 2000 Full Table of Contents ix Editors xix Notes on
Contributors to Volume IV xx General Introduction xxiv Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Introduction to Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature xxxi Heesok
Chang Chronology 1800 - 2006 xxxvii 1 Charles Dickens, Dramatist 1 Eileen
Gillooly 2 Becoming George Eliot: Female Authorship in the Nineteenth
Century 14 Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi 3 "What Do the Women Do?": The Work of
Women in the Fiction of the Brontës 33 Susan Zlotnick 4 Evolution and
Entropy: Scientific Contexts in the Nineteenth Century 52 Suzy Anger 5
Theater, Exhibition, and Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century 68 Sharon
Aronofsky Weltman 6 Art, Self, and Society: Tennyson and the Brownings,
1830 - 1857 89 Matthew Campbell 7 Pre-Raphaelite Brothers, Lovers, and the
Sister Arts 107 Wendy Graham 8 Regionalism and Consciousness: Thomas
Hardy's Imagined Geographies 129 Keith Wilson 9 Modernism and Empire 144
Laura Winkiel 10 The Irish Literary Revival 160 James L. Pethica 11
Re-Envisioning Yeats's A Vision: Modernist Spirality and the Distribution
of the Sensible 175 Nico Israel 12 First World War Poetry 195 Adam Piette
13 "How to Enjoy James Joyce's Great Novel": Making and Marketing in
Ulysses 210 Stephen Dilks 14 Anglophobia and Anglophilia: Hugh MacDiarmid
and T. S. Eliot 231 Robert Crawford 15 Virginia Woolf and Experimental
Fiction 246 Anne E. Fernald 16 Sartorial Modernity: Fashion, Gender, and
Sexuality in Modernism 260 Jane Garrity 17 Doom in the Bud: Beckett's Drama
and After 280 Paul Lawley 18 Form, Figure, and Ground: Auden and England
After Modernism 296 C. D. Blanton 19 Historical Turns in Twentieth-Century
Fiction 314 John T. Connor 20 Anthologizing Poetry: The Movement and After
333 Nigel Alderman 21 "Frail, and So Full of Fire": The Angry Young Man and
Changing Masculinities 350 Praseeda Gopinath 22 Imagining Female Authorship
After 1945: Lessing's and Spark's Portraits of the Artist Manqué 367 Maria
Francesca Fackler 23 Sticks and Stones: Three Nearly Unnamable Figures and
a Review of Postcolonialism 385 Elaine K. Chang 24 The Modern Scottish
Novel 404 Cairns Craig 25 Queer Fiction in Contemporary Britain 424 Jodie
Medd 26 Global Markets: Contemporary British Fiction and the Book Trade 440
Richard Todd 27 The British Dystopian Novel from Wells to Ishiguro 454
Phillip E. Wegner Selected References and Further Reading 471 Index to
Volume IV 484 Consolidated Index 511