Harry Blamires

A Short History of English Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book guides through some six centuries of English literature, beginning with Chaucer's time, and goes on to analyse the background, interconnections and major achievements of individual writers in each period. It is useful to the student of English literature and to the general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 1984
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780415050784
• ISBN-10: 0415050782
• Artikelnr.: 22151738

Autorenporträt

Harry Blamires was Head of the English Department at King Alfred's College, Winchester, He is now retired and devotes his time to writing.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The fourteenth century 2. Fifteenth-century poetry and prose 3. The
early sixteenth century 4. Elizabethan drama 5. Jacobean drama 6.
Elizabethan poetry 7. Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry 8. Elizabethan and
seventeenth-century prose 9. Milton to Dryden 10. Restoration drama 11.
Origins of the novel 12. The age of Swift and Pope 13. The age of Johnson
14. The eighteenth-century novel 15. The close of the eighteenth century
16. Wordsworth and the Romantics 17. Scott and contemporary novelists 18.
Victorian poetry 19. The Victorian novel 20. Twentieth-century drama 21.
Twentieth-century poetry 22. The twentieth-century novel