Studying English Literature in Context
Critical Readings
Herausgeber: Poplawski, Paul
Studying English Literature in Context
Critical Readings
Herausgeber: Poplawski, Paul
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Ranging from early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The thirty-one chapters draw on varied themes and perspectives to present stimulating new readings of both canonical and non-canonical texts and authors. Written in a lively and engaging style, by an international team of experts, these specially commissioned essays collectively represent an incisive contribution to literary studies; they will appeal to scholars, teachers and graduate and undergraduate students. The book is…mehr
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Ranging from early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The thirty-one chapters draw on varied themes and perspectives to present stimulating new readings of both canonical and non-canonical texts and authors. Written in a lively and engaging style, by an international team of experts, these specially commissioned essays collectively represent an incisive contribution to literary studies; they will appeal to scholars, teachers and graduate and undergraduate students. The book is designed to complement Paul Poplawski's previous volume, English Literature in Context, and incorporates additional study elements designed specifically with undergraduates in mind. With an extensive chronology, a glossary of critical terms, and a study guide suggesting how students might learn from the essays in their own writing practices, this volume provides a rich and flexible resource for teaching and learning.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 674
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 246mm x 188mm x 36mm
- Gewicht: 1565g
- ISBN-13: 9781108479288
- ISBN-10: 1108479286
- Artikelnr.: 63627031
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 674
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 246mm x 188mm x 36mm
- Gewicht: 1565g
- ISBN-13: 9781108479288
- ISBN-10: 1108479286
- Artikelnr.: 63627031
Introduction Paul Poplawski; Section I. Medieval English, 500-1500: 1.
Finding the dream of the rood in old English literature Emily V. Thornbury;
2. The translator as author: The case of Geoffrey Chaucer's the Parliament
of Fowls Filip Krajnik; 3. Arthurian romance as a window onto medieval
life: The Case of Ywayne and Gawayne and The Awntyrs off Arthure K. S.
Whetter; Section II: The renaissance, 1485-1660: 4. The renaissance in
England: A meeting point Alessandra Petrina; 5. 'Mr Spencer's moral
invention': The global horizons of early modern epic Jane Grogan; 6. Arden
of Faversham Christa Jansohn; 7. 'A little touch of Harry in the night' -
mysteries of kingship and the stage in Shakespeare's the life of king Henry
the fifth Ina Habermann; 8. Poems and contexts: The case of Henry Vaughan
Robert Wilcher; Section III: The restoration and eighteenth century,
1660-1780: 9. Periodising in context: The case of the restoration and
eighteenth Century Lee Morrissey; 10. Truth-telling and the representation
of the Surinam 'Indians' in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Oddvar Holmesland; 11.
'The pamphlet on the table': The life and adventures of sir Launcelot
Greaves Richard J. Jones; Section IV: The romantic period, 1780-1832: 12.
'Transported into asiatic scenes': Romanticism and the orient Daniel Sanjiv
Roberts; 13. Historical fiction in the romantic period: Jane Porter, Walter
Scott and the sublime hero Fiona Price; 14. Jane Austen and her publishers:
Northanger Abbey and the publishing context of the early nineteenth century
Katie Halsey; 15. 'O for a life of sensations' or 'the internal and
external parts': Keats and medical materialism Paul Wright; Section V: The
victorian age, 1832-1901: 16. Poetry and science in the victorian period
Jordan Kistler; 17. 'In characters of tint indelible': Life writing and
legacy in Charlotte Brontë's Villette Maria Frawley; 18. Money, narrative
and representation from Dickens to Gissing Ben Moore; 19. Reading and
remediating nineteenth-century serial fiction: Closing down and opening up
Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla Fionnuala Dillane; 20. Public places, private
spaces in Fin de Siècle British women's writing Sue Asbee; Section VI: The
Twentieth Century, 1901-1939: 21. D. H. Lawrence's women in Love: An
anthropological reading Stefania Michelucci; 22. The epigraph for T. S.
Eliot's Marina: Classical tradition and the modern era Anna Budziak; 23.
Passing as a male critic: Mary Beton's coming of age in Virginia Woolf's a
room of one's own Judith Paltin; Section VII: The twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, 1939-2020: 24. An ecocritical reading of the poetry
of Ted Hughes Terry Gifford; 25. Women publishers in the twenty-first
century: Assessing their impact on new writing - and writers Catherine
Riley; 26. Crisis and community in contemporary British theatre Clare
Wallace; Section VIII: Postcolonial literature in english: 27. Complexities
and concealments of eros in the African novel: Chinua Achebe's things fall
apart F. Fiona Moolla; 28. Bessie Head's feminism of everyday life Loretta
Stec; 29. The gender politics of Grace Nichols: Joy and resistance Izabel
F. O. Brandao; 30. 'The all-purpose quote': Salman Rushdie's
meta-contextuality Joel Kuortti; 31. Postcolonial literature and the world,
2017-2019: Contemporary complexities Ulla Rahbek; Appendices; Appendix A:
Glossary of critical terms; Appendix B: Study guide: Learning from the
essays; Appendix C: Essays listed by genre and theme; Index.
Finding the dream of the rood in old English literature Emily V. Thornbury;
2. The translator as author: The case of Geoffrey Chaucer's the Parliament
of Fowls Filip Krajnik; 3. Arthurian romance as a window onto medieval
life: The Case of Ywayne and Gawayne and The Awntyrs off Arthure K. S.
Whetter; Section II: The renaissance, 1485-1660: 4. The renaissance in
England: A meeting point Alessandra Petrina; 5. 'Mr Spencer's moral
invention': The global horizons of early modern epic Jane Grogan; 6. Arden
of Faversham Christa Jansohn; 7. 'A little touch of Harry in the night' -
mysteries of kingship and the stage in Shakespeare's the life of king Henry
the fifth Ina Habermann; 8. Poems and contexts: The case of Henry Vaughan
Robert Wilcher; Section III: The restoration and eighteenth century,
1660-1780: 9. Periodising in context: The case of the restoration and
eighteenth Century Lee Morrissey; 10. Truth-telling and the representation
of the Surinam 'Indians' in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Oddvar Holmesland; 11.
'The pamphlet on the table': The life and adventures of sir Launcelot
Greaves Richard J. Jones; Section IV: The romantic period, 1780-1832: 12.
'Transported into asiatic scenes': Romanticism and the orient Daniel Sanjiv
Roberts; 13. Historical fiction in the romantic period: Jane Porter, Walter
Scott and the sublime hero Fiona Price; 14. Jane Austen and her publishers:
Northanger Abbey and the publishing context of the early nineteenth century
Katie Halsey; 15. 'O for a life of sensations' or 'the internal and
external parts': Keats and medical materialism Paul Wright; Section V: The
victorian age, 1832-1901: 16. Poetry and science in the victorian period
Jordan Kistler; 17. 'In characters of tint indelible': Life writing and
legacy in Charlotte Brontë's Villette Maria Frawley; 18. Money, narrative
and representation from Dickens to Gissing Ben Moore; 19. Reading and
remediating nineteenth-century serial fiction: Closing down and opening up
Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla Fionnuala Dillane; 20. Public places, private
spaces in Fin de Siècle British women's writing Sue Asbee; Section VI: The
Twentieth Century, 1901-1939: 21. D. H. Lawrence's women in Love: An
anthropological reading Stefania Michelucci; 22. The epigraph for T. S.
Eliot's Marina: Classical tradition and the modern era Anna Budziak; 23.
Passing as a male critic: Mary Beton's coming of age in Virginia Woolf's a
room of one's own Judith Paltin; Section VII: The twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, 1939-2020: 24. An ecocritical reading of the poetry
of Ted Hughes Terry Gifford; 25. Women publishers in the twenty-first
century: Assessing their impact on new writing - and writers Catherine
Riley; 26. Crisis and community in contemporary British theatre Clare
Wallace; Section VIII: Postcolonial literature in english: 27. Complexities
and concealments of eros in the African novel: Chinua Achebe's things fall
apart F. Fiona Moolla; 28. Bessie Head's feminism of everyday life Loretta
Stec; 29. The gender politics of Grace Nichols: Joy and resistance Izabel
F. O. Brandao; 30. 'The all-purpose quote': Salman Rushdie's
meta-contextuality Joel Kuortti; 31. Postcolonial literature and the world,
2017-2019: Contemporary complexities Ulla Rahbek; Appendices; Appendix A:
Glossary of critical terms; Appendix B: Study guide: Learning from the
essays; Appendix C: Essays listed by genre and theme; Index.
Introduction Paul Poplawski; Section I. Medieval English, 500-1500: 1.
Finding the dream of the rood in old English literature Emily V. Thornbury;
2. The translator as author: The case of Geoffrey Chaucer's the Parliament
of Fowls Filip Krajnik; 3. Arthurian romance as a window onto medieval
life: The Case of Ywayne and Gawayne and The Awntyrs off Arthure K. S.
Whetter; Section II: The renaissance, 1485-1660: 4. The renaissance in
England: A meeting point Alessandra Petrina; 5. 'Mr Spencer's moral
invention': The global horizons of early modern epic Jane Grogan; 6. Arden
of Faversham Christa Jansohn; 7. 'A little touch of Harry in the night' -
mysteries of kingship and the stage in Shakespeare's the life of king Henry
the fifth Ina Habermann; 8. Poems and contexts: The case of Henry Vaughan
Robert Wilcher; Section III: The restoration and eighteenth century,
1660-1780: 9. Periodising in context: The case of the restoration and
eighteenth Century Lee Morrissey; 10. Truth-telling and the representation
of the Surinam 'Indians' in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Oddvar Holmesland; 11.
'The pamphlet on the table': The life and adventures of sir Launcelot
Greaves Richard J. Jones; Section IV: The romantic period, 1780-1832: 12.
'Transported into asiatic scenes': Romanticism and the orient Daniel Sanjiv
Roberts; 13. Historical fiction in the romantic period: Jane Porter, Walter
Scott and the sublime hero Fiona Price; 14. Jane Austen and her publishers:
Northanger Abbey and the publishing context of the early nineteenth century
Katie Halsey; 15. 'O for a life of sensations' or 'the internal and
external parts': Keats and medical materialism Paul Wright; Section V: The
victorian age, 1832-1901: 16. Poetry and science in the victorian period
Jordan Kistler; 17. 'In characters of tint indelible': Life writing and
legacy in Charlotte Brontë's Villette Maria Frawley; 18. Money, narrative
and representation from Dickens to Gissing Ben Moore; 19. Reading and
remediating nineteenth-century serial fiction: Closing down and opening up
Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla Fionnuala Dillane; 20. Public places, private
spaces in Fin de Siècle British women's writing Sue Asbee; Section VI: The
Twentieth Century, 1901-1939: 21. D. H. Lawrence's women in Love: An
anthropological reading Stefania Michelucci; 22. The epigraph for T. S.
Eliot's Marina: Classical tradition and the modern era Anna Budziak; 23.
Passing as a male critic: Mary Beton's coming of age in Virginia Woolf's a
room of one's own Judith Paltin; Section VII: The twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, 1939-2020: 24. An ecocritical reading of the poetry
of Ted Hughes Terry Gifford; 25. Women publishers in the twenty-first
century: Assessing their impact on new writing - and writers Catherine
Riley; 26. Crisis and community in contemporary British theatre Clare
Wallace; Section VIII: Postcolonial literature in english: 27. Complexities
and concealments of eros in the African novel: Chinua Achebe's things fall
apart F. Fiona Moolla; 28. Bessie Head's feminism of everyday life Loretta
Stec; 29. The gender politics of Grace Nichols: Joy and resistance Izabel
F. O. Brandao; 30. 'The all-purpose quote': Salman Rushdie's
meta-contextuality Joel Kuortti; 31. Postcolonial literature and the world,
2017-2019: Contemporary complexities Ulla Rahbek; Appendices; Appendix A:
Glossary of critical terms; Appendix B: Study guide: Learning from the
essays; Appendix C: Essays listed by genre and theme; Index.
Finding the dream of the rood in old English literature Emily V. Thornbury;
2. The translator as author: The case of Geoffrey Chaucer's the Parliament
of Fowls Filip Krajnik; 3. Arthurian romance as a window onto medieval
life: The Case of Ywayne and Gawayne and The Awntyrs off Arthure K. S.
Whetter; Section II: The renaissance, 1485-1660: 4. The renaissance in
England: A meeting point Alessandra Petrina; 5. 'Mr Spencer's moral
invention': The global horizons of early modern epic Jane Grogan; 6. Arden
of Faversham Christa Jansohn; 7. 'A little touch of Harry in the night' -
mysteries of kingship and the stage in Shakespeare's the life of king Henry
the fifth Ina Habermann; 8. Poems and contexts: The case of Henry Vaughan
Robert Wilcher; Section III: The restoration and eighteenth century,
1660-1780: 9. Periodising in context: The case of the restoration and
eighteenth Century Lee Morrissey; 10. Truth-telling and the representation
of the Surinam 'Indians' in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Oddvar Holmesland; 11.
'The pamphlet on the table': The life and adventures of sir Launcelot
Greaves Richard J. Jones; Section IV: The romantic period, 1780-1832: 12.
'Transported into asiatic scenes': Romanticism and the orient Daniel Sanjiv
Roberts; 13. Historical fiction in the romantic period: Jane Porter, Walter
Scott and the sublime hero Fiona Price; 14. Jane Austen and her publishers:
Northanger Abbey and the publishing context of the early nineteenth century
Katie Halsey; 15. 'O for a life of sensations' or 'the internal and
external parts': Keats and medical materialism Paul Wright; Section V: The
victorian age, 1832-1901: 16. Poetry and science in the victorian period
Jordan Kistler; 17. 'In characters of tint indelible': Life writing and
legacy in Charlotte Brontë's Villette Maria Frawley; 18. Money, narrative
and representation from Dickens to Gissing Ben Moore; 19. Reading and
remediating nineteenth-century serial fiction: Closing down and opening up
Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla Fionnuala Dillane; 20. Public places, private
spaces in Fin de Siècle British women's writing Sue Asbee; Section VI: The
Twentieth Century, 1901-1939: 21. D. H. Lawrence's women in Love: An
anthropological reading Stefania Michelucci; 22. The epigraph for T. S.
Eliot's Marina: Classical tradition and the modern era Anna Budziak; 23.
Passing as a male critic: Mary Beton's coming of age in Virginia Woolf's a
room of one's own Judith Paltin; Section VII: The twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, 1939-2020: 24. An ecocritical reading of the poetry
of Ted Hughes Terry Gifford; 25. Women publishers in the twenty-first
century: Assessing their impact on new writing - and writers Catherine
Riley; 26. Crisis and community in contemporary British theatre Clare
Wallace; Section VIII: Postcolonial literature in english: 27. Complexities
and concealments of eros in the African novel: Chinua Achebe's things fall
apart F. Fiona Moolla; 28. Bessie Head's feminism of everyday life Loretta
Stec; 29. The gender politics of Grace Nichols: Joy and resistance Izabel
F. O. Brandao; 30. 'The all-purpose quote': Salman Rushdie's
meta-contextuality Joel Kuortti; 31. Postcolonial literature and the world,
2017-2019: Contemporary complexities Ulla Rahbek; Appendices; Appendix A:
Glossary of critical terms; Appendix B: Study guide: Learning from the
essays; Appendix C: Essays listed by genre and theme; Index.