Andrew Sanders (Andrew Sanders is Professor of English at the Unive

The Short Oxford History of English Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

The Short Oxford History of English Literature offers an introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day covering all the major periods of English literature chronologically. This third edition has been revised and updated incorporating a greater number of female and contemporary authors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 3rd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1186g
• ISBN-13: 9780199263387
• ISBN-10: 0199263388
• Artikelnr.: 12840560

Autorenporträt

Andrew Sanders' research interests are centred on the Nineteenth-Century Novel and particularly on the work of Charles Dickens. He was the editor of the Dickensian from 1979-87 and is the author of Charles Dickens: Resurrectionist and The Spirit of New Age. He is the editor of the Oxford World's Classics editions of Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers, Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays. His edition of Eliot's Romola was published by Penguin Classics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature
1: Old English Literature
2: Medieval Literature
3: Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620
4: Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690
5: Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780
6: The Literature of the Romantic Period
7: High Victorian Literature
8: Late Victoria and Edwardian Literature 1880-1920
9: Modernism and its Alternatives: Literature 1920-1945
10: Post-War and Post-Modern Literature