Helge Nowak

Literature in Britain and Ireland: A History (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Literature in Britain and Ireland is a survey of literature on the British Isles since the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Despite this wide angle, the linguistic, regional and ethnic differentiations in each particular period are being emphasised. Because of its combination of traditional and innovative components of English Studies, this history of literature is useful as a study book accompanying courses as well as an incentive for discoveries while reading. The chapters are systematically structured to allow profiles along the history of genres. In addition to poetry, drama, short stories and the novel, different forms of non-fictional prose are being highlighted, too. Innovative tendencies in teaching English literature are taken into account beyond the consideration of popular and contemporary literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: UTB GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783838531489
• Artikelnr.: 71188288

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dr. Helge Nowak lehrt an der LMU München.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction IX 1 Medieval Literature (up to c.1500) 1 1.1 Literature from Anglo-Saxon England 1 1.2 Middle English Literature 7 1.3 Celtic Contexts 20 Guiding Questions and Exercises 25 2 Renaissance Literature (c.1500 ?1660) 27 2.1 Renaissance Contexts 27 Guiding Questions and Exercises 36 2.2 Theatre and Drama 36 2.2.1 The Renaissance Stage 36 2.2.2 Romans and Roses: Elizabethan History Plays 41 2.2.3 Tragedies 55 2.2.4 (Tragi-)Comedies and Humours 70 Guiding Questions and Exercises 78 2.3 Renaissance Poetry 79 2.3.1 Poets, Poetic Styles and Themes 79 2.3.2 The Sonnet Craze 93 2.3.3 Epic Poetry and Other Long Poems 105 Guiding Questions and Exercises 112 2.4 Utopia and Other Prose Writings 113 Guiding Questions and Exercises 125 3 The Long Eighteenth Century: Neoclassicism and Romanticism (1660 ? c.1830) 127 3.1 Literary Communication in Britain between 1660 and the 1830s . 127 Guiding Questions and Exercises 144 3.2 Performance Culture: Drama, Orality and Oratory 145 VI Contents 3.2.1 Dramatic Genres and Genre Theory 145 3.2.2 Popular Politics in Songs and Speeches 159 Guiding Questions and Exercises 162 3.3 Neoclassicist and Romantic Poetry 162 3.3.1 Translations, Imitations, Mock-Epic and Verse Satire 162 3.3.2 From Gray’s “Elegy” to the Odes of Keats, from the Ballad Revival to the Return of the Sonnet 168 3.3.3 Poetry and Gender Relations: ‘Love, Honour and Obey’? 182 Guiding Questions and Exercises 191 3.4 From Manuscript to Print: Adaptation to a New Medium, and New Forms of Writing 192 3.4.1 Romantic Poets and the Continuum of Recital, Manuscript and Print 192 3.4.2 ‘Letter Writing’ in Various Forms 196 3.4.3 Familiar, Formal and Periodical Essays 200 3.4.4 Writing Lives 203 3.4.5 The Literature of Travel 207 3.4.6 The Children’s Book: Literature for a New Audience 216 Guiding Questions and Exercises 221 3.5 ‘The Rise of the Novel’: A Series of Experiments 222 3.5.1 Robinson Crusoe and Its Relation to Individualism, Religion and Colonialism 222 3.5.2 Male Novelists and Their Female Heroines: Gender Relations, Materialism and Morality in Moll Flanders, Pamela, and Fanny Hill 225 3.5.3 The Novels of Fielding and Sterne 230 3.5.4 ‘Mothers of the Novel’: Women Writers before and beside Jane Austen 236 3.5.5 Oriental Tales and Gothic Romances: Other Worlds in an Age of Reason 242 3.5.6 Fiction and Nation-Building in Scott’s Historical Novels 247 Guiding Questions and Exercises 253 4 The Literature of the Victorian Age and of the Early Twentieth Century (c.1830 ? c.1920) 255 4.1 Authors, Publishers and Readers: The Changing Face of Literary Communication in Britain and Ireland 255 Guiding Questions and Exercises 268 4.2 ‘Victorian Values’: Materialism, Morals and Mentalities in the Literature of the Period 269 4.2.1 Utilitarianism, Darwinism and Religious Belief in the Victorian Age 269 4.2.2 The Impact of the Empire 277 4.2.3 ‘The Angel in the House’ vs. the Fallen Woman: Gender Roles and Their Impact on Literature 291 Guiding Questions and Exercises 304 4.3 Drama and Performance: From Music Hall and Melodrama to the Plays of Wilde, Shaw, Yeats and Synge 304 Guiding Questions and Exercises 326 4.4 Poetry from Tennyson to Yeats: Forms and Themes 327 Guiding Questions and Exercises 350 4.5 The Development of Fiction from Dickens to Lawrence 351 4.5.1 Charles Dickens and the Breakthrough of the Novel 351 4.5.2 History and Social Realism in Fiction by Dickens’s Rivals and Contemporaries 361 4.5.3 Regional and Sensational Elements in the Novel from Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy to D. H. Lawrence 378 4.5.4 Devils, Doubles and Detectives: The Development of Short Fiction in Ireland, Scotland and England 390 4.5.5 From Workhouse to Wonderland: The Child in Fiction, and Fiction for Children 400 Guiding Questions and Exercises 419 5 Modernism and Beyond (c.1920 to the Present) 421 5.1 New Developments in Poetry 421 5.1.1 From Yeats’s Later Poetry to Radical Modernism . 422 5.1.2 Tradition and the Individual Talent: More Moderate Forms of Experiment and Innovation . 431 5.1.3 Englishness in English Verse since the 1960s 448 5.1.4 Scottish, Welsh and Irish Poetry since the 1960s 458 5.1.5 Summing Up a Century in Sonnets 465 Guiding Questions and Exercises 468 5.2 Drama and Theatre 469 5.2.1 New Spaces for Performance and New Media 469 5.2.2 Well-Made Plays and Verse Plays 477 5.2.3 Absurdity, Anger and After 486 5.2.4 Irish Drama and Theatre since the 1920s 501 5.2.5 Drama and Theatre since the 1980s 512 Guiding Questions and Exercises 517 5.3 Fiction 518 5.3.1 Mainstream Writing up to the 1960s, and a Concern with History Well Beyond 520 5.3.2 Forms of Popular Fiction 526 5.3.3 Modernist and Postmodernist Experiments 542 5.3.4 Gender and Region 554 5.3.5 Residues of Empire and Transcultural Fiction in Britain 566 5.3.6 Intertextuality and Intermediality in Contemporary Fiction 586 Guiding Questions and Exercises 593 References and Further Reading 595 Subject Index 620 Name Index 623

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Introduction IX1 Medieval Literature (up to c.1500) 11.1 Literature from Anglo-Saxon England 11.2 Middle English Literature 71.3 Celtic Contexts 20Guiding Questions and Exercises 252 Renaissance Literature (c.1500 ?1660) 272.1 Renaissance Contexts 27Guiding Questions and Exercises 362.2 Theatre and Drama 362.2.1 The Renaissance Stage 362.2.2 Romans and Roses: Elizabethan History Plays 412.2.3 Tragedies 552.2.4 (Tragi-)Comedies and Humours 70Guiding Questions and Exercises 782.3 Renaissance Poetry 792.3.1 Poets, Poetic Styles and Themes 792.3.2 The Sonnet Craze 932.3.3 Epic Poetry and Other Long Poems 105Guiding Questions and Exercises 1122.4 Utopia and Other Prose Writings 113Guiding Questions and Exercises 1253 The Long Eighteenth Century:Neoclassicism and Romanticism (1660 ? c.1830) 1273.1 Literary Communication in Britain between 1660 and the 1830s . 127Guiding Questions and Exercises 1443.2 Performance Culture: Drama, Orality and Oratory 145VI Contents3.2.1 Dramatic Genres and Genre Theory 1453.2.2 Popular Politics in Songs and Speeches 159Guiding Questions and Exercises 1623.3 Neoclassicist and Romantic Poetry 1623.3.1 Translations, Imitations, Mock-Epic and Verse Satire 1623.3.2 From Gray's "Elegy" to the Odes of Keats, fromthe Ballad Revival to the Return of the Sonnet 1683.3.3 Poetry and Gender Relations: 'Love, Honour and Obey'? 182Guiding Questions and Exercises 1913.4 From Manuscript to Print: Adaptation to aNew Medium, and New Forms of Writing 1923.4.1 Romantic Poets and the Continuum of Recital,Manuscript and Print 1923.4.2 'Letter Writing' in Various Forms 1963.4.3 Familiar, Formal and Periodical Essays 2003.4.4 Writing Lives 2033.4.5 The Literature of Travel 2073.4.6 The Children's Book: Literature for a New Audience 216Guiding Questions and Exercises 2213.5 'The Rise of the Novel': A Series of Experiments 2223.5.1 Robinson Crusoe and Its Relation to Individualism,Religion and Colonialism 2223.5.2 Male Novelists and Their Female Heroines:Gender Relations, Materialism and Morality inMoll Flanders, Pamela, and Fanny Hill 2253.5.3 The Novels of Fielding and Sterne 2303.5.4 'Mothers of the Novel': Women Writers beforeand beside Jane Austen 2363.5.5 Oriental Tales and Gothic Romances: OtherWorlds in an Age of Reason 2423.5.6 Fiction and Nation-Building in Scott's HistoricalNovels 247Guiding Questions and Exercises 2534 The Literature of the Victorian Age and of theEarly Twentieth Century (c.1830 ? c.1920) 2554.1 Authors, Publishers and Readers: The Changing Faceof Literary Communication in Britain and Ireland 255Guiding Questions and Exercises 2684.2 'Victorian Values': Materialism, Morals and Mentalitiesin the Literature of the Period 2694.2.1 Utilitarianism, Darwinism and Religious Beliefin the Victorian Age 2694.2.2 The Impact of the Empire 2774.2.3 'The Angel in the House' vs. the Fallen Woman:Gender Roles and Their Impact on Literature 291Guiding Questions and Exercises 3044.3 Drama and Performance: From Music Hall andMelodrama to the Plays of Wilde, Shaw, Yeats and Synge 304Guiding Questions and Exercises 3264.4 Poetry from Tennyson to Yeats: Forms and Themes 327Guiding Questions and Exercises 3504.5 The Development of Fiction from Dickens toLawrence 3514.5.1 Charles Dickens and the Breakthrough of the Novel 3514.5.2 History and Social Realism in Fiction byDickens's Rivals and Contemporaries 3614.5.3 Regional and Sensational Elements in the Novelfrom Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy toD. H. Lawrence 3784.5.4 Devils, Doubles and Detectives:The Development of Short Fiction in Ireland,Scotland and England 3904.5.5 From Workhouse to Wonderland: The Child inFiction, and Fiction for