Author : George Stade
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438116896
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.
Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438108702
This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets
Author : Book Builders LLC.
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 1438108699
Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2004
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ISBN : 9780816051328
Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Christine L Krueger
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
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ISBN : 9780816046706
This reference profiles 800 British poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, and other writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the early romantic poets to contemporary novelists born in distant parts of the former British empire. Each entry includes details of the author's life and work and suggestions for further reading. Entries on major writers include a critical analysis section that discusses one or more of the author's works in greater detail. Each volume also features an author timeline, and entries on key terms and movements of the century.
Author : Alan Hager
Publisher :
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780816054961
Author : Christine L. Krueger
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2003
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ISBN : 9780816046706
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers.For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
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Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780816046690
Volume 1 covers the English Renaissance, with entries on Shakespeare and other major Elizabethan writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, and more. Also profiled are writers of the early 17th century, including John Milton and metaphysical poets such as John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, and others. Volume 2 covers the Restoration period and the Age of Reason, with entries on such writers as Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Robert Burns, and many others. Volume 3 covers the writers of the 19th century, profiling such influential figures as Jane Austen, Robert Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Keats, Bram Stoker, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, and William Wordsworth. Volume 4 profiles British writers of the 20th century, with entries on such significant authors as W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Roald Dahl, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, C. S. Lewis, Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Tom Stoppard, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf.
