The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 1908
Category : English literature
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Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 1908
Category : English literature
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Author : Alfred Rayney, Waller, Adolphus William, Ward
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
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Author : John Richetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521781442
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.
Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521820776
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Author : Clare A. Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131617509X
Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.
Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521890465
This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.
Author : David Loewenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521631563
Now available in paperback, this is the first full-scale history of early modern English literature in nearly a century. It offers new perspectives on English literature produced in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While providing the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history, its twenty-six chapters address recent methodological and interpretive developments in English literary studies. The book has five sections: Modes and Means of Literary Production, Circulation, and Reception , The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I , The Era of Elizabeth and James VI , The Earlier Stuart Era , and The Civil War and Commonwealth Era . While England is the principal focus, literary production in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is treated, as are other subjects less frequently examined in previous histories, including women s writings and the literature of the English Reformation and Revolution. This innovatively-designed history is an essential resource for specialists and students.
Author : Norman Francis Blake
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780511468469
Volume two of this set covers the Middle English Period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyses developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1927
Category : English literature
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1933
Category : English literature
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