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Category : Literature
Languages : en
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England in Literature
Author: Literary England
Author: David Edward SchermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258365677
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Literary History of England Vol. 4
Author: A BaughPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136892990
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
The Fantasy Literature of England
Author: Colin N. ManlovePublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532677553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy's modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's fantasy. In them all England has led the world, with authors as different as Chaucer, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Salman Rushdie.
Forever England
Author: Alison LightPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135629846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognise the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars. From the traumatic aftermath of the First World War, Forever England traces the making of a conservative national temperament which could be defensive and protective, yet modernising in outlook. In a series of literary anaylses, the author suggests some of the tones and accents of this new version of Englishness; in particular she looks at new kinds of readership and fiction, at the historical and emotional significance of the `whodunit', the burgeoning of historical romance, and the creation of a middlebrow culture in the period. Forever England evokes a powerful sense of period and of the pleasures of reading, providing an intimate picture of interwar life from inside the English middle classes. As a feminist inquiry, it argues from a different kind of social and political history; one which makes connections between the interior structures of private life and their more public national forms. Controversially, it also urges that feminism deal with conservative, as well as radical, desires and their place in women's lives.
Chaucer's England
Author: Barbara HanawaltPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452901176
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society.
Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660
Author: Nigel SmithPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300071535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and political authority.
The Land and Literature of England
Author: Robert Martin AdamsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
"Professor Adams seems to have read the whole library and yet. . .retained his pith, vigor, suppleness, and good cheer. In addition, he knows how to tell a story. . . .One of the pleasure. . .lies in [the book's] rich texture of cross-references between history and literature. . . .Exhilarating." --Daniel Albright, New York Review of Books
A Short History of England's and America's Literature
Author: Eva March TappanPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Literature and Complaint in England 1272-1553
Author: Professor of Medieval English Literature Wendy ScasePublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199270856
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Giving a different perspective on the relations between early judicial process & the development of literature in England, this book argues that texts ranging from political libels & pamphlets to laments of the unrequited lover constitute a literature shaped by the crucial role of complaint in the law courts.
