The Routledge history of literature in English : Britain and Ireland / Ronald Carter and John McRae.

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Carter, Ronald, 1947-2018 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
Third edition.
Published/​Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Description
xv, 605 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    "The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. Accompanying language notes explore the interrelationships between language and literature, emphasising the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative. With a new chapter on novels, drama and poetry in the 21st century and an extensive companion website, The Routledge History of Literature in English will be an invaluable reference for any student of English literature and language."-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 560-570) and index.
    Contents
    • The Beginnings of English: Old and Middle English 600-1485 ; Preface ; Text and Conditions ; Persona and Religious voices ; Long Poems ; French Influence and English affirmation ; Language and Dialect ; From Anonymity to individualism ; Women’s voices ; Fantasy ; Travel ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; Langland, Gower and Lydgate ; The Scottish Chaucerians ; Mediaeval drama ; Malory and Skelton
    • The Renaissance: 1485-1660 ; Contexts and conditions ; Renaissance poetry ; Drama before Shakespeare ; From the street to a building – the Elizabethan theatre ; Renaissance prose ; Translations of the Bible ; Shakespeare ; The plays ; The sonnets ; The Metaphysical poets ; The Cavalier poets ; Jacobean drama – to the closure of the theatres, 1642 ; Ben Jonson ; Masques ; Other early seventeenth-century dramatists ; Domestic tragedy ; City comedy ; The end of the Renaissance theatre
    • Restoration to Romanticism: 1660-1789 ; Contexts and conditions ; Milton ; Restoration drama ; Rochester ; Dryden ; Pope ; Journalism ; Scottish Enlightenment, diarists and Gibbon ; The novel ; Criticism ; Johnson ; Sterne, Smollett and Scottish voices ; Drama after 1737 ; Poetry after Pope ; Melancholy, madness and nature ; The Gothic and the sublime
    • The Romantic Period: 1789-1832 ; Contexts and conditions ; Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge ; Keats ; Shelley ; Byron ; Rights and voices and poetry ; Clare ; Romantic prose ; The novel in the Romantic period ; Jane Austen ; Scott ; From Gothic to Frankenstein ; The Scottish regional novel
    • The Nineteenth Century: 1832-1900 ; Contexts and conditions ; Dickens ; Victorian thought and Victorian novels ; The Brontës and Eliot ; ‘Lady’ novelists ; Late Victorian novels ; Victorian fantasy ; Wilde and Aestheticism ; Hardy and James ; Victorian poetry ; The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and after ; Victorian drama
    • The Twentieth Century: 1900-45 ; Contexts and conditions ; Modern poetry to 1945 ; Later Hardy ; Georgian and Imagist poetry ; First World War poetry ; Irish writing ; W.B. Yeats ; T.S. Eliot ; Popular poets ; Thirties poets ; Scottish and Welsh poetry ; Twentieth-century drama to 1945 ; Irish drama ; D.H. Lawrence ; Popular and poetic drama ; The novel to 1945 ; Subjectivity: the popular tradition ; The Kailyard School ; Provincial novels ; Social concerns ; Light novels ; Genre fiction ; Modernism and the novel ; Forster ; Conrad and Ford ; D.H. Lawrence ; Woolf and Joyce ; Novels of the First World War ; Aldous Huxley ; Rooms of their own ; Ireland ; Early Greene and Waugh ; Thirties novelists
    • The Twentieth Century 1945 to 2000 ; Contexts and conditions ; Drama since 1945 ; Poetry of the Second World War ; Poetry since 1945 ; Martians and gorgons ; The novel since 1945 ; Writing for younger readers – so-called children’s literature ; Later Greene ; Post-war Waugh ; Orwell ; Dialogue novels ; The mid-century novel ; Amis, father and son ; Golding ; Fowles and Frayn ; Novel sequences ; The campus novel ; Falling in love… ; … and blood ; Muriel Spark and others ; Margaret Drabble ; Lessing, Hill, Dunmore and Weldon ; Iris Murdoch ; Internationalism ; Rotten Englishes ; New modes of modern writing ; The contemporary Scottish novel ; The contemporary Irish novel ; Endings and beginnings
    • The Twenty-First Century ; Contexts and Conditions ; The novel since 2000 ; How to be both ; States of the nation ; Who would want to stay? ; The freedom of all angland here in my heorte ; Wars and times and perspectives ; Genre fiction ; All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye ; Poetry since 2000 ; Drama since 2000 ; Twenty-first century drama – Blasted to Hangmen ; Endings and beginnings.
    ISBN
    • 9780415839747 ((hardback))
    • 0415839742 ((hardback))
    • 9781032097572
    • 1032097574
    LCCN
    2016015488
    OCLC
    952470011
    International Article Number
    • 9780415839747
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