Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xiii, 555 pages, 68 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliography included in "Suggestions for further reading": pages 520-534. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Celtic Britain, Roman Britain, and their fate (1500 B.C.-A.D. 600) -- Saxon England (600-1066) -- From the Norman conquest to the age of Chaucer (1066-1399) -- The fifteenth century (1399-1509) -- Henry VIII and the Reformation (1509-1557) -- Intrigues, conspiracies, and an almost-invasion (1558-1588) -- Gathering shades : the last years of Elizabeth (1588-1603) -- The Early Stuarts and their revolution (1603-1649) -- Commonwealth and restoration (1649-1688) -- The settlement of '88 and Queen Anne (1688-1714) -- The early eighteenth century: The rising novel (1714-1748) -- The first Pitt and the Wars of Empire (1748-1789) -- Revolution, Romanticism, reaction (1789-1815) -- Peace, controversy, reform (1815-1851) -- High Victorianism (1851-1887) -- Victorian conservatism, Edwardian liberalism, and World War I (1887-1919) -- Between two wars (1919-1939) -- World War II and after (1939- ). |
Summary |
A COMPANION TO BRITISH LITERATURE EXPLORES THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND CULTURAL HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF ENGLISH POETRY, FICTION, PROSE, AND DRAMA AND ANALYZES THE CHANGING CONDITIONS OF LITERARY ACTIVITY. BIBLIOG. |
Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Literature and society -- England.
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Literature and society. |
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England. |
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England -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Letterkunde. |
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Engels. |
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Englische Literatur -- 0 Gesamtdarstellung. |
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Grossbritannien -- Geschichte. |
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Literatursoziologie. |
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Literatur. |
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Großbritannien. |
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Englisch. |
Chronological Term |
Geschichte |
Indexed Term |
English literature Social aspects, to 1980 |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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ISBN |
0393017044 |
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9780393017045 |
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