| Description |
xi, 772 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Rev ed. of: The everyman history of English literature. 1985. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Epic -- Romance -- Chaucerian epic and romance -- Chaucer, Langland and the treachery of the text -- Two versions of pastoral: Arcady and Faeryland -- Arcady of the poem -- Sonnet: history of a form -- Spenser's garden -- Miracles, moralities and Marlowe -- Shakespeare: tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy -- Shakespeare's after-life -- Tragedy and comedy of revenge -- Lyrical nothings -- Milton, 'author and end of all things' -- Lost paradise of the lyric -- Paradise Lost and its predestining -- Acting and being: comedy from Wycherley to Sheridan -- Swift, Pope and the goddess of unreason -- Inventing the novel: Defoe -- Richardson and Fielding: tragic pastoral and comic epic -- Sterne: tragedy, comedy, irony -- Johnson's lives and Boswell's life -- Gothic follies -- Wordsworth, Coleridge and the failed God -- Romantic surfeit -- Romantic deaths -- Imagination and fiction -- Dickens and the breeding of monsters -- Critical epic -- Novel's natural history -- "From romance to realism': Tennyson and Browning -- Decadence and nonsense -- Last romantic? -- Epic, romance and the novel -- Waste Land and the Wastobe Land -- Babel rebuilt -- Stages of drama -- Symbols and secrets -- 'Now and in England' -- 'Too much history'? 'Too many books'? |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
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Great Britain. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Added Author |
Conrad, Peter, 1948-
Everyman history of English literature.
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| Added Title |
History of English literature |
| ISBN |
0304366102 |
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