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Author Adams, Robert M. (Robert Martin), 1915-1996.

Title The land and literature of England : a historical account / Robert M. Adams.

Publication Info. New York : Norton, [1983]
©1983

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PR83 .A3 1983    Available  ---
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.
English literature.
Literature and society -- England.
Literature and society.
England.
England -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Englische Literatur -- 0 Gesamtdarstellung.
Grossbritannien -- Geschichte.
Literatursoziologie.
Literatur.
Großbritannien.
Englisch.
Chronological Term Geschichte
Indexed Term English literature Social aspects, to 1980
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN 0393017044
9780393017045