| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
v. 1. The Middle Ages / Christopher Baswell and Anne Howland Schotter. The early modern period / Clare Carroll and Andrew Hadfield. The Restoration and the 18th century / Stuart Sherman -- v. 2. The Romantics and their contemporaries / Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning. The Victorian age / Heather Henderson and William Sharpe. The twentieth century / Kevin J.H. Dettmar and Jennifer Wicke -- |
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v. 1. The Middle Ages. Introduction. The Celts ; The Germanic migrations ; Pagan and Christian : tensions and convergence ; Oral poetry, written manuscripts ; The Norman conquest ; Social and religious order ; Continental and insular cultures ; Women, courtliness, and courtly love ; Romance ; The return of the English ; Politics and society in the fourteenth century ; The spread of book culture in the fifteenth century -- Beowulf -- from The Táin Bó Cuailnge -- Early Irish verse -- Judith -- The dream of the rood ; Bede -- Bishop Asser -- King Alfred -- Ohthere's journeys -- The Anglo-Saxon chronicle -- Taliesin -- The Wanderer -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- The Wife's Lament -- Riddles -- Arthurian myth in the history of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gerald of Wales, Edward I)-- Marie de France -- Sir Gawain and the green knight -- Sir Thomas Malory -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- William Langland -- Julian of Norwich -- The second play of the shepherds -- The York play of the crucifixion -- Margery Kempe -- Middle English lyrics -- Dafydd ap Gwilym -- William Dunbar -- Robert Henryson -- Charles d'Orléans -- Mankind -- Christine de Pizan -- |
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v. 1. The Early modern period. Introduction. An experimental age ; Historical perspectives ; The humanist renaissance and early modern society ; Writing for a new age ; History and epic ; Drama ; Lyric poetry and romance ; Changing social, political, and personal roles ; The business of literature ; Nature and change ; The war and the modern order of things -- John Skelton -- The English sonnet and sonnet sequences in the sixteenth century. Sir Thomas Wyatt ; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ; George Gascoigne ; Edmund Spenser ; Sir Philip Sidney ; Richard Barnfield ; Michael Drayton -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Early of Surrey -- Sir Thomas More -- William Baldwin -- Edmund Spenser -- Sir Philip Sidney -- "The Apology" and its time -- Isabella Whitney -- Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke -- Early modern books -- Elizabeth I -- Aemilia Lanyer -- Richard Barnfield -- Christopher Marlowe -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- England, Britain, and the World -- William Shakespeare -- Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton -- Tracts on women and gender -- Ben Jonson -- John Donne -- The King James Bible (web) -- Lady Mary Wroth -- Thomas Hobbes -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Robert Burton -- Robert Herrick -- George Herbert -- Richard Lovelace -- Henry Vaughan -- Andrew Marvell -- Katherine Philips -- The Civil War, or the wars of Three Kingdoms -- John Milton -- |
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v. 1. The Restoration and the eighteenth century. Introduction. Monarchs, ministries, empire ; Money, manners, and theatrics ; Faith and knowledge, thought and feeling ; Writers, readers, conversations ; Coda -- Samuel Pepys -- The Royal Society and new science. Thomas Sprat ; Philosophical transactions ; Robert Hooke ; John Aubrey -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- John Dryden -- Aphra Behn -- Coterie writing. Mary, Lady Chudleigh ; Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea ; Mary Leapor -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- William Wycherley -- Mary Astell -- Daniel Defoe -- Reading papers -- Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- John Gay -- William Hogarth -- Mind and God. Isacc Newton ; John Locke ; Isaac Watts ; Joseph Addison ; George Berkeley ; David Hume ; Christopher Smart ; William Cowper -- James Thomson -- Thomas Gray -- Samuel Johnson -- James Boswell ; Oliver Goldsmith ; Richard Brinsley Sheridan (web) -- Novel guises. Mary Carleton ; Daniel Defoe ; Eliza Haywood ; Samuel Richardson ; Henry Fielding ; Laurence Sterne ; Frances Burney. |
| Subject |
English literature.
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English literature. |
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Great Britain -- Literary collections.
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Damrosch, David.
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Dettmar, Kevin J. H., 1958-
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| ISBN |
9780205693337 set |
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0205693334 set |
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9780205655243 v. 1 alkaline paper |
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0205655246 v. 1 alkaline paper |
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9780205655199 v. 2 paperback alkaline paper |
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020565519X v. 2 paperback alkaline paper |
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