Author: Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521189365
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A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Language: en
Pages: 301
Pages: 301
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Language: en
Pages: 394
Pages: 394
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of achievements of the Scottish thinkers who so profoundly influenced western culture.
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the
Language: en
Pages: 298
Pages: 298
This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
Language: en
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In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Language: en
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This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Since 1945, British literature has served to mirror profound social, geopolitical and environmental change. Written by a host of leading scholars, this volume explores the myriad cultural movements and
Language: en
Pages: 235
Pages: 235
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers.