The Routledge History of Literature in English : Britain and Ireland.
"The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphas...
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface to the Third Edition; THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH: Old and Middle English 600-1485; Preface; Contexts and conditions; Personal and religious voices; Language note: The earliest figurative language; Long poems; French influence and English affirmation; Language and dialect; Language note: The expanding lexicon: Chaucer and Middle English; From anonymity to individualism; Women's voices; Fantasy; Travel; Geoffrey Chaucer; Langland, Gower and Lydgate; The Scottish Chaucerians; Mediaeval drama; Malory and Skelton.
- Language note: Prose and sentence structureTHE RENAISSANCE: 1485-1660; Contexts and conditions; Language note: Expanding world: expanding lexicon; Renaissance poetry; Drama before Shakespeare; From the street to a building
- the Elizabethan theatre; Renaissance prose; Translations of the Bible; Language note: The language of the Bible; Shakespeare; The plays; The sonnets; Language note: Shakespeare's language; The Metaphysical poets; The Cavalier poets; Jacobean drama
- to the closure of the theatres, 1642; Ben Jonson; Masques; Other early seventeenth-century dramatists; Domestic tragedy.
- City comedyThe end of the Renaissance theatre; RESTORATION TO ROMANTICISM: 1660-1789; Contexts and conditions; Language note: Changing patterns of 'thou' and 'you'; Milton; Restoration drama; Rochester; Dryden; Pope; Journalism; Scottish Enlightenment, diarists and Gibbon; The novel; Criticism; Language note: The expanding lexicon
- 'standards of English'; Johnson; Sterne, Smollett and Scottish voices; Drama after 1737; Poetry after Pope; Language note: Metrical patterns; Melancholy, madness and nature; The Gothic and the sublime; Language note: Point of view; THE ROMANTIC PERIOD: 1789-1832.
- Contexts and conditionsBlake, Wordsworth and Coleridge; Language note: Reading Wordsworth; Language note: The 'real' language of men; Keats; Shelley; Byron; Rights and voices and poetry; Clare; Romantic prose; The novel in the Romantic period; Jane Austen; Language note: Jane Austen's English; Scott; From Gothic to Frankenstein; The Scottish regional novel; THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1832-1900; Contexts and conditions; Dickens; Language note: Reading Dickens; Victorian thought and Victorian novels; The Brontës and Eliot; 'Lady' novelists; Late Victorian novels; Victorian fantasy.
- Wilde and AestheticismHardy and James; Victorian poetry; The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and after; Language note: The developing uses of dialects in literature; Victorian drama; Language note: Reading the language of theatre and drama; THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1900-45; Contexts and conditions; Modern poetry to 1945; Language note: Reading Hardy; Later Hardy; Georgian and Imagist poetry; First World War poetry; Irish writing; W.B. Yeats; T.S. Eliot; Language note: Modernist poetic syntax; Popular poets; Thirties poets; Language note: Reading Auden; Scottish and Welsh poetry.