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Book Synopsis
A survey of English literature which has been updated to include writers such as Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel, Martin Amis and Graham Swift. The book deals briefly with the earlier periods and more fully with the last two centuries. It includes coverage of the post-war novel and theatre.

Table of Contents
1. The Age of Chaucer.

2. Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose.

3. The Beginnings of Drama.

4. Shakespeare.

5. Stuart Drama.

6. Poetry - Donne to Milton.

7. The Restoration.

8. The Eighteenth Century.

9. The Rise of the Novel.

10. The Birth of Romanticism.

11. Romantics and Anti-Romantics.

12. The Early Victorian Novelists.

13. The Early Victorian Poets.

14. The Late Victorians.

15. The Birth of Modern Poetry.

16. The Birth of the Modern Novel.

17. Depression and War.

18. Twentieth-Century Drama.

19. From the `Fifties to the Nineties'.

Index.

A Short History of English Literature

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/1994
      ISBN13: 9780631190882, 978-0631190882
      ISBN10: 0631190880
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      Language: reference and general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A survey of English literature which has been updated to include writers such as Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel, Martin Amis and Graham Swift. The book deals briefly with the earlier periods and more fully with the last two centuries. It includes coverage of the post-war novel and theatre.

      Table of Contents
      1. The Age of Chaucer.

      2. Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose.

      3. The Beginnings of Drama.

      4. Shakespeare.

      5. Stuart Drama.

      6. Poetry - Donne to Milton.

      7. The Restoration.

      8. The Eighteenth Century.

      9. The Rise of the Novel.

      10. The Birth of Romanticism.

      11. Romantics and Anti-Romantics.

      12. The Early Victorian Novelists.

      13. The Early Victorian Poets.

      14. The Late Victorians.

      15. The Birth of Modern Poetry.

      16. The Birth of the Modern Novel.

      17. Depression and War.

      18. Twentieth-Century Drama.

      19. From the `Fifties to the Nineties'.

      Index.

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