an extensive companion website including extra
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Theo D’haen, University of Leuven, Belgium
"Immensely accessible, comprehensive and reader-friendly, the 3rd edition of The Routledge History of Literature in English provides interested readers with a thorough exploration of British and Irish literature. With a new added chapter chronicling writings from the twenty-first century, this ideal volume is—to date—unique, unrivalled."
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"The third edition of this extensive and clearly written volume will be welcome to readers keen to historicize the development of English from Caedmon’s Hymn to the writing of Kazuo Ishiguro. By assessing the reach of English both globally and within the shifting landscape of the British Isles, the authors address questions of dialect, regionalism and nationhood alongside those of genre, form, lexicon and aesthetics. The focus on social and political context in conversation with close readings of specific texts makes this a helpful introduction to the writing and reading of English today."
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Table of Contents
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH: OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH 600-1485
THE RENAISSANCE: 1485-1660
RESTORATION TO ROMANTICISM: 1660-1789
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD: 1789 - 1832
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1832-1900
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1900-45
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1945 TO 2000
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
