British writers. Retrospective supplement I / Jay Parini, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parini, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Bio-bibliography.

English literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

Authors, English--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Bio-bibliography.

Biographies.

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

lxi, 475 pages ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [2002]

Summary:

The "Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and a styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political concerns for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 17 sets comprising this series. To see listings of writers for any volume in this section, go to the "Scribner Writers Series section online at www.gale.com/scribners. This supplement reflects the newest scholarship on some of the most important figures featured in the original "British Writers set. Twenty-two articles, all written by scholars, provide a fresh look at writers such as William Blake, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats and many others.

Contents:

W. H. Auden

Samuel Beckett

William Blake

Bronte Sisters

Daniel Defoe

Henry Fielding

William Golding

Thomas Hardy

Seamus Heaney

Samuel Johnson

Ben Jonson

James Joyce

John Keats

Christopher Marlowe

Harold Pinter

Alexander Pope

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jonathan Swift

J. M. Synge

Virginia Woolf

W. B. Yeats.

Notes:

Includes cumulative index for the entire British Writers series through Retrospective Supplement I.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0684312271

OCLC:

47973365