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The Routledge history of literature in English : Britain and Ireland / Ronald Carter and John McRae.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Ronald, 1947-2018, author.
- McRae, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English language--History.
- English language.
- History.
- Intellectual life.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.
- Ireland--Intellectual life.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 605 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Summary:
- "The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. Accompanying language notes explore the interrelationships between language and literature, emphasising the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative. With a new chapter on novels, drama and poetry in the 21st century and an extensive companion website, The Routledge History of Literature in English will be an invaluable reference for any student of English literature and language."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Beginnings of English: Old and Middle English 600-1485
- Preface 3
- Contexts and conditions 4
- Personal and religious voices 8
- Language note: The earliest figurative language 11
- Long poems 12
- French influence and English affirmation 16
- Language and dialect 20
- Language note: The expanding lexicon: Chaucer and Middle English 23
- From anonymity to individualism 24
- Women's voices 27
- Fantasy 29
- Travel 30
- Geoffrey Chaucer 31
- Langland, Gower and Lydgate 37
- The Scottish Chaucerians 41
- Mediaeval drama 43
- Malory and Skelton 46
- Language note: Prose and sentence structure 48
- The Renaissance: 1485-1660
- Contexts and conditions 53
- Language note: Expanding world: expanding lexicon 58
- Renaissance poetry 59
- Drama before Shakespeare 63
- From the street to a building - the Elizabethan theatre 68
- Renaissance prose 70
- Translations of the Bible 76
- Language note: The language of the Bible 77
- Shakespeare 79
- The plays 80
- The sonnets 90
- Language note: Shakespeare's language 93
- The Metaphysical poets 94
- The Cavalier poets 100
- Jacobean drama - to the closure of the theatres, 1642 102
- Ben Jonson 102
- Masques 103
- Other early seventeenth-century dramatists 105
- Domestic tragedy 110
- City comedy 110
- The end of the Renaissance theatre 111
- Restoration to Romanticism: 1660-1789
- Contexts and conditions 115
- Language note: Changing patterns of 'thou' and 'you' 118
- Milton 119
- Restoration drama 125
- Rochester 134
- Dryden 135
- Pope 139
- Journalism 141
- Scottish Enlightenment, diarists and Gibbon 144
- The novel 147
- Criticism 160
- Language note: The expanding lexicon - 'standards of English' 161
- Johnson 162
- Sterne, Smollett and Scottish voices 164
- Drama after 1737 172
- Poetry after Pope 173
- Language note: Metrical patterns 179
- Melancholy, madness and nature 180
- The Gothic and the sublime 185
- Language note: Point of view 188
- The Romantic Period: 1789-1832
- Contexts and conditions 195
- Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge 198
- Language note: Reading Wordsworth 202
- Language note: The 'real' language of men 206
- Keats 208
- Shelley 212
- Byron 216
- Rights and voices and poetry 220
- Clare 222
- Romantic prose 224
- The novel in the Romantic period 227
- Jane Austen 229
- Language note: Jane Austen's English 232
- Scott 233
- From Gothic to Frankenstein 237
- The Scottish regional novel 238
- The Nineteenth Century: 1832-1900
- Contexts and conditions 243
- Dickens 245
- Language note: Reading Dickens 250
- Victorian thought and Victorian novels 252
- The Brontës and Eliot 261
- 'Lady' novelists 265
- Late Victorian novels 267
- Victorian fantasy 273
- Wilde and Aestheticism 277
- Hardy and James 280
- Victorian poetry 285
- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and after 297
- Language note: The developing uses of dialects in literature 302
- Victorian drama 303
- Language note: Reading the language of theatre and drama 306
- The Twentieth Century: 1900-45
- Contexts and conditions 311
- Modern poetry to 1945 314
- Language note: Reading Hardy 315
- Later Hardy 317
- Georgian and Imagist poetry 320
- First World War poetry 322
- Irish writing 325
- W.B. Yeats 326
- T.S. Eliot 328
- Language note: Modernist poetic syntax 333
- Popular poets 335
- Thirties poets 335
- Language note: Reading Auden 340
- Scottish and Welsh poetry 341
- Twentieth-century drama to 1945 343
- Irish drama 345
- D.H. Lawrence 347
- Popular and poetic drama 348
- The novel to 1945 350
- Subjectivity: the popular tradition 351
- The Kailyard School 352
- Provincial novels 353
- Social concerns 354
- Light novels 355
- Genre fiction 356
- Modernism and the novel 357
- Forster 358
- Conrad and Ford 360
- D.H. Lawrence 365
- Woolf and Joyce 372
- Language note: Irish English, nationality and literature 380
- Novels of the First World War 382
- Aldous Huxley 383
- Rooms of their own 384
- Ireland 388
- Early Greene and Waugh 389
- Thirties novelists 391
- The Twentieth Century: 1945 to 2000
- Contexts and conditions 397
- Drama since 1945 400
- Language note: Drama and everyday language 401
- Poetry of the Second World War 417
- Poetry since 1945 418
- Martians and gorgons 431
- The novel since 1945 439
- Writing for younger readers - so-called children's literature 439
- Later Greene 441
- Post-war Waugh 442
- Orwell 443
- Dialogue novels 446
- Language note: Discourse, titles and diaiogism 448
- The mid-century novel 449
- Amis, father and son 452
- Golding 454
- Fowles and Frayn 455
- Novel sequences 457
- The campus novel 458
- Falling in love ... 460
- ...and blood 464
- Muriel Spark and others 465
- Margaret Drabble 467
- Lessing, Hill, Dunmore and Weldon 468
- Iris Murdoch 470
- Internationalism 471
- Rotten Englishes 473
- New modes of modern writing 480
- Language note: English, Scots and Scotland 487
- The contemporary Scottish novel 488
- The contemporary Irish novel 494
- Endings and beginnings 495
- The Twenty-First Century
- Contexts and conditions 501
- The novel since 2000 502
- How to be both 504
- States of the nation 505
- Who would want to stay? 513
- The freedom of all of angland here in my heorte 515
- Wars and times and perspectives 520
- Genre fiction 522
- All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye 523
- Poetry since 2000 524
- Drama since 2000 527
- Twenty-first century drama - Blasted to Hangmen 528
- Endings and beginnings 535.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 560-570) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415839747
- 0415839742
- OCLC:
- 966466812
- Publisher Number:
- 99969644599
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