British Literature II. Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, Bonnie, editor.

Open Textbook Library, distributor.

Series:

Open Textbook Library.

Open textbook library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Textbooks.

Rhetoric.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Updated irregularly.

Distribution:

Minneapolis Open Textbook Library 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Featuring 37 authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the literature developed within and developing through their respective eras. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that has captivated readers in the past and still holds us now. Features: Contextualizing introductions to the Romantic era; the Victorian era; and the Twentieth Century and beyond Over 90 historical images In-depth biographies of each author Instructional Design features, including Reading and Review Questions This textbook is an Open Educational Resource. It can be reused, remixed, and reedited freely without seeking permission.

Contents:

Part 1: The Romantic Era

1.1 Romanticism in Literature

1.2 Historical Context

1.3 Recommended Reading

1.4 Anna Laetitia Barbauld

1.5 Charlotte Smith

1.6 William Blake

1.7 William Wordsworth

1.8 Dorothy Wordsworth

1.9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.10 George Gordon, Lord Byron

1.11 Perey Bysshe Shelley

1.12 Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1.13 John Keats

1.14 Mary Shelley

Part 2: The Victorian Age

2.1 The Victorian Movement in Literature

2.2 Historical Context

2.3 Recommended Reading

2.4 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2.5 Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2.6 Robert Browning

2.7 Emily Bronte

2.8 George Eliot

2.9 Matthew Arnold

2.10 Charles Dickens

2.11 Dante Gabriel Rossetti

2.12 Christina Rossetti

2.13 William Morris

2.14 Gerard Manley Hopkins

2.15 Oscar Wilde

2.16 Rudyard Kipling

Part 3: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

3.1 Modernism and Postmodernism as Literary Movements

3.2 Historical Context

3.3. Recommended Reading

3.4 Joseph Conrad

3.5 William Butler Yeats

3.6 Virginia Woolf

3.7 James Joyce

3.8 D. H. Lawrence

3.9 T.S. Eliot

3.10 Stevie Smith

3.11 Samuel Beckett

3.12 Doris Lessing

3.13 Fleur Adcock

3.14 Anita Desai

3.15 Seamus Heaney

3.16 Salman Rushdie

ISBN:

9781940771113

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access