English without boundaries : reading English from China to Canada / edited by Jane Roberts and Trudi L. Darby.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This volume brings together a compendium of world-class research on English, from the Anglo-Saxons to Big Data. Selected from papers presented at the 2016 conference of the International Association of University Professors of English, the essays demonstrate the strength of English studies across the world, with contributions from scholars in China, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Portugal, as well as from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The essays not only cross geographical boundaries, but also disciplinary ones. Contributors write about English through the prism of gender studies, history, linguistics, the digital humanities, theatre history and the history of the book; topics covered include mainstream writers such as Shakespeare and Milton, and shine light on less well-known topics such as Welsh poetry of the Wars of the Roses and captivity narratives in seventeenth-century North America. Bringing together perspectives on English from around the world, English Without Boundaries is a unique collection showing the energy and breadth of English studies today.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Poets and Playwrights

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Part II: North American Dimensions

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Part III: From Syntax to Big Data

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Appendix

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 23, 2017).

ISBN:

1-5275-0058-6

OCLC:

1005618955