A Brief History of English Literature 2nd Edition by John Peck, Martin Coyle ISBN 1137352655 978-1137352651

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ISBN 10: 1137352655
ISBN 13: 978-1137352651
Author: John Peck, Martin Coyle 

This new edition of an established text provides a succinct and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle combine close readings of key texts with recent critical thinking on the interaction of literary works and culture. Providing a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day, the authors write in their characteristically lucid and accessible style.

A true masterpiece of clarity and compression, this is essential reading for undergraduate students coming across the vast areas of English literature for the first time and looking for a way of making critical sense of the texts being studied. In addition, the concise nature and narrative structure of this book makes it excellent reading for general readers.

New to this Edition:
– Revised chapter on twentieth century literature
– Complete new chapter on twenty-first century literature
– Updated Chronology and Further Reading section

A Brief History of English Literature 2nd Table of contents:

1 Old English Literature

Beowulf

‘The Seafarer’ and ‘The Wanderer’

Battle Poems and ‘The Dream of the Rood’

Old English Language

2 Middle English Literature

From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer

Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Geoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson

William Langland, Medieval Drama, Thomas Malory

3 Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Sixteenth-Century Prose and the Reformation

The Sonnet: Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare

Edmund Spenser

4 Shakespeare

Shakespeare in Context

Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories

Shakespeare’s Tragedies

Shakespeare’s Late Plays

5 Renaissance and Restoration Drama

Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlowe

Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy

Ben Jonson and the Masque

Restoration Drama

6 Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose

John Donne

From Ben Jonson to John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell

John Milton

John Dryden

7 The Eighteenth Century

Alexander Pope

The Augustan Age

Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson

Sensibility

8 The Novel: The First Hundred Years

Daniel Defoe

Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett

From Eliza Haywood to Mary Shelley

Walter Scott and Jane Austen

9 The Romantic Period

The Age of Revolution

William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats

Radical Voices

10 Victorian Literature

Charles Dickens

Charlotte and Emily Brontë

William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11 Victorian Literature 

Victorian Thinkers

George Eliot

Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel

Anthony Trollope, Christina Rossetti

12 Victorian Literature 

George Gissing, George Moore, Samuel Butler, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson

Rudyard Kipling

George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Late Victorian Poetry

13 The Twentieth Century: The Early Years

Joseph Conrad

Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield

D.H. Lawrence

Georgian Poetry, War Poetry, W.B. Yeats

14 The Twentieth Century: Between the Wars

T.S. Eliot

James Joyce

Virginia Woolf

The 1930s

15 The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to the End of the Millennium

Wartime and Post-War Britain

Drama

Novels

Poetry

16 The Twenty-First Century

After 9/11

The Novel: Looking Back

The Novel: Looking Around

The Novel: Looking Ahead

Poetry

Drama

Periods of English Language and Literature

Chronology

 
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