Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 478 p. — ISBN: 978-0-631-22082-4.
Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature...
Routledge, 2017. — 228 p. First published in 1988, David Aers explores the treatment of community, gender, and individual identity in English writing between 1360 and 1430, focusing on Margery Kempe, Langland, Chaucer, and the poet of Sir Gawain. He shows how these texts deal with questions about gender, the making of individual identity, and competing versions of community in...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 726 p. The literary history of people reflects the richness of the culture and society, in which they were composed. It does not just trace the history of literary works, it also reflects the social, political and other aspects of the society. English literature is rich and diverse and has a long history. History Of English...
Routledge, 2020. — 302 p. Originally published in 1994, Oral Tradition in Middle English is an edited collection providing a multidisciplinary look at the importance and nature of oral tradition in Middle English literature. The book offers a discussion of the gradual problemization of orality and literacy in works of verbal art from this period. It shows how early typographies...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 286 p. For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green...
Penguin Books, 2015. — 464 p. Before the twelfth century, fiction had completely disappeared in Europe. In this important and provocative book, Laura Ashe shows how English writers brought it back, composing new tales about King Arthur, his knights and other heroes and heroines in Latin, French and English. Why did fiction disappear, and why did it come to life again to...
Oxford University Press, 2025. — 800 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 179 p. — (Very short introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-19-177757-8, 978-0-19-956926-7 This title discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English...
Routledge, 2013. — 234 p. This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances including "King Horn," "Havelok the Dane," "Sir Orfeo," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and others....
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 277 p. — (Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture). William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a "golden age" of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral instruction in...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 315 p. This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to print, from the codex to the computer, and from paper to digital platforms. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material forms and formats that engage our senses in multiple ways. Because...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 185 p. — (The New Middle Ages). This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they...
R & S Books, 1993. — 100 p. Examines the Victorian childhood of a young girl named Alice Liddell, who was the favorite child friend of math teacher Charles Dodgson, the man who penned Alice in Wonderland. By the author of Linnea in Monet's Garden.
Brill Academic Pub, 2024. — 580 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 25). Geoffrey of Monmouth’s immensely popular Latin prose Historia regum Britanniae (c. 1138), followed by French verse translations – Wace’s Roman de Brut (1155) and anonymous versions including the Royal Brut, the Munich, Harley, and Egerton Bruts (12th -14th c.), initiated Arthurian narratives of many...
Routledge, 1990. — 496 p. In revising A Short History of English Literature Harry Blamires has thoroughly updated his final three chapters to bring the discussion on the plays, poetry and novels of the twentieth century into the 1980s; the bibliography has also been fully revised and now provides up-to-date guidance for further study. The second edition has lost none of the...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 319 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library 2236). Taking as its chronological and geographical limits the period and area of Anglo-Saxon domination, this study provides a guide to the Latin literature that existed alongside the vernacular. It does so through a chronological survey of known works, based on a thorough examination of documents and of...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 256 p. Literary Research and the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources is a guide to scholarly research in the field of medieval English literature covering the period 450 CE to 1500 CE. Graduate students and scholars researching this period face many challenges: working in two distinct literary traditions, comprehending...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 256 p. Literary Research and the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources is a guide to scholarly research in the field of medieval English literature covering the period 450 CE to 1500 CE. Graduate students and scholars researching this period face many challenges: working in two distinct literary traditions, comprehending...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 488 p. This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580–1642. Three wide-ranging chapters on theatres, dramaturgy and the social, cultural and political conditions of the drama are...
Routledge, 1998. — 440 p. This new introduction to Chaucer has been radically rewritten since the previous edition which was published in 1984. The book is a controversial and modern restatement of some of the traditional views on Chaucer, and seeks to present a rounded introduction to his life, cultural setting and works. Professor Brewer takes into account recent literary...
D.S.Brewer, 1999. — 236 p. Can he be a sensible man, sir?' `No, my dear; I think not...' Thus Christopher Brooke prefaces his study of Jane Austen, whose sharp intelligence and wit have been the companions of his leisure for many years. In answer to the question as to whether there can be anything left to be said, Brooke returns rewardingly to her own writing, the novels and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 256 p. Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and forms. The 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre, with particular attention to the last 100 years.The first part of the volume covers Scottish...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 203 p.
This text presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon 'Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog', along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and assizes.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - 265 p.
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection of essays by American, British, and Iberian scholars examines the literary, historical, and artistic exchanges between England and Iberia from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Ranging from analyses of royal marriages and political alliances to examinations of literary, artistic, and...
A Survey for Students, Pearson Schools, 1974, 288 pages
It is a great book for students who study English literature and for those who want to learn more about the historical background of English writers.
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 156 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–953204–9. In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 258 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Wordsworth’s Italian Encounters Sitting in Dante’s Throne: Wordsworth and Italian Nationalism Byron Between Ariosto and Tasso Byron and Alfieri Picturing Byron’s Italy and Italians: Finden’s Illustrations to Byron’s Life and Works Realms without a Name: Shelley and Italy’s Intenser Day...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 779 p. A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven chapters, bringing together the wisdom of experts from across the world, present an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a major...
Cambridge: Polity Press, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008. — 265 p. This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 237 p. — ISBN: 0 –19 –927082–1. Christopher Cannon's The Grounds of English Literature deals with the neglected texts of early Middle English literature in a straightforward, and also in a more subtle, sense. Most straightforwardly, it considers these early texts as a cluster of provisional points of departure for subsequent English literature....
Ohio State University Press, 2020. — 304 p. Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of its centrality. The essays in Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka's new collection, Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies, join an emerging body of work that seeks...
HarperCollins, 2017. — 307 p. Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in the years during and after the Second World War. They drank beer on Tuesdays at the ‘Bird and Baby’,...
Routledge, 2023. ― xviii, 480 p. ― (Routledge Literature Companions). ― ISBN 978-0-367-41026-1, 978-1-032-55291-0, 978-1-003-42995-1. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical, and historical perspectives to the relationship between women’s writing and women’s rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 304 p. Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces--what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"--existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of...
Rodopi, 2012. — 285 p. The nineteenth century is often read as a time of retreat and diffusion in Scottish literature under the overwhelming influence of British identity. Scotland and the 19th-Century World presents Scottish literature as altogether more dynamic, with narratives of Scottish identity working beyond the merely imperial. This collection of essays by leading...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 289 p.
Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval...
First published 1997 by Routledge. 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. Book length: 613 pages. ISBN: 0-415-12342-9 (hbk). ISBN: 0-415-12343-7 (pbk). ISBN: 0-203-13767-1 Master e-book ISBN. ISBN: 0-203-17878-5 (Glassbook Format). From the Publisher: This new guide to the main developments in the history of British...
Constable and Robinson, 2013. — 326 p. Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers; but where does the myth come from? The story appeared out of the legend of the Green man but found its location during the reign of Richard II, the Lionheart, who was away from England...
Cambridge University Press, 2009 - 794 p. ISBN10: 0521790077 ISBN13: 9780521790079 (eng)
The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction, and reform in politics, and by the invention of imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. This History presents an engaging account of...
Charles River Editors Press, 2017. — 130 p. King Arthur remains a pop culture fixture around the globe, made famous in various Arthurian tales written by writers like Chretien de Troyes. Arthur came to embody the ideals of the Middle Ages: strength, chivalry, bravery, and more. Along the way, his Excalibur sword, the Holy Grail, his queen, and more have all become household...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 650 p. The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 650 p. The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day,...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 208 p. Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of celandine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across...
University of Toronto Press, 2009. — 352 p. Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency engages with the idea of efficiency as it emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Evelyn Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly...
Routledge, 2017. — 254 p. In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the complexities of early twentieth century literary culture by embracing a specifically Victorian literary tradition of writing to engage a wide audience. Using a variety of examples from Sayers’s detective...
Routledge, 2020. — 284 p. Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, physical struggle. Kingsley’s The Water-Babies and...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 289 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Claire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. These decades saw the emergence of a group of talented Irish writers who developed and advanced such innovative forms as the national...
Routledge, 2008. — 272 p. Bringing theoretical and historical approaches together, this book describes and analyses the most striking features and developments in postwar prose fiction. It shows the dynamic interrelations between the novel and the social, economic and political conditions in Britain during the latter half of the twentieth century. It also provides stimulating...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 512 p. Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources,...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 736 p. The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 736 p. The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 463 p. — (Blackwell histories of literature). — ISBN: 978-0-631-22169-2, 978-1-118-65252-7. A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. An energetic and provocative history of English literature from 1603-1690. Part of the major Blackwell History of...
Blackwell Publishing, 2009. — 276 p. This Concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book explore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' from the literature of other periods. The book includes discussion of such issues as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 262 p. Wounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England explores the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness in mid-seventeenth century English literature. This book demonstrates the ways in which writers attempted to represent the politically and religiously fractured state of the time and re-imagined the nation through language and...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 348 p.
Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales played an important role in the development of Romantic women’s poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - 264 p.
This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision through his varied constructions of masculinity. Because medieval theories of vision relied upon distinctions between active and passive seers and viewers, optical discourse had social and moral implications for gender difference in late fourteenth-century...
Oxford University Press. First Edition. 2013. 432 pages. Includes index. ISBN: 0199668124. Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars, reformers, and others who helped create its character. The book relates a real journey. David...
Paperback, 2nd Revised Edition, 544 pages. Published August 30th 1994 by Mandarin (first published August 26th 1968). ISBN: 0749318937 (ISBN13: 9780749318932). Professor David Daiches' Critical History gives the reader a fascinating insight into over twelve centuries of great writing. With enormous intelligence and enthusiasm, he guides the reader through this vastly complex...
Paperback, 2nd Revised Edition, 688 pages Published August 30th 1994 by Mandarin ISBN: 0749318945 (ISBN13: 9780749318949) Professor David Daiches' Critical History gives the reader a fascinating insight into over twelve centuries of great writing. With enormous intelligence and enthusiasm, he guides the reader through this vastly complex and rich tradition, finely balancing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 02306029754; ISBN13: 9780230602977.
Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 254 p. — (Early Modern Literature in History). This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare. All people, according to John Donne, ‘constantly beleeve’ that they have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fact there is nothing ‘so well established as constrains us...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 311 p. Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period. The author tries "to determine what Elizabethan fiction writers were trying to do and how they did it." Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 257 p. Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever...
Routledge, 2012. — 241 p. In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides: Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors Examination of the cultural and literary impact of crucial...
Routledge, 2019. — 552 p. The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that...
Routledge, 2014. — 180 p. First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth century into the intrigues of a shadow world of secret...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2022. — 416 p. A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2022. — 416 p. A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 140 p. — ISBN 0-631-23485-3; ISBN 0-631-23486-1
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This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls "figures" from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — viii, 340 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-89547-5, 978-3-319-89548-2. This book asserts that Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a major precursor of W.B. Yeats (1865–1939), and shows how Wilde’s image and intellect set in train a powerful influence within Yeats’s creative imagination that remained active throughout the poet’s life. The intellectual concepts,...
Routledge, 2016. — 192 p. The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorré shows how discourses about horses reveal and...
Routledge, 2016. — 192 p. The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorré shows how discourses about horses reveal and...
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. — 495 p. — ISBN 978-0-674-96779-3. Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 579 p. Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2016 — 135 p. — ISBN10: 1137411309; ISBN13: 978-1137411303. This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wroth in particular, relating their forms of deixis to cultural and generic developments; but it also suggests parallels with both iconic and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 815 p. The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all aspects of the Romantic movement, pinpointing its different historical phases and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2013. — 225 p. This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 846 p. The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writings of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-78). Like his friend and colleague John Milton, Marvell is now seen as a dominant figure in the literary landscape of the mid-seventeenth...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 846 p. The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writings of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-78). Like his friend and colleague John Milton, Marvell is now seen as a dominant figure in the literary landscape of the mid-seventeenth...
Sidestone Press, 2015. — 290 p. The popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and miracles. They are not only fun but indicate a great deal about the ideals and values of the society they were written in. Yet the genre of Middle...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 256 p. From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 252 p. The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus of Middle English crusade romances. Marcel Elias places these romances in dialogue with multifarious European writings to offer a novel account of late medieval crusade culture: as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 203 p. Introduction: Gnosticism and Late-Medieval Literature Pearl’s Patience and Purity: Gnosticism in the Pearl Poet’s Oeuvre The Truth about Piers Plowman Gower’s Bower of Bliss: A Successful Passing into Hermetic Gnosis
Random House Publishing Group, 2007. — 152 p. More than six hundred years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by King Henry II’s knights. Before the Archbishop’s blood dried on the Cathedral floor, the miracles began. The number of pilgrims visiting his shrine in the Middle Ages was so massive that the stone floor wore thin where they knelt to pray. They came seeking...
Penguin UK, 1999. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0140134646 ; ISBN13: 978-0140134643. The first edition of Lord Ifor Evans A Short History of English Literature was hailed by the Observer: 'Professor Evans writes to the classical model, brief and lucid. He relates the arts to society instead of penning them in the study. As a judge, he is tolerant and undogmatic, but never slack in his...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 326 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-25526-7. This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime. Building on the author’s previous monograph Sublime Coleridge: The Opus Maximum, this study focuses on sublime theory and discourse in Coleridge’s other major prose texts of the 1820s:...
York Medieval Press, 2016. — 216 p. — (Writing History in the Middle Ages 2). The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth-century classicist letters in England and an overlooked contemporary of Chaucer, has been neglected - which this book remedies. Following the texts,rather than individuals or institutions, it demonstrates both authors'...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 249 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Focusing on the relationship between England and Scotland and the interaction between history and geography, Penny Fielding explores how Scottish literature in the Romantic period was shaped by the understanding of place and space. The book examines geography as a form of regional, national and global...
Catholic University of America Press, 2007. — xviii, 205 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8132-1477-1, 0-8132-1477-7. Criticism on utopian subjects has generally neglected the literary or fictional dimension of utopia. The reason for such neglect may be that earlier utopian fictions tended to be written by what one would nowadays call social scientists, e.g., Plato or Sir Thomas More. That is...
A History of English Literature - Robert Huntington Fletcher. This book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities and others beyond the high−school age. The first purposes of every such book must be to outline the development of the literature with due regard to national life, and to give appreciative interpretation of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 787 p. This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts....
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 200 p. The prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship draws attention to the ways that misinterpreted, proleptically added, or dubiously attributed prognostications influenced the reputations of famed Middle English authors. It illuminates...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 200 p. With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 504 p.
This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.
This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 571 p. This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 313 p.
The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.
Springer, 2023. — 256 p. Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s...
Springer, 2023. — 256 p. Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s...
Publisher: Macmillan Literature Series. Date: 1984. Pages: 974. Format: PDF. PART ONE: ENGLISH LITERATURE (The Anglo-Saxon Period; The Medieval Period; The Elizabethan Age; The Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Romantic Age; The Victorian Age; The Twentieth Century). PART TWO: WESTERN LITERATURE (The Classical Heritage; The Medieval Period; The Renaissance; The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 248 p.
Reading semiotically against the backdrop of medieval mirrors of princes, Arthurian narratives, and chronicles, this study examines how Ren? d’Anjou (1409-1480), Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame (ca. 1375-1380), and Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) explore fame’s visual power. While very different in approach, all three individuals reject...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 334 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Conservative culture in the Romantic period should not be understood merely as an effort to preserve the old regime in Britain against the threat of revolution. Instead, conservative thinkers and writers aimed to transform British culture and society to achieve a stable future in contrast to the...
Columbia University Press, 2000. — 152 p. — ISBN 0-231-11628-4 In No Island Is an Island, an internationally renowned historian approaches four works of English literature from unexpected angles. Following in the footsteps of a sixteenth-century Spanish bishop we gain a fresh view of Thomas More’s Utopia. Comparing Bayle’s Dictionary with Tristram Shandy we suddenly enter into...
MIT Press, 2010. — 343 p. — ISBN: 978-0-262-01372-7, 978-0-262-28827-9. In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature,...
MIT Press, 2010. — 343 p. — ISBN: 978-0-262-01372-7, 978-0-262-28827-9. In ThermoPoetics , Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature,...
Blackwell Publishing, 2003. — xxxvii, 301 p. — ISBN 0-631-23147-1. This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. - Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 160 p. In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was as far-fetched as raising a being from the dead. But Mary wasn't just any woman. The daughter of two notorious radicals, Mary had become an outcast from English society when she was only sixteen. A lifelong advocate...
London; New York: Routledge, 2011. — (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies 18). — 273 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-88984-1. List of Figures Introduction: Around the World in Eighty Plays Imperial Theatrics: Spectacle and Empire in the Nineteenth Century Recasting the Castaway: The Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Robinsonade Introduction to Part I The Novel Is Not Enough:...
Brepols Publishers, 2023. — 456 p. — (Warwick Studies in Renaissance Thought and Culture 1). The phrase 'Jus Uncommon' summarizes England's claim to independence from Europe, a claim supported by its unique legal system and Elizabethan theatre, and their strong interconnexion. Elizabethan tragedy begins at the Inns of Court. It was no mere coincidence, but a result of the long...
N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2015. — xii, 166 p. — (SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions). — ISBN 978-1-4384-5555-6, 978-1-4384-5557-0. Talking to the Gods is a study of the beliefs and practices of four writers who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In most discussions of Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Dion Fortune, and W. B. Yeats...
Антология английской литературы. - 8-е издание. - Лондон: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. - 2905 с. На английском языке.
The Middle Ages.
The 16th Century.
The Early 17th Century.
The Restoration and the 18th Century.
Антология английской литературы. - 8-е издание. - Лондон: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. - 2910 с. На английском языке. The Romantic Period. The Victorian Age. The Twentieth Century and After.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 277 p. The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 301 p.
Constructing Chaucer examines the scholarly appropriation and manipulation of Geoffrey Chaucer since his death in 1400 and seeks to enhance the theoretical dialogue on the famous author’s reception history by challenging long-standing assumptions about the “Father of English Poetry.” In response to the academy’s recent disregard for the...
Routledge, 1998. — 612 p. Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen. This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 342 p. This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. The book argues throughout that class cannot be seen as a...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 347 p. This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. The book argues throughout that class cannot be seen as a...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 342 p. This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. The book argues throughout that class cannot be seen as a...
The History Press, 2013. — 160 p. By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.’ - Samuel Johnson. From Chaucer’s pilgrims meeting in a Southwark inn to the Hogwarts Express leaving from King’s Cross, London has always been a popular place for writers to weave into their own work. With its bustling, multicultural population and unique localised weather,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 369 p. Modern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 352 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). English literary culture in the fourteenth century was vibrant and expanding. Its focus, however, was still strongly local, not national. This study examines in detail the literary production from the capital before, during, and after the time of the Black Death. In this major contribution to...
NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1904. — 47 p. Since the publication of my King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, which appeared in 1902, I have been at work on this translation. With the faith that the unique importance of the work justifies its being given this form for the benefit of the general reader, and with the encouragement from scholars that my...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 317 p. This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 292 p. How was the complex history of Britain's languages understood by twelfth-century authors? This book argues that the social, political and linguistic upheavals that occurred in the wake of the Norman Conquest intensified later interest in the historicity of languages. An atmosphere of enquiry fostered vernacular literature's prestige...
John Wiley & Sons, 1994. — ISBN10: 0253208580; ISBN13: 978-0253208583. These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text. Together these essays ask how medieval English writings might pose in a distinctive way...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 253 p. This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators...
Blackwell Publishing, 2005. — viii, 253 p. — (Blackwell Introductions to Literature). — ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-0044-1. This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. - An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers. - Considers the...
Routledge, 1998. — 305 p. Who's Who in Dickens is an accessible guide to the many characters in Charles Dickens' fiction. Dickens' characters are strikingly portrayed and have become a vital part of our cultural heritage - Scrooge has become a by-word for stinginess, Uriah Heep for unctuousness. From the much loved Oliver Twist to the fact-grubbing Mr Gradgrind, the obstinate...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 224 p.
Introduction: Listen Up!
The Talking Dead
Christ’s Lips Move
The Master’s Voice
Cursed Speakers
Belly Speech
Playing the Prophet
Conclusion: Resounding Voices
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 280 p. This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally occurring affinities that emerge from Trigg's ongoing legacy; containing diverse...
Routledge, 2004. — 339 p. The function of images in the major illustrated English poetic works from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early fifteenth century is the primary concern of this book. Hilmo argues that the illustrations have not been sufficiently understood because modern judgments about their artistic merit and fidelity to the literary texts have got in the way of a...
Stanford University Press, 2018. — 272 p. Other Englands examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism. Above all, it asserts that this literary genre was always already an expression of social crisis and economic transition, a context refracted in the origin stories and imagined geographies common to its early modern form. Beginning with...
The History Press, 2016. — 228 p. Anne Brontë, the youngest and most enigmatic of the Brontë sisters, remains a best-selling author nearly two centuries after her death. The brilliance of her two novels – Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – and her poetry belies the quiet, yet courageous girl who often lived in the shadows of her more celebrated sisters. Yet her...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 194 p. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Bookspace as Public Plaza The House of Fame: “I Wot Myself Best how Y Stonde.” The Book of the Duchess: The Space of Self Perle: The Pedagogy of Soul and Self Patience: The Space of Play The Cloud of Unknowing: The Dimensionless Space of the Seeking Spirit Epilogue
De Gruyter, 2020. — 245 p. No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, since the Trojan prince Aeneas was supposedly the ancestor of the Tudors. This book explores the wide range of allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, looking...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 188 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 329 p. A study of the medieval idea that defined the "world" as recorded in I John 2:16-the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Conflict in Troilus and Criseyde, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is explored. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 278 p. The Medieval Works of Terry Jones Young Jones at Oxford, 1961–62 The Earl of Arundel, the War with France, and the Anger of King Richard II Terry Jones’s Richard II Terry Jones: The Complete Medievalist Medieval Monks and Friars: Differing Literary Perceptions Gower’s Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis Gower in Winter: Last Poems The Naughty...
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1913. — 348 p. An outline history of English literature. This monumental work from the celebrated author William Henry Hudson is not only a chronological account of various books written in English Literature but is also about the various authors who wrote them. It takes us back immediately behind those whose genius and thoughts their books embodied....
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 212 p. The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, this book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language literatures. It considers issues of form and style alongside – and often...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 216 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siècle. In particular, Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 217 р. This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare, looking at the powerful potential of emotions to shape and critique complex notions of temporality and textuality. The contributors show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love (and other emotions generated...
Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2024. — 289 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 49). An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts. Scholarship is increasingly interested in investigating concepts of emotion found in Old English literature. This study takes the next step, arguing that both heroic and religious texts were vehicles for emotional...
Scarecrow Press, 1997. — 610 p. This first U.S. edition of Collins Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (1993) was prepared with the the general reader in mind and students of literature of all ages. The lives and principal literary achievements of over 1500 writers are outlined in brief essays that emphasize the links between the life and art of each writer. Authors of...
Routledge, 2019. — 272 p. Originally published in 1951 Middle English Literature applies methods of literary evaluation to certain Middle English works. Arguing that previous literary criticism has largely focused on the commentary of their historical, social, philological and religious content, the book suggests that it has led to a thinking that Middle English literature is...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 227 pp. In Victorian Britain an array of writers captured the excitement of new scientific discoveries, and enticed young readers and listeners into learning their secrets, by converting introductory explanations into quirky, charming, and imaginative fairy-tales; forces could be fairies, dinosaurs could be dragons, and looking closely at a drop...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. - 233 p. The Birth of Langland. A Proliferation of Plowmen. Langland Anthologized. Langland Recontextualized. Fictions of Authorship, Fictions of English Literature.
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 754 p. Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and between...
University of St. Andrews, 2023. — 214 p. The Gothic genre developed alongside the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiquarian project to discover, collect and publish Middle English romances, but what exactly is the nature of the relationship between the Gothic novel and these medieval texts? This thesis identifies Gothic texts that respond to Middle English romance,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - 300 p. Middle English Texts and Welsh Contexts. Where Was Wales? The Erasure of Wales in Medieval English Culture. The Lichfield/Llandeilo Gospels Reinterpreted. “Feorran Broht”: Exeter Book Riddle 12 and the Commodification of the Exotic. “By The Authority Of The Devil”: The Operation of Welsh and English Law in Medieval Wales. Trevisa’s Translation...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 223 p. Previously considered an avowed nationalist, this book explores how Ian Fleming's writings and his representational politics contain an implicit resistance to imperial rhetoric. Through an examination of Fleming's Jamaica-set novels Live and Let Die, Dr. No, and The Man with the Golden Gun, as well as the later film adaptations of these...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011 — 256 p. — (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature). — ISBN10: 0748634606; ISBN13: 9780748634606. Medieval Literature, 1300-1500 offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. Famous works, like The Canterbury Tales , are discussed alongside lesser-known poems, prose, and plays, in five...
Routledge, 2009. — 555 p. The last twenty-five years have seen exciting new developments in scholarly work on Lady Mary Wroth, whose Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus constitute the first romance and the first sonnet sequence to be published by an Englishwoman. Wroth's writings enter into a suggestive and gendered dialogue with the lyric and narrative works of her uncle, Sir...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 221 p.
Introduction: Avian Subjectivity, Genre, and Feminism
A Bestiary Portrait of the Artist in the House of Fame
Traveling: The Cuckoo and the Carnivalesque in the Parliament of Fowls
The Squire’s Tale: Romancing Animal Magic
Domesticating the Fable: The Other in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Mythological Censorship and the Manciple’s Tale...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 218 p.
This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.
Greenwood Publishing, 2002. — 440 p. Presents nineteen chapters, each discussing a different genre, including riddles, balladry, romance, epic poetry, and beast fables.
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 426 p. King Arthur is perhaps the central figure of the medieval world, and the lore of Camelot has captivated literary imaginations from the Middle Ages to the present. Included in this volume are extended entries on more than 30 writers who incorporate Arthurian legend in their works. Arranged chronologically, the entries trace the pervasive influence of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 272 p. Analyses mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers as resistance to political oppression Espionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War British writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, John le Carr Pamela Frankau and filmmaker Leslie Howard combine propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 270 p. This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses. This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth century and developed into a clearly recognised form during the Edwardian period (1901-1914). By looking at the origins and evolution of invasion...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 254 p. — ISBN 0-8122-4838-4, 978-0-8122-4838-8. Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address...
Wiley, 2017. — 464 p. Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare. A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with critical theory within the larger disciplinary area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies. Comprising...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 765 p. Informed by multi-cultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 240 p. Romancing Treason addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason during the decades c.1437-c.1497 suggests a way of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 240 p. Romancing Treason addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason during the decades c.1437-c.1497 suggests a way of...
2nd ed. - Springer, 2016. — 214 p. In this updated second edition renowned amateur comet-searcher David H. Levy expands on his work about the intricate relationship between the night sky and the works of English Literature. This revised and expanded text includes new sections on Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerald Manley Hopkins (both amateur astronomers), extending the time period...
D.S.Brewer, 2022. — 216 p. A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England. The barks, hoots and howls of animals and birds pierce through the experience of medieval texts. In captivating episodes of communication between species, a mandrake shrieks when uprooted from the ground, a saint preaches to the animals, and a...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 528 p. Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the seventh through eleventh centuries. The contributors focus on texts most commonly read in...
Cambridge University Press, 2003 - 1050 p. ISBN10: 0521631564 ISBN13: 9780521631563 (eng)
This is a comprehensive history of English literature written in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While it focuses on England, literary effort in Scotland and Ireland is also covered, with occasional references to Wales and Ireland. This literary history by an...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. — 185 p. This volume compares characteristics of Old English literature to Matter of England romances to determine whether key aspects of the poetry of the former continued in these stories on into the Middle English period. First, the book demonstrates the contemplative tone, respect for nature, and communal mindset present via monastic and...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 514 p. The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, and symbols. It offers a comprehensive survey of the legends in all of their manifestations, from their origins in medieval literature to their adaptation in modern literature, arts,...
Routledge, 2019. — 222 p. The Venerable Bede (c. 673–735) was the leading intellectual figure of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, and his extensive corpus of writings encompassed themes of exegesis, computus (dating of Easter and construction of calendars), history and hagiography. Rather than look at these works in isolation, Máirín MacCarron argues that Bede’s work in different...
Routledge, 2019. — 222 p. The Venerable Bede (c. 673–735) was the leading intellectual figure of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, and his extensive corpus of writings encompassed themes of exegesis, computus (dating of Easter and construction of calendars), history and hagiography. Rather than look at these works in isolation, Máirín MacCarron argues that Bede’s work in different...
University of New York at Binghamton, 1991. — 216 p. One of the most basic divisions in the labors of literary critics has been that between textual and interpretive studies. Today, of course, a label such as “textual criticism” or “literary interpretation” scarcely designates something monolithic and static, for the theoretical diversity of both can be almost overwhelming....
Routledge, 2019. — 295 p. Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 268 p. The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 185 p. This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields of the new British history and...
Taylor & Francis, 2005. — ix, 357 p. — ISBN 0-203-39556-5. The scope of the work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another and placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This first volume covers The Middle Ages (to 1500) in two sections: The Old English Period (to 1100) by Kemp Malone (John Hopkins University), and The Middle...
Routledge, 2022. — 265 p. — (Among the Victorians and Modernists). — ISBN 978- 1- 032- 27676- 2. In 1896, author Arthur Morrison gained notoriety for his bleak and violent A Child of the Jago, a slum novel that captured the desperate struggle to survive among London’s poorest. When a reviewer accused Morrison of exaggerating the depravity of the neighborhood on which the Jago...
Cambridge University Press, 2005 - 900 p. ISBN10: 0521820774 ISBN13: 9780521820776 (eng)
Covering the complete range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period. It analyzes the ways in which conventional literary genres were influenced by the cultural...
Peter Lang, 2019. — 1464 p. History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical, historical and intellectual...
Oxford; Bern; Berlin; Bruxelles; New York; Wien: Peter Lang, 2018. — 890 p. History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed...
Oxford; Bern; Berlin; Bruxelles; New York; Wien: Peter Lang, 2018. — 420 p. History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed...
Oxford; Bern; Berlin; Bruxelles; New York; Wien: Peter Lang, 2018. — 1167 p. History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed...
Oxford; Bern; Berlin; Bruxelles; New York; Wien: Peter Lang, 2019. — 1280 p. History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed...
Oxford; Bern; Berlin; Bruxelles; New York; Wien: Peter Lang, 2018. — 1429 p. History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 8 begins with the 1920s, beginning with works by W. H. Auden and George Orwell. Discussion includes the works of Beckett, Doris Lessing, Murdoch,...
Clarendon Press, 1997. — 298 p. Elizabethan Fictions is a study of the works of John Lyly, George Gascoigne, Geoffrey Fenton, William Baldwin, and a number of other English writers in the context of changing attitudes to fiction in Elizabethan England. Both the censors and the writers of the time were aware that the developments in Elizabethan prose threatened to transform the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 240 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 221 p. Catechisms and Women's Writing in Seventeenth-Century England is a study of early modern women's literary use of catechizing. Paula McQuade examines original works composed by women - both in manuscript and print, as well as women's copying and redacting of catechisms - and construction of these materials from other sources. By...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 208 p. Shame and Guilt, Now and Then Shamed Guiltless in Chaucer’s Pagan Antiquity Honor, Purity, and Sacrifice in The Knight’s Tale and The Physician’s Tale Structures of Reciprocity in Chaucerian Romance The Ills of Illocution: Shame, Guilt, and Confession in The Pardoner’s Tale and The Parson’s Tale Conclusion: Chaucer and Medieval Shame Culture Notes
McFarland and Company, 2017. — 224 p. Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god. The earliest Arthur was a warrior but in the 11th century Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, he is less a warrior and more a leader of a band of...
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date : 2000
Pages : 400
A History of English Literature provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and oldest literatures in the world. Presented as a narrative, and usable as a work of reference, this text offers an account of literature from the beginnings of English until the present day. The author begins by examining the scope of...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020. — 686 p. — (Handbooks of English and American Studies. Volume 9). — ISBN 978-3110376418. Historical as well as aesthetic developments, contexts, and events ask for multiperspec-tival interpretations. Historical evolution and its conditions as well as its phenomena are results of processes that such fixed demarcations as neat year dates, as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 199 p. Introduction: Conceptual Personae. On Fortune, Philosophy, and Fidelity to the Event. Love and Ethics to Come In troilus And Criseyde. Consolations of Pandarus: The Testament of Love and the Chaunce Of The Dyse. Gower’s Confessio Amantis and the Nature of Vernacular Ethics. Telling Fortunes in Lydgate’s Fall of Princes. Moral Luck and Malory’s...
University of Toronto Press, 2003. — 382 p. Although most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of the historical Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts including...
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2022. — viii, 242 p. — ISBN 978-1-3501-4549-8, 978-1-3501-4551-1, 978-1-3501-4550-4. Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archive material and fresh readings...
Peter Lang, 2010. — 302 p. This collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser. The native alliterative tradition of England is represented by its final flowering in two essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three on...
Peter Lang UK, 2013. — 315 p. This third volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry includes, as in the previous volumes, essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser; it also includes essays on Beowulf and Dante. It was never the author's intention to exclude Old English poetry from the historical continuum of English poetry, and...
Peter Lang UK, 2017. — 354 p. This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes on the great subjects of English literature in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The Norman Conquest of England built upon the rich foundation of Anglo-Saxon England but did not destroy it; thus the present volume...
Peter Lang, 2010. — 316 p. This collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser. The native alliterative tradition of England is represented by its final flowering in two essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three on...
McFarland and Company, 2020. — 205 p. Who decides what is right or wrong, ethical or immoral, just or unjust? In the world of crime and spy fiction between 1880 and 1920, the boundaries of the law were blurred and justice called into question humanity's moral code. As fictional detectives mutated into spies near the turn of the century, the waning influence of morality on...
Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008. — 248 p. The complex topics of colonialism, empire and nation run throughout English Renaissance literature. Here, the author moves beyond recent work on England's "British" colonial interests, arguing for England's self-image in the sixteenth century as an "empire of itself", part of a culture which deliberately set itself apart from Britain and...
Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. - 374 c.
Many of the great books of English literature were published without their authors' names on them. But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity of their first readers? Ranging from the 16th century to the present day, this book looks at the ways in which the disguises of writers were used to tease readers....
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 732 p. The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward...
Great Books Foundation, 2009. — 434 p. This book is a comprehensive survey in chronological fashion of the major periods, authors and movements from chaucer to the present. Written for undergraduate and postgraduate students in south asian universities, this book locates the authors' genres and developments within their social political and historical contexts. Informed by...
Routledge, 2021. — 182 p. Following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "civilized man" from animals and "primitive" humans and it linked them though descent. Paradoxically, it was by placing human history in a deep past shaped by minute, incremental changes (rather than at the...
Wiley Blackwell, 2016. — 355 p. — (Blackwell Guides to Criticism). — ISBN: 9781118598832. This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and authors from the...
Duke University Press, 1997. — x, 182 p. — ISBN: 0-8223-I903-9, 0-8223-1895-4, 978-0822319030. In "Telling Complexions" Mary Ann O'Farrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters' inner emotions and desires. Through lively and textured readings of works by such writers as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Henry...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2024. — xvi + 502 p. — (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 32). This edition of Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains prose lives of twenty-two universal and native saints, a rare survival of the devotional life of medieval English nuns likely in an East Anglian convent. Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 224 p. A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. – 2002. – 368 p. (Series for Science and Culture) This book is intended for those wishing to understand, in simple term, what Chaucer is doing with the references to celestial objects that he scatters throughout The Canterbury Tales, and what these have to do with the Tales as a whole The main purpose of Time and the astrolabe in The...
Routledge, 2003. — 545 p. Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This remarkable anthology assembles for the first time 144 primary texts and documents written by women between 1550 and 1700 and reveals an unprecedented view of the intellectual and literary lives of...
Ashgate, 2007. — 168 p. — ISBN 978-0-7546-5869-6. Carolyn Oulton recovers the strategies nineteenth-century authors used to justify the ideal of same-sex romantic friendship and the anxieties these strategies reveal. Informed by recent insights into the erotic potential of such relationships, but focused on romantic friendship as an independent and fully formulated ideal,...
Popular Press, 1981. — 297 p. The author has chosen seventeen of the most important or representative British spy novelists to write about. He presents some basic literary analysis and criticism, trying both to place them in historical perspective and to describe and analyze the content and form of their fiction.
London: Routledge, 2002. — 409 p. Обзорная критическая работа посвящена оценке творчества сэра Томаса Мэлори - английского писателя 15-го века, автора «Книги о короле Артуре и о его доблестных рыцарях Круглого стола». Автор приводит и разбирает разнообразные оценки критиков и последователей Мэлори на протяжении нескольких веков (с 15 по 20 века).
University of Missouri Press, 2018. — 239 p. This is the first book-length study of the significance of the fictional autobiography in the Victorian understanding of selfhood. Jane Eyre, Villette, David Copperfield, Esther's portions of Bleak House, and other fictional autobiographies of the era subtly but persistently illustrate that all identities are fictions. These works...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 329 p. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing brings together chapters by leading scholars to provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers' careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism, it also reflects new approaches to women authors that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 209 p.
Introduction: Chaucer’s Feminine Subjects: Feminism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis
Figures of Desire in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
The Rhetoric of Desire in The Franklin’s Tale
The Martyr’s Purpose: The Rhetoric of Disavowal in The Clerk’s Tale
Chaucer’s Wolf: Exemplary Violence in The Physician’s Tale
Afterword: A Question of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 552 p. This stimulating Companion brings together leading scholars from America, the Antipodes, and Europe to point the way ahead for Anglo-Saxon studies. The scope of the volume is unparalleled, embracing not only the literature of the period, but also the cultural background and the discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies, past, present and future. The...
Palgrave, 2006. — 304 p. Key Concepts in Victorian Literature is a lively, clear and accessible resource for anyone interested in Victorian literature. It contains major facts, ideas and contemporary literary theories, is packed with close and detailed readings and offers an overview of the historical and cultural context in which this literature was produced.
Routledge, 2022. — 500 p. The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and...
D.S. Brewer, 2008. — 177 p. The idea of kingship forms a recurrent theme in the poems of the so-called -Ricardians-, John Gower, William Langland, the Gawain-poet and Chaucer - unsurprisingly, during a period of considerable turmoil. This book aims to widen understanding of these poets through an examination of the theme in Confessio Amantis, Piers Plowman and the works of the...
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017. — 614 p. — (Handbooks of English and American Studies. Volume 5). — ISBN 978-3-11-037446-9. The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments....
Ohio State University Press, 2004. — 150 p. In Detecting the Nation, Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Britain and to acclimating the population to the larger venture of the British Empire. In doing so, Reitz challenges literary-historical assumptions that detective fiction is a...
Leiden: Brill, 2009. — 329 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 4). The "Knight's Tale" is one of the most controversial of all the Canterbury Tales. Does Chaucer portray Theseus, the duke of Athens whose actions dominate the tale, as an ideal ruler, one who is noble, wise and chivalrous, or does the duke's behaviour reveal him to be immoral, self-seeking and...
Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 2024. — 188 p. — (Studies in Renaissance Literature 45). Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narratives of 'modernity'. Themes and motifs from the Middle Ages are found across the drama, poetry, prose fiction, polemic, and satire of the later...
Arc Humanities Press, 2021. — 164 p. The old speaker in Middle English literature often claims to be impaired because of age. This admission is often followed by narratives that directly contradict it, as speakers, such as the Reeve in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Amans in Gower's Confessio Amantis, proceed to perform even as they claim debility. More than the modesty topos,...
Routledge, 2006. — 232 p. Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections explores the relationship between the plays of William Shakespeare and the writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Cavendish wrote 25 plays in the 1650s and 60s, making her one of the most prolific playwrights”man or woman”of the seventeenth century. The essays contained in this...
Rosen Educational Publishing, 2010. — 265 p. Perhaps the Ixrst way to start appreciating early English literature is to not think of it as literature at all. The earliest stories in the English language were not written for academic study hut as an extension of the oral tradition ot relating grand and fanciful tales for entertainment. These stories, then, were the blockbuster...
Cambridge University Press, 1942. — 1118 p. This book is based on the fourteen volumes of The Cambridge History of English Literature. Each chapter (except the last) takes for its subject-matter the volume that bears its title, and reference to its parent work is therefore easy. Paragraphs and sentences in their original form have been incorporated into the narrative when such...
Oxford : Claredon Press, 1994. — 656 p. A Note on the Text Introduction: Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature Old English Literature Medieval Literature 1066-1510 Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620 Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690 Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780 The Literature of the Romantic Period 1780-1830 High...
Oxford: Claredon Press, 1996. — 681 p. A Note on the Text Introduction: Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature Old English Literature Medieval Literature 1066-1510 Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620 Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690 Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780 The Literature of the Romantic Period 1780-1830...
D.S. Brewer, 2010. — 314 p. — (Studies in Medieval Romance). Classical and Biblical Precedents. The Classical Period. The Bible. The Middle Ages: Prohibitions, Folk Practices and Learned Magic . Transitions: Saint Augustine. Prohibitions and Punishments. Folk Beliefs and Practices. Learned Magic. White Magic: Natural Arts and Marvellous Technology . Healing Magic. The Virtue of...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 — 704 p. — ISBN10: 1405159634; ISBN13: 978-1405159630 "A" "Companion to Medieval Poetry" presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15th century. Organised into three parts to echo the chronological and stylistic divisions between the Anglo-Saxon, Middle...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 392 p. Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic production. Focusing on specific examples from the last 400 years, the study begins with Robert Greene’s comments in 1592 and ends with the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 1752 p. Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 316 p. Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley...
U.M.I., 1975. — 706 p.
This dissertation examines the role of Freemasonry and related secret societies in the transmission of the occult traditions in English literary history from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The study draws upon recent Renaissance and Hebrew scholarship to define those elements of vision-inducement and magical theories of art which were developed...
U.M.I., 2006. - 41 p.
Written by a leading William Blake scholar, this is an intriguing and controversial history of the poet and artist, which reveals a world of waking visions, magical practices, sexual-spiritual experimentation, tantric sex and free love.
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 896 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-886063-1. - Includes essays on English women writing in dialogue with Latin, Greek, French, and Spanish as well as in Europe, New England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales - Presents original archival research - Explores the approaches used to analyze early modern women's writing, including digital, premodern critical race...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 896 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-886063-1. - Includes essays on English women writing in dialogue with Latin, Greek, French, and Spanish as well as in Europe, New England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales - Presents original archival research - Explores the approaches used to analyze early modern women's writing, including digital, premodern critical race...
Routledge, 2000. — 246 p. Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture (poetry, fiction, painting, and non-fictional prose) and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Whilst in recent years much attention has been paid to the influence of the French Revolution on British Romanticism,...
Х.: НУА, 2001. — 224 с.
Для студентів факультетів іноземних мов інститутів і університетів, бакалаврів і магістрів, за напрямком підготовки філогія із спеціальності переклад, англійська мова та література, для аспірантів-філологів та літературознавців.
The teaching and studying of British Literature is a challenge to all of us. This manual is designed to help everybody face...
Х. : ХНУ, 2010. — 257 с.
Навчальний посібник з курсу «Література країни, мова якої вивчається (англійська)» для перекладачів знайомить студентів вищих навчальних закладів з найбільш важливими явищами літературного життя Англії, починаючи з виникнення англійської літератури та закінчуючи її теперішнім станом. Простежуються головні тенденціїї розвитку літературного процесу,...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 240 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the parliamentary union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth- and early...
Date: 2003 Pages: 253 Handbook of the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The author discusses the major works and literary currents. The book is intended as an academic textbook for students of English department and a compendium of knowledge about the subject for all those who are interested in English literature.
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 289 p.
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric,...
Routledge, 2020. — 170 p. Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical adjectives like "angry" and "Juvenalian" to describe these satires, this...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 280 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). This is an original study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century - ghost stories and detective stories - and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 268 p. The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s writing has been the subject of competing claims, and therefore this Companion offers...
Brill, 2020. — 596 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 22). A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on...
McFarland, 2011. — 225 p. This critical work seeks to distinguish British espionage fiction based on its unique narrative form, which is typically elliptical, oblique and recursive. Featured works include eighteen novels by Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Len Deighton, John le Carre, Stella Rimington, and Charles Cumming, most of which exemplify the existential or serious spy thriller.
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 240 p. No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their...
D.S.Brewer, 2007. — 218 p. As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and pre-Conquest treatments of the sea, it investigates how such works as the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan, the...
Brill, 2017. — 524 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 16). The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation brings together contributions by leading scholars on different aspects of the first complete translation of the Bible into English, produced at the end of the 14th century by the followers of the Oxford theologian John Wyclif. Though learned and...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2003, -271p.
Jane Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron’s poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies of publishing and audiences in the Romantic period, Stabler argues that Byron’s poetics developed in response to contemporary cultural history and his reception by the English...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 232 p. Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life explores three representative figures - the royal woman, the poet, and the merchant - in relation to the concept of "office", which Cicero linked to the health of the republic, but Chaucer to that of the common good. Not usually conjoined to the term "office", these three figures,...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 233 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period, as Englishmen and women rethought their relationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the...
Atria Books, 2022. — 532 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-6478-2— In the years before the First World War, a collection of writers and artists—Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey among them—began to make a name for themselves in England and America for their irreverent spirit and provocative works of literature, art, and criticism. They called themselves the Bloomsbury Group...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. — 255 p. The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, marketing, and readership of plays opens fresh perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance and more broadly between drama and the public sphere. Marta...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 521 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-928766-6 This title is part of the the Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature series, edited by Paul Strohm. This book evaluates different approaches to Middle English literature, with special emphasis on the new, promising, and previously unexplored. It focuses on works of “major authors” such as...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 192 p. Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indiana subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that are equally evasive and...
University of Delaware Press, 2008. — 242 p. Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how emerging concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings. Using insights from a variety of scholarly...
Bucknell University Press, 2009. — 219 p. Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book...
Knopf, 2024. — 470 p. Shakespeare's Sisters - How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff is a remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance that explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of “a room of one’s own.” In an...
Knopf, 2024. — 470 p. Shakespeare's Sisters - How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff is a remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance that explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of “a room of one’s own.” In an...
Knopf, 2024. — 470 p. Shakespeare's Sisters - How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff is a remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance that explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of “a room of one’s own.” In an...
Knopf, 2024. — 470 p. Shakespeare's Sisters - How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff is a remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance that explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of “a room of one’s own.” In an...
Greenwood Press, 2001. — 212 p. Immediately popular when published over a century and a half ago, Jane Eyre has continued to find appreciative audiences since. This student casebook offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of Charlotte Bronte's landmark novel. While it gives insightful literary analysis, it also contextualizes the novel in terms of the historical...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 321 p. — ISBN: 0521-64115-2 hardback, ISBN: 0521-64680-4 paperback This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an up-to-date introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious...
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman ELT Division (a Pearso. Date: 1985-12. Pages: 216. A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of Great Britain and Ireland from earliest times to the 1980s.
Routledge, 2011. — 131 p. This illuminating account of ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan Age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries―Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 255 p. In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot's legend, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers the fourth of Chretiens five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend.
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 450 p. This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary history of the English-speaking world. Katie...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 286 p. Introduction: In Hir Corages: Chaucer and the Animal Real Among All Beasts: Affective Naturalism in Late Medieval England Feathering the Text Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in “The Pardoner’s Tale” Chaucer’s Chicks: Feminism and Falconry in “The Knight’s Tale,” “The Squire’s Tale,” and The Parliament of Fowls Foiled by Fowl: The Squire’s...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 306 p. The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, “vainly” performs the role of “some untutor’d youth.” Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of “age in love” pervades Shakespeare’s mature works, informing his experiments in...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 300 p. Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeares drama and Spensers allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 152 p. Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness of Chaucer's work. At the time...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 220 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). This historically grounded account of Gothic fiction takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 208 p. In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture. Writing at the Origin of Capitalism describes how economic change in early modern England created new patterns of textual production and circulation with lasting consequences for English literature....
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 257 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period--the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 320 pages
This comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context of English Literature covers the core periods of literature, and history, from the English Renaissance to the present. It introduces and outlines key terms, concepts and developments and provides a series of timelines showing political, social, cultural and literary events for each...
D.S. Brewer, 2007. — 248 p. Guy of Warwick is England's other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a central place in the nation's cultural heritage from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor spans the Guy tradition from its beginnings in Anglo-Norman and Middle English romance right through to the plays and...
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Serie: Glencoe Literature: Teacher Edition Date: 2009 Pages: 1577 Literature: British Literature contains a comprehensive collection of outstanding literature and connected, relevant nonfiction. Throughout the program, there is strong, integrated skill instruction in literary analysis, literary elements, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary....
Dedalus Limited, 2015. — 163 p. — ISBN: 1903517265. Avatars and acolytes Byron, De Quincey, Wilde and more, are here, all at their unwholesome best. English Decadence was not a polite response to French invention, but the hothouse blossoming of long, indigenous researches into the perverse. Like Imperial Rome, England could hardly subdue and rule the globe without becoming...
Routledge, 2019. — 318 p. Originally published in 1939, Early Middle English Literature is a comprehensive overview of various aspects of early Middle English literature. The book examines authorship and provenance and the effect this had upon the literature of the period. This text examines literature from the period of 1066 to 1300 and addresses the transition between Old and...
Penn State University Press, 1999 — 532 p. This pioneering anthology of Middle English prologues and other excerpts from texts written between 1280 and 1520 is one of the largest collections of vernacular literary theory from the Middle Ages yet published and the first to focus attention on English literary theory before the sixteenth century. It edits, introduces, and glosses...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 336 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 6). In this book, Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. Professor Wright traces the Irish background of the distinctive contents of Vercelli Homily IX and its remarkable exemplum, 'The Devil's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 230 p. Before the Empire of English offers a broad re-examination of Eighteenth-century British literary culture, centred around issues of language, nationalism, and provinciality. It revises our tendency to take for granted the metropolitan centrality of English-language writers of this period and shows, instead, how deeply these writers were...
University of Toronto Press, 2014. — 270 p. The reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In 'From Lawmen to Plowmen', Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langland's 'Piers Plowman' and the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 216 p. Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day. What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers, and what this can tell us about the...
Manchester University Press, 1994. — 235 p. General editor's introduction. Adventures in Abyssinia. Victorian writing; African eating: digesting Africa. Beads and cords of love. ‘Gone the cry of “Forward, forward”’: crisis and narrative. Consuming Stanley. Vaporising Bula Matari: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Select bibliography.
D.S. Brewer, 2012. — 298 p. Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle, the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed has been hotly debated. Here,the performance tradition is explored by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with practical experience...
Educational manual. — Almaty: Qazaq university, 2016. – 128 p. «The History of English Literature» is based on the major literary and cultural movements that occurred during Romanticis, Victorianism, Modernism, as well as Postmodernism. The manual contains different types of movements and creative works of representatives of a complex literary and cultural tradition. It is used...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 256 p. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the literary lecture arrived on London's cultural scene as an influential critical medium and popular social event. It flourished for two decades in the hands of the period's most prominent lecturers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thelwall, Thomas Campbell, and William Hazlitt. Lecturers aimed...
М.: Наука, 1991. - 468 с.
Английская литература занимала важное место в педагогической и творческой деятельности академика Алексеева. Ее он охотнее всего преподавал (в Иркутском и Ленинградском университетах, в Ленинградском педагогическом институте им. А. И. Герцена), ей посвятил не менее пятидесяти крупных работ, ее проблемами увлек десятки аспирантов, неизменно призывая их...
М.: Наука, 1991. - 468 с.
Английская литература занимала важное место в педагогической и творческой деятельности академика Алексеева. Ее он охотнее всего преподавал (в Иркутском и Ленинградском университетах, в Ленинградском педагогическом институте им. А. И. Герцена), ей посвятил не менее пятидесяти крупных работ, ее проблемами увлек десятки аспирантов, неизменно призывая их...
Под редакцией: М. П. Алексеева, И. И. Анисимова, А. К. Дживелегова, А. А. Елистратовой, В. М. Жирмунского, М. М. Морозова. — М.—Л.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1943. — 382 с. По техническим условиям первый том выходит двумя выпусками. Первый выпуск, охватывая историю английской литературы средних веков и раннего Возрождения, подводит читателей к творчеству Шекспира....
Под редакцией: М. П. Алексеева, И. И. Анисимова, А. К. Дживелегова, А. А. Елистратовой, В. М. Жирмунского, M. М. Морозова. — М.—Л.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1945. — 657 с. Оглавление: От редакции. Часть вторая. Литература эпохи возрождения. Шекспир, его современники и продолжатели. Шекспир (M. М. Морозов). Жизнь и деятельность. Поэмы и сонеты. Первый период творчества —...
Москва-Ленинград, ГИХЛ, 1960. — 502 с.
Эта книга составилась из ряда статей и исследований в области истории английской литературы, написанных автором главным образом за два последних десятилетия. Значительная часть работ, вошедших в этот сборник, уже была опубликована в различных изданиях. Многие из этих работ по тем или иным причинам в свое время напечатаны были неисправно и...
ГИХЛ, 1960. — 502 с.
Эта книга составилась из ряда статей и исследований в области истории английской литературы, написанных автором главным образом за два последних десятилетия. Значительная часть работ, вошедших в этот сборник, уже была опубликована в различных изданиях. Многие из этих работ по тем или иным причинам в свое время напечатаны были неисправно и с большими...
М.: Высш. шк., 1984. — 351 с. Автор пособия — академик, крупнейший специалист по западноевропейским литературам средних веков и Возрождения. Пособие содержит четыре раздела, посвященные англосаксонской литературе, литературе от нормандского завоевания до XIV в. и литературам XIV и XV вв. В основу пособия положены материалы, вошедшие в первый том «Истории английской литературы»,...
М.: Высш. шк., 1984. — 351 с. Автор пособия — академик, крупнейший специалист по западноевропейским литературам средних веков и Возрождения. Пособие содержит четыре раздела, посвященные англосаксонской литературе, литературе от нормандского завоевания до XIV в. и литературам XIV и XV вв. В основу пособия положены материалы, вошедшие в первый том «Истории английской литературы»,...
Москва-Ленинград: Изд-во Академии Наук СССР, 1945. — 657 с. OCR. Под редакцией: М. П. Алексеева, И. И. Анисимова, А. К. Дживелегова, А. А. Елистратовой, В. М. Жирмунского, M. М. Морозова. Описание: Первый том настоящего издания, охватывающий историю английской литературы от ее возникновения до конца XVIII столетия, выходит по техническим причинам двумя выпусками. Первый выпуск...
М.: Высшая школа, 1975. — 528 с.
Настоящее пособие предназначается для студентов факультетов иностранных языков педагогических институтов, занимающихся изучением литературы Англии. Оно внакомит студентов с основными явлениями истории английской литературы, начиная с ее возникновения в эпоху раннего средневековья и кончая современностью. Материал излагается с учетом тех...
М.: Учпедгиз, 1956. - 464 с.
Книга содержит историю английской литературы от древнейших времён до современности и предназначается в качестве пособия для преподавателей английского языка.
М.: Учпедгиз, 1956. — 464 с. Книга содержит историю английской литературы от древнейших времён до современности и предназначается в качестве пособия для преподавателей английского языка. Отсутствуют с. 103-106. Возможны иные пропуски.
М.—Л.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1953. — 393 с. "История английской литературы", подготовленная к печати Институтом мировой литературы им. А. М. Горького Академии Наук СССР, представляет собою первый в советском литературоведении опыт систематического изложения истории английской литературы от её возникновения и до настоящего времени. Английская литература издавна...
М.—Л.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1955. — 444 с. "История английской литературы", подготовленная к печати Институтом мировой литературы им. А. М. Горького Академии Наук СССР, представляет собою первый в советском литературоведении опыт систематического изложения истории английской литературы от её возникновения и до настоящего времени. Английская литература издавна...
М.—Л.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1958. — 734 с. Третий том «Истории английской литературы», изложение материала в котором доведено до 1955 года включительно, завершает издание, предпринятое Институтом мировой литературы имени А. М. Горького АН СССР. В дополнение к настоящему изданию Институтом подготовлен к печати специальный выпуск библиографии по истории английской...
Москва-Ленинград. Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1953. - 296 с.
"История английской литературы", подготовленная к печати Институтом мировой литературы им. А. М. Горького Академии Наук СССР, представляет собою первый в советском литературоведении опыт систематического изложения истории английской литературы от её возникновения и до настоящего времени.
Английская литература...
Москва-Ленинград. Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1955. - 446 с. "История английской литературы", подготовленная к печати Институтом мировой литературы им. А. М. Горького Академии Наук СССР, представляет собою первый в советском литературоведении опыт систематического изложения истории английской литературы от её возникновения и до настоящего времени. Английская литература...
Москва-Ленинград. Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1958. - 734 с. Третий том «Истории английской литературы», изложение материала в котором доведено до 1955 года включительно, завершает издание, предпринятое Институтом мировой литературы имени А. М. Горького АН СССР. В дополнение к настоящему изданию Институтом подготовлен к печати специальный выпуск библиографии по истории...
Учебное пособие. — Алматы: Қазақ университеті, 2020. — 194 с. В пособии рассматривается творчество и дается характеристика основным произведениям наиболее выдающихся английских писателей. В пособии осваиваются традиционные и новейшие методологические подходы. Причем пособие содержит не только материал на английском языке, но и комментарий на русском языке (не повторяя друг...
М.: Просвещение, 1974. — 240 с. Книга предназначена для учащихся школ, а также может быть использована в качестве материала для литературного чтения и устной практики. В книге рассматриваются основные этапы развития английской литературы начиная с древних времен (с народного эпоса) и до середины 18 века (включая Дж. Свифта): даются краткие элементарные сведения об эпохе, в...
Учебное пособие. — Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет им. Первого президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (УрФУ), 2020. — 146 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7996-2951-9. Учебное пособие посвящено феномену имперского сознания «белого человека» на примере литературных памятников выдающихся писателей эпохи расцвета Британской империи, а также ее распада. В центре внимания — «культурный...
Учебное пособие. Общество "Знание", 1998 г. - 160 с.
Составители пособия имеют целью дать представление об истории развития литературы в странах Британии, познакомить с творчеством ее наиболее выдающихся представителей. К каждому разделу прилагается словарь имен и собственных наименований, контрольные вопросы. Рекомендуется учащимся школ с углубленным изучением иностранного...
М.: Просвещение, 1969. — 240 с.
Книга предназначена для учащихся школ, а также может быть использована в качестве материала для литературного чтения и устной практики.
В книге рассматриваются основные этапы развития английской литературы начиная с древних времен (с народного эпоса) и до середины 18 века (включая Дж. Свифта): даются краткие элементарные сведения об эпохе, в...
[английская литература первой половины XIX в.] // История всемирной литературы : в 8 т. / АН СССР ; Ин-т мировой лит. им. А. М. Горького. - М. : Наука, 1983-1994. - Т.
6. - 1989. - С. 113-120
Екатерина Гениева - специалист по английской прозе XIX—XX веков, автор статей и комментариев, посвящённых в частности творчеству Чарльза Диккенса, Джейн Остин, Шарлотты и Эмили Бронте.
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2019. — 592 с. — ISBN 978-5-89826-576-2. Данная книга представляет собой размышления профессора кафедры истории зарубежной литературы МГУ А.Н. Горбунова о творчестве Уильяма Шекспира, его предшественников и младших современников. Сюда вошли исследования об английском театре мистерий, которые еще ставились во времена юности Шекспира, о «Кентерберийских...
Навчально-методичний посібник. — Івано-Франківськ : Симфонія форте, 2014. — 144 с. Пропонується система лекцій, практичних занять та навчально-методичний коментар до них з курсу англійської літератури для студентів IV курсу англійського відділення факультету іноземних мов. Передмова Опис навчальної дисципліни Periods of English Literature Literature of the Middle Ages Tasks and...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 208 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры).
Сканированные страницы.
Книга представляет собой серию очерков о выдающихся английских романтиках Кольридже, Вордсворте, Скотте, Байроне, Шелли, Китсе). Основное внимание автор уделяет их философско-эстетическим исканиям.
В книге рассматриваются также общие проблемы английского романтизма, раскрываются его философские...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 208 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры).
Сканированные страницы.
Книга представляет собой серию очерков о выдающихся английских романтиках Кольридже, Вордсворте, Скотте, Байроне, Шелли, Китсе). Основное внимание автор уделяет их философско-эстетическим исканиям.
В книге рассматриваются также общие проблемы английского романтизма, раскрываются его философские...
Спб.: Алетейя, 2001. - 192 с. Серия: Pax Britannica Описание: Сборник научных статей по истории английской литературы, написанных в разное время профессором, доктором филологических наук Ниной Яковлевной Дьяконовой и публикуемых ее друзьями, учениками и коллегами к юбилейной дате — 85-летию со дня рождения ученого. Издание рассчитано на специалистов, интересующихся историей...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2001. — 192 с. — (Pax Britannica). Описание: Сборник научных статей по истории английской литературы, написанных в разное время профессором, доктором филологических наук Ниной Яковлевной Дьяконовой и публикуемых ее друзьями, учениками и коллегами к юбилейной дате — 85-летию со дня рождения ученого. Издание рассчитано на специалистов, интересующихся историей...
Жанр: монография
М.: Академия Наук СССР, 1960. - 505 с.
Автор настоящей работы видел одну из своих основных задач в том, чтобы показать то объективно ценное, что заключается,— одновременно с многими «пустоцветами»,— в наследии английского романтизма, которое ознаменовало собой шаг вперед в художественном развитии человечества.
Рассматривается творчество Блейка, Вордсворта,...
Монография. — М.: Институт мировой литературы им. А.М. Горького РАН, 2013. — 265 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9208-0407-5. Монография посвящена анализу культурной ситуации, в которой жили и творили английские литераторы XVIII века, с одной стороны, и тому жизненному выбору, который они сами осуществляли, творчески осмысляя свою судьбу, с другой. Литературный быт представлен в истории...
Москва: ЦК Рудомино, 2022. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-00087-212-3. Книга известного переводчика и исследователя английской поэзии представляет собой воспоминания о его поездках по Англии, по местам жизни и творчества любимых поэтов, среди которых Джон Донн и Шекспир, Китс и Теннисон, Киплинг и Йейтс. Все увиденное и испытанное в этих литературных паломничествах настоятельно...
2-е изд., стер. — М.: Академия, 2007. — 480 с. — ISBN 978-5-7695-4544-3.
В учебнике, посвященном истории развития английской литературы от раннего Средневековья до начала XXI в., показаны важнейшие закономерности литературного процесса, а также специфические черты творчества наиболее значимых поэтов, драматургов, романистов, своеобразие индивидуального метода каждого из них....
2-е изд. — М.: Академия, 2007. — 480 с. — ISBN 978-5-7695-4544-3.
В учебнике, посвященном истории развития английской литературы от раннего Средневековья до начала XXI в., показаны важнейшие закономерности литературного процесса, а также специфические черты творчества наиболее значимых поэтов, драматургов, романистов, своеобразие индивидуального метода каждого из них.
Для...
2-е изд. — М.: Академия, 2007. — 480 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7695-4544-3. В учебнике, посвященном истории развития английской литературы от раннего Средневековья до начала XXI в., показаны важнейшие закономерности литературного процесса, а также специфические черты творчества наиболее значимых поэтов, драматургов, романистов, своеобразие индивидуального метода каждого из них. Для...
М.: Высшая школа, 1966. — 268 с.
«1920—1930-е годы стали для литературы Англии периодом настойчивых поисков. Пути их были различны, но они неизбежно перекрещивались в одном — в стремлении создать образ современника, найти героя своего времени.
Направление и характер этих поисков зависели от многих условий, но основными определяющими моментами оставались мировоззрение и...
Учебник для гуманитарных факультетов вузов. — М.: Академия, 1998. — 516 с.
Настоящий учебник предназначен для студентов гуманитарных факультетов педагогических университетов и для изучающих английскую литературу на факультетах иностранных языков. В нем представлены основные явления истории английской литературы от ее возникновения в эпоху раннего средневековья до современности....
М.: Прогресс, 1970. — 262 с. Сборник эссе о фактуре английского духовного склада, раскрывающейся через литературное творчество. Предисловия Д. Урнова Дело Британии Исторические взгляды Шекспира Фрэнсис Бэкон - философ природы Утопия вчера и сегодня Дух левеллеров "Вечносущее Евангелие" Талант на границе двух миров Паспор Лот Совесть Джона Рескина Англичанин познает Индию Т.С....
Курс лекций. — Таганрог: Технологический институт Южного федерального университета, 2012. — 51 с. Курс лекций по дисциплине «Шедевры мировой литературы» предназначен для студентов направления «Лингвистика», а также для студентов других направлений, желающих узнать об истории развития литературы в странах Британии. Цель курса лекций — формирование лингвистической,...
2-е издание, переработанное. — М.: Издательский центр РГГУ, 2017. — 557 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7281-1913-5. Книга приглашает читателя к полновесному обсуждению английской литературы первой половины XX века. Предмет анализа – история модернизма, его эстетика и риторика. В составе книги документы, литературные манифесты, критические статьи в оригинале с подробными комментариями и...
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Монография. - Магнитогорск: МАГу, 2008. - 354 с. - ISBN: 978–5–86781–593–6. Английский декаданс − миф или реальность? Эта монография − попытка ответить на этот непростой вопрос. В ней впервые представлено комплексное исследование декаданса как переходного эстетического явления в английской литературе и культуре XIX века. Прослеживаются его истоки, генезис, процесс становления....
М.: Наука, 1987. — 514 с. Книга посвящена изучению литературного процесса в Великобритании после второй мировой войны и является продолжением изданной ранее «Истории английской литературы» (в 3-х томах). Главное внимание авторы уделяют реалистической литературе, эволюция которой показана в контексте общественно-политической и культурной жизни. Общие проблемы развития прозы,...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 514 с. Книга посвящена изучению литературного процесса в Великобритании после второй мировой войны и является продолжением изданной ранее «Истории английской литературы» (в 3-х томах). Главное внимание авторы уделяют реалистической литературе, эволюция которой показана в контексте общественно-политической и культурной жизни. Общие проблемы развития прозы,...
М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2009. - 568 с. - ISBN: 978-5-9208-0354-2
Представленные в этой книге статьи не стремятся к полноте обзора или к созданию единой картины в духе «истории литературы»; они затрагивают широкий круг вопросов вокруг одной большой проблемы — взаимодействия соседних литературных эпох, XIX и XX веков. Не претендуя на всеохватность, авторы труда пытаются по-новому осветить...
М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2009. — 568 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9208-0354-2 Представленные в этой книге статьи не стремятся к полноте обзора или к созданию единой картины в духе «истории литературы»; они затрагивают широкий круг вопросов вокруг одной большой проблемы — взаимодействия соседних литературных эпох, XIX и XX веков. Не претендуя на всеохватность, авторы труда пытаются по-новому осветить...
М.: Академия, 2004. — 546 с. — ISBN 5-8465-0166-4 (Филол. фак. СПбГУ); ISBN 5-7695-1589-9 (Академия).
Рецензенты: кафедра зарубежной литературы РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена (зав. кафедрой — Г. В. Стадников); доктор искусствоведения, профессор И. В. Ступников (СПбГУ); доктор филологических наук, профессор О. Л. Мощанская (Нижегородский гос. пед. ун-т)
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М.: Академия, 2004. — 546 с. — ISBN 5-8465-0166-4 (Филол. фак. СПбГУ), ISBN 5-7695-1589-9 (Академия).
Рецензенты: кафедра зарубежной литературы РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена (зав. кафедрой — Г. В. Стадников); доктор искусствоведения, профессор И. В. Ступников (СПбГУ); доктор филологических наук, профессор О. Л. Мощанская (Нижегородский гос. пед. ун-т)
Издательство: СПб.:...
Москва: Издательство Московского университета, 1984. - 148 с.
В работе рассматривается проблема становления и развития предромантических тенденций в английской литературе XVIII века, предшествующих раннему этапу романтизма.
Книга рассчитана не только на слушателей ФПК, но и преподавателей, аспирантов, студентов старших курсов филологического факультета и для широкого круга...
Москва: Издательство Московского университета, 1988. - 232 с. В монографии освещается предромантизм как особая система, которая включает многочисленные явления литературы переходного периода от Просвещения к романтизму. Показано своеобразие эстетики английского предромантизма, «готического» романа и драмы в сравнении с романтической эстетикой. Для специалистов-филологов и...
СПб: Типография М. Стасюлевича, 1876. — 384 с. Перевод с французского Д. С. Ивашинцова. Продолжение двухтомника Ипполита Тэна «История английской литературы» (в русском переводе издан в 1871 году под названием «Развитие политической и гражданской свободы в Англии в связи с развитием литературы»); продолжение посвящено современным автору литераторам, историкам, философам и...
СПб.: Типография товарищества «Общественная польза», 1871. — 577 с. Перевод с французского под редакцией А. Рябинина и М. Головина. Знаменитое исследование истории английской литераторы Ипполита Тэна (1828-1893), французского философа, историка и литературоведа, впервые издано в 1864-м под названием «Histoire de la littérature anglaise». Настоящее издание стало первым...
СПб.: Типография товарищества «Общественная польза», 1871. — 552 с. Перевод с французского под редакцией А. Рябинина и М. Головина. Знаменитое исследование истории английской литераторы Ипполита Тэна (1828-1893), французского философа, историка и литературоведа, впервые издано в 1864-м под названием «Histoire de la littérature anglaise». Настоящее издание стало первым...
Рецензент : д. ф. н. Н. П. Михальская
Жанр : сборник статей
Издательство : Художественная литература, 1986
Тираж : 17000 экз.
Качество : Отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста
Количество страниц : 385 (в книге - 382)
Книга М. В. Урнова посвящена проблемам английской литературы на разных этапах ее развития, от Возрождения до современности.
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Учебно-методическое пособие. - Воронеж: Изд-во ВГУ, 2006. - 26 с. Пособие содержит рекомендации и методические указания для самостоятельной работы студентов по подготовке к экзамену по истории зарубежной литературы после 1945 г. – конкретно английской литературы в указанный период. В пособие включен также несколько сокращенный материал лекций по ряду тем изучаемого курса. Среди...
Спб.: Тип. И. Бочкарева, 1864. — 212 с. Среди других критических работ Шмидта наиболее известна: «Обзор английской литературы XIX столетия» (1859; русский перевод — СПб, 1864); «Schiller und seine Zeitgenossen» (Лейпциг, 1859). Юлиан Шмидт имел больше влияния на период немецкой интеллектуальной жизни, в которой он работал, чем получил его. Как критик в журналах и периодических...
СПб.: Типография И. Бочкарева, 1864. — 212 с. Обзор современной автору английской литературы XIX века, автор — Юлиан Шмидт (1818-1886), известный немецкий литературный критик и филолог. Книга опубликована в 1859 году под названием «Übersicht der englischen Litteratur im 19. Jahrhundert», в 1864-м издан русский перевод книги Шмидта. Содержание: Отличительные признаки английской...
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