Fülszöveg
The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Earlier editions have been widely welcomed as an authoritative and accessible introduction to the subject, tracing its development from Beowulf to the 'post modern' fictions of Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter.
¦ A comprehensive guide to the history of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day
¦ a lively, accessible, and coherent one-volume source for all readers and students
¦ Chapters cover all major periods of English Literature chronologically from Old English literature to Post-war literature including medieval literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorian period, and Modernism
¦ Examines impact of British literature on contemporary political, social, and intellectual developments
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Fülszöveg
The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Earlier editions have been widely welcomed as an authoritative and accessible introduction to the subject, tracing its development from Beowulf to the 'post modern' fictions of Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter.
¦ A comprehensive guide to the history of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day
¦ a lively, accessible, and coherent one-volume source for all readers and students
¦ Chapters cover all major periods of English Literature chronologically from Old English literature to Post-war literature including medieval literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorian period, and Modernism
¦ Examines impact of British literature on contemporary political, social, and intellectual developments
¦ Discusses, in detail, the important writers and their works
¦ Includes Scotrish, Irish, and Welsh writing in English
Andrew Sanders is Professor of English Studies
at the University of Durham.
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