Author: David Scott KastanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Volume 4: Modernism - Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott KastanPublisher:
ISBN: 0195169212
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2648
Book Description
A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott KastanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725314
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2656
Book Description
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott KastanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Volume 4: Modernism - Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set
Author: Gary DayPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444330209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott KastanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 0199208271
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Oxford Book of Death
Author: D. J. EnrightPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199556520
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices of ordinary people to be heard; for this is a subject on which there are no real experts and wisdom lies in many unexpected places.
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature
Author: Julia MickenbergPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199938555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Remarkably well researched, the essays consider a wide range of texts - from the U.S., Britain and Canada - and take a variety fo theoretical approaches, including formalism and Marxism and those related to psychology, postcolonialism, reception, feminism, queer studies, and performance studies ... This collection pushes boundaries of genre, notions of childhood ... Choice. Back cover of book.
British Literature and the Life of Institutions
Author: Benjamin KohlmannPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192573187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in dialogue with political theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas, the book reclaims a substantive reformist language that we have ignored to our own loss. This reformist idiom made it possible to imagine the state as a speculative and aspirational idea—as a fully realized form of life rather than as an uninspiring ensemble of administrative procedures and bureaucratic processes. This volume traces the resonances of this idiom from the Victorian period to modernism, ranging from Mary Augusta Ward, George Gissing, and H. G. Wells, to Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf. Compared to this reformist language, the economism that dominates current debates about the welfare state signals an impoverishment that is at once intellectual, cultural, and political. Critiquing the shortcomings of the welfare state comes naturally to us, but we often struggle to offer up convincing defences of its principles and aims. This book intervenes in these debates by urging a richer understanding of critique: if we want to defend the state, Kohlmann argues, we need to learn to think about it again.