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1. Verfasser:	Alexander, Michael 1941-2023 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2007
Ausgabe:	2. ed.
Schriftenreihe:	Palgrave foundations
Schlagworte:	Geschichte English literature > History and criticism Englisch Literatur Großbritannien Great Britain > Intellectual life
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Beschreibung:	XVII, 418 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	9780230007239 0230007236

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adam_text	Contents List of Illustrations xi Beowulf 28 Acknowledgements Preface xiii XV Elegies Battle poetry The harvest of literacy 32 33 33 Preface to Second Edition xvi Further reading 34 Abbreviations xvii Introduction ι 2 Middle English Literature: Literary history 1 1066-1500 35 What's included? 2 The new writing 35 Tradition, not 'canon' 2 Handwriting and printing 35 Priorities 3 The impact of French 36 What is literature? 4 Scribal practice 36 Language change 5 Dialect and language change 37 Other literatures in English 5 Literary consciousness 38 Is drama literature? 6 New fashions: French and Latin 39 Qualities and quantities 7 Epic and romance 40 Texts 7 Courtly literature 41 Further reading 7 Medieval institutions 43 Primary texts 7 Authority 44 Secondary texts 7 Lyrics 45 English prose 47 The fourteenth century 48 PART 1 Spiritual writing 48 Medieval Julian of Norwich Secular prose 48 49 Ricardian poetry 50 í 1 Piers Plowman 51 1 Old English Literature: to 1100 11 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight John Gower 53 54 Orientations 11 Geoffrey Chaucer 56 Britain, England, English 11 The Parlement of Fowls 57 Oral origins and conversion Aldhelm, Bede, Cdmon 13 15 Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales 59 60 Northumbria and The Dream of the Rood 20 The fifteenth century 63 Heroic poetry 23 Drama 64 Christian literature 25 Mystery plays 64 Alfred 26 Morality plays Religious lyric CD CD CD CD Deaths of Arthur 67 4 Shakespeare and the Drama 107 The arrival of printing Scottish poetry 69 70 William Shakespeare 107 Robert Henryson 71 Shakespeare's life 107 William Dunbar 71 The plays preserved 109 Gavin Douglas 72 Luck and fame 110 Further reading 73 The drama ' 111 The commercial theatre 111 Predecessors 112 Christopher Marlowe 113 PART 2 The order of the plays 115 Histories 116 Tudor and Stuart Richardii 117 Henry IV 118 Henry V 120 Comedy 121 3 Tudor Literature: 1500-1603 77 A Midsummer Night's Dream 122 Medieval and Modern: a caution 77 Twelfth Night 123 Renaissance and Reformation 77 The poems 124 The Renaissance 77 Tragedy Hamlet 126 127 Expectations 79 KingLear 128 Investigations 79 Macbeth 130 England's place in the world 80 Romances 132 The Reformation Sir Thomas More 81 81 The Tempest Conclusion 133 134 The Courtier Sir Thomas Wyatt The Earl of Surrey Religious prose Bible translation 83 84 86 87 87 Shakespeare's achievement His supposed point of view Ben Jonson The Alchemist 134 134 135 136 Instructive prose 88 Volpone 137 Drama 90 Further reading 137 Elizabethan literature 91 Verse 91 5 Stuart Literature: to 1700 138 Sir Philip Sidney Edmund Spenser 92 96 The Stuart century 138 Sir Walter Ralegh 100 Drama to 1642 140 Elizabethan and Jacobean 102 Comedy 140 Christopher Marlowe 103 Tragedy 141 Song 104 John Donne 142 Thomas Campion 104 Prose to 1642 145 Prose 105 Sir Francis Bacon 146 John Lyly 105 Lancelot Andrewes 147 Thomas Nashe 105 Robert Burton 147 Richard Hooker 106 Sir Thomas Browne 147 Further reading 106 Poetry to Milton 148 Ben Jonson 148 Metaphysical poets 149 Devotional poets 150 Cavalier poets 152 CONTENTS vii John Milton Prose and Paradise Lost The Restoration The Earl of Rochester John Bunyan Samuel Pepys The theatres Restoration comedy John Dryden Satire Prose John Locke Women writers William Congreve Further reading 153 157 161 164 165 166 166 167 168 170 173 175 175 176 177 PART 3 Augustan and Romantic 7 6 Augustan Literature: to 1790 isi The eighteenth century I8i The Enlightenment 182 Sense and Sensibility 184 Alexander Pope and 18th-century civilization 184 Joseph Addison 184 Jonathan Swift 185 Alexander Pope 189 Translation as tradition 191 The Rape of the Lock 192 Mature verse 194 John Gay 196 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 197 The novel 197 Daniel Defoe 197 Cross-currents 199 Samuel Richardson 200 Henry Fielding 201 Tobias Smollett 203 Laurence Sterne 203 The emergence of Sensibility 205 Thomas Gray 206 Pre-Romantic sensibility: 'Ossian' 208 Gothic fiction 210 The Age of Johnson 211 Dr Samuel Johnson 211 The Dictionary 212 Literary criticism 215 James Boswell 216 Non-fiction 218 Edward Gibbon 218 Edmund Burke 219 Oliver Goldsmith 219 Frances Burney 220 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 220 Christopher Smart 222 William Cowper 223 Robert Burns 224 Further reading 225 The Romantics: 1790-1837 226 The Romantic poets 226 Early Romantics 226 William Blake 226 Subjectivity 227 Romanticism and Revolution 228 William Wordsworth 229 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 233 Sir Walter Scott 235 Younger Romantics 236 Lord Byron 236 Percy Bysshe Shelley 238 John Keats 240 Romantic prose 244 Belles lettres 244 Charles Lamb 244 William Hazlitt 245 Thomas De Quincey 245 Fiction 246 Thomas Love Peacock 246 Mary Shelley 246 Maria Edgeworth 246 Sir Walter Scott 248 Jane Austen 249 Towards Victoria 253 Further reading 254 viii CONTENTS PART 4 David Copperfield 289 Bleak House 290 Victorian Literature to 1880 Our Mutual Friend Great Expectations 291 292 'The Inimitable' 293 William Makepeace Thackeray 293 8 The Age and its Sages 257 Vanity Fair Anthony Trollope 293 295 The Victorian age 257 George Eliot 297 Moral history 258 Adam Bede 299 Abundance 261 The Mill on the Floss 299 Why sages? 262 Silas Marner 300 Thomas Carlyle 263 Middlemarch 300 John Stuart Mill 264 Daniel Deronda 302 John Ruskin 264 Nonsense prose and verse Lewis Carroll 303 303 John Henry Newman 267 Edward Lear 304 Charles Darwin 269 Further reading 304 Matthew Arnold 269 Further reading 270 11 Late Victorian Literature: 1880-1900 305 9 Poetry 271 Differentiation 305 Victorian Romantic poetry 271 Thomas Hardy and Henry James 305 Minor verse 271 Aestheticism 308 John Clare 271 Walter Pater 308 Alfred Tennyson Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning 272 275 A revival of drama 310 О Matthew Arnold 276 Oscar Wilde 310 Arthur Hugh Clough 278 George Bernard Shaw 312 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti 278 Fiction 313 Algernon Charles Swinburne 279 Thomas Hardy 313 Gerard Hopkins 280 Tess of the d'Urbervilles 314 Further reading 281 Minor fiction 316 Samuel Butler 316 Robert Louis Stevenson 316 10 Fiction 282 Wilkie Collins George Moore 316 317 The triumph of the novel 282 Poetry 317 Disraeli's Sybil; or, The Two Nations 282 Aestheticism 317 Two Brontë novels 284 A. E. Housman 318 fane Eyre 284 Rudyard Kipling 318 Wuthering Heights 286 Further reading 319 Elizabeth Gaskell 287 Charles Dickens 287 The Pickwick Papers 288 CONTENTS IX PART 5 Non-modernism: the Twenties and Thirties 359 The Twentieth Century Modernism fails to catch on The poetry of the Thirties 362 363 Political camps 363 W. H. Auden 363 12 Ends and Beginnings: 1901-19 323 The novel 366 The new century 323 Evelyn Waugh Grahame Greene 366 368 Fiction 325 Anthony Powell 369 Edwardian realists 325 George Orwell 370 Rudyard Kipling 325 Elizabeth Bowen 370 John Galsworthy 325 Fairy tales 372 Arnold Bennett 325 C. S. Lewis 372 H. G. Wells 326 J. R. R. Tolkien 372 The Press and G. K. Chesterton 326 Poetry 372 Joseph Conrad 327 The Second World War 372 Heart of Darkness 328 Dylan Thomas 373 Nostromo 329 Drama 374 Ε. Μ. Forster 329 Sean O'Casey 374 Ford Madox Ford 331 Further reading 375 Poetry 332 Pre-war verse 332 Thomas Hardy War poetry and war poets 333 334 14 New Beginnings: 1955-80 376 Further reading 336 Drama 378 Samuel Beckett 378 John Osborne 381 13 From Post-War to Post-War: Harold Pinter 382 1920-55 337 Established protest 383 'Modernism': 1914-27 337 Novels galore 384 D. H. Lawrence 338 William Golding 385 The Rainbow 340 Muriel Spark 387 James Joyce 341 Iris Murdoch 388 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 341 Other writers 389 Ulysses 343 Ezra Pound: the London years 345 Poetry 391 T. S. Eliot 346 Philip Larkin 392 The Love Song of]. Alfred Prufrock 347 Ted Hughes 394 The Waste Land 348 Geoffrey Hill 394 Four Quartets 350 Tony Harrison 395 Eliot's criticism 351 Seamus Heaney 395 W. B. Yeats 351 Hugh MacDiarmid and David Jones 353 Further reading 397 Virginia Woolf 354 To the Lighthouse 356 Katherine Mansfield 358 CONTENTS Postscript on the Current Internationalization and language Post-modernism? Even more novels 398 398 399 400 Multi-culturalism Four novels Contemporary poetry Further reading Metropolitan novelists Genre 401 402 Index Post-colonial? Multi-cultural? 405 406 408 409 411 412 A History of English Literature received exceptional reviews. The second edition will command a similar welcome. Tracing the development of one of the world's richest literatures from the Old English period until the present day, the narrative discusses all major authors but never loses its clarity or its verve. Revised and updated throughout, the second edition adds new names, new titles and new secondary reading to reflect fresh developments in literature and society, and bring the reader up to the present day. Features include: m an overview of each chapter *· quotations to illustrate literary texts discussed • boxed tables of publications and historical events • on-page definitions of key terms and concepts ■ boxed biographies of authors, portraits, illustrations, index and maps A History of English Literature is the essential companion for anyone wishing to follow the unfolding of English writing through thirteen centuries. It will serve those who know a few landmark texts, but little of the landscape that surrounds them; those who want to know what English literature consists of; and those who simply want to read its story.
adam_txt	Contents List of Illustrations xi Beowulf 28 Acknowledgements Preface xiii XV Elegies Battle poetry The harvest of literacy 32 33 33 Preface to Second Edition xvi Further reading 34 Abbreviations xvii Introduction ι 2 Middle English Literature: Literary history 1 1066-1500 35 What's included? 2 The new writing 35 Tradition, not 'canon' 2 Handwriting and printing 35 Priorities 3 The impact of French 36 What is literature? 4 Scribal practice 36 Language change 5 Dialect and language change 37 Other literatures in English 5 Literary consciousness 38 Is drama literature? 6 New fashions: French and Latin 39 Qualities and quantities 7 Epic and romance 40 Texts 7 Courtly literature 41 Further reading 7 Medieval institutions 43 Primary texts 7 Authority 44 Secondary texts 7 Lyrics 45 English prose 47 The fourteenth century 48 PART 1 Spiritual writing 48 Medieval Julian of Norwich Secular prose 48 49 Ricardian poetry 50 í 1 Piers Plowman 51 1 Old English Literature: to 1100 11 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight John Gower 53 54 Orientations 11 Geoffrey Chaucer 56 Britain, England, English 11 The Parlement of Fowls 57 Oral origins and conversion Aldhelm, Bede, Cœdmon 13 15 Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales 59 60 Northumbria and The Dream of the Rood 20 The fifteenth century 63 Heroic poetry 23 Drama 64 Christian literature 25 Mystery plays 64 Alfred 26 Morality plays Religious lyric CD CD CD CD Deaths of Arthur 67 4 Shakespeare and the Drama 107 The arrival of printing Scottish poetry 69 70 William Shakespeare 107 Robert Henryson 71 Shakespeare's life 107 William Dunbar 71 The plays preserved 109 Gavin Douglas 72 Luck and fame 110 Further reading 73 The drama ' 111 The commercial theatre 111 Predecessors 112 Christopher Marlowe 113 PART 2 The order of the plays 115 Histories 116 Tudor and Stuart Richardii 117 Henry IV 118 Henry V 120 Comedy 121 3 Tudor Literature: 1500-1603 77 A Midsummer Night's Dream 122 Medieval and Modern: a caution 77 Twelfth Night 123 Renaissance and Reformation 77 The poems 124 The Renaissance 77 Tragedy Hamlet 126 127 Expectations 79 KingLear 128 Investigations 79 Macbeth 130 England's place in the world 80 Romances 132 The Reformation Sir Thomas More 81 81 The Tempest Conclusion 133 134 The Courtier Sir Thomas Wyatt The Earl of Surrey Religious prose Bible translation 83 84 86 87 87 Shakespeare's achievement His supposed point of view Ben Jonson The Alchemist 134 134 135 136 Instructive prose 88 Volpone 137 Drama 90 Further reading 137 Elizabethan literature 91 Verse 91 5 Stuart Literature: to 1700 138 Sir Philip Sidney Edmund Spenser 92 96 The Stuart century 138 Sir Walter Ralegh 100 Drama to 1642 140 Elizabethan and Jacobean 102 Comedy 140 Christopher Marlowe 103 Tragedy 141 Song 104 John Donne 142 Thomas Campion 104 Prose to 1642 145 Prose 105 Sir Francis Bacon 146 John Lyly 105 Lancelot Andrewes 147 Thomas Nashe 105 Robert Burton 147 Richard Hooker 106 Sir Thomas Browne 147 Further reading 106 Poetry to Milton 148 Ben Jonson 148 Metaphysical poets 149 Devotional poets 150 Cavalier poets 152 CONTENTS vii John Milton Prose and Paradise Lost The Restoration The Earl of Rochester John Bunyan Samuel Pepys The theatres Restoration comedy John Dryden Satire Prose John Locke Women writers William Congreve Further reading 153 157 161 164 165 166 166 167 168 170 173 175 175 176 177 PART 3 Augustan and Romantic 7 6 Augustan Literature: to 1790 isi The eighteenth century I8i The Enlightenment 182 Sense and Sensibility 184 Alexander Pope and 18th-century civilization 184 Joseph Addison 184 Jonathan Swift 185 Alexander Pope 189 Translation as tradition 191 The Rape of the Lock 192 Mature verse 194 John Gay 196 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 197 The novel 197 Daniel Defoe 197 Cross-currents 199 Samuel Richardson 200 Henry Fielding 201 Tobias Smollett 203 Laurence Sterne 203 The emergence of Sensibility 205 Thomas Gray 206 Pre-Romantic sensibility: 'Ossian' 208 Gothic fiction 210 The Age of Johnson 211 Dr 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