THE SHORT OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE - ANDREW SANDERS ~ literăCUliteră

The Short Oxford History of English Literature is the most comprehensive and scholarly history of English literature on the market. It offers an introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in eleven chapters covering all the major periods of English literature chronologically. Professor Sanders provides detailed analysis of the major writers and their works and examines the impact of British literature on contemporary political, social and intellectual developments. This third edition has been revised and updated for a 21st century reader, incorporating discussion of a greater number of female and contemporary authors.

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CONTENTS

ANoteon the Text................................................................. ix

Introduction: Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature............................... 1

1.Old EngLISH LitErature.................................................................................................... 16

Beowulf

The Battle of Maldon and the Elegies

The Biblical Poems and The Dream of the Rood

2.Medieval Literature 1066-1510........................................................... 28

The Church, Church Building, and Clerical Historians

Early Middle English Literature

Chivalry and 'Courtly' Love

English Romances and the Gawain-Poet

Fourteenth-Century England: Death, Disruption, and Change

Langland and Piers Plowman

Geoffrey Chaucer

Gower, Lydgate, and Hoccleve

Poetry in Scotland in the Fifteenth Century

Late Medieval Drama

Late Medieval Religious Writing

Malory and Caxton

3.Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620....................................... 83

Poetry at the Court of Henry VIII An Educated Élite: More, Elyot, and Ascham The Literature of the English Reformation Early and Mid-Sixteenth-Century Drama

The Defence and the Practice of Poetry: Puttenham and the Sidneys

Sixteenth- and Early Seventeeth-Century Prose Fiction

This Island and the Wider World: History, Chorography, and Geography

Ralegh, Spenser, and the Cult of Elizabeth

Late Sixteenth-Century Verse

Marlowe and Shakespeare as non-Dramatic Poets

Theatre in the 1590s: Kyd and Marlowe

Shakespeare's Plays

Politics and History

Tragedy and Death

Women and Comedy Ben Jonson and the Comic Theatre Jonson and the High Roman Fashion 'Debauch'd and diversivolent': Men, Women, and Tragedy

4.REVOLUTION AND RESTORATION: LITERATURE 1620-1690............................................ 186

The Advancement of Learning: Francis Bacon and the Authorized Version Andrewes and Donne

'Metaphysical' Religious Poetry: Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan

Secular Verse: Courtiers and Cavaliers

Anatomies: Burton, Browne, and Hobbes

Political Prose of the Civil War Period

Milton

Marvell

Pepys, Evelyn, and Seventeenth-Century Autobiographical Writing Varieties of Religious Writing in the Restoration Period Private Histories and Public History: Aubrey, Sprat, and Clarendon The Poetry of the Restoration Period: Rochester and Dryden Women's Writing and Women Writing in the Restoration Period 'Restoration' Drama

5.Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780............................. 273

Jonathan Swift

Pope and the Poetry of the Early Century

Thomson and Akenside: The Poetry of Nature and the Pleasures of the Imagination Other Pleasures of Imagination: Dennis, Addison, and Steele Gay and the Drama of the Early Eighteenth Century Defoe and the 'Rise' of the Novel

The Mid-Century Novel: Richardson, the Fieldings, Charlotte Lennox Smollett and Sterne

Sensibility, Sentimentality, Tears, and Graveyards The Ballad, the Gothic, the Gaelic, and the Davidic Goldsmith and Sheridan: The New 'Comedy of Manners' Johnson and his Circle

6.The Literature of the Romantic Period 1780-1830.......................................... 333

Paine, Godwin, and the 'Jacobin' Novelists

Gothic Fiction Smith and Burney Cowper, Blake, and Burns Wordsworth

Coleridge, Southey, and Crabbe Austen, the 'Regional' Novel, and Scott Byron, Shelley, and Keats The 'Romantic' Essayists Clare and Cobbett

7.High Victorian Literature 1830-1880.............................................. 398

'The Condition of England': Carlyle and Dickens 'Condition of England' Fiction Macaulay, Thackeray, and Trollope The Brontë Sisters

Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite Poets The Brownings

The Drama, the Melodrama, and the 'Sensation' Novel

The New Fiction of the 1860s: Meredith and Eliot

The 'Strange Disease of Modern Life': Mill, Arnold, Clough, and Ruskin

The 'Second Spring' and Hopkins

Coda: Carroll and Lear

8.Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature 1880-1920............................................... 457

The 'Agnostic' Fiction of the Late Century 'The Letter Killeth': Hardy, Gissing, and Moore Mystery and History: Conan Doyle, Stoker, and Stevenson 'Our Colonial Expansion': Kipling and Conrad 'Our Theatre in the 90s': London and Dublin The Edwardian Age The Edwardian Novel The Poetry

9.Modernism and its Alternatives: Literature 1920-1945 ........................... 505

'Bloomsbury' and beyond: Strachey, Woolf, and Mansfield Richardson and Lawrence

Old and New Writing: Practitioners, Promoters, and the 'Little Magazines'

Eliot, Firbank, and the Sitwells

Joyce

Inter-War Drama: O'Casey, Coward, Priestley, and Sherriff

Retrospect and Historical Memory: Graves and Jones

'Society' and Society: The New Novelists of the 1920s and 1930s

Bright Young Things and Brave New Worlds: Wodehouse, Waugh, and Huxley

The Auden Circle

'Rotten Elements': MacDiarmid, Upward, Koestler, and Orwell Looking at Britain at War

10.Post- War and Post-Modern Literature........................... 577