English literature : a very short introduction /
Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Very short introductions ;
249. |
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Table of Contents:
- Once upon a time
- What it is
- When it began
- The study of English
- Periods and movements
- Among the English poets
- Shakespeare and dramatic literature
- Aspects of the English novel
- The Englishness of English literature?