A companion to British literature /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: DeMaria, Robert, Jr., 1948- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Chang, Heesok (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Zacher, Samantha, 1973- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
• Σειρά: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 84.
• Θέματα: English literature > History and criticism.; LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; English literature.; Intellectual life.; Great Britain > Intellectual life.; Great Britain.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

 "A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past 13 centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject"--   Provided by publisher. 

 volume I. Medieval Literature 700-1450. Introduction to Medieval Literature; Chronology 43-1476 / Samantha Zacher -- The Oral and the Written / Karl Reichl -- Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe -- Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness / Emily V Thornbury -- Sermons and Saints / Paul E Szarmach -- The Lost and (Not) Found / Virginia Blanton -- Racial Imagination and the Theater of War / Suzanne M Yeager -- The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After 1066 / Neil Cartlidge -- Writing the Self / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation / Christine Chism -- Writing Revolution / Marion Turner -- The Romance Genre / Corinne Saunders -- Interior Visions / Michael Calabrese -- British Chaucer / John M Ganim -- Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England / Andrew Galloway -- Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture / Denise L Despres -- Sources, Analogues, Creativity / Tim William Machan -- Performing Communities / Christina M Fitzgerald -- Old English and Anglo-Latin / Andy Orchard -- Before the / Rhiannon Purdie -- Originating Britain / Helen Fulton -- Writing from the "Other Shore" and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books / Jacqueline Jenkins -- Collectors and Collections / David N Bell -- In Praise of Power / Robert J Meyer-Lee -- Word and Image / Elaine Treharne -- New Technologies / Siân Echard -- Selected References and Further Reading -- Index to Volume I -- volume II. Early Modern Literature 1450-1660. Introduction to Early Modern Literature; Chronology 1450-1662 / Robert DeMaria -- The Spectral Past / David Matthews -- The Fortunes of Arthur / Willy Maley, Adam Swann -- Robert Burton and the Discontents of Print / David J Baker -- Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century / Alessandra Petrina -- Mapping the British Archipelago in the Renaissance / Stewart Mottram -- Renaissance or Reformation? / Michael Payne -- Religious Reading and Writing in an Age of Bloodshed / Achsah Guibbory -- Translations of Virgil from Gavin Douglas to Sir John Denham / Robin Sowerby -- England, the "Orient", and the Ocean / Benedict S Robinson -- Politics and Religion in Elizabethan Drama / Lisa Hopkins -- Women's Literary and Intellectual Endeavors / Marcy L North -- Shakespeare and the Arts of Persuasion / Michael MacDonald -- Texts and Performances in the Age of Elizabeth / Tom Rutter -- Physics, Metaphysics, and Religion in Lyric Poetry / Wendy Beth Hyman -- The Early English Essay / Joshua Scodel -- Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives / Christopher Crosbie -- Scots Literature in the Age of the and Beyond / Katherine H Terrell -- Violence in Jacobean Drama / Zoltán Márkus -- First Folios / Adam G Hooks -- Riding Westward / Jonathan Locke Hart -- Cheap Print and Popular Reading During the Civil Wars, 1637-1660 / Joad Raymond -- Republican Writing from Milton to Locke / Nigel Smith -- John Bunyan and the Spaces of Religious Writing / Cynthia Wall -- / Barbara K Lewalski -- Human, Animal, and Machine in the Seventeenth Century / Lucinda Cole, Robert Markley -- Selected References and Further Reading -- Index to Volume II -- volume III. Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660-1837. Introduction to Long Eighteenth-Century Literature; Chronology 1658-1835 / Robert DeMaria -- Understanding Genre / David Venturo -- History and Literature from Milton to Wollstonecraft / Ruth Mack -- Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century / Neil Rhodes -- Aphra Behn and the Profession of Writing in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century / Catherine Ingrassia -- The Virgilian Way from Milton to Wordsworth / Adam Potkay -- Women Readers and the Rise of the Periodical Essay / Manushag N Powell -- Female Satirists of the Eighteenth Century / Paul Baines -- Ireland, England, and Anglo-Irish Writers in England / David Oakleaf -- Alexander Pope / Pat Rogers -- Eighteenth-Century Science and the Literary Imagination / Tita Chico -- Epistolary Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century / Thomas Keymer -- Poetry Anthologies, Taste, and the Canon / Adam Rounce -- Performance in Eighteenth-Century English Verse / John Richetti -- Ranging Knowledge by the Alphabet / Lynda Mugglestone -- History, Biography, and Anecdote / Freya Johnston -- The Other in the British Eighteenth Century / Lynn Festa -- Aesthetics and Taste / G Gabrielle Starr -- The Poetry of Melancholy from Finch to Keats / John Sitter -- Jane Austen and the Conditions of Knowledge / Jenny Davidson -- Genius and Originality 1750-1830 / Christopher R Miller -- Blake and His Contemporaries / Laura Quinney -- Romantic Celebrities / Richard Cronin -- Gothic and Celtic Revivals / Nick Groom -- Romantic Women Writers in the Lecture Room / Sarah M Zimmerman -- Selected References and Further Reading -- Index to Volume III -- volume IV. Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature 1837-2000. Introduction to Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature; Chronology 1800-2006 / Heesok Chang -- Charles Dickens, Dramatist / Eileen Gillooly -- Becoming George Eliot / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- "What Do the Women Do?" / Susan Zlotnick -- Evolution and Entropy / Suzy Anger -- Theater, Exhibition, and Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman -- Art, Self, and Society / Matthew Campbell -- Pre-Raphaelite Brothers, Lovers, and the Sister Arts / Wendy Graham -- Regionalism and Consciousness / Keith Wilson -- Modernism and Empire / Laura Winkiel -- The Irish Literary Revival / James L Pethica -- Re-Envisioning Yeats's / Nico Israel -- First World War Poetry / Adam Piette -- "How to Enjoy James Joyce's Great Novel" / Stephen Dilks -- Anglophobia and Anglophilia / Robert Crawford -- Virginia Woolf and Experimental Fiction / Anne E Fernald -- Sartorial Modernity / Jane Garrity -- Doom in the Bud / Paul Lawley -- Form, Figure, and Ground / C D Blanton -- Historical Turns in Twentieth-Century Fiction / John T Connor -- Anthologizing Poetry / Nigel Alderman -- "Frail, and So Full of Fire" / Praseeda Gopinath -- Imagining Female Authorship After 1945 / Maria Francesca Fackler -- Sticks and Stones / Elaine K Chang -- The Modern Scottish Novel / Cairns Craig -- Queer Fiction in Contemporary Britain / Jodie Medd -- Global Markets / Richard Todd -- The British Dystopian Novel from Wells to Ishiguro / Phillip E Wegner.