Short Oxford Ord History English Lit Revised (División Academic) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0198711565 ISBN 13: 9780198711568

Verlag: Oxford University Press España, S.A., 1996

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Book by Sanders Andrew

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The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides in a single volume a comprehensive beginner's guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. Now established as the leading introduction to English literature, separate chapters trace the development from Beowulf to the `post-modern' fictions of Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter. The History provides detailed discussion of Old and Middle English Literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing. Discussions of key writers and works from Anselm and Chaucer to Spencer and Bunyan, and from Swift and Johnson to Dickens and D.H. Lawrence, are combined with analysis of the impact on literature of contemporary political, social, and intellectual developments. The History looks again at the canon of English literature and provides a fresh assessment of the distinctive contribution of Scottish, Irish, and Welsh writers, and it asks about the future of the canon in the light of the fragmented condition of British writing in the post-imperial period. This book is intended for all readers of English Literature; sixth-form, first-year undergraduate, and foreign students of English literature.

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About the Author: Andrew Sanders is Professor of English Studies at the University of Durham and the editor of a number of World's Classics editions, including Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Thackeray's Barry Lyndon.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press España, S.A.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198711565
• ISBN 13: 9780198711568
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 727