The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and Its Contexts: 1500-2000 - Hardcover

Widdowson, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333792173 ISBN 13: 9780333792179

Verlag: Red Globe Press, 2004

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Book by Widdowson Peter

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'Peter Widdowson has produced an eminently reliable, rigorous and above all readable contextualized chronology of the past 500 years of literary and cultural history. The book offers fascinating and illuminating possibilities of 'time travel' for the student and general reader alike.' - Professor Elleke Boehmer, Nottingham Trent University

'There is no single reference source which clearly and coherently indicates relevant historical and cultural contexts and intertexts...I would hope to see [this book] on students' shelves alongside a decent dictionary, Brewer's and Roget's Thesaurus.' - Jo Gill, University of Exeter
'Accessible but scholarly - a very useful contextualising study for students.' - Dr Elspeth Graham, Liverpool John Moores University

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This comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context of English literature covers the core periods of literature, and history, from the English Renaissance to the present. Peter Widdowson introduces and outlines key terms, concepts and developments and provides a series of timelines showing political, social, cultural and literary events for each year. Together, this indispensable reference work offers a concise history of Britain for literature students at all levels and provides readers with the context for any literary work from 1500 to 2000.

The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts, 1500-2000
- covers a wide range of canonical British authors and works but also provides contextualising examples of works from other countries
- each chapter focuses on a key period in English Literature and History, gives a brief overview of that period, and defines the main terms and ideas of the age
- contains easy-to-follow timelines which may be viewed either horizontally or vertically, allowing readers to track a chronological history, or single out the developments and events of a specific year

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• Verlag: Red Globe Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0333792173
• ISBN 13: 9780333792179
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292