A short history of English literature / / by Harry Blamires

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780099103321
• Autore: Blamires Harry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, , 1984
• ISBN: 1-134-94209-5; 1-280-32694-8; 9786610326945; 0-203-13727-2
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (493 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetti: English literature - History and criticism; Literature; Great Britain Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Preface to the edition of 1984; The fourteenth century; Fifteenth-century poetry and prose; The early sixteenth century; Elizabethan drama; Jacobean drama; Elizabethan poetry; Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry; Elizabethan and seventeenth-century prose; Milton to Dryden; Restoration drama; Origins of the novel; The age of Swift and Pope; The age of Johnson; The eighteenth-century novel; The close of the eighteenth century; Wordsworth and the Romantics; Scott and contemporary novelists; Victorian poetry; The Victorian novel; Twentieth-century drama; Twentieth-century poetryThe twentieth-century novel; Chronological table of writers; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: `It is good to see a reprint and complete updating of this well-known historical tour de force, with its evidence of vast reading and literally thousands of useful facts.' - Times Educational Supplement