The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature 1.

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LITERATURE
The McGraiV'Hill Guide to English Literature
Volume One
Beowulfto Jane Austen
Karen Lawrence, Betsy Seifter, and Lois Ratner
This unique book is an invaluable aid to the study of English literature for both the
Student and the general reader. The authors survey the masterpieces of thirty-six important English writers from medieval times through the eighteenth Century. Each chapter contains a wealth of useful Information. Timelines for each period show how political and social movements were related to literary events. Detailed chronologies provide authoritative, concise accounts of the writers* lives and careers. And at the heart of each chapter is a series of brief, stimulating essays in question-and-answer format which explore the central themes and stylistic qualities of each work. The result is an unusually readable exploration of the English literary tradition that makes use of historical, biographical, and philosophical approaches as well as the purely... Tovább

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LITERATURE
The McGraiV'Hill Guide to English Literature
Volume One
Beowulfto Jane Austen
Karen Lawrence, Betsy Seifter, and Lois Ratner
This unique book is an invaluable aid to the study of English literature for both the
Student and the general reader. The authors survey the masterpieces of thirty-six important English writers from medieval times through the eighteenth Century. Each chapter contains a wealth of useful Information. Timelines for each period show how political and social movements were related to literary events. Detailed chronologies provide authoritative, concise accounts of the writers* lives and careers. And at the heart of each chapter is a series of brief, stimulating essays in question-and-answer format which explore the central themes and stylistic qualities of each work. The result is an unusually readable exploration of the English literary tradition that makes use of historical, biographical, and philosophical approaches as well as the purely
literary perspective. »
Volume One covers seven significant authors from the Old and Middle English periods; a large group of writers of the English Renaissance, including an extensive
study of Shakespeare; nine major authors of the seventeenth Century and the Restoration; the leaders of the neoclassical movement of the eighteenth Century; and the early English novelists, including Richardson and Fielding.
Volume Two of The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature surveys the major authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from William Blake to D. H. Lawrence.
Karen Lawrence is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the English Department at the University of Utah. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1978;
she is also the author of The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses, published by Princeton University Press. Betsy Seifter, who received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1975, is an independent scholar currently at work on a study of tonal ambiguity in Shakespeare. Lois Ratner received the degree of M.Phil, from Columbia in 1975. She is presently at work on a novel as well as pursuing varied scholarly interests.
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