A brief history of English literature / John Peck and Martin Coyle

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-334) and index

Table Of Contents: Preface Acknowledgements Old English Literature Beowulf `The Seafarer' and `The Wanderer' Battle Poems and `The Dream of the Rood' Old English Language Middle English Literature From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Geoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson William Langland, Medieval Drama, Thomas Malory Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose Sir Thomas Wyatt Sixteenth-Century Prose and the Reformation The Sonnet: Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare Edmund Spenser Shakespeare Shakespeare in Context Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories Shakespeare's Tragedies Shakespeare's Late Plays Renaissance and Restoration Drama Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlowe Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy Ben Jonson and the Masque Restoration Drama Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose John Donne From Ben Jonson to John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell John Milton John Dryden The Eighteenth Century Alexander Pope The Augustan Age Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson Sensibility The Novel: The First Hundred Years Daniel Defoe Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett From Eliza Haywood to Mary Shelley Walter Scott and lane Austen The Romantic Period The Age of Revolution William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Radical Voices Victorian Literature 1837-1857 Charles Dickens Charlotte and Emily Bronte William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Victorian Literature, 1857-1876 Victorian Thinkers George Eliot Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel Anthony Trollope, Christina Rossetti Victorian Literature, 1876-1901 Thomas Hardy George Gissing, George Moore, Samuel Butler, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Late Victorian Poetry The Twentieth Century: The Early Years Joseph Conrad Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield D. H. Lawrence Georgian Poetry, War Poetry, W. B. Yeats The Twentieth Century: Between the Wars T. S. Eliot James Joyce Virginia Woolf The 1930s The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to the End of the Millennium Wartime and Post-War Britain Drama Novels Poetry Postscript The Twenty-First Century Periods of English Literature and Language Chronology Further reading Index