TY - BOOK AU - Peck,John AU - Coyle,Martin TI - A brief history of English literature SN - 0333791762 AV - PR83 .P43 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave KW - English literature KW - History and criticism N1 - 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 ER -