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English literature : a student guide / Martin Stephen

By: Publication details: Harlow, England. : Longman, 2000Edition: 3rd edDescription: ix, 384 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0582414512 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.76 STE
Contents:
Preface. - Publisher's acknowledgements. - Author's acknowledgements. - 1. Study and examination techniques in English literature. - 2. Revision, project work and research techniques. - 3. A guide to basic literary terms. - 4. Practical criticism : poetry. - 5. Practical criticism : prose. - 6. Practical criticism : drama. - 7. Chaucer. - 8. Elizabethan and Jacobaean drama. - 9. Shakespeare. - 10. The metaphysical poets. - 11. Milton. - 12. Restoration drama. - 13. Pope, Dryden and Swift : classicism and the eighteenth century. - 14. The eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novel : Defoe, Fielding, Austen and the Brontes. - 15. Romanticism and the Romantic poets : Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. - 16. Gothic. - 17. Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot. - 18. Victorian poets : Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, Arnold and Hardy. - 19. Victorian drama : Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and Wilde. - 20. War literature. - 21. The modern and contemporary novel. - 23. Modern and contemporary drama. - 24. American literature. - 25. Literary and critical theory. - Index.
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First published 1986

Preface. - Publisher's acknowledgements. - Author's acknowledgements. - 1. Study and examination techniques in English literature. - 2. Revision, project work and research techniques. - 3. A guide to basic literary terms. - 4. Practical criticism : poetry. - 5. Practical criticism : prose. - 6. Practical criticism : drama. - 7. Chaucer. - 8. Elizabethan and Jacobaean drama. - 9. Shakespeare. - 10. The metaphysical poets. - 11. Milton. - 12. Restoration drama. - 13. Pope, Dryden and Swift : classicism and the eighteenth century. - 14. The eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novel : Defoe, Fielding, Austen and the Brontes. - 15. Romanticism and the Romantic poets : Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. - 16. Gothic. - 17. Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot. - 18. Victorian poets : Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, Arnold and Hardy. - 19. Victorian drama : Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and Wilde. - 20. War literature. - 21. The modern and contemporary novel. - 23. Modern and contemporary drama. - 24. American literature. - 25. Literary and critical theory. - Index.