Product Description

An updated and expanded edition of Routledge History of Literature in English. Covering main developments in British and Irish literature with accompanying language notes exploring the interrelationships between language and literature

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #273434 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

Review
'An enormously ambitious and wide-ranging work.Students of writing are bound to be indebted to it - and it has a clarity of structure and analysis that everyone will welcome.' - Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and Professor of Creative Writing, University of East Anglia

'An expansive, generous and varied textbook of British literary historyaddressed equally to the British and the foreign reader.' - Malcolm Bradbury

'This book should be on the bookshelves of anyone with an interest in English Studies.' - Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick

'This is the ideal combination of serious content and readability Bang up to date in every way.' - Shelley Reece, Portland State University, USA

'Must stand for many years as a thoroughly well grounded survey of English literature.' - Contemporary Review

From the Publisher
'The Routledge History of Literature in English is, as its title implies, an enormously ambitious and wide-ranging work. It offers judicious thumb-nail sketches of significant individual writers, and also valuable portraits of literary movements. Students of writing are bound to be indebted to it - and it has a clarity of structure and analysis that everyone will welcome.' Andrew Motion

'It provides the invaluable service of allowing the reader to see English Literature as a continuous dynamic rather than as a sequence of relatively independent periods.' Margaret Sonmez, Linguist List

This is a completely updated and expanded second edition of the wide-ranging and accessible Routledge History of Literature in English. It covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature and has extensive accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and includes literature from the margins, both geographical and cultural. Extensive quotes from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative.
The second edition covers recent developments in literary and cultural theory and has the following features:
* additional or extended material on post-colonial writers, and the literature of the 1990s
* additions to the well-received language notes which include 'Shakespeare's language', 'Reading the language of theatre and drama', 'New modes of modern writing' and 'International and rotten Englishes'
* An expanded Timeline with Booker, Whitbread, and Nobel prize winners.

From the Back Cover
This is a completely updated and expanded second edition of the wide-ranging and accessible Routledge History of Literature in English. It covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature and has extensive accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature. With a span of over a thousand years, from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and includes literature from the margins, both geographical and cultural. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative.
The second edition covers recent developments in literary and cultural theory and has the following features:
Additional or extended material on post-colonial writers, and the literature of the 1990s, including James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Michael Frayn, Bernard MacLaverty, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Helen Dunmore, William Boyd, Bruce Chatwin, Liz Lochhead, Andrew Motion, Jackie Kay, J.K. Rowling
An expanded Timeline with Booker and Whitbread Prize winners
Additions to the well-received language notes include `Shakespeare's Language', `Reading Dickens', `Reading the language of theatre and drama', `Reading Hardy', `Reading Auden', `Common speech and literature'