SHORT OXF HIST ENG LIT 3E P

The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day including a full treatment of Irish Scottish and Welsh writing in English. The chapters are arranged chronologically covering all major periods of English literature from Old English to the post-war era including the medieval period the Renaissance Shakespeare the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Romanticism the Victorians Modernism and Postmodernism. In addition to a detailed discussion of all major figures and their works Andrew Sanders examines throughout the relationship between the literary landscape and wider contemporary social political and intellectual developments.This edition contains a range of new entries on important contemporary authors and an increased focus on female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as a fully updated and revised bibliography.