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dc.contributor.authorAlexander, Michael-
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-03T12:46:55Z-
dc.date.available2024-12-03T12:46:55Z-
dc.date.issued2000-
dc.identifier.citationA History of English Literature / Michael Alexander. - London: MACMILLAN PRESS LTD, 2000. 261 p.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.megu.edu.ua:9443/jspui/handle/123456789/4671-
dc.description.abstractEngland has a rich literature with a long history. This is an attempt to tell the story of English literature from its beginnings to the present day. The story is written to be read as a whole, though it can be read in parts, and its apparatus and index allow it to be consulted for reference. To be read as a whole with pleasure, a story has to have a companionable aspect, and the number of things discussed cannot be too large. There are said to be ‘nine and twenty ways of reciting tribal lays’, and there is certainly more than one way of writing a history of English literature. This Introduction says what kind of a history this is, and what it is not, an defines its scope: where it begins and ends, and what ‘English’ and ‘literature’ are taken to mean. ‘Literature’ is a word with a qualitative implication, not just a neutral term for writing in general. Without this implication, and without a belief on the part of the author that some qualities of literature are best appreciated when it is presented in the order in which it appeared, there would be little point in a literary history. This effort to put the most memorable English writing in an intelligible historical perspective is offered as an aid to public understanding. The reader, it is assumed, will like literature and be curious about it. It is also assumed also that he or she will want chiefly to know about works such as Shakespeare’s King Lear and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the poems of Chaucer, Milton and T. S. Eliot, and the novels of Austen and Dickens. So the major earns more space than the minor in these pages; and minor literature earns more attention than writing stronger in social, cultural or historical importance than in literary interest.en_US
dc.publisherLondon: MACMILLAN PRESS LTDen_US
dc.subjectEnglish literatureen_US
dc.subjectLiterary historyen_US
dc.subjectdrama literatureen_US
dc.subjectOld English Literature: to 1100en_US
dc.subjectTudor Literature: 1500-1603en_US
dc.subjectThomas Moreen_US
dc.subjectShakespeare and the Dramaen_US
dc.subjectStuart Literature: to 1700en_US
dc.subjectGeorge Herberten_US
dc.subjectJohn Miltonen_US
dc.subjectAnne Bracegirdleen_US
dc.subjectAugustan Literature: to 1790en_US
dc.subjectRomanticen_US
dc.subjectAlexander Popeen_US
dc.subjectMary Wortley Montageen_US
dc.subjectSamuel Johnsonen_US
dc.subjectDr Samuel Johnsonen_US
dc.subjectJames Boswellen_US
dc.subjectThe Romantics: 1790 1837en_US
dc.subjectWilliam Blakeen_US
dc.subjectWilliam Wordsworthen_US
dc.subjectVictorian Literature to 1880en_US
dc.subjectJohn Henry Newmanen_US
dc.subjectMatthew Arnolden_US
dc.subjectVictorian Romantic poetryen_US
dc.subjectJohn Clareen_US
dc.subjectDante Gabriel Rossettien_US
dc.subjectChristina Rossettien_US
dc.subjectArthur Hugh Cloughen_US
dc.subjectGeorge Elioten_US
dc.subjectLate Victorian Literature: 1880 1900en_US
dc.subjectDavid Jonesen_US
dc.subjectMuriel Sparken_US
dc.subjectAlan Batesen_US
dc.titleA History of English Literatureen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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