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A Companion to British Literature de R DeMaria

A Companion to British Literature

Autor R DeMaria
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 feb 2014
A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject. * Provides the most inclusive and far-reaching overview of British literature from 700-2000, across four volumes and over 100 chapters * Discusses the historical, social, political, domestic, linguistic, institutional and material contexts in which British literature has been produced * Written by an internationally diverse range of expert contributors including both distinguished academics and up-and-coming young stars * Joins readings across geographical, cultural, institutional, economic and mediological contexts * Demonstrates to students and teachers alike a wide range of possible approaches to the study of British literature * Includes a general index and a thematic table of contents to enable readers to navigate the development of British Literature * For more information about the online edition viait www.britishliteraturecompanion.com
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780470656044
ISBN-10: 0470656042
Pagini: 2160
Ilustrații: Illustrations (black and white)
Dimensiuni: 200 x 305 x 102 mm
Greutate: 4.36 kg
Ediția:Volumes
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Students and faculty of English Literature; general readers of British Literature

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Notă biografică

Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College, USA. He is the General Editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, the editor of the Johnsonian News Letter, and the author of Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning (1986), The Life of Samuel Johnson (Blackwell, 1993), and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997). He is also the editor of Classical Literature and Its Reception (with Robert Brown, Blackwell, 2007) and British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1996; 3rd edn, 2008). Heesok Chang is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, USA. He is the author of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell title Handbook to British Modernism, and is currently working on a book on literary modernism and media technologies. In addition, he is the author of articles on critical theory and literary modernism. Samantha Zacher is an Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Cornell University, USA, where she teaches Old and Middle English Literature. She is the author of Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (2009) and co-editor, with Andy Orchard, of New Readings in the Vercelli Book (2009). Her new monograph, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People is forthcoming (2013). She is also editing a new collection of essays entitled Imagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture (forthcoming, 2013).

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A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject.