English Literature: A Student Guide

✍ Scribed by Martin Stephen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 397
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
English Literature
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of 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 Jacobean 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 Brontës
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 Modern and contemporary poetry
22 The modern and contemporary novel
23 Modern and contemporary drama
24 American literature
25 Literary and critical theory
Index