English Literature:A Student GuideDescription |
This popular introduction and course companion to literary studies for A level and degree students is revised in a major new edition. New features in the third edition include completely new chapters on gothic and war literature, new sections on Swift, Dryden, Matthew Arnold and Kipling and an account of the impact of new critical theory on all major authors.  |
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Features |
- Provides a course companion and a basic primer.
- A guide to the specialist techniques, rules and conventions of studying English literature.
- Contains a key-note guide to major authors and texts.
- Includes a guide to the required study, examination and revision techniques and examples of good practice.
- Provides a guide to critical theory and a guide to developments in modern literature.
- New features in the third edition include:
- Completely new chapters on Gothic and war literature.
- New sections on Swift, Dryden, Matthew Arnold and Kipling.
- A full account of the impact of new critical theory on all major authors.
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Table of Contents |
| 1. Study and examination techniques in English literature2. Revision, project work and research techniques3. A guide to basic literary terms4. Practical criticism: poetry5. Practical criticism: prose6. Practical criticism: drama7. Chaucer8. Elizabethan and Jacobean drama9. Shakespeare10. The Metaphysical Poets11. Milton12. Restoration drama13. Pope, Dryden and Swift: Classicism and the eighteenth century14. The eighteenth and early nineteenth century novel: Defoe, Fielding, Austen and the Brontes15. Romanticism and the Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats16. Gothic17. Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot18. Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, Arnold and Hardy19. Victorian drama: Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and Wilde20. War literature21. Modern and contemporary poetry22. The modern and contemporary novel23. Modern and contemporary drama24. American literature25. Literary and critical theory |
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Reader Review(s) |
'...gives extremely pertinent advice on the practical criticism of poetry, prose and drama... .Ranging over everything from Chaucer to modern drama this sketches in the background and then cunningly identifies question areas. A good idea...'
Times Educational Supplement
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