The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and IrelandPsychology Press, 2001 - 570 pages Wide-ranging and accessible, this textbook covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. It includes extensive accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature. The narrative is underpinned by quotations from poetry, prose and drama. |
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... , John McRae. THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN ENGLISH Britain and Ireland RONALD CARTER and JOHN MCRAE second edition FOREWORD BY MALCOLM BRADBURY The Routledge History of Literature in English What readers said. Front Cover.
... , John McRae. THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN ENGLISH Britain and Ireland RONALD CARTER and JOHN MCRAE second edition FOREWORD BY MALCOLM BRADBURY The Routledge History of Literature in English What readers said. Front Cover.
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... Reading Wordsworth Language note : The ' real ' language of men Keats Shelley Byron Rights and voices and poetry Clare Romantic prose The novel ... literature 310 Victorian drama Language note : Reading the language of theatre Contents | IX.
... Reading Wordsworth Language note : The ' real ' language of men Keats Shelley Byron Rights and voices and poetry Clare Romantic prose The novel ... literature 310 Victorian drama Language note : Reading the language of theatre Contents | IX.
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... Reading Hardy 323 Later Hardy 325 Language note : The fragmenting lexicon 327 Georgian and Imagist poetry 329 First World War poetry 331 Irish writing 334 W.B. Yeats 335 T.S. Eliot 337 Language note : Modernist poetic syntax 342 Popular ...
... Reading Hardy 323 Later Hardy 325 Language note : The fragmenting lexicon 327 Georgian and Imagist poetry 329 First World War poetry 331 Irish writing 334 W.B. Yeats 335 T.S. Eliot 337 Language note : Modernist poetic syntax 342 Popular ...
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... Writing for younger readers - so - called children's literature 450 457 458 Post - war Waugh 459 460 Orwell Dialogue novels 462 465 Language note : Discourse , titles and dialogism The mid - century novel 467 469 Amis , father and son ...
... Writing for younger readers - so - called children's literature 450 457 458 Post - war Waugh 459 460 Orwell Dialogue novels 462 465 Language note : Discourse , titles and dialogism The mid - century novel 467 469 Amis , father and son ...
Contents
IV | 3 |
V | 6 |
VI | 10 |
VII | 11 |
VIII | 14 |
IX | 18 |
X | 21 |
XI | 22 |
XCV | 286 |
XCVI | 289 |
XCVII | 293 |
XCVIII | 306 |
XCIX | 310 |
C | 312 |
CI | 315 |
CII | 319 |
XII | 25 |
XIII | 27 |
XIV | 28 |
XV | 29 |
XVI | 35 |
XVII | 39 |
XVIII | 41 |
XIX | 44 |
XX | 47 |
XXI | 49 |
XXII | 51 |
XXIII | 56 |
XXIV | 57 |
XXV | 60 |
XXVI | 61 |
XXVII | 67 |
XXVIII | 69 |
XXX | 70 |
XXXI | 76 |
XXXII | 77 |
XXXIII | 79 |
XXXIV | 80 |
XXXV | 90 |
XXXVI | 92 |
XXXVII | 94 |
XXXVIII | 100 |
XXXIX | 101 |
XLI | 103 |
XLII | 104 |
XLIII | 110 |
XLIV | 111 |
XLV | 113 |
XLVI | 115 |
XLVII | 117 |
XLVIII | 120 |
XLIX | 121 |
L | 127 |
LI | 137 |
LII | 138 |
LIII | 142 |
LIV | 145 |
LV | 147 |
LVI | 150 |
LVII | 164 |
LVIII | 165 |
LIX | 166 |
LX | 168 |
LXI | 176 |
LXII | 177 |
LXIII | 183 |
LXIV | 184 |
LXV | 188 |
LXVI | 192 |
LXVII | 195 |
LXVIII | 197 |
LXIX | 202 |
LXX | 203 |
LXXI | 207 |
LXXII | 212 |
LXXIII | 213 |
LXXIV | 217 |
LXXV | 221 |
LXXVI | 225 |
LXXVII | 228 |
LXXVIII | 229 |
LXXIX | 233 |
LXXX | 235 |
LXXXI | 238 |
LXXXII | 239 |
LXXXIII | 243 |
LXXXIV | 245 |
LXXXV | 247 |
LXXXVI | 249 |
LXXXVII | 251 |
LXXXVIII | 256 |
LXXXIX | 258 |
XC | 267 |
XCI | 271 |
XCII | 273 |
XCIII | 279 |
XCIV | 283 |
CIII | 322 |
CIV | 323 |
CV | 325 |
CVI | 327 |
CVII | 329 |
CVIII | 331 |
CIX | 334 |
CX | 335 |
CXI | 337 |
CXII | 342 |
CXIII | 344 |
CXIV | 345 |
CXV | 349 |
CXVI | 350 |
CXVII | 353 |
CXVIII | 355 |
CXIX | 357 |
CXX | 358 |
CXXI | 360 |
CXXII | 361 |
CXXIII | 362 |
CXXIV | 363 |
CXXV | 364 |
CXXVI | 365 |
CXXVII | 366 |
CXXVIII | 367 |
CXXIX | 368 |
CXXX | 369 |
CXXXI | 372 |
CXXXII | 373 |
CXXXIII | 378 |
CXXXIV | 385 |
CXXXV | 394 |
CXXXVI | 395 |
CXXXVII | 397 |
CXXXVIII | 398 |
CXXXIX | 402 |
CXL | 403 |
CXLI | 405 |
CXLII | 409 |
CXLIII | 411 |
CXLIV | 414 |
CXLV | 415 |
CXLVI | 434 |
CXLVII | 436 |
CXLVIII | 450 |
CXLIX | 457 |
CL | 458 |
CLI | 459 |
CLII | 460 |
CLIII | 462 |
CLIV | 465 |
CLV | 467 |
CLVI | 469 |
CLVII | 472 |
CLVIII | 473 |
CLIX | 475 |
CLX | 476 |
CLXI | 478 |
CLXII | 479 |
CLXIII | 480 |
CLXIV | 482 |
CLXV | 486 |
CLXVI | 487 |
CLXVII | 489 |
CLXIX | 491 |
CLXX | 493 |
CLXXI | 494 |
CLXXII | 501 |
CLXXIII | 508 |
CLXXIV | 509 |
CLXXV | 515 |
CLXXVI | 517 |
CLXXVII | 521 |
CLXXVIII | 522 |
CLXXIX | 524 |
CLXXX | 525 |
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CLXXXII | 548 |
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Other editions - View all
The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland Ronald Carter,John McRae Limited preview - 2001 |
The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland Ronald Carter,John McRae No preview available - 2001 |
The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland Ronald Carter,John McRae No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
affirmation Auden became become Beowulf Booker Prize Britain British characters Chaucer classical comedy comic concern contemporary continued contrast critical culture D.H. Lawrence death described dialect Dickens's drama early England English ESTRAGON example experience explore fiction figure French genre George Eliot Hardy Henry hero heroine human images influence Ireland Irish James Jane Austen John kind King LANGUAGE NOTE later Latin literary literature live London major modern moral nature night novel novelist Oscar Wilde period plays poem poet poetic poetry political popular published range readers realistic reflect religious Renaissance Romantic Samuel Beckett satire Scottish Seamus Heaney Second World War seen sense sexual Shakespeare social society sonnets story style success T.S. Eliot texts theatre themes Thomas Thomas Hardy thou tradition tragedy twentieth century verse Victorian Virginia Woolf voice W.B. Yeats W.H. Auden William woman women words Wordsworth writing written wrote Yeats young