Sets the literature of 1800-1837 in its social and intellectual context. Includes essays on William Blake - George Crabbe - Robert Burns ; Walter Scott - Jane Austen - Romanticism - John Clare - William Cobbett - William Wordsworth - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats - George Byron - Landscape painting
The Victorian social and political scene - Literary scene -Charles Dickens - Thackeray and Trollope - Tennyson - Robert Browning - Bronte sisters - George Eliot - Language and literature in the Victorian period - Matthew Arnold - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Hardy's tales - Aspects of Victorian architecture.
Useful reference for a study of Shakespeare's theatre.; Social setting - Elizabethan Renaissance - Shakespeare and his age - Jacobean tragedy and prose - Spenser and The faerie queen - Sidney - Daniel - Ralegh - Words and music in Elizabethan England - Marlowe - Ben Jonson - Chapman - Middleton
Social and cultural setting - The literary scene - George Orwell - Patrick White - Doris Lessing - Iris Murdoch
Yeats - Zola - Evelyn Waugh - Oscar Wilde - Virginia Woolf - Siegfried Sassoon - G.B. Shaw - Wilfred Owen - Ezra Pound - D.H. Lawrence; C.P. Snow.
A discussion of the development of English literature from 1660 to 1780 includes examinations of authors, such as Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, and Henry Fielding.
This is the ninth volume in the Penguin Guide to Literature, and comprises an account of American literature from its colonial origins to the heterogeneous, distinctive voices of today. The first part of this book, which includes an essay on the relevant social and historical context, takes the reader from James Fenimore Cooper, the first American writer to achieve international status as a novelist, through to the early 20th-century and the works of Henry James and Edith Wharton and includes essays on Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Twain and Whitman.
Sets the literature of the 17th century in its social and intellectual context. Includes essays on metaphysical and religious poetry - The Caroline poets; The Cavalier poets - John Milton - John Donne - Thomas Browne - Francis Bacon - Ben Jonson - George Herbert and the devotional poets; Christopher Marvell - Thomas Hobbes - John Bunyan - Samuel Butler - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - Abraham Cowley.
Frank Bascombe ist wieder da: Richard Ford schickt seinen mürrischen Melancholiker auf eine Odyssee verstörender Begegnungen. Familientragödien, bösartige Exfrauen, späte Beichten – nichts bleibt Bascombe erspart. Und nie war er aufrichtiger und hellsichtiger als hier. Es sind die Tage nach Hurrikan Sandy in den USA. Der Anruf eines Freundes zwingt Bascombe dazu, sich vor Ort mit der Katastrophe auseinanderzusetzen. Die Kulisse zerstörter Häuser wird zum Hintergrund, vor dem Ford mit der Stimme seines berühmtesten Helden über die Beschädigungen des Lebens räsoniert: über das Alter und Krankheiten, über Erlösung und letzte Dinge. Und wie nebenbei beschreibt er dabei abermals die Lage des Landes.
