The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature - Brossura

Sampson, George

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ISBN 10: 0521095816 ISBN 13: 9780521095815

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1970

Riassunto

Sampson's Concise History is a lively survey and summary of the great Cambridge History with revised and updated chapters.

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Descrizione del libro

Sampson's Concise History is a summary in readable form of the great Cambridge History with exclusive chapters on world literature in English. Students and general readers will find this a comprehensive and lively-minded survey, guide and reference book to the world's literature in the English language.

Contenuti

1. From the beginnings to the cycles of romance; 2. The end of the Middle Ages; 3. Renascence and reformation; 4. Prose and poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton; 5. The drama to 1642: part I; 6. The drama to 1642: part II; 7. Cavalier and Puritan; 8. The age of Dryden; 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift; 10. The age of Johnson; 11. The period of the French revolution; 12. The nineteenth century: part I; 13. The nineteenth century: part II; 14. Empire and after: from the nineteenth to the twentieth century in Britain and overseas; 15. The literature of the United States of America from the colonial period to Henry James; 16. The age of T. S. Eliot: the mid-twentieth-century literature of the English-speaking world; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1970
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521095816
• ISBN 13: 9780521095815
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 990
• Redattore: Churchill R. C.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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