The Short Oxford History of English Literature

The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Author: Andrew Sanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2000-01
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 9780198186960

A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing.

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
Author: David Hopkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 749
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199219818

"The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.

The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English:

The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English:
Author: Peter France
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2006-02-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199246238

Translation has played a vital part in the history of literature throughout the English-speaking world. Offering for the first time a comprehensive view of this phenomenon, this pioneering five-volume work casts a vivid new light on the history of English literature. Incorporating critical discussion of translations, it explores the changing nature and function of translation and the social and intellectual milieu of the translators.

The Modern Movement

The Modern Movement
Author: Chris Baldick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2004
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 0198183100

A major new survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, Chris Baldick places modernist with non-modernist writings, high art with low entertainment. The Modern Movement ranges broadly covering psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.

The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology

The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology
Author: Andrew Hass
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 909
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199271976

A defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology.

The Victorian Novel

The Victorian Novel
Author: Francis O'Gorman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0470779853

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

The Oxford History of English

The Oxford History of English
Author: Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199660166

This text traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its 21st-century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of English within the British Isles, its changing roles in different places, and its rise to global pre-eminence.

The Oxford English Literary History

The Oxford English Literary History
Author: Laura Ashe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192534440

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This book describes and seeks to explain the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350. Change can be perceived everywhere at this time. Theology saw the focus shift from God the Father to the suffering Christ, while religious experience became ever more highly charged with emotional affectivity and physical devotion. A new philosophy of interiority turned attention inward, to the exploration of self, and the practice of confession expressed that interior reality with unprecedented importance. The old understanding of penitence as a whole and unrepeatable event, a second baptism, was replaced by a new allowance for repeated repentance and penance, and the possibility of continued purgation of sins after death. The concept of love moved centre stage: in Christ's love as a new explanation for the Passion; in the love of God as the only means of governing the self; and in the appearance of narrative fiction, where heterosexual love was suddenly represented as the goal of secular life. In this mode of writing further emerged the figure of the individual, a unique protagonist bound in social and ethical relation with others; from this came a profound recalibration of moral agency, with reference not only to God but to society. More generally, the social and ethical status of secular lives was drastically elevated by the creation and celebration of courtly and chivalric ideals. In England the ideal of kingship was forged and reforged over these centuries, in intimate relation with native ideals of counsel and consent, bound by the law. In the aftermath of Magna Carta, and as parliament grew in reach and importance, a politics of the public sphere emerged, with a literature to match. These vast transformations have long been observed and documented in their separate fields. The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 1: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation offers an account of these changes by which they are all connected, and explicable in terms of one another.