The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 846
Release: 1997-01-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521585712

Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and novelists of the new republic. Addressing those characteristics that render the texts distinctively American while placing the literature in an international perspective, the contributors offer a compelling new evaluation of both the literary importance of early American history and the historical value of early American literature.

The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780
Author: John Richetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 974
Release: 2005-01-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521781442

The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.

The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature

The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Author: David Wallace
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1060
Release: 2002-04-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521890465

This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

The Cambridge History of English Poetry

The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1117
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521883067

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature

The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature
Author: James Chandler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-07-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781107629196

The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction, and reform in politics, and by the invention of imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. This History presents an engaging account of six decades of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century. Reflecting the most up-to-date research, the essays are designed both to provide a narrative of Romantic literature, and to offer new and stimulating readings of the key texts. One group of essays addresses the various locations of literary activity - both in England and, as writers developed their interests in travel and foreign cultures, across the world. A second set of essays traces how texts responded to great historical and social change. With a comprehensive bibliography, timeline and index, this volume will be an important resource for research and teaching in the field.

The Cambridge History of the English Language

The Cambridge History of the English Language
Author: Norman Francis Blake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1992
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780511468469

Volume two of this set covers the Middle English Period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyses developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.