This book is a comprehensive survey in chronological fashion of the major periods, authors and movements from Chaucer to the present. Written for undergraduate and postgraduate students in universities this book locates the authors’ genres and developments within their social political and historical contexts. Informed by contemporary literary and cultural theory this account also prepares students for further explorations in particular genres and periods in English literature.
Dr. Prajna Paramita has done her higher studies in Classical Literature. She has served as Associate Professor in Maldives National University. Currently she is teaching English in GTE College in Delhi. Her expertise includes Literature, Political Studies, and Women Issues. She has written seven books for civil servants and other competitive examinations.
Preface 1. The Fourteenth Century 2. Fifteenth-century Poetry and Prose 3. The Early Sixteenth Century 4. Elizabethan Drama 5. Jacobean Drama 6. Elizabethan Poetry 7. Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry 8. Elizabethan and Seventeenth-century Prose 9. Milton to Dryden 10. Restoration Drama 11. Origins of the Novel 12. The Age of Swift and Pope 13. The Age of Johnson 14. The Eighteenth Century Novel 15. The Close of the Eighteenth Century 16. Wordsworth and the Romantics 17. Scott and Contemporary Novelists 18. Victorian Poetry 19. The Victorian Novel 20. Twentieth-century Drama 21. Twentieth-century Poetry 22. The Twentieth-century Novel Bibliography Index
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