A History of English Literature 1st edition by Michael Alexander ISBN 0333913973 9780333913970

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ISBN 10:       0333913973
ISBN 13: 978-0333913970
Author:        Michael Alexander 

A History of English Literature 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066)

• Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England
• Old English Language and Literature
• Beowulf: The Epic of Anglo-Saxon Heroism
• Other Notable Works and Poets

Chapter 2: The Medieval Period (1066-1500)

• Norman Conquest and Its Impact on Literature
• The Rise of Romance Literature
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Religious and Courtly Literature

Chapter 3: The Renaissance (1500-1660)

• The Influence of the Italian Renaissance
• Humanism and the Reformation
• Elizabethan Drama: William Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
• Poetry and Prose: Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and Others
• The Rise of the English Sonnet

Chapter 4: The Restoration and 18th Century (1660-1798)

• The Restoration of the Monarchy and Literature
• The Rise of Satire: John Dryden and Alexander Pope
• The Novel Emerges: Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson
• The Enlightenment and Rationalism

Chapter 5: The Romantic Period (1798-1837)

• The Romantic Movement in England
• Poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats
• The Influence of Nature and Emotion
• Early Romantic Prose and Novels

Chapter 6: The Victorian Period (1837-1901)

• The Age of Progress and Industrialization
• Poetry and the Victorian Poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold
• The Rise of the Novel: Charles Dickens, the Brontë Sisters, Thomas Hardy
• Social Issues and Literature

Chapter 7: The Early 20th Century (1901-1945)

• Modernism and the Breaking of Traditional Forms
• Key Figures: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence
• The Impact of World War I and II on Literature
• The Emergence of New Literary Movements

Chapter 8: Post-War Literature (1945-Present)

• The Development of Postmodernism
• Major Writers: Samuel Beckett, William Golding, Angela Carter, and Others
• The Rise of Popular Fiction and Drama
• Literature in the Age of Technology and Globalization

Conclusion:

• The Evolution of English Literature
• Key Themes and Continuities
• The Future of English Literature

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