The Oxford Companion to English Literature 6th Edition by Margaret Drabble ISBN 0198662440 9780198662440

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ISBN 10: 0198662440
ISBN 13: 9780198662440
Author: Margaret Drabble

When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Review, which praised it as “a wonderful, infuriating, amusing, and informative war horse of a book.” Now comes the new Sixth Edition, thoroughly updated and greatly expanded by editor Margaret Drabble and a team of 140 distinguished contributors, who include Salmon Rushdie, Brian Aldiss, Penelope Fitzgerald, Ian Buruma, and Michael Holroyd.
Readers will find over 660 new entries, over a third of which were written by Drabble herself, including hundreds of new biographies (from Kathy Acker to Stefan Zweig) as well as new entries on genres, literary terms, critical schools, and much more. In total, the new edition offers over 7,000 alphabetically arranged entries, providing incomparable coverage of the classical works of English literature, and of European authors and works that have influenced the development of English literature. Its wide range of articles cover not only authors and their works, but also fictional characters, plot summaries, composers and artists, literary and artistic movements, historians, philosophers, and critics, as well as publishing history, literary societies, newspapers and periodicals, critical terms and theory. In addition, there are sixteen new feature essays covering everything from gay and lesbian literature to modernism and science fiction, plus a thousand-year chronology that sets key literary works in their historical context, and complete lists of poet laureates and literary prize winners.
Boasting a lightness of touch that makes the book a pleasure to read, the Sixth Edition is an indispensable volume for students, for teachers, and for everyone interested in English literature.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature 6th Edition Table of contents:

Section 1: General Entries

1. Key Authors and Their Works
2. Literary Movements and Periods
3. Literary Terms and Theories
4. Genres and Forms
5. Influential Critics and Theorists

Section 2: Historical and Cultural Contexts
6. The Medieval Period
7. The Renaissance and Early Modern Period
8. The Enlightenment
9. The Romantic Period
10. The Victorian Age
11. The Modernist Era
12. Post-Modern and Contemporary Literature

Section 3: Thematic Essays
13. Gender and Literature
14. Race and Colonialism in English Literature
15. Class and Social Commentary
16. Religion and Secularism
17. Science and Literature
18. War and Conflict in Literature

Section 4: Geographical Spread
19. English Literature in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
20. Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature
21. American Influences on English Literature

Section 5: Reference Material
22. Chronological Chart of English Literature
23. Bibliographies of Major Works
24. Index of Authors
25. Index of Titles
26. Index of Subjects

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