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Cassell's History of English Literature

Cassell's History of English Literature

by PeterConrad (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $6.48
Synopsis

This is an updated edition of a classic and much-admired history of English Literature. In it, Peter Conrad offers not an encyclopaedic survey but a personal, chronological interpretation of the 'history' through an emphasis on the continuity of major literary forms and on the ways in which major figures transform the tradition, which in turn is accommodated, reacted against or reinterpreted by later generations. He attempts to characterise the literature as a whole, to suggest something of its Englishness. Above all, he emphasizes that English literature represents the self-image of English people whose testament and inheritance it is.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 780
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 17 May 2006
ISBN 10: 0304368210
ISBN 13: 9780304368211
Book Overview: A complete history of the literature of the British Isles from Beowulf to the beginning of the third millennium - in a single volume. A new trade paperback edition of a classic work of literary history, updated to cover new developments in writing in English over the past 20 years. A highly personal and accessible interpretation of, and introduction to, English literature. Emphasizes the continuities inherent in the English literary tradition: 'the past enlivens and invigorates the present'.

Author Bio
Peter Conrad is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Fellow of All Souls. He has taught English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, since 1973. he has lectured widely in America, and contributed articles and reviews to magazines and journals on both sides of the Atlantic. His books include The Victorian Treasure-House, Shandyism and Imagining America.