Masters of British Literature, Volume B
by David Damrosch (Editor)
Masters of British Literature (Volume B)
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Written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, Masters of British Literature is a concise, yet comprehensive survey of the key writers whose classic works have shaped British literature. Featuring major works by the most influential authors in the British literary tradition-Barbauld, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Barrett Browning, Browning, Tennyson, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Walcott, Heaney, and show more Rushdie-this compact anthology combines comprehensive coverage of the enduring works of the British literary tradition from the Romantics through the twentieth century. Core texts are complemented by contextual materials that help students understand the literary, historical, and cultural environments out which these texts arose, and within which they find their richest meaning. show lessTags
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David Damrosch, PhD is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University and a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. Dr. Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature, and his work has been translated into an eclectic variety of languages, including Chinese, Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish, show more and Vietnamese. show less
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- Canonical title
- Masters of British Literature, Volume B
- Original publication date
- 2007
- People/Characters
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld; Charlotte Smith; William Blake; Olaudah Equiano; Mary Robinson; Mary Wollstonecraft (show all 64); Joanna Baillie; Robert Burns; Walter Scott; Thomas Moore; William Wordsworth; Dorothy Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Felicia Hemans; John Clare; John Keats; Thomas Carlyle; John Stuart Mill; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred Lord Tennyson; Charles Darwin; Thomas Babington Macaulay; Robert Browning; Charles Dickens; Arthur Conan Doyle; John Ruskin; Matthew Arnold; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Christina Rossetti; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Walter Pater; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Rudyard Kipling; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Conrad; Thomas Hardy; William Butler Yeats; James Joyce; T. S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf; Katherine Mansfield; D. H. Lawrence; Dylan Thomas; Samuel Beckett; W. H. Auden; Philip Larkin; Ted Hughes; Salman Rushdie; Louise Bennett-Coverley; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o; Nadine Gordimer; Derek Walcott; Seamus Heaney; James Kelman; Eavan Boland; Lorna Goodison; Agha Shahid Ali; Paul Muldoon; Nuala Ni Domhnaill; Gwyneth Lewis; Robert Crawford; W. N. Herbert
- Important places
- UK
- Important events
- Enlightenment; Romanticism; Georgian Era; Regency Era; Victorian Era; Pre-Raphaelites (show all 10); Edwardian Era; World War I; Interwar Period; World War II
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 820.8 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures Collections of literary texts in more than one form
- LCC
- PR1109 .M373 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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