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English literature : a very short introduction / Jonathan Bate. --
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- ISBN: 0199569266 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780199569267 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xii, 179 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. --
- Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-174) and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 11.95 |
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| Subject: | English literature > History and criticism. |
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A renowned critic, biographer, and Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate provides in this Very Short Introduction a lively and engaging overview of the literature that Jorge Luis Borges called "the richest in the world." From the medieval "Hymn of Caedmon" to George Orwell's "Why I Write," from Jane Austen to Ian McEwan, and from Winnie the Pooh to Dr. Johnson, this brilliant, compact survey stretches across the centuries, exploring the major literary forms (poetry, novel, drama, essay and more), the many histories and theories of the very idea of literature, and the role of writers in shaping English, British, and post-imperial identities. Bate illuminates the work of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Dickens, and many other major figures of English literature. He looks at the Renaissance, Romanticism, and Modernism, at the birth of the novel and the Elizabethan invention of the idea of a national literature, and at the nature of writing itself. Ranging from children's literature to biography, this is an indispensable guide and an inspiration for anyone interested in England's magnificent literary heritage.
