Encyclopedia Of British Writers 20th Century

Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108702
Total Pages : 881 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers written by Christine L. Krueger and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers: 20th-century written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Stade
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438116896
Total Pages : 593 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present written by George Stade and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.

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ISBN 13 : 9780816051328
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 covers the English Renaissance, with entries on Shakespeare and other major Elizabethan writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, and more. Also profiled are writers of the early 17th century, including John Milton and metaphysical poets such as John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, and others. Volume 2 covers the Restoration period and the Age of Reason, with entries on such writers as Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Robert Burns, and many others. Volume 3 covers the writers of the 19th century, profiling such influential figures as Jane Austen, Robert Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Keats, Bram Stoker, Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, and William Wordsworth. Volume 4 profiles British writers of the 20th century, with entries on such significant authors as W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Roald Dahl, E.M. Forster, Graham Greene, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Tom Stoppard, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf.

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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108699
Total Pages : 817 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries written by Book Builders LLC. and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.

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ISBN 13 : 9780816073856
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present: 20th century and beyond written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192445
Total Pages : 1581 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Author : David Scott Kastan
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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature written by David Scott Kastan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4: Modernism - Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen
Publisher : Greenwood
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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor written by Alleen Pace Nilsen and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "This unique encyclopedia treats the concepts, persons, themes, and media of 20th-century American humor and humor studies. More than 100 alphabetically arranged entries highlight a broad range of humor-related topics from wit, understatement, and ambiguity to late-night talk shows and the Internet."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001

Author : Gary Day
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444330209
Total Pages : 1524 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set written by Gary Day and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com