British Literature Research: Reference Sources

The first point of reference for any information on: writers and works, critics and critical theory, fictional characters and plot summaries, literary and artistic movements, allusions and references, publishing history, literary societies, newspapers and periodicals.

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From the beginnings to the cycles of romance -- The end of the Middle Ages -- Renascence and reformation -- Prose and poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton -- The drama to 1642: part 1 -- The drama to 1642: part II -- Cavalier and Puritan -- The age of Dryden -- From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift -- The age of Johnson -- The period of the French Revolution -- The nineteenth century: part 1 -- The nineteenth century: part II -- Empire and after: from the nineteenth to the twentieth century in Britain and overseas -- The literature of the United States of America from the colonial period to Henry James -- The age of T.S. Eliot: the mid-twentieth-century literature of the English-speaking world.

The Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant (e.g., The Stationers' Company, the sonnet, the ‘School of Night, ’ or the Sublime).

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