English literature : a student guide

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English literature : a student guide

Martin Stephen

Longman, 1991

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This second edition has been completely revised and contains three new chapters on critical theory, Victorian drama and American Literature. It also looks at English Literature from the 16th century to the modern era. The text gives advice on examinations, research and project work.

Table of Contents

Examination requirements for advanced level and tertiary education Examination techniques in English literature Revision, project work and research techniques A guide to literary terms Practical criticism - poetry Practical criticism - prose Practical criticism - drama 1 Chaucer 2 Elizabethan and Jacobean dress 3 Shakespeare 4 Metaphysical poets 5 Milton 6 Restoration drama 7 Pope, classicism and the 18th century 8 The 18th century novel - Defoe, Fielding, Austen and the Brontes 9 Romanticism and the Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keates 10 Dickens, Thackeray and George Elio 11 Victorian poets - Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy 12 Victorian Drama - Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and Wilde 13 Modern poetry 14 Modern novel 15 Modern drama 16 American literature 17 Critical theory

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