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Summary:

Abstract: The history of British literature is one of extraordinary breadth and complexity, extending from Aneirin and the poet of Widsith to Cædmon and the poet of Beowulf; from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Geoffrey Chaucer; from Spenser to Shakespeare; Donne and Milton to Dryden; Dr. Johnson to Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake; from Thackeray, Dickens, Kipling, and Hardy to the modern and postmodern eras. This book is a comprehensive guide to all British literature, including literature in English from the colonial and postcolonial periods in Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, and New Zealand. Important authors from these areas are covered in substantive topical articles on their respective literatures.

Table of Contents:

• A-Z.

Contributors:

Serafin, Steven

Myer, Valerie Grosvenor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

English literature — Encyclopedias

English literature — Irish authors — Encyclopedias

British literature — Encyclopedias

English literature

English literature — Irish authors

British literature

Genres:

Encyclopedias

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1226 entries) : 1 image.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PR19 .C66 2003eb

ISBNs:

9781849721318 (online)
9780826414564 (print) [Invalid]
0826414567 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2002009231 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

857590575

Other Control Numbers:

slc00229158 (source: CaBNVSL)
britlit (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo00000371