Longman Literature In English Series
English Drama of the Early Modern Period 1890-1940
1st Edition
By Jean Chothia
February 22, 2017
The period 1890-1940 was a particularly rich and influential phase in the development of modern English theatre: the age of Wilde and Shaw and a generation of influential actors and managers from Irving and Terry to Guilgud and Olivier.Jean Chothia's study is in two parts beginning with a portrait ...
The Romantic Period: The Intellectual & Cultural Context of English Literature 1789-1830
1st Edition
By Robin Jarvis
April 15, 2004
The Romantic Period was one of the most exciting periods in English literary history. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the intellectual and cultural background to Romantic literature. It is accessibly written and avoids theoretical jargon, providing a solid foundation ...
American Literature Before 1880
1st Edition
By Robert Lawson-Peebles
November 13, 2003
American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet ...
English Drama Since 1940
1st Edition
By David Ian Rabey
January 23, 2003
English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its ...
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789
1st Edition
By David Fairer
December 10, 2002
In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to ...
Irish Literature Since 1800
1st Edition
By Norman Vance
December 05, 2002
This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins...
English Literature in the Age of Chaucer
1st Edition
By Dieter Mehl
August 13, 2001
Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary ...
African Literatures in English: East and West
1st Edition
By Gareth Griffiths
May 19, 2000
Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions....
English Drama Before Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Peter Happe
February 25, 1999
English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of ...
Caribbean Literature in English
1st Edition
By Louis James
February 11, 1999
Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages, including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, ...
Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present
1st Edition
By Chris Baldick
March 13, 1996
Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism, from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist, decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism, theories of...
English Fiction of the Victorian Period
2nd Edition
By Michael Wheeler
June 20, 1994
Professor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of the nineteenth-century fiction covers both the major writers and their works and encompasses the genres and "minor" fiction of the period. This excellent introduction and reference source has been revised for this second edition to include new material...