English Literature: A Very Short Introduction By Jonathan Bate
(Paperback, 2010)

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Sweeping across two millennia & every literary genre acclaimed scholar & biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature The focus is wide shifting from the birth of the novel & the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry & the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy & a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism & Modernism together with the most influential authors including Chaucer Donne Johnson Wordsworth Austen Dickens & Woolf but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works Written with the flair & passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers & students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable