This is a completely updated & expanded second edition of the wide-ranging & accessible Routledge History of Literature in English. It covers the main developments in the history of British & Irish literature & has extensive accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language & literature. With a span from AD 600 to the present day it emphasises the growth of literary writing its traditions conventions & changing characteristics &
Includes:: literature from the margins both geographical & cultural. Extensive"ations from poetry prose & drama underpin the narrative. The second edition covers recent developments in literary & cultural theory & has the following
Features: * additional or extended material on post-colonial writers & the literature of the 1990s * an expanded Timeline with Booker Whitbread & Nobel prize winners * additions to the well-received language notes which include Shakespeares language Reading the language of theatre & drama New modes of modern writing & International & rotten Englishes * An expanded Timeline with Booker Whitbread & Nobel prize winners.