English Literature
a very short introduction
$29.44
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2011
Summary
A Journey Through English Literature
Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain’s Nobel literature laureates.
It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199569267 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199569266 |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
| Author: | Jonathan Bate |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 114mm x 11mm |
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While exploring towering works, Bate remins us that literature can also be terrific fun.
“While exploring towering works, Bate remins us that literature can also be terrific fun.” - Christopher Hirst. The Independent
About The Author
Jonathan Bate
Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. Among his many books are John Clare: A Biography, which won Britain’s two oldest literary prizes, the Hawthomden and the James Tait Black, a best-selling book on Shakespeare for the general reader, The Genius of Shakespeare, and a major intellectual biography of Shakespeare in the cultural context of the Elizabethan Age (The Soul of the Age). He is also chief editor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works.
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