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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349174-VE41
Titel	The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830
Auteur	Keymer, Thomas (editor)
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0521007577
ISBN13	9780521007573
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schoo... (Lees verder)ls. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Pagina's	308
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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