Gebundenes Buch

A Companion to British Literature, 4 Volume Set

Beschreibung

A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensiveguide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that haveshaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries.Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places inBritain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studyingthe subject.
Provides the most inclusive and far-reaching overview ofBritish literature from 700-2000, across four volumes and over 100chapters
Discusses the historical, social, political, domestic,linguistic, institutional and material contexts in which Britishliterature has been produced
Written by an internationally diverse range of expertcontributors including both distinguished academics andup-and-coming young stars
Joins readings across geographical, cultural, institutional,economic and mediological contexts
Demonstrates to students and teachers alike a wide range ofpossible approaches to the study of British literature
Includes a general index and a thematic table of contentsto enable readers to navigate the development of BritishLiterature
For more information about the online edition viait www.britishliteraturecompanion.com

Autor

Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College, USA. He is the General Editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, the editor of the Johnsonian News Letter, and the author of Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning (1986), The Life of Samuel Johnson (Blackwell, 1993), and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997). He is also the editor of Classical Literature and Its Reception (with Robert Brown, Blackwell, 2007) and British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1996; 3rd edn, 2008). Heesok Chang is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, USA. He is the author of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell title Handbook to British Modernism, and is currently working on a book on literary modernism and media technologies. In addition, he is the author of articles on critical theory and literary modernism. Samantha Zacher is an Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Cornell University, USA,  where she teaches Old and Middle English Literature. She is the author of Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (2009) and co-editor, with Andy Orchard, of New Readings in the Vercelli Book (2009). Her new monograph, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People is forthcoming (2013). She is also editing a new collection of essays entitled Imagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture (forthcoming, 2013).

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14565604000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 2160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 281mm x 215mm x 178mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780470656044
• ISBN-10: 0470656042
• Artikelnr.: 38605104