Helge Nowak

Literature in Britain and Ireland: A History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Die grundlegende Überblicksdarstellung für alle anglistischen Studiengänge. Das Miteinander von traditionellen und innovativen Bestandteilen anglistischer Lehre macht diese Literaturgeschichte interessant - als kursbegleitendes Studienbuch wie als Anreiz zum 'entdeckenlassenden Lesen'. Die systematisch an einzelnen Gattungen orientierte Kapitelgliederung ermöglicht neben dem Standard-Ansatz einer chronologischen Lektüre auch gattungshistorische Längsschnitte.

---

Literature in Britain and Ireland is a survey of literature on the British Isles since the time of the Anglo-Saxons. Despite this wide angle, the linguistic, regional and ethnic differentiations in each particular period are being emphasised. Because of its combination of traditional and innovative components of English Studies, this history of literature is useful as a study book accompanying courses as well as an incentive for discoveries while reading. The chapters are systematically structured to allow profiles along the history of genres.In addition to poetry, drama, short stories and the novel, different forms of non-fictional prose are being highlighted, too. Innovative tendencies in teaching English literature are taken into account beyond the consideration of popular and contemporary literature.

Produktdetails

• UTB Uni-Taschenbücher Bd.3148
• Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto / UTB
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2010
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 151mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 940g
• ISBN-13: 9783825231484
• ISBN-10: 3825231488
• Artikelnr.: 23835085

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dr. Helge Nowak lehrt an der LMU München.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction IX1 Medieval Literature (up to c.1500) 11.1 Literature from Anglo-Saxon England 11.2 Middle English Literature 71.3 Celtic Contexts 20Guiding Questions and Exercises 252 Renaissance Literature (c.1500 ?1660) 272.1 Renaissance Contexts 27Guiding Questions and Exercises 362.2 Theatre and Drama 362.2.1 The Renaissance Stage 362.2.2 Romans and Roses: Elizabethan History Plays 412.2.3 Tragedies 552.2.4 (Tragi-)Comedies and Humours 70Guiding Questions and Exercises 782.3 Renaissance Poetry 792.3.1 Poets, Poetic Styles and Themes 792.3.2 The Sonnet Craze 932.3.3 Epic Poetry and Other Long Poems 105Guiding Questions and Exercises 1122.4 Utopia and Other Prose Writings 113Guiding Questions and Exercises 1253 The Long Eighteenth Century:Neoclassicism and Romanticism (1660 ? c.1830) 1273.1 Literary Communication in Britain between 1660 and the 1830s . 127Guiding Questions and Exercises 1443.2 Performance Culture: Drama, Orality and Oratory 145VI Contents3.2.1 Dramatic Genres and Genre Theory 1453.2.2 Popular Politics in Songs and Speeches 159Guiding Questions and Exercises 1623.3 Neoclassicist and Romantic Poetry 1623.3.1 Translations, Imitations, Mock-Epic and Verse Satire 1623.3.2 From Gray's "Elegy" to the Odes of Keats, fromthe Ballad Revival to the Return of the Sonnet 1683.3.3 Poetry and Gender Relations: 'Love, Honour and Obey'? 182Guiding Questions and Exercises 1913.4 From Manuscript to Print: Adaptation to aNew Medium, and New Forms of Writing 1923.4.1 Romantic Poets and the Continuum of Recital,Manuscript and Print 1923.4.2 'Letter Writing' in Various Forms 1963.4.3 Familiar, Formal and Periodical Essays 2003.4.4 Writing Lives 2033.4.5 The Literature of Travel 2073.4.6 The Children's Book: Literature for a New Audience 216Guiding Questions and Exercises 2213.5 'The Rise of the Novel': A Series of Experiments 2223.5.1 Robinson Crusoe and Its Relation to Individualism,Religion and Colonialism 2223.5.2 Male Novelists and Their Female Heroines:Gender Relations, Materialism and Morality inMoll Flanders, Pamela, and Fanny Hill 2253.5.3 The Novels of Fielding and Sterne 2303.5.4 'Mothers of the Novel': Women Writers beforeand beside Jane Austen 2363.5.5 Oriental Tales and Gothic Romances: OtherWorlds in an Age of Reason 2423.5.6 Fiction and Nation-Building in Scott's HistoricalNovels 247Guiding Questions and Exercises 2534 The Literature of the Victorian Age and of theEarly Twentieth Century (c.1830 ? c.1920) 2554.1 Authors, Publishers and Readers: The Changing Faceof Literary Communication in Britain and Ireland 255Guiding Questions and Exercises 2684.2 'Victorian Values': Materialism, Morals and Mentalitiesin the Literature of the Period 2694.2.1 Utilitarianism, Darwinism and Religious Beliefin the Victorian Age 2694.2.2 The Impact of the Empire 2774.2.3 'The Angel in the House' vs. the Fallen Woman:Gender Roles and Their Impact on Literature 291Guiding Questions and Exercises 3044.3 Drama and Performance: From Music Hall andMelodrama to the Plays of Wilde, Shaw, Yeats and Synge 304Guiding Questions and Exercises 3264.4 Poetry from Tennyson to Yeats: Forms and Themes 327Guiding Questions and Exercises 3504.5 The Development of Fiction from Dickens toLawrence 3514.5.1 Charles Dickens and the Breakthrough of the Novel 3514.5.2 History and Social Realism in Fiction byDickens's Rivals and Contemporaries 3614.5.3 Regional and Sensational Elements in the Novelfrom Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy toD. H. Lawrence 3784.5.4 Devils, Doubles and Detectives:The Development of Short Fiction in Ireland,Scotland and England 3904.5.5 From Workhouse to Wonderland: The Child inFiction, and Fiction for