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Tables of Contents for A History of English Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
x
Preface
xi
Abbreviations
xii
Introduction
1
1
Literary history
1
6
What's included?
2
1
Tradition or canon?
2
1
Priorities
3
1
What is literature?
4
1
Language change
4
1
Other literatures in English
5
1
Is drama literature?
6
1
Qualities and quantities
6
1
Texts
7
1
Further reading
7
4
Primary texts
7
1
Secondary texts
7
4
PART 1 Medieval
Old English Literature: to 1100
11
23
Orientations
11
22
Britain, England, English
11
2
Oral origins and conversion
13
2
Aldhelm, Bede, Caedmon
15
5
Northumbria and The Dream of the Rood
20
2
Heroic poetry
22
1
Christian literature
23
2
Alfred
25
2
Beowulf
27
3
Elegies
30
1
Battle poetry
31
1
The harvest of literacy
32
1
Further reading
33
1
Middle English Literature: 1066--1500
34
41
The new writing
34
13
Handwriting and printing
34
1
The impact of French
35
1
Scribal practice
35
1
Dialect and language change
36
1
Literary consciousness
37
1
New fashions: French and Latin
38
1
Epic and romance
39
1
Courtly literature
40
2
Medieval institutions
42
1
Authority
43
1
Lyrics
44
2
English prose
46
1
The fourteenth century
47
15
Spiritual writing
47
1
Julian of Norwich
47
1
Secular prose
48
1
Ricardian poetry
49
1
Piers Plowman
50
2
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
52
1
John Gower
53
2
Geoffrey Chaucer
55
1
The Parlement of Fowls
56
2
Troilus and Criseyde
58
1
The Canterbury Tales
59
3
The fifteenth century
62
10
Drama
63
1
Mystery plays
63
2
Morality plays
65
1
Religious lyric
65
1
Deaths of Arthur
66
2
The arrival of printing
68
1
Scottish poetry
69
1
Robert Henryson
70
1
William Dunbar
70
1
Gavin Douglas
71
1
Further reading
72
3
PART 2 Tudor and Stuart
Tudor Literature: 1500--1603
75
29
Renaissance and Reformation
75
14
The Renaissance
75
1
Expectations
76
1
Investigations
77
1
England's place in the world
77
1
The Reformation
78
1
Sir Thomas More
79
1
The Courtier
80
1
Sir Thomas Wyatt
81
2
The Earl of Surrey
83
1
Religious prose
84
1
Bible translation
84
2
Instructive prose
86
1
Drama
87
2
Elizabethan literature
89
14
Verse
89
1
Sir Philip Sidney
89
4
Edmund Spenser
93
4
Sir Walter Ralegh
97
2
The `Jacobethans'
99
1
Christopher Marlowe
100
1
Song
101
1
Thomas Campion
101
1
Prose
102
1
John Lyly
102
1
Thomas Nashe
102
1
Richard Hooker
103
1
Further reading
103
1
Shakespeare and the Drama
104
28
William Shakespeare
104
27
Shakespeare's life
104
2
The plays preserved
106
1
Luck and fame
107
1
The drama
108
1
The commercial theatre
108
1
Predecessors
109
1
Christopher Marlowe
110
1
The order of the plays
111
1
Histories
112
1
Richard II
113
1
Henry IV
114
1
Henry V
115
1
Comedy
116
1
A Midsummer Night's Dream
117
2
Twelfth Night
119
1
The Poems
120
2
Tragedy
122
1
Hamlet
123
1
King Lear
124
2
Romances
126
1
The Tempest
127
1
Conclusion
128
1
Shakespeare's achievement
128
1
His supposed point of view
129
1
Ben Jonson
129
1
The Alchemist
130
1
Volpone
131
1
Further reading
131
1
Stuart Literature: to 1700
132
41
The Stuart century
132
22
Drama to 1642
134
1
Comedy
134
1
Tragedy
134
2
John Donne
136
3
Prose to 1642
139
1
Sir Francis Bacon
140
1
Lancelot Andrewes
140
1
Robert Burton
141
1
Sir Thomas Browne
141
1
Poetry to Milton
142
1
Ben Jonson
142
1
Metaphysical poets
143
1
Devotional poets
144
1
Cavalier poets
145
3
John Milton
148
2
Paradise Lost
150
4
The Restoration
154
14
The Earl of Rochester
157
1
John Bunyan
158
1
Samuel Pepys
159
1
The theatres
159
1
Restoration comedy
160
1
John Dryden
161
2
Satire
163
3
Prose
166
2
John Locke
168
2
Women writers
168
1
William Congreve
169
1
Further reading
170
3
PART 3 Augustan and Romantic
Augustan Literature: to 1790
173
45
The eighteenth century
173
16
The Enlightenment
174
2
Sense and Sensibility
176
1
Alexander Pope and 18th-century civilization
176
1
Joseph Addison
176
1
Jonathan Swift
177
4
Alexander Pope
181
2
Translation as tradition
183
1
The Rape of the Lock
184
2
Mature verse
186
2
John Gay
188
1
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
189
1
The novel
189
8
Daniel Defoe
189
2
Cross-currents
191
1
Samuel Richardson
192
1
Henry Fielding
193
1
Tobias Smollett
194
1
Laurence Sterne
195
2
The emergence of Sensibility
197
5
Thomas Gray
198
2
Pre-Romantic sensibility: `Ossian'
200
2
Gothic fiction
202
1
The Age of Johnson
202
15
Dr Samuel Johnson
202
2
The Dictionary
204
2
Literary criticism
206
2
James Boswell
208
1
Non-fiction
209
1
Edward Gibbon
209
1
Edmund Burke
210
1
Oliver Goldsmith
211
1
Fanny Burney
212
1
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
212
2
Christopher Smart
214
1
William Cowper
214
1
Robert Burns
215
2
Further reading
217
1
The Romantics: 1790--1837
218
29
The Romantic poets
218
17
Early Romantics
218
1
William Blake
218
1
Subjectivity
219
1
Romanticism and Revolution
220
1
William Wordsworth
221
4
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
225
2
Sir Walter Scott
227
1
Younger Romantics
227
1
Lord Byron
227
3
Percy Bysshe Shelley
230
2
John Keats
232
3
Romantic prose
235
9
Belles letters
235
1
Charles Lamb
236
1
William Hazlitt
236
1
Thomas De Quincey
237
1
Fiction
237
1
Thomas Love Peacock
237
1
Mary Shelley
237
1
Maria Edgeworth
238
1
Sir Walter Scott
239
1
Jane Austen
240
3
Towards Victoria
243
1
Further reading
244
3
PART 4 Victorian Literature to 1880
The Age and its Sages
247
14
The Victorian age
247
13
Moral history
248
3
Abundance
251
1
Why sages?
252
1
Thomas Carlyle
253
1
John Stuart Mill
254
1
John Ruskin
254
3
John Henry Newman
257
2
Charles Darwin
259
1
Matthew Arnold
259
1
Further reading
260
1
Poetry
261
11
Victorian Romantic poetry
261
10
Minor verse
261
1
John Clare
261
1
Alfred Tennyson
262
3
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
265
1
Matthew Arnold
266
2
Arthur Hugh Clough
268
1
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
268
1
Algernon Charles Swinburne
269
1
Gerard Hopkins
269
2
Further reading
271
1
Fiction
272
21
The triumph of the novel
272
3
Two Bronte novels
273
1
Jane Eyre
273
1
Wuthering Heights
274
1
Elizabeth Gaskell
275
1
Charles Dickens
275
6
The Pickwick Papers
276
2
David Copperfield
278
1
Bleak House
278
1
Our Mutual Friend
279
1
Great Expectations
280
1
`The Inimitable'
281
1
William Makepeace Thackeray
281
4
Vanity Fair
281
2
Anthony Trollope
283
2
George Eliot
285
7
Adam Bede
286
1
The Mill on the Floss
287
1
Silas Marner
288
1
Middlemarch
288
2
Daniel Deronda
290
1
Nonsense prose and verse
291
1
Lewis Carroll
291
1
Edward Lear
292
1
Further reading
292
1
Late Victorian Literature: 1880--1900
293
18
Differentiation
293
4
Thomas Hardy and Henry James
293
3
Aestheticism
296
1
Walter Pater
296
1
A revival of drama
297
4
Oscar Wilde
297
3
George Bernard Shaw
300
1
Fiction
301
4
Thomas Hardy
301
1
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
302
2
Minor fiction
304
1
Samuel Butler
304
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
304
1
Wilkie Collins
304
1
George Moore
304
1
Poetry
305
2
Aestheticism
305
1
A. E. Housman
305
1
Rudyard Kipling
306
1
Further reading
307
4
PART 5 The Twentieth Century
Ends and Beginnings: 1901--19
311
12
The new century
311
2
Fiction
313
5
Edwardian realists
313
1
Rudyard Kipling
313
1
John Galsworthy
313
1
Arnold Bennett
313
1
H. G. Wells
313
1
Joseph Conrad
314
1
Heart of Darkness
314
1
Nostromo
315
1
E. M. Forster
316
1
Ford Madox Ford
317
1
Poetry
318
4
Pre-war verse
318
1
Thomas Hardy
319
1
War poetry and war poets
320
2
Further reading
322
1
From Post-War to Post-War: 1920--55
323
35
`Modernism': 1914--27
323
20
D. H. Lawrence
324
2
The Rainbow
326
1
James Joyce
327
1
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
327
2
Ulysses
329
2
Ezra Pound: the London years
331
1
T. S. Eliot
332
1
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
333
1
The Waste Land
333
3
Four Quartets
336
1
Eliot's criticism
337
1
W. B. Yeats
337
2
Hugh MacDiarmid and David Jones
339
1
Virginia Woolf
339
2
To the Lighthouse
341
2
Katherine Mansfield
343
1
Non-modernism: the Twenties and Thirties
343
13
Modernism fails to catch on
346
1
The poetry of the Thirties
346
1
Political camps
346
1
W. H. Auden
346
3
The novel
349
1
Evelyn Waugh
349
1
Grahame Greene
350
1
Anthony Powell
351
1
George Orwell
352
1
Elizabeth Bowen
352
2
Fairy tales
354
1
C. S. Lewis
354
1
J. R. R. Tolkien
354
1
Poetry
354
1
The Second World War
354
1
Dylan Thomas
355
1
Drama
355
1
Sean O'Casey
356
1
Further reading
356
2
New Beginnings: 1955--80
358
18
Drama
360
6
Samuel Beckett
360
3
John Osborne
363
1
Harold Pinter
364
1
Established protest
365
1
Novels galore
366
4
William Golding
366
2
Muriel Spark
368
1
Iris Murdoch
368
1
Other writers
369
1
Poetry
370
5
Philip Larkin
371
1
Ted Hughes
372
1
Geoffrey Hill
373
1
Tony Harrison
373
1
Seamus Heaney
374
1
Further reading
375
1
Postscript on the Current
376
7
Internationalization
376
1
Postmodernism
376
1
Novels
377
3
Contemporary poetry
380
1
Further reading
381
2
Index
383