Contents
Aclknowledgements
Introduction
Editor's Note
Essay Section
1. Politica) history and social conrext
2. Contemporary approaches to literature
3. Medieval English literature
4. Eighteenth-century prose literature
5. The nineteenth-century novel
6. Culture and consciousness: rhe twcntieth-ccntury novel
7. Shakespe.ire and English Renaissance drama
8. Restoration and eigh'.eenth-century drama
9. Developmens in modern drama: thc slovv road to change
10. Reading Renaissance poetry
II. Enlighrenment, sensibility and romanticism: poetry 1660-1830
12. Behind the 'silken-tblded mask': Victoriai and modern poctry
P.cicren " Sc-ction
Chronulugy
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