This comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context of English literature covers the core periods of literature, and history, from the English Renaissance to the present. Peter Widdowson introduces and outlines key terms, concepts and developments and provides a series of timelines showing political, social, cultural and literary events for each year. Together, this indispensable reference work offers a concise history of Britain for literature students at all levels and provides readers with the context for any literary work from 1500 to 2000.
The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts, 1500-2000
- covers a wide range of canonical British authors and works but also provides contextualising examples of works from other countries
- each chapter focuses on a key period in English Literature and History, gives a brief overview of that period, and defines the main terms and ideas of the age
- contains easy-to-follow timelines which may be viewed either horizontally or vertically, allowing readers to track a chronological history, or single out the developments and events of a specific year
'Peter Widdowson has produced an eminently reliable, rigorous and above all readable contextualized chronology of the past 500 years of literary and cultural history. The book offers fascinating and illuminating possibilities of 'time travel' for the student and general reader alike.' - Professor Elleke Boehmer, Nottingham Trent University
'There is no single reference source which clearly and coherently indicates relevant historical and cultural contexts and intertexts...I would hope to see [this book] on students' shelves alongside a decent dictionary, Brewer's and Roget's Thesaurus.' - Jo Gill, University of Exeter
'Accessible but scholarly - a very useful contextualising study for students.' - Dr Elspeth Graham, Liverpool John Moores University
Brief Contents
Detailed Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Premises and Procedures
How to Use the Book
Abbreviations Used Throughout
1500-1649: The English Reformation and Renaissance
1650-1699: Commonwealth and Restoration
1700-1789: The Augustan Period
1790-1829: The Romantic Period
1830-1899: The Victorian Period
1900-1939: World War I and the Modernist Period
1940-1959: World War II and the Post-War Period
1960-1979: The Nineteen-Sixties and Seventies
1980-2000: The Contemporary Period
Works Used for Reference
Alphabetical Index of British Authors
PETER WIDDOWSON was one time Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire. He was a well-known critic whose publications for students include A Readers' Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (with Peter Brooker, Longman, 1997), Literature (Routledge, 1999) and Graham Swift (Northcote House, 2004).
Description
This comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context of English literature covers the core periods of literature, and history, from the English Renaissance to the present. Peter Widdowson introduces and outlines key terms, concepts and developments and provides a series of timelines showing political, social, cultural and literary events for each year. Together, this indispensable reference work offers a concise history of Britain for literature students at all levels and provides readers with the context for any literary work from 1500 to 2000.
The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts, 1500-2000
- covers a wide range of canonical British authors and works but also provides contextualising examples of works from other countries
- each chapter focuses on a key period in English Literature and History, gives a brief overview of that period, and defines the main terms and ideas of the age
- contains easy-to-follow timelines which may be viewed either horizontally or vertically, allowing readers to track a chronological history, or single out the developments and events of a specific year
Reviews
'Peter Widdowson has produced an eminently reliable, rigorous and above all readable contextualized chronology of the past 500 years of literary and cultural history. The book offers fascinating and illuminating possibilities of 'time travel' for the student and general reader alike.' - Professor Elleke Boehmer, Nottingham Trent University
'There is no single reference source which clearly and coherently indicates relevant historical and cultural contexts and intertexts...I would hope to see [this book] on students' shelves alongside a decent dictionary, Brewer's and Roget's Thesaurus.' - Jo Gill, University of Exeter
'Accessible but scholarly - a very useful contextualising study for students.' - Dr Elspeth Graham, Liverpool John Moores University
Contents
Brief Contents
Detailed Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Premises and Procedures
How to Use the Book
Abbreviations Used Throughout
1500-1649: The English Reformation and Renaissance
1650-1699: Commonwealth and Restoration
1700-1789: The Augustan Period
1790-1829: The Romantic Period
1830-1899: The Victorian Period
1900-1939: World War I and the Modernist Period
1940-1959: World War II and the Post-War Period
1960-1979: The Nineteen-Sixties and Seventies
1980-2000: The Contemporary Period
Works Used for Reference
Alphabetical Index of British Authors
Authors
PETER WIDDOWSON was one time Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire. He was a well-known critic whose publications for students include A Readers' Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (with Peter Brooker, Longman, 1997), Literature (Routledge, 1999) and Graham Swift (Northcote House, 2004).
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