num_pages: 1088
description: The essential reference to English literature from Beowulf to The Satanic Verses--now available in trade paperback. The work of more than 50 leading scholars, this A-to-Z guide covers 800 writers and more than 1,000 individual major works of the past 12 centuries. Includes detailed essays, cross-references, a chronology, and 160 halftones.
language: English
title: The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature
titlecomplete: The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature
genres: Reference, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Macmillan General Reference