Encyclopedia of British literature
By: edited by David Scott Kastan.
Contributors: Kastan, David Scott.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; Authors, English.
Other titles: Oxford Encyclopedia of British literature
Description: The Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant (e.g., The Stationers' Company, the sonnet, the ‘School of Night, ’ or the Sublime).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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