Adventures in English literature
Edition: Athena ed.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston; Holt Rinehart & Winston; Holt Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Austin, [Tex.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1212
ISBN-13: 9780030986383; 9780030986390; 9780030954672; 9780030954689; 9780030954696; 9780030954702; 9780030954719; 9780030954726; 9780030954733; 9780030954337; 9780030954238
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Literature; English literature; American literature; Reading (Secondary)
Table of contents: title: Middle ages (449-1485): Anglo Saxon Period (449-1066): Introduction; title: Bede (673-735); title: Growth of the English language; title: Medieval Period (1066-1485): Introduction; title: Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400); title: Sir Thomas Malory (?-1471); title: Early English and Scottish ballads; title: Connecting cultures: Epic traditions; title: Focus on writing: Writing a narrative; title: The Renaissance (1485-1660): Introduction; title: Elizabethan Age: Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542); title: Sonnet; title: Edmund Spenser (1552-1599); title: Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586); title: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) and Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618); title: Literature and politics: Mystery of Marlowe's death; title: William Shakespeare (1564-1616); title: Shakespeare's Theater; title: Shakespeare's imagery; title: Connecting cultures: International Shakespeare; title: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859); title: Francis Bacon (1561-1626); title: Jacobean Age: Metaphysical poets: John Donne (1572-1631); title: George Herbert (1593-1633); title: Andrew Marvell (1621-1678); title: Henry Vaughan (1621-1695); title: Tribe of Ben: Ben Johnson (1572-1637); title: Robert Herrick (1591-1674); title: Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) and Richard Lovelace (1618-1657); title: Elizabeth I (1533-1603); title: Amelia Lanier (1570?-1640?); title: King James Bible; title: The Puritan Age: John Milton (1608-1674); title: Literature of politics: Writers and politics; title: Language of paradise lost; title: John Bunyan (1628-1688); title: Literature and the arts: Musical and artistic interpretations; title: Focus on writing: Writing a comparison/contrast essay; title: Restoration and eighteen century (1660-1798); title: Introduction: Restoration: Introduction; title: John Dryden (1631-1700); title: Literature and the arts: Interpretations of Chaucer's pilgrims; title: Three women poets of the eighteenth century: Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710); title: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762); title: Hannah More (1745-1833); title: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703); title: The age of Pope: Introduction; title: Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731); title: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745); title: Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729); title: Tatler and the spectator; title: Literature and social backgrounds: English coffeehouses; title: Alexander Pope (1688-1744); title: Wit and nature; title: Age of Johnson: Introduction; title: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784); title: James Boswell (1740-1795); title: Thomas Gray (1716-1771); title: Robert Burns (1759-1796); title: William Blake (1757-1827); title: English novel in the eighteenth century; title: Literature and the arts: Satire and the visual arts; title: Focus on writing: Writing a persuasive essay; title: The Romantic Age (1798-1832): Introduction; title: William Wordsworth (1770-1850); title: Literature and the arts: Turner's paintings; title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834); title: Charles Lamb (1775-1834); title: Jane Austen (1775-1817); title: George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824); title: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); title: John Keats (1795-1821); title: Keats and the sonnet form; title: Mary Shelley (1797-1851); title: Literature and the arts: Adaptations of Frankenstein; title: Literature and history: Responses to the French Revolution; title: Focus on writing: Writing a reflective essay; title: The Victorian Age (1832-1900): Introduction; title: Victorian poetry: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892); title: Robert Browning (1812-1889); title: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888); title: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928); title: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889); title: A. E. Housman (1859-1936); title: Other Victorian poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861); title: Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882); title: Emily Bronte (1818-1848); title: George Meredith (1828-1909); title: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894); title: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894); title: Victorian prose: Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881); title: John Ruskin (1819-1900); title: Charles Dickens (1812-1870); title: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); title: Victorian drama: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); title: English novel in the nineteenth century; title: Literature and the arts: Pre-Raphaelites; title: Literature and social backgrounds: Education of women in Victorian society; title: Focus on writing: Writing a problem-solution essay; title: The Modern Age: Introduction; title: Prose: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924); title: H. G. Wells (1866-1946); title: Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)(1870-1916); title: Somerset Maugham (1874-1965); title: E. M. Forster (1879-1970); title: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941); title: James Joyce (1882-1941); title: Connecting cultures: English words derived from Persian: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930); title: Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923); title: Jean Rhys (1894-1979); title: Connecting cultures: Modern uses of myths and folklore: Frank O'Connor (1903-1966); title: George Orwell (1903-1950); title: Graham Greene (1904-1991); title: R. K. Narayan (1906-    ); title: Literature and science: Evolution of astronomy: Doris Lessing (1919-    ); title: Nadine Gordimer (1923-    ); title: George Lamming (1927-    ); title: Chinua Achebe (1930-    ); title: V. S. Naipaul (1932-    ); title: Poetry: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939); title: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930); title: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967); title: Rupert Brooke (1887-1915); title: Edwin Muir (1887-1959); title: T. S. Eliot (1888-1965); title: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918); title: Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978); title: Stevie Smith (1902-1971); title: W. H. Auden (1907-1973); title: Literature and history: Reactions to the Spanish Civil War; title: Literature and the arts: Interpretations of the Icarus Myth: Stephen Spender (1909-1995); title: Henry Reed (1914-1986); title: Dylan Thomas (1914-1953); title: Thom Gunn (1929-    ); title: Ted Hughes (1930-    ); title: Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930-    ); title: Literature and geography: Changing perspectives of maps: Derek Walcott (1930-    ); title: Wole Soyinka (1934-    ); title: Seamus Heaney (1939-    ); title: Margaret Atwood (1939-    ); title: Tom Raworth (1938-    ); title: Drama: Bernard Shaw (1856-1950); title: Harold Pinter (1930-    ); title: English novel in the modern age; title: Focus on writing: Writing a cause-and-effect essay; title: Reading and writing about literature: Introduction; title: Reading literature: Close reading of a short story: John Galsworthy; title: Close reading of a poem: A. E. Housman; title: Close reading of a play: Oliver Goldsmith; title: Writing process; title: Answering examination questions; title: Writing on a topic of your own; title: A. E. Housman; title: Literary terms and techniques; title: Kings and queens of England; title: Handbook for revision; title: Glossary; title: Outline of concepts and skills; title: Index of titles by themes; title: Commentaries and special essays; title: Index of fine art; title: Photo credits; title: General index.