The Cambridge History of English Literature, 16601780 (The New Cambridge History of English Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 964
ISBN-13: 9780521781442
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European
First sentence: In these early years of the new century, there is an urgent need to rewrite the literary histories of Britain that are now nearly a hundred years old and showing their age for contemporary students and scholars.