The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Publication date:
14/11/2012
Paperback
832 pages
196x129mm
Price: 1020.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199608218
Publication date:
14/11/2012
Paperback
832 pages
Fourth Edition Edition
Dinah Birch, Katy Hooper
Over 5,500 entries - all fully revised and updated for this new edition. Also features new entries, such as nature writing, Lee Child, and vampires in literature.,Covers world fiction, literary theory, historical and cultural context.,Appendices include lists of literary prize winners, as well as a historical timeline charting the development of literature through the ages.,Extended entries give fascinating and informative discursive overviews of major genres in fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, biography, and crime fiction.,Written by a team of more than 140 distinguished contributors, edited by Dinah Birch and Katy Hooper.,Based on the acclaimed 7th edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature, published in 2009.
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Fourth Edition Edition
Dinah Birch, Katy Hooper
Description
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Discursive feature entries supply a wealth of information about important genres in literature.
For this fourth edition, the dictionary has been fully revised and updated to include expanded coverage of postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature, as well as improved representation in the areas of science fiction,
biography, travel literature, women's writing, gay and lesbian writing, and American literature.
The appendices listing literary prize winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker, and Pulitzer prizes, have all been updated and there is also a timeline, chronicling the development of English literature from c. 1000 to the present day. Many entries feature recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website.
Written originally by a team of more than 140 distinguished authors and extensively updated for this new edition, this book provides an essential point of reference for English students, teachers, and all
other readers of literature in English.
About the author
Edited by Dinah Birch, University of Liverpool, and Katy Hooper, University of LiverpoolDinah Birch is Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, and has edited novels by Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her books include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), and Our Victorian Education (2007).
Katy Hooper is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Liverpool Library and Assistant Editor for The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7/e.
Previous editions of the Concise Oxford Companion to Literature were edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer.
Fourth Edition Edition
Dinah Birch, Katy Hooper
Table of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
Concise Companion
Appendices
Literature Timeline
Poets Laureate
Nobel Prize for Literature
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Library Association Carnegie Medallists
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Children's Laureates
King's & Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
Fourth Edition Edition
Dinah Birch, Katy Hooper
Description
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Discursive feature entries supply a wealth of information about important genres in literature.
For this fourth edition, the dictionary has been fully revised and updated to include expanded coverage of postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature, as well as improved representation in the areas of science fiction,
biography, travel literature, women's writing, gay and lesbian writing, and American literature.
The appendices listing literary prize winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker, and Pulitzer prizes, have all been updated and there is also a timeline, chronicling the development of English literature from c. 1000 to the present day. Many entries feature recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website.
Written originally by a team of more than 140 distinguished authors and extensively updated for this new edition, this book provides an essential point of reference for English students, teachers, and all
other readers of literature in English.
About the author
Edited by Dinah Birch, University of Liverpool, and Katy Hooper, University of LiverpoolDinah Birch is Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, and has edited novels by Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her books include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), and Our Victorian Education (2007).
Katy Hooper is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Liverpool Library and Assistant Editor for The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7/e.
Previous editions of the Concise Oxford Companion to Literature were edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer.
Table of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
Concise Companion
Appendices
Literature Timeline
Poets Laureate
Nobel Prize for Literature
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Library Association Carnegie Medallists
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Children's Laureates
King's & Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
