An edition of Adventures in English Literature -- Athena Edition
(1996)
Adventures in English Literature
Athena Edition (12)
by William Keach, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Alexander Pope
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Table of Contents
Middle ages (449-1485): Anglo Saxon Period (449-1066): Introduction
Bede (673-735)
Growth of the English language
Medieval Period (1066-1485): Introduction
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400)
Sir Thomas Malory (?-1471)
Early English and Scottish ballads
Connecting cultures: Epic traditions
Focus on writing: Writing a narrative
The Renaissance (1485-1660): Introduction
Elizabethan Age: Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
Sonnet
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) and Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
Literature and politics: Mystery of Marlowe's death
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Shakespeare's Theater
Shakespeare's imagery
Connecting cultures: International Shakespeare
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Jacobean Age: Metaphysical poets: John Donne (1572-1631)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
Tribe of Ben: Ben Johnson (1572-1637)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) and Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Amelia Lanier (1570?-1640?)
King James Bible
The Puritan Age: John Milton (1608-1674)
Literature of politics: Writers and politics
Language of paradise lost
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Literature and the arts: Musical and artistic interpretations
Focus on writing: Writing a comparison/contrast essay
Restoration and eighteen century (1660-1798)
Introduction: Restoration: Introduction
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Literature and the arts: Interpretations of Chaucer's pilgrims
Three women poets of the eighteenth century: Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Hannah More (1745-1833)
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
The age of Pope: Introduction
Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729)
Tatler and the spectator
Literature and social backgrounds: English coffeehouses
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Wit and nature
Age of Johnson: Introduction
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
James Boswell (1740-1795)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
William Blake (1757-1827)
English novel in the eighteenth century
Literature and the arts: Satire and the visual arts
Focus on writing: Writing a persuasive essay
The Romantic Age (1798-1832): Introduction
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Literature and the arts: Turner's paintings
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Keats and the sonnet form
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Literature and the arts: Adaptations of Frankenstein
Literature and history: Responses to the French Revolution
Focus on writing: Writing a reflective essay
The Victorian Age (1832-1900): Introduction
Victorian poetry: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Other Victorian poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882)
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Victorian prose: Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Victorian drama: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
English novel in the nineteenth century
Literature and the arts: Pre-Raphaelites
Literature and social backgrounds: Education of women in Victorian society
Focus on writing: Writing a problem-solution essay
The Modern Age: Introduction
Prose: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)(1870-1916)
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Connecting cultures: English words derived from Persian: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Jean Rhys (1894-1979)
Connecting cultures: Modern uses of myths and folklore: Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)
George Orwell (1903-1950)
Graham Greene (1904-1991)
R. K. Narayan (1906- )
Literature and science: Evolution of astronomy: Doris Lessing (1919- )
Nadine Gordimer (1923- )
George Lamming (1927- )
Chinua Achebe (1930- )
V. S. Naipaul (1932- )
Poetry: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Edwin Muir (1887-1959)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Literature and history: Reactions to the Spanish Civil War
Literature and the arts: Interpretations of the Icarus Myth: Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
Henry Reed (1914-1986)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Thom Gunn (1929- )
Ted Hughes (1930- )
Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930- )
Literature and geography: Changing perspectives of maps: Derek Walcott (1930- )
Wole Soyinka (1934- )
Seamus Heaney (1939- )
Margaret Atwood (1939- )
Tom Raworth (1938- )
Drama: Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Harold Pinter (1930- )
English novel in the modern age
Focus on writing: Writing a cause-and-effect essay
Reading and writing about literature: Introduction
Reading literature: Close reading of a short story: John Galsworthy
Close reading of a poem: A. E. Housman
Close reading of a play: Oliver Goldsmith
Writing process
Answering examination questions
Writing on a topic of your own
A. E. Housman
Literary terms and techniques
Kings and queens of England
Handbook for revision
Glossary
Outline of concepts and skills
Index of titles by themes
Commentaries and special essays
Index of fine art
Photo credits
General index.
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