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Tables of Contents for The Routledge History of Literature in English
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
xiii
2
Foreword
xv
Malcolm Bradbury
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH: OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH 600-1485
3
54
Contexts and conditions
3
4
Personal and religious voices
7
5
Language note: The earliest figurative language
11
1
Long poems
12
3
French influence and English affirmation
15
5
Language and dialect
20
5
Language note: The expanding lexicon - Chaucer and Middle English
23
2
From anonymity to individualism
25
3
Women's voices
28
2
Fantasy
30
1
Travel
31
1
Geoffrey Chaucer
32
7
Langland, Gower and Lydgate
39
5
The Scottish Chaucerians
44
2
Mediaeval drama
46
3
Malory and Skelton
49
8
Language note: Prose and sentence structure
51
6
THE RENAISSANCE: 1485-1660
57
72
Contexts and conditions
57
7
Language note: Expanding world: expanding lexicon
62
2
Renaissance poetry
64
5
Drama before Shakespeare
69
6
From the street to a building - the Elizabethan theatre
75
3
Language note: The further expanding lexicon
77
1
Renaissance prose
78
7
Translations of the Bible
85
4
Language note: The language of the Bible
87
2
Shakespeare
89
1
The plays
90
11
The sonnets
101
4
Language note: Changing patterns of `thou' and `you'
103
2
The Metaphysical poets
105
6
The Cavalier poets
111
2
Jacobean drama - to the closure of the theatres, 1642
113
1
Ben Jonson
113
2
Masques
115
1
Other dramatists of the early seventeenth century
116
7
City comedy
123
3
The end of the Renaissance theatre
126
3
RESTORATION TO ROMANTICISM: 1660-1789
129
88
Contexts and conditions
129
4
Early Milton
133
6
Restoration drama
139
11
Rochester
150
2
Dryden
152
5
Pope
157
2
Journalism
159
2
Scottish Enlightenment, diarists and Gibbon
161
5
The novel
166
15
Criticism
181
2
Language note: The expanding lexicon - `standards of English'
182
1
Johnson
183
3
Sterne, Smollett and Scottish voices
186
8
Drama after 1737
194
2
Poetry after Pope
196
7
Language note: Metrical patterns
202
1
Melancholy, madness and nature
203
5
The Gothic and the sublime
208
9
Language note: Point of view
211
6
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD: 1789-1832
217
54
Contexts and conditions
217
7
Language note: William Cobbett, grammar and politics
223
1
Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
224
10
Language note: The `real' language of men
232
2
Keats
234
5
Shelley
239
4
Byron
243
5
Clare
248
1
Romantic prose
249
4
The novel in the Romantic period
253
2
Jane Austen
255
5
Language note: Jane Austen's English
259
1
Scott
260
5
From Gothic to Frankenstein
265
1
The Scottish regional novel
266
5
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
271
76
Contexts and conditions
271
2
Dickens
273
6
Victorian thought and Victorian novels
279
10
The Brontes and Eliot
289
5
Other lady novelists
294
2
Late Victorian novels
296
11
Wilde and Aestheticism
307
3
Hardy and James
310
9
Language note: Dialect and character in Hardy
313
6
Victorian poetry
319
21
Language note: The developing uses of dialects in literature
338
2
Victorian drama
340
7
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1900-45
347
100
Contexts and conditions
347
4
Modern poetry to 1945
351
1
Later Hardy
352
5
Language note: The fragmenting lexicon
355
2
Georgian and Imagist poetry
357
2
First World War poetry
359
4
Irish writing
363
1
W. B. Yeats
364
2
T. S. Eliot
366
7
Language note: Modernist poetic syntax
371
2
Popular poets
373
1
Thirties poets
374
5
Scottish and Welsh poetry
379
3
Modern drama to 1945
382
2
Irish drama
384
2
D. H. Lawrence
386
2
Popular and poetic drama
388
4
Language note: Literature about language
390
2
The novel to 1945
392
1
Subjectivity: the popular tradition
392
2
The Kailyard School
394
1
Provincial novels
395
1
Social concerns
396
1
Light novels
397
1
Genre fiction
398
2
Modernism and the novel
400
1
Forster, Conrad and Ford
401
10
Language note: Metaphor and metonymy
404
7
D. H. Lawrence
411
8
Woolf and Joyce
419
12
Language note: Irish English, nationality and literature
429
2
Novels of the First World War
431
2
Aldous Huxley
433
1
Women writers
434
2
Ireland
436
2
Early Greene and Waugh
438
2
Thirties novelists
440
7
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1945 TO THE PRESENT
447
96
Contexts and conditions
447
4
Drama since 1945
451
18
Language note: Drama and everyday language
451
18
Poetry of the Second World War
469
2
Poetry since 1945
471
12
Martians and gorgons
483
4
Towards the twenty-first century
487
2
The novel since 1945
489
3
Language note: Discourse, titles and dialogism
490
2
Later Greene
492
1
Post-war Waugh
493
2
Orwell
495
4
Dialogue novels
499
3
The mid-century novel
502
3
Amis, father and son
505
4
Language note: City slang
507
2
Golding
509
2
Fowles and Frayn
511
1
Novel sequences
512
1
The campus novel
513
2
Excellent women
515
4
Muriel Spark and others
519
2
Margaret Drabble
521
1
Lessing, Hill and Weldon
522
1
Iris Murdoch
523
2
Internationalism
525
1
`Insiders' from `outside'
526
8
Language note: English, Scots and Scotland
532
2
The contemporary Scottish novel
534
4
The contemporary Irish novel
538
1
Endings and beginnings
539
4
TIMELINES
543
22
Old and Middle English
543
6
The Renaissance
549
4
Restoration to Romanticism
553
2
The Romantic period
555
1
The nineteenth century
556
3
The twentieth century: 1900-45
559
2
The twentieth century: 1945 to the present
561
4
British and Irish winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
565
1
Acknowledgements
566
5
Index
571