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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
Foreword
xiv
Malcolm Bradbury
The Beginnings of English: Old and Middle English 600--1485
Contexts and conditions
3
3
Personal and religious voices
6
5
The earliest figurative language
10
1
Long poems
11
3
French influence and English affirmation
14
4
Language and dialect
18
4
The expanding lexicon: Chaucer and Middle English
21
1
From anonymity to individualism
22
3
Women's voices
25
2
Fantasy
27
1
Travel
28
1
Geoffrey Chaucer
29
6
Langland, Gower and Lydgate
35
4
The Scottish Chaucerians
39
2
Mediaeval drama
41
3
Malory and Skelton
44
7
Prose and sentence structure
47
4
The Renaissance: 1485--1660
Contexts and conditions
51
6
Expanding world: expanding lexicon
56
1
Renaissance poetry
57
4
Puttenham's Social Poetics
60
1
Drama before Shakespeare
61
6
From the street to a building - the Elizabethan theatre
67
3
The further expanding lexicon
69
1
Renaissance prose
70
6
Translations of the Bible
76
3
The language of the Bible
77
2
Shakespeare
79
1
The plays
80
10
The sonnets
90
4
Shakespeare's language
92
2
The Metaphysical poets
94
6
The Cavalier poets
100
1
Jacobean drama - to the closure of the theatres, 1642
101
1
Ben Jonson
101
2
Masques
103
1
Other early seventeenth-century dramatists
104
6
Domestic tragedy
110
1
City comedy
111
2
The end of the Renaissance theatre
113
4
Restoration to Romanticism: 1660--1789
Contexts and conditions
117
4
Changing patterns of `thou' and `you'
120
1
Milton
121
6
Restoration drama
127
10
Rochester
137
1
Dryden
138
4
Pope
142
3
Journalism
145
2
Scottish Enlightenment, diarists and Gibbon
147
3
The novel
150
14
Criticism
164
2
The expanding lexicon -'standards of English'
165
1
Johnson
166
2
Sterne, Smollett and Scottish voices
168
8
Drama after 1737
176
1
Poetry after Pope
177
7
Metrical patterns
183
1
Melancholy, madness and nature
184
4
The Gothic and the sublime
188
9
Point of view
192
5
The Romantic Period: 1789--1832
Contexts and conditions
197
6
William Cobbett, grammar and politics
202
1
Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
203
10
Reading Wordsworth
207
5
The 'real' language of men
212
1
Keats
213
4
Shelley
217
4
Byron
221
4
Rights and voices and poetry
225
3
Clare
228
1
Romantic prose
229
4
The novel in the Romantic period
233
2
Jane Austen
235
4
Jane Austen's English
238
1
Scott
239
4
From Gothic to Frankenstein
243
2
The Scottish regional novel
245
4
The Nineteenth Century: 1832--1900
Contexts and conditions
249
2
Dickens
251
7
Reading Dickens
256
2
Victorian thought and Victorian novels
258
9
The Brontes and Eliot
267
4
`Lady' novelists
271
2
Late Victorian novels
273
6
Victorian fantasy
279
4
Wilde and Aestheticism
283
3
Hardy and James
286
7
Dialect and character in Hardy
289
4
Victorian poetry
293
13
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and after
306
6
The developing uses of dialects in literature
310
2
Victorian drama
312
7
Reading the language of theatre and drama
315
4
The Twentieth Century: 1900--45
Contexts and conditions
319
3
Modern poetry to 1945
322
3
Reading Hardy
323
2
Later Hardy
325
4
The fragmenting lexicon
327
2
Georgian and Imagist poetry
329
2
First World War poetry
331
3
Irish writing
334
1
W.B. Yeats
335
2
T.S. Eliot
337
7
Modernist poetic syntax
342
2
Popular poets
344
1
Thirties poets
345
5
Reading Auden
349
1
Scottish and Welsh poetry
350
3
Twentieth-century drama to 1945
353
2
Irish drama
355
2
D.H. Lawrence
357
1
Popular and poetic drama
358
3
Literature about language
360
1
The novel to 1945
361
1
Subjectivity: the popular tradition
362
1
The Kailyard School
363
1
Provincial novels
364
1
Social concerns
365
1
Light novels
366
1
Genre fiction
367
1
Modernism and the novel
368
1
Forster
369
4
Metaphor and metonymy
372
1
Conrad and Ford
373
5
D.H. Lawrence
378
7
Woolf and Joyce
385
10
Irish English, nationality and literature
394
1
Novels of the First World War
395
2
Aldous Huxley
397
1
Rooms of their own
398
4
Ireland
402
1
Early Greene and Waugh
403
2
Thirties novelists
405
6
The Twentieth Century: 1945 to the present
Contexts and conditions
411
3
Drama since 1945
414
20
Drama and everyday language
415
19
Poetry of the Second World War
434
2
Poetry since 1945
436
14
Martians and gorgons
450
7
The novel since 1945
457
1
Writing for younger readers - so-called children's literature
458
1
Later Greene
459
1
Post-war Waugh
460
2
Orwell
462
3
Dialogue novels
465
4
Discourse, titles and dialogism
467
2
The mid-century novel
469
3
Amis, father and son
472
4
City slang
473
2
Common speech
475
1
Golding
476
2
Fowles and Frayn
478
1
Novel sequences
479
1
The campus novel
480
2
Falling in love...
482
4
...and blood
486
1
Muriel Spark and others
487
2
Margaret Drabble
489
1
Lessing, Hill, Dunmore and Weldon
489
2
Iris Murdoch
491
2
Internationalism
493
1
Rotten Englishes
494
7
New modes of modern writing
501
8
English, Scots and Scotland
508
1
The contemporary Scottish novel
509
6
The contemporary Irish novel
515
2
Endings and beginnings
517
4
Winners of the Booker Prize
521
1
Winners of the Whitbread Prize
522
2
British and Irish winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature
524
1
Timelines
525
18
Acknowledgments
543
5
Select bibliography
548
11
Index
559