World Literature and Its Times, Volume 3: British and Irish Literature and Their Times - Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill (Beginnings-1830s)
By Joyce Moss, Lorraine Valestuk
Number Of Pages: 625
Publication Date: 2000-10
ISBN-10: 0787637289
ISBN-13: 9780787637286
World Literature and Its Times helps students and researchers make connections between political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. Each volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from a particular country and region, representing approximately 50 works. The detailed essays are approximately 10 pages in length and offer the following features:
Introductory profile -- an overview that discuss genre, time, place and other important elements with a synopsis and introduction that places the work in the context of the authors' life
Events in history -- a report on the social, political and cultural climate relevant to the work, including primary source documents, charts, timelines and other illustrative materials
Literary work in focus -- three sections that place the work in context with an in-depth summary, related history and historical sources
Sources for more information -- full citations offering additional sources of information
Additional features include illustrations; maps; author and title tables of contents; sidebars; timelines; advisor information; and an alphabetical index of authors, titles, events and personalities.
The series contains eight volumes covering the following literatures:
Latin American literature
African literature
British & Irish literature (2 volumes - The Victorian Era to the Present and Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill )
Spanish & Portuguese literature
Middle Eastern literature
Italian literature
Classical literature
VOLUME 3 CONTENTS BY TITLE :
Antony and Cleopatra / William Shakespeare -- Battle of Maldon, The / as translated by Michael Alexander -- Beggar's opera, The / John Gay -- Beowulf / as translated by Seamus Heaney -- Canterbury tales, The / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Castle Rackrent : an Hibernian tale taken from facts and from the manners of the Irish squires before the year 1782 / Maria Edgeworth -- Diary of Samuel Pepys, The / Samuel Pepys -- Don Juan / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Dr. Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Duchess of Malfi, The / John Webster -- "England in 1819" and other poems / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Essay concerning human understanding, An / John Locke -- Eve of St. Agnes, The / John Keats -- Faerie Queene, The / Edmund Spencer -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- Henry V / William Shakespeare -- History of Tom Jones : a foundling, The / Henry Fielding -- King Lear / William Shakespeare -- Life of Samuel Johnson, The / James Boswell -- Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Mabinogion, The / as translated by Patrick Ford -- Macbeth / William Shakespeare -- "Mac Flecknoe" / John Dryden -- Middlemarch : a study of provincial life / George Eliot -- Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe -- Morte d'Arthur, Le / Sir Thomas Malory -- Mysteries of Udolpho, The / Ann Radcliffe -- Oroonoko, or The royal slave : a true history / Aphra Behn -- Pamela, or Virtue rewarded / Samuel Richardson -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Piers Plowman / William Langland -- Pilgrim's progress, The / John Bunyan -- Rape of the lock, The / Alexander Pope -- Richard II / William Shakespeare -- Rivals, The / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Rob Roy / Sir Walter Scott -- Sense and sensibility / Jane Austen -- She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / as translated by Marie Boroff -- Songs and sonnets / John Donne -- Songs of innocence and of experience, shewing the two contrary states of the human soul / William Blake -- Spanish tragedy, The / Thomas Kyd -- Spectator, The / Joseph Addison and Richard Steele -- Táin, The (The cattle raid of Cooley) / as translated by Thomas Kinsella -- Vanity fair / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vindication of the rights of woman, A / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Volpone / Ben Johnson -- Way of the world, The / William Congreve -- Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë.
