World Literature and Its Times, Volume 4: British and Irish Literature and Its Times: The Victorian Era to the Present (1837- )

World Literature and Its Times, Volume 4: British and Irish Literature and Its Times: The Victorian Era to the Present (1837- )

 
By David Galens, Joyce Moss
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: 2001-05-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0787637297
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780787637293

The works chosen for World Literature and Its Times 4: British and Irish Literature and Its Times have been carefully selected by professors in the field at the universities detailed in the Acknowledgements.
Keeping the literature-history connection in mind, the team made its selections based on a combination of factors: how frequently a literary work is studied, how closely it is tied to pivotal events in the past or present, how strong and enduring its appeal has been to readers in and out of the society that produced it, and how reflective it is of new developments in literature of the region. Attention has been paid to literary works set from the Victorian era to the present that have met with critical and/or popular acclaim.

Subjects in the Volume:

The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Anthem for Doomed Youth" and Other Poems by Wilfred Owen
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
Howards End by E. M. Forster
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
"The Lion and the Unicorn" by George Orwell
Lord Jim: A Tale byJoseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
"My Last Duchess" and Other Poems by Robert Browning
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy by James Barrie
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Sea,The Sea by Iris Murdoch
"September 1913" and "Easter, 1916" by William Butler Yeats
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
"Station Island" by Seamus Heaney
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Troubles by J. G. Farrell
Ulysses by James Joyce
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence