BRITISH WRITERS, Supplement XIVFor the most part, Supplement XIV centers on contemporary writers from various genres and traditions, most of whom have had little sustained attention from critics, although they are well known.
The essays should enable students and general readers to enter into the world of these writers freshly, helping them to understand how in each case the writer summoned a particular vision, moving from book to book, creating an imaginative universe in words.
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....
In this collection, the work of many of Britain's most central authors, reaching back to Old English Literature and some of its most revered texts, such as Beowulf, is presented. Twenty-two of the most studied and most popular writers in British literature are reexamined in this second retrospective supplement to the BRITISH WRITERS Series. Authors covered include Jane Austen, Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and others.
Scribner launches a new literature reference source with this volume, accompaniment to its well-established British Writers series. While that series focus on writers, the new one concentrates on works. The first volume contains extensive essays on 20 literary classics in various genres, selected after researching the curriculum and consulting with professors. Although many of the choices are unsurprising, others are not typically given to beginning students of literature, reflecting the fact that the new series is intended for a somewhat advanced audience.
Supplement XIII is to a degree focused on contemporary or fairly modern writers, many of whom who have had little sustained attention from critics, although most are rather well known. A number of classic writers from the distant past included here are important authors from earlier centuries who, for one reason or another, had yet to be treated in this series.
