English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Name: English Literature: A Very Short Introduction
SKU: 9780199569267
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By (author) Jonathan Bate,

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English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature – English poetry, English drama and The English novel.

SKU: 9780199569267

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ISBN: 9780199569267

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 192

Dimensions: 11.4 × 1.1 × 17.4 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 192 pages
Dimensions 11.4 × 1.1 × 17.4 cm | 158
Publication Date 07 October 2010
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Jonathan Bate

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Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. Among his many books are John Clare: A Biography (Farrar Straus Giroux), which won Britain's two oldest literary prizes, the Hawthomden and the James Tait Black, a best-selling book on Shakespeare for the general reader, The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador, UK and OUP, USA), and a major intellectual b iography of Shakespeare in the cultural context of the Elizabethan Age (The Soul of the Age. He is also chief editor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan UK/Random House Modern Library USA).

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