For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact
[email protected] (Retail Price: GBP100.00, $151.90). 'Franco
Marucci's History of English Literature is unique in its field.
There is no other book that combines such erudition and authority
in such a compact format. An indispensable work of reference.' - J.
B. Bullen, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford History of
English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of
English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first
century. This reference work provides insightful and often
revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon.
Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 8
continues with the 1920s and the 1930s, when the Depression, the
Spanish Civil War, Fascist dictatorships, and the threat of a
second war challenged apolitical Modernism. Poets led by Auden,
novelists like Orwell and figures such as Lawrence of Arabia
defined the period. By the end of the Second World War, a realist,
satirical or comic tradition resurfaces in the novel, while in
poetry the affirmation of a pre-war neo-Romantic vein, especially
with Dylan Thomas, is reacted against by various movements that
lead poetry back to the common man. Two important years are 1953,
when Waiting for Godot by Beckett is staged, and 1956, when Look
Back in Anger by Osborne gives life to the 'angry' novel and
theatre. Extensive discussions not only of writers now become
classics (Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Heaney, Hill and Ted Hughes)
but also of other leading ones (such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis
and Ian McEwan) are included.
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