Includes bibliographical references and index.

volume I. Medieval Literature 700-1450. Introduction to Medieval Literature; Chronology 43-1476 / Samantha Zacher -- The Oral and the Written / Karl Reichl -- Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe -- Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness / Emily V Thornbury -- Sermons and Saints / Paul E Szarmach -- The Lost and (Not) Found / Virginia Blanton -- Racial Imagination and the Theater of War / Suzanne M Yeager -- The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After 1066 / Neil Cartlidge -- Writing the Self / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation / Christine Chism -- Writing Revolution / Marion Turner -- The Romance Genre / Corinne Saunders -- Interior Visions / Michael Calabrese -- British Chaucer / John M Ganim -- Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England / Andrew Galloway -- Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture / Denise L Despres -- Sources, Analogues, Creativity / Tim William Machan -- Performing Communities / Christina M Fitzgerald -- Old English and Anglo-Latin / Andy Orchard -- Before the / Rhiannon Purdie -- Originating Britain / Helen Fulton -- Writing from the "Other Shore" and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books / Jacqueline Jenkins -- Collectors and Collections / David N Bell -- In Praise of Power / Robert J Meyer-Lee -- Word and Image / Elaine Treharne -- New Technologies / Siân Echard -- Selected References and Further Reading -- Index to Volume I -- volume II. Early Modern Literature 1450-1660. Introduction to Early Modern Literature; Chronology 1450-1662 / Robert DeMaria -- The Spectral Past / David Matthews -- The Fortunes of Arthur / Willy Maley, Adam Swann -- Robert Burton and the Discontents of Print / David J Baker -- Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century / Alessandra Petrina -- Mapping the British Archipelago in the Renaissance / Stewart Mottram -- Renaissance or Reformation? / Michael Payne -- Religious Reading and Writing in an Age of Bloodshed / Achsah Guibbory -- Translations of Virgil from Gavin Douglas to Sir John Denham / Robin Sowerby -- England, the "Orient", and the Ocean / Benedict S Robinson -- Politics and Religion in Elizabethan Drama / Lisa Hopkins -- Women's Literary and Intellectual Endeavors / Marcy L North -- Shakespeare and the Arts of Persuasion / Michael MacDonald -- Texts and Performances in the Age of Elizabeth / Tom Rutter -- Physics, Metaphysics, and Religion in Lyric Poetry / Wendy Beth Hyman -- The Early English Essay / Joshua Scodel -- Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives / Christopher Crosbie -- Scots Literature in the Age of the and Beyond / Katherine H Terrell -- Violence in Jacobean Drama / Zoltán Márkus -- First Folios / Adam G Hooks -- Riding Westward / Jonathan Locke Hart -- Cheap Print and Popular Reading During the Civil Wars, 1637-1660 / Joad Raymond -- Republican Writing from Milton to Locke / Nigel Smith -- John Bunyan and the Spaces of Religious Writing / Cynthia Wall -- / Barbara K Lewalski -- Human, Animal, and Machine in the Seventeenth Century / Lucinda Cole, Robert Markley -- Selected References and Further Reading -- Index to Volume II -- volume III. Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660-1837. Introduction to Long Eighteenth-Century Literature; Chronology 1658-1835 / Robert DeMaria -- Understanding Genre / David Venturo -- History and Literature from Milton to Wollstonecraft / Ruth Mack -- Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century / Neil Rhodes -- Aphra Behn and the Profession of Writing in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century / Catherine Ingrassia -- The Virgilian Way from Milton to Wordsworth / Adam Potkay -- Women Readers and the Rise of the Periodical Essay / Manushag N Powell -- Female Satirists of the Eighteenth Century / Paul Baines -- Ireland, England, and Anglo-Irish Writers in England / David Oakleaf -- Alexander Pope / Pat Rogers -- Eighteenth-Century Science and the Literary Imagination / Tita Chico -- Epistolary Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century / Thomas Keymer -- Poetry Anthologies, Taste, and the Canon / Adam Rounce -- Performance in Eighteenth-Century English Verse / John Richetti -- Ranging Knowledge by the Alphabet / Lynda Mugglestone -- History, Biography, and Anecdote / Freya Johnston -- The Other in the British Eighteenth Century / Lynn Festa -- Aesthetics and Taste / G Gabrielle Starr -- The Poetry of Melancholy from Finch to Keats / John Sitter -- Jane Austen and the Conditions of Knowledge / Jenny Davidson -- Genius and Originality 1750-1830 / Christopher R Miller -- Blake and His Contemporaries / Laura Quinney -- Romantic Celebrities / Richard Cronin -- Gothic and Celtic Revivals / Nick Groom -- Romantic Women Writers in the Lecture Room / Sarah M Zimmerman -- Selected References and Further Reading -- Index to Volume III -- volume IV. Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature 1837-2000. Introduction to Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature; Chronology 1800-2006 / Heesok Chang -- Charles Dickens, Dramatist / Eileen Gillooly -- Becoming George Eliot / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- "What Do the Women Do?" / Susan Zlotnick -- Evolution and Entropy / Suzy Anger -- Theater, Exhibition, and Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman -- Art, Self, and Society / Matthew Campbell -- Pre-Raphaelite Brothers, Lovers, and the Sister Arts / Wendy Graham -- Regionalism and Consciousness / Keith Wilson -- Modernism and Empire / Laura Winkiel -- The Irish Literary Revival / James L Pethica -- Re-Envisioning Yeats's / Nico Israel -- First World War Poetry / Adam Piette -- "How to Enjoy James Joyce's Great Novel" / Stephen Dilks -- Anglophobia and Anglophilia / Robert Crawford -- Virginia Woolf and Experimental Fiction / Anne E Fernald -- Sartorial Modernity / Jane Garrity -- Doom in the Bud / Paul Lawley -- Form, Figure, and Ground / C D Blanton -- Historical Turns in Twentieth-Century Fiction / John T Connor -- Anthologizing Poetry / Nigel Alderman -- "Frail, and So Full of Fire" / Praseeda Gopinath -- Imagining Female Authorship After 1945 / Maria Francesca Fackler -- Sticks and Stones / Elaine K Chang -- The Modern Scottish Novel / Cairns Craig -- Queer Fiction in Contemporary Britain / Jodie Medd -- Global Markets / Richard Todd -- The British Dystopian Novel from Wells to Ishiguro / Phillip E Wegner.

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