English Literature: A student Guide

English Literature: A student Guide

Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition.

• Provides a course companion and a basic primer.
• A guide to the specialist techniques, rules and conventions of studying English literature.
• Contains a key-note guide to major authors and texts.
• Includes a guide to the required study, examination and revision techniques and examples of good practice.
• Provides a guide to critical theory and a guide to developments in modern literature.
• New features in the third edition include:
• Completely new chapters on Gothic and war literature.
• New sections on Swift, Dryden, Matthew Arnold and Kipling.
• A full account of the impact of new critical theory on all major authors.

Contents
1. Study and examination techniques in English literature2. Revision, project work and research techniques3. A guide to basic literary terms4. Practical criticism: poetry5. Practical criticism: prose6. Practical criticism: drama7. Chaucer8. Elizabethan and Jacobean drama9. Shakespeare10. The Metaphysical Poets11. Milton12. Restoration drama13. Pope, Dryden and Swift: Classicism and the eighteenth century14. The eighteenth and early nineteenth century novel: Defoe, Fielding, Austen and the Brontes15. Romanticism and the Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats16. Gothic17. Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot18. Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, Arnold and Hardy19. Victorian drama: Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and Wilde20. War literature21. Modern and contemporary poetry22. The modern and contemporary novel23. Modern and contemporary drama24. American literature25. Literary and critical theory