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For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact orders@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £90.00, $135.90). ‘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 3 begins with Jacobean poetry and prose, explores Milton’s great biblical epic and moves on to the licentious court poetry of the Restoration period. The early and mid-eighteenth century came then to be dominated by the Neo-Classical and the Augustan style. A few decades later, the novel debuted with Defoe and underwent a rapid development with a range of proposals of astonishing difference and divergence, such as those of Swift, Fielding and Sterne. At the end of the century the Romantic poets gave rise to the densest period of great figures and great works in English literature since the Elizabethan age.

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Author:   Franco Marucci
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   3
ISBN:  

9781789971767

ISBN 10:   1789971764
Pages:   1144
Publication Date:   28 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS: The Stuart century – Literary genres up to the Restoration – The Spenserians – Wither – William Browne – Drummond of Hawthornden – The Fletchers – Suckling – Lovelace – Carew – Herrick – Herbert – Herbert of Cherbury – Crashaw – Vaughan – Traherne – Quarles – King – Cowley – Cleveland – Marvell – Waller – Denham – The homilists. Andrewes, Taylor – The Authorized Version – Milton – Minor poets up to 1660 – Bacon – Burton – Thomas Browne – Other prose writers – Restoration literature – The re-opening of the theatres – Dryden – Lee – Otway – Etherege – Wycherley – Congreve – Shadwell – Vanbrugh – Farquhar – Rochester – Samuel Butler – Oldham – Restoration historians. Clarendon, Burnet – Pepys – Evelyn – Temple – Hobbes, Locke – Bunyan – Early feminism – England from the Glorious Revolution to 1745 – The Enlightenment in England – Pope – Prior – Gay – Dennis – Arbuthnot – Bolingbroke – Defoe – Swift – Addison – Steele – Shaftesbury – Berkeley – Joseph Butler – Mandeville – Law – Other deists – Lady Winchilsea – Thomson – Dyer – Young – Minor anti-Popian poets – England from 1745 to 1789 – The eighteenth century comes of age – Goldsmith – Richardson – Fielding – Smollett – Sterne – Gray – William Collins – Churchill – Johnson – Boswell – Wilkes, Junius – Letter-writers – Hume –Robertson – Gibbon – Mid-eighteenth-century drama – Sheridan – Walpole – Radcliffe – Beckford – Other exponents of the novel of terror – Burke – Macpherson – Percy and the Reliques of English Poetry – Chatterton – Cowper – Smart – Crabbe – Wesley and Methodism – The Scottish awakening – Hogg – Mackenzie – From the Napoleonic wars to the Age of Equipoise – English Romanticism – Burney – Austen – Edgeworth – Galt – Other late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists – Paine – Godwin – Mary Wollstonecraft – Burns – Blake – Wordsworth – Coleridge –Shelley – Keats – Byron – Scott – Mary Shelley – Polidori – Southey – Landor – Campbell – Rogers – Moore – Clare – Beddoes, Darley – Keble – Hemans, L. E. L. – Humorous poets – Lamb – De Quincey – Hazlitt – Smith – Hunt – Peacock – Cobbett – Romantic drama.

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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)

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Franco Marucci is a former Professor of English at the Universities of Siena, Florence and Venice Ca’ Foscari. His publications include Il senso interrotto. Autonomia e codificazione nella poesia di Dylan Thomas (1976), The Fine Delight that Fathers Thought: Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins (1994), L’inchiostro del mago. Saggi di letteratura inglese dell’Ottocento (2009) and Joyce (2013). His Storia della letteratura inglese in eight volumes was published by Le Lettere, Florence, 2003–2017. As a creative writer he is the author of Pentapoli (2011), followed by Il Michelin del sacro (2012). He runs the blog , with comments and features on literature and music, and a weekly sports page.

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