Awards

• Winner of RUSA Best Reference Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 Booklist Editor's Choice 2006.
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2006.
• Winner of RUSA Best Reference Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 Booklist Editor's Choice 2006.
• Winner of RUSA Best Reference ^IChoice^R Outstanding Academic Title 2006 ^IBooklist^R Editor's Choice 2006.

Overview

From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl

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The editors of this five-volume encyclopedia chose a lofty aim: to provide readers with a history of British literature in English. They have surpassed that goal with this fine work. Library Journal An outstanding resource...Highly recommended. Library Media Connection

The editors of this five-volume encyclopedia chose a lofty aim: to provide readers with a history of British literature in English. They have surpassed that goal with this fine work. Library Journal An outstanding resource...Highly recommended. Library Media Connection

Author Information

EDITORIAL BOARD Editor in Chief David Scott Kastan, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature,Columbia University Senior Editors Nancy Armstrong, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of English and Comparative Literature,Brown University Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Department of English,Southern Illinois University Andrew D. Hadfield, Department of English,University of Sussex Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Humanities,Davidson College Jennifer Wicke, Department of English,University of Virginia

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