The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers.
Keynes, Simon, 'The Declining Reputation of King Æthelred the Unready', in David Hill (ed.), Ethelred the Unready: Papers from the Millenary Conference (BAR, 1978), 227–53. Keynes, Simon, The Diplomas of King Æthelred 'The Unready' ...
Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age.
William Nelson , EETS 230 ( Oxford University Press , 1955 ) DNB Barnes , ROBERT ( 1495-1540 ) Born near Lynn , Barnes was by about 1512 an Augustinian friar in Cambridge , later prior of that house . He became a Doctor of Divinity in ...
Slagle, Judith B., 'Thomas Shadwell's Censored Comedy, The Lancashire-Witches: An Attack on Religious Ritual or Divine Right? ... Smyth, Adam, 'Almanacs, Annotators, and Life Writing in Early Modern England', ELR, 38 (2008), 200–44.
... 115 , 116 Wilcox , Michael 334 Wilde , Oscar 274 , 343 , 354 , 523 , 564 Wilkinson , John 234 Willett , John 295 , 299 Williams , Heathcote 159 , 374 , 383 Williams , Hugo 173 , 175 , 177 Williams , Nigel 382 Williams , Raymond 17 ...
... Independent Theatre Company's efforts (from 1891) to bring the works of Henrik Ibsen to English audiences, and of the Stage Society (from 1899) to promote the work of Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville-Barker, and other new dramatists.
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This book describes and seeks to explain the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350. Change can be perceived everywhere at this time.
Offering for the first time a comprehensive view of this phenomenon, this pioneering five-volume work casts a vivid new light on the history of English literature.
"This volume covers the period 1645-1714, and removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England. It invites...