ABSTRACT
This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.
Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading.
An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature.
Special Features
* Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines
* In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present
* Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading
* Single index of authors, terms, topics
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |66 pages
Introduction
entry |24 pages
Literature
entry |40 pages
Criticism
part |82 pages
Literature And History
entry |13 pages
Medieval Literature And The Medieval World
entry |11 pages
The Renaissance
entry |13 pages
Augustanism
entry |13 pages
Romanticism
entry |12 pages
Modernism
entry |18 pages
Postmodernism
part |200 pages
Poetry
entry |13 pages
Genre
entry |13 pages
Poetry
entry |11 pages
Epic And Romance
entry |11 pages
Lyric
entry |9 pages
Narrative Verse
entry |15 pages
Women and the Poetic Tradition: The Oppressor's Language
entry |16 pages
Medieval Poetry
entry |14 pages
Renaissance Poetry
entry |12 pages
Augustan' Poetry
entry |13 pages
Romantic Poetry
entry |17 pages
Victorian Poetry
entry |13 pages
The French Symbolists
entry |13 pages
Modern Poetry
entry |15 pages
British Poetry Since 1945: Poetry And The Historical Moment
entry |13 pages
Contemporary American Poetry
part |154 pages
Drama
entry |12 pages
Stagecraft
entry |12 pages
Tragedy
entry |12 pages
Comedy
entry |13 pages
Shakespeare
entry |13 pages
Medieval Drama
entry |11 pages
Renaissance Drama
entry |12 pages
Restoration Theatre
entry |15 pages
The Origins of the Modern British Stage
entry |13 pages
Theories of Modern Drama
entry |11 pages
The Theatre of the Absurd
entry |13 pages
Theatre and Politics
entry |15 pages
Feminist Theatre
part |148 pages
The Novel
entry |13 pages
Modes of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
entry |13 pages
Feminine Fictions
entry |13 pages
The Historical Novel
entry |10 pages
The Nineteenth-Century Social Novel in England
entry |11 pages
The Realist Novel: The European Context
entry |11 pages
Realism and the English Novel
entry |13 pages
American Romance
entry |13 pages
Formalism and the Novel: Henry James
entry |17 pages
The Novel and Modern Criticism
entry |12 pages
The Modernist Novel in the Twentieth Century
entry |12 pages
British Fiction Since 1930
entry |8 pages
Contemporary Fiction
part |156 pages
Criticism
entry |13 pages
Biblical Hermeneutics
entry |16 pages
Neo-Classical Criticism
entry |14 pages
The Romantic Critical Tradition
entry |12 pages
Great Traditions: The Logic of the Canon
entry |13 pages
Marxist Criticism
entry |15 pages
The New Criticism
entry |14 pages
Structuralism and Post-Structuralism: From the Centre to the Margin
entry |14 pages
Feminist Literary Criticism: ‘New Colours and Shadows'
entry |13 pages
Psychoanalytic Criticism
entry |14 pages
Deconstruction
entry |16 pages
New Historicism
part |132 pages
Production and Reception
entry |16 pages
Production and Reception of the Literary Book
entry |12 pages
The Printed Book
entry |11 pages
Literacy
entry |14 pages
Publishing Before 1800
entry |14 pages
Publishing Since 1800
entry |13 pages
British Periodicals and Reading Publics
entry |12 pages
Libraries and the Reading Public
entry |14 pages
Censorship
entry |11 pages
The Bibliographic Record
entry |13 pages
The Institutionalization of Literature: The University
part |171 pages
Contexts
entry |10 pages
Literature and the History of Ideas
entry |13 pages
Literature and the Bible
entry |12 pages
Literature and the Classics
entry |15 pages
Folk Literature
entry |13 pages
Literature and the Visual Arts
entry |11 pages
Literature and Music
entry |14 pages
Literature and Landscape
entry |15 pages
The Sentimental Ethic
entry |11 pages
The Gothic
entry |13 pages
Aestheticism
entry |14 pages
Literature and Science
entry |16 pages
Literature and Language
entry |12 pages
Culture and Popular Culture: The Politics of Photopoetry
part |109 pages
Perspectives
entry |12 pages
New English Literatures
entry |11 pages
African Literature in English
entry |12 pages
The African-American Literary Tradition
entry |14 pages
Australian Literature And The British Tradition
entry |14 pages
Canadian Literature
entry |10 pages
Indian Literature In English
entry |12 pages
New Zealand And Pacific Literature
entry |12 pages
West Indian Literature
entry |9 pages
Western Literature In Modern China
part |18 pages
Afterword
entry |16 pages
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