ABSTRACT
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |86 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Achebe, Chinua 1930—
entry |3 pages
Adams, Henry 1838–1918
entry |4 pages
Addison, Joseph 1672–1719
entry |4 pages
Aestheticism see Decadence, Aestheticism, and the 1890s African Literature: General
entry |3 pages
Decolonisation, Language Choice, and Politics
entry |3 pages
African Literature: East and Central
entry |3 pages
African Literature: West
entry |4 pages
African-American Writers: General
entry |3 pages
African-American Writers: 20th Century
entry |3 pages
African-American Writers: Recent and Contemporary
entry |2 pages
Agrarians see Fugitives and Agrarians
entry |2 pages
Alcott, Louisa May 1832–1888
entry |4 pages
Allegory
entry |3 pages
Alliterative Tradition
entry |2 pages
American Civil-War Literature
entry |4 pages
American Humor
entry |3 pages
American Literary Naturalism
entry |5 pages
American Literature: General
entry |3 pages
American Literature: Early Period
entry |3 pages
American Literature: 19th Century
entry |3 pages
American Literature: 20th Century
entry |3 pages
American Renaissance
entry |4 pages
Amis, Kingsley 1922–1995
entry |2 pages
Anand, Mulk Raj 1905-
entry |5 pages
Anderson, Sherwood 1876–1941
entry |3 pages
Anglo-Irish Literature see Irish Literature
entry |4 pages
Arnold, Matthew 1822–1888
entry |3 pages
Ashbery, John 1927-
entry |4 pages
Asian-American Literature
entry |3 pages
Atwood, Margaret 1939-
entry |3 pages
Auden, W.H. 1907–1973
entry |4 pages
Augustan Literature see British Literature: 18th Century
entry |4 pages
Australian Literature: General
entry |3 pages
Australian Literature: Recent and Contemporary
entry |3 pages
Autobiography
letter |114 pages
B
entry |3 pages
Bacon, Francis 1561–1626
entry |3 pages
Baldwin, James 1924–1987
entry |3 pages
Bale, John 1495–1563
entry |3 pages
The Ballad
entry |2 pages
Baraka, Amiri [LeRoi Jones] 1934–
entry |2 pages
Barth, John 1930–
entry |3 pages
Barthelme, Donald 1931–1989
entry |3 pages
Baxter, James K. 1926–1972
entry |3 pages
Beat Generation
entry |4 pages
Beaumont, Francis see Fletcher, John
entry |3 pages
Behn, Aphra
entry |2 pages
Bellow, Saul 1915—
entry |4 pages
Bennett, Arnold 1867–1931
entry |3 pages
Beowulf
entry |3 pages
Berryman, John 1914–1972
entry |2 pages
Bestsellers see Popular Fiction
entry |3 pages
Bierce, Ambrose 1842–1914
entry |3 pages
Biography: General
entry |3 pages
Biography: Renaissance
entry |3 pages
Biography and Autobiography: Victorian
entry |3 pages
Bishop, Elizabeth 1911–1979
entry |3 pages
Black Mountain Poets
entry |6 pages
Blake, William 1757–1827
entry |3 pages
The Bloomsbury Group
entry |2 pages
Boswell, James 1740–1795
entry |3 pages
Bowen, Elizabeth 1899–1973
entry |3 pages
Bradstreet, Anne c.1612–1672
entry |4 pages
British Literature: General
entry |5 pages
British Literature: Medieval
entry |3 pages
British Literature: 15th Century
entry |3 pages
British Literature: Renaissance
entry |4 pages
Tudor and Elizabethan
entry |2 pages
British Literature: Restoration
entry |5 pages
British Literature: 18th Century
entry |5 pages
British Literature: 19th Century
entry |4 pages
British Literature: 20th Century
entry |3 pages
Brontë, Charlotte 1816–1855
entry |4 pages
Brontë, Emily 1818–1848
entry |2 pages
Brown, Charles Brockden 1771–1810
entry |4 pages
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 1806–1861
entry |4 pages
Browning, Robert 1812–1889
entry |3 pages
Bunyan, John 1628–1688
entry |2 pages
Burgess, Anthony 1917–1993
entry |3 pages
Burke, Edmund 1719–1797
entry |3 pages
Burney, Frances [Fanny] 1752–1840
entry |3 pages
Burns, Robert 1759–1796
entry |3 pages
Burroughs, William S. 1914–
entry |3 pages
Butler, Samuel 1835–1902
entry |3 pages
Byron, Lord 1788–1824
letter |97 pages
C
entry |4 pages
Canadian Literature: General
entry |4 pages
Canadian Literature: Recent and Contemporary
entry |4 pages
Caribbean Literature
entry |3 pages
Carlyle, Thomas 1795–1881
entry |2 pages
Carroll, Lewis 1832–1898
entry |3 pages
Carver, Raymond 1938–1988
entry |3 pages
Gather, Willa 1873–1947
entry |3 pages
Chandler, Raymond 1888–1959
entry |3 pages
Chapman, George c.1560–1634
entry |7 pages
Chaucer, Geoffrey c.1340–1400
entry |2 pages
Chesterton, G.K. 1874–1936
entry |4 pages
Children's Literature: General
entry |2 pages
Children's Literature: 20th Century
entry |2 pages
2. Translation into English
entry |2 pages
3. Picture Books
entry |4 pages
Children's Literature: British—General
entry |3 pages
Children's Literature: British—to 1900
entry |3 pages
Children's Literature: British—1900 to the Present
entry |5 pages
Children's Literature: American
entry |4 pages
Chopin, Kate 1851–1904
entry |4 pages
Chronicle Literature
entry |3 pages
Churchill, Caryl 1938–
entry |2 pages
Clare, John 1793–1864
entry |3 pages
Coetzee, J.M. 1940–
entry |6 pages
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772–1834
entry |2 pages
Collins, Wilkie 1824–1889
entry |4 pages
Comedy: Theory
entry |3 pages
Comedy: Renaissance
entry |3 pages
City Comedy
entry |3 pages
Comedy: Restoration
entry |3 pages
Commonwealth Literature see New Literatures
entry |5 pages
Conrad, Joseph 1857–1924
entry |2 pages
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789–1851
entry |3 pages
Corpus Christi Plays see Drama: Medieval
entry |3 pages
Crabbe, George 1754–1832
entry |4 pages
Crane, Hart 1899–1932
entry |4 pages
Crane, Stephen 1871–1900
entry |3 pages
Crime Fiction 1871–1900
entry |4 pages
Critical Theory see Literary Theory
letter |117 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Davies, Robertson 1913–1995
entry |4 pages
Decadence, Aestheticism, and the 1890s
entry |4 pages
Deconstruction
entry |3 pages
Defoe, Daniel 1660–1731
entry |3 pages
Dekker, Thomas c.1572–1632
entry |3 pages
De Quincey, Thomas 1785–1859
entry |7 pages
Dickens, Charles 1812–1870
entry |7 pages
Dickinson, Emily 1830–1886
entry |4 pages
Donne, John 1572–1631
entry |3 pages
Doolittle, Hilda 1886–1961
entry |2 pages
Dos Passes, John 1896–1970
entry |3 pages
Douglass, Frederick 1818–1895
entry |3 pages
Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859–1930
entry |2 pages
Drama: Theory
entry |4 pages
The Dramatic Text and Its Performance: Structure, Language, Semiotics
entry |4 pages
Performance Theories: Directors, Alternative Theatre, Intercultural Performance
entry |4 pages
Drama: British—General
entry |3 pages
Drama: Medieval
entry |3 pages
2. Cycle Plays
entry |3 pages
3. Morality Plays
entry |3 pages
Drama: Renaissance
entry |3 pages
2. Elizabethan
entry |6 pages
3. Jacobean and Caroline
entry |3 pages
Drama: Restoration
entry |4 pages
Drama: 18th Century
entry |3 pages
Drama: British—19th Century
entry |4 pages
Drama: British—20th Century
entry |4 pages
2. Before World War II
entry |2 pages
3. Postwar Period (to 19608)
entry |3 pages
4. Recent and Contemporary
entry |3 pages
Drama: Irish
entry |4 pages
Drama: American—General
entry |3 pages
Drama: American—19th Century
entry |5 pages
Drama: American—20th Century
entry |4 pages
2. Postwar Period (to 1960s)
entry |3 pages
3. Recent and Contemporary
entry |3 pages
Drama: Australian
entry |3 pages
Dramatic Censorship
entry |3 pages
Dramatic Monologue
entry |3 pages
Drayton, Michael 1563–1631
entry |3 pages
Dream-Vision Literature
entry |4 pages
Dreiser, Theodore 1871–1945
entry |3 pages
Dryden, John 1631–1700
entry |4 pages
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1868–1963
entry |2 pages
Dunbar, William c.1460–c.1520
entry |3 pages
Durrell, Lawrence 1912–1990
letter |35 pages
E
entry |2 pages
Edgeworth, Maria 1768–1849
entry |2 pages
Edwards, Jonathan 1703–1758
entry |3 pages
Elegy and Poetry of Death
entry |4 pages
Eliot, George 1819–1880
entry |6 pages
Eliot, T.S. 1888–1965
entry |1 pages
Elizabethan Literature
entry |3 pages
Ellison, Ralph 1914–1994
entry |6 pages
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803–1882
entry |1 pages
Encounter Literature
entry |2 pages
Epistolary Novel
entry |2 pages
Equiano, Olaudah 1745–1797
entry |3 pages
Erdrich, Louise 1954
entry |3 pages
The Erotic in Literature
entry |3 pages
The Essay
entry |3 pages
Etherege, Sir George 1636–1692
entry |3 pages
Exploration Literature
letter |97 pages
F
entry |4 pages
Fantasy Literature
entry |3 pages
Farquhar, George c.1677–1707
entry |4 pages
Faulkner, William 1897–1962
entry |4 pages
Feminist Literary Theory
entry |3 pages
Fiction: Theory
entry |5 pages
Fiction to 1700
entry |3 pages
Fiction: 18th Century see Novel: 18th Century
entry |3 pages
2. Before World War II
entry |3 pages
3. Postwar Period (to 1960s)
entry |3 pages
4. Recent and Contemporary
entry |7 pages
Fiction: American—General
entry |2 pages
Fiction: American—19th Century
entry |4 pages
Fiction: American—20th Century
entry |6 pages
2. Before World War II
entry |4 pages
3. Postwar and Contemporary
entry |3 pages
Fiction: African
entry |3 pages
Fiction: Australian
entry |4 pages
Fiction: Canadian
entry |2 pages
Fiction: Indian
entry |4 pages
Fiction: New Zealand
entry |4 pages
Fielding, Henry 1707–1754
entry |3 pages
Film and Literature
entry |2 pages
Findley, Timothy 1930-
entry |7 pages
Fitzgerald, F.Scott 1896–1940
entry |3 pages
Fletcher, John 1579–1625
entry |3 pages
Ford, Ford Madox 1873–1939
entry |3 pages
Ford, John 1586-c.1640
entry |4 pages
Forster, E.M. 1879–1970
entry |3 pages
Fowles, John 1926-
entry |3 pages
Frame, Janet 1924-
entry |3 pages
Franklin, Benjamin 1706–1790
entry |2 pages
Frontier and Western Literature
entry |2 pages
Frontier Literature, the West, and Regional Voices
entry |3 pages
Frontier Literature, the Western Genre, and the Pioneer Experience
entry |4 pages
Frost, Robert 1874–1963
entry |2 pages
Fugard, Athol 1931-
entry |4 pages
Fugitives and Agrarians
entry |4 pages
Fuller, Margaret 1810–1850
letter |44 pages
G
entry |3 pages
Gaddis, William 1922-
entry |3 pages
Gaskell, Elizabeth 1810–1865
entry |3 pages
Gawain-Poet fl. 14th Century
entry |4 pages
Gay and Lesbian Literature
entry |4 pages
Gender and Literature
entry |3 pages
Georgian Poetry
entry |3 pages
Gibbon, Edward 1737–1794
entry |3 pages
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860–1935
entry |4 pages
Ginsberg, Allen 1926-
entry |2 pages
Gissing, George 1857–1903
entry |3 pages
Godwin, William 1756–1836
entry |2 pages
Golding, William 1911–1993
entry |3 pages
Goldsmith, Oliver 1730–1774
entry |3 pages
Gordimer, Nadine 1923-
entry |3 pages
Gower, John c.1330–1408
entry |3 pages
Graves, Robert 1895–1985
entry |4 pages
Green, Henry 1905–1973
entry |3 pages
Greene, Graham 1904–1991
entry |3 pages
Greene, Robert 1558–1592.
entry |3 pages
The Grotesque
letter |98 pages
H
entry |6 pages
Hardy, Thomas 1840–1928
entry |5 pages
Harlem Renaissance
entry |2 pages
Harris, Wilson 1921-
entry |4 pages
Hawkes, John 1925-
entry |4 pages
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804–1864
entry |2 pages
Hazlitt, William 1778–1830
entry |1 pages
H.D.
entry |2 pages
Heaney, Seamus 1939-
entry |2 pages
Hearn, Lafcadio 1850–1904
entry |2 pages
Heller, Joseph 1923-
entry |3 pages
Hellman, Lillian 1905–1984
entry |5 pages
Hemingway, Ernest 1899–1961
entry |3 pages
Herbert, George 1593–1633
entry |1 pages
Heroic Tragedy
entry |3 pages
Historical Drama
entry |3 pages
Historical Fiction
entry |3 pages
Hobbes, Thomas 1588–1679
entry |7 pages
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844–1889
entry |2 pages
Housman, A.E. 1859–1936 English poet
entry |3 pages
Howells, William Dean 1837–1920
entry |3 pages
Hughes, Langston 1902–1967
entry |2 pages
Hughes, Ted 1930-
entry |3 pages
Hurston, Zora Neale c.1901–1960
entry |2 pages
Huxley, Aldous 1894–1963
letter |15 pages
I
entry |2 pages
Imagism
entry |3 pages
Indian Literature
entry |3 pages
Irish Literature: General
entry |2 pages
Women Writers
entry |2 pages
Irish Literature: Literary Revival to the Present
entry |4 pages
Irony
entry |3 pages
Irving, Washington 1783– 1859
entry |2 pages
Isherwood, Christopher 1904– 1986
letter |35 pages
J
entry |1 pages
Jacobean Literature
entry |3 pages
Jacobs, Harriet 1813–1897
entry |5 pages
James, Henry 1843–1916
entry |3 pages
James, William 1842–1910
entry |5 pages
Jeffers, Robinson 1887–1961
entry |2 pages
Jefferson, Thomas 1743–1826
entry |3 pages
Jewish-American Writers
entry |2 pages
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 1927-
entry |5 pages
Johnson, Samuel 1709–1784
entry |3 pages
Jolley, Elizabeth 1923-
entry |4 pages
Jonson, Ben 1572–1637
entry |3 pages
Journalism and Literature in Britain
entry |6 pages
Joyce, James 1882–1941
entry |3 pages
Julian Of Norwich 1342/43-After 1416
letter |12 pages
K
entry |4 pages
Keats, John 1795–1821
entry |3 pages
Kempe, Margery ?1373–?1438
entry |3 pages
Kerouac, Jack 1922–1969
entry |3 pages
Kingsley, Charles 1819–1875
entry |3 pages
Kipling, Rudyard 1865–1936
letter |68 pages
L
entry |3 pages
Lamb, Charles 1775ߝ1834
entry |3 pages
Landscape and Literature in 18th-and 19th-century Britain
entry |4 pages
Langland, William c.1332-c.1390
entry |3 pages
Larkin, Philip 1921ߝ1985
entry |3 pages
Latino Writers
entry |4 pages
Laurence, Margaret 1926ߝ1987
entry |5 pages
Lawrence, D.H. 1885ߝ1930
entry |5 pages
Leavis, F.R. 1895ߝ1978
entry |3 pages
le Carré, John 1931-
entry |1 pages
Lesbian Literature
entry |3 pages
Lessing, Doris 1919-
entry |3 pages
Lewis, C.S. 1898ߝ1963
entry |2 pages
Lewis, Sinclair 1885ߝ1951
entry |3 pages
Lewis, Wyndham 1882ߝ1957
entry |1 pages
Life Writing
entry |2 pages
Literary Aesthetics: Renaissance
entry |4 pages
Literary Aesthetics: Romantic
entry |5 pages
Literary Theory: General
entry |4 pages
Literary Theory: Postwar Approaches
entry |3 pages
Literary Theory: Contemporary Approaches
entry |4 pages
Locke, John 1632ߝ1704
entry |4 pages
London, Jack 1876ߝ1916
entry |4 pages
Lovecraft, H.P. 1890ߝ1937
entry |4 pages
Lowell, Robert
entry |3 pages
Lowry, Malcolm 1909ߝ1957
entry |3 pages
Lyly, John c.1554ߝ1606
entry |3 pages
Lyric in Medieval Literature
letter |97 pages
M
entry |2 pages
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 1800–1859
entry |3 pages
McCullers, Carson 1917–1967
entry |3 pages
MacDiarmid, Hugh 1892–1978
entry |4 pages
MacLennan, Hugh 1907–1990
entry |3 pages
MacNeice, Louis 1907–1963
entry |2 pages
Macpherson, James 1736–1796
entry |2 pages
Madness and Literature
entry |4 pages
Mailer, Norman 1923—
entry |3 pages
Malamud, Bernard 1914–1986
entry |3 pages
Malory, Sir Thomas fl. 15th Century
entry |3 pages
Malouf, David 1934-
entry |3 pages
Mamet, David 1947-
entry |3 pages
Mansfield, Katherine 1888–1923
entry |4 pages
Marlowe, Christopher 1564–1593
entry |3 pages
Marston, John 1576–1634
entry |3 pages
Martineau, Harriet 1802–1876
entry |2 pages
Marvell, Andrew 1621–1678
entry |2 pages
Marxist Literary Theory
entry |4 pages
The Masque
entry |3 pages
Massinger, Philip 1583–1640
entry |3 pages
Medicine and Literature
entry |1 pages
Medieval Literature
entry |3 pages
Melodrama
entry |5 pages
Melville, Herman 1819–1891
entry |3 pages
Meredith, George 1828–1909
entry |3 pages
Metaphysical Poetry
entry |1 pages
Middle English Literature
entry |3 pages
Middleton, Thomas 1580–1627
entry |2 pages
Millay, Edna St Vincent 1892–1950
entry |3 pages
Miller, Arthur 1915-
entry |3 pages
Milton, John 1608–1674
entry |3 pages
Paradise Lost
entry |3 pages
Other Poetry and The Prose
entry |4 pages
Modernism: Fiction
entry |4 pages
Modernism: Poetry
entry |3 pages
Moore, George 1852–1933
entry |3 pages
Moore, Marianne 1887–1972
entry |3 pages
More, Sir Thomas 1478–1535
entry |3 pages
Morris, William 1834–1896
entry |4 pages
Morrison, Toni 1931-
entry |3 pages
The Movement
entry |3 pages
Muir, Edwin 1887–1959
entry |3 pages
Munro, Alice 1931-
entry |3 pages
Murdoch, Iris 1919-
entry |3 pages
Music and Literature
entry |1 pages
Mystery Plays
entry |3 pages
Mystical Literature
letter |56 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Nabokov, Vladimir 1899–1977
entry |3 pages
Naipaul, V.S. 1932-
entry |3 pages
Narayan, R.K. 1906-
entry |4 pages
Narrative Theory
entry |4 pages
Native American Literature
entry |3 pages
New Criticism
entry |3 pages
New England Literature
entry |3 pages
New Historicism
entry |5 pages
New Literatures: General
entry |3 pages
New Zealand and South Pacific Literatures
entry |2 pages
South Pacific Literature
entry |3 pages
Newman, John Henry 1801–1890
entry |1 pages
Nigerian Literature
entry |2 pages
Ngugi wa Thiong'o 1938
entry |4 pages
Norris, Frank 1870–1901
entry |4 pages
Novel: General
entry |4 pages
Novel: 20th Century
entry |3 pages
Novel: Recent and Contemporary
entry |5 pages
Novel: British—General
entry |3 pages
Novel: 18th Century
entry |3 pages
Novel: Romantic Era
entry |3 pages
Novel: Victorian
entry |3 pages
Victorian Novel of Social Conscience
letter |25 pages
O
entry |3 pages
Oates, Joyce Carol 1938—
entry |3 pages
O'Casey, Sean 1880–1964
entry |5 pages
O'Connor, Flannery 1925–1964
entry |1 pages
Old English Literature
entry |2 pages
Olson, Charles 1910–1970
entry |3 pages
Ondaatje, Michael 1943
entry |5 pages
O'Neill, Eugene 1888–1953
entry |3 pages
Orwell, George 1903–1950
entry |3 pages
Osborne, John 1929–1995
entry |4 pages
Owen, Wilfred 1893–1918
letter |165 pages
P
entry |3 pages
Paine, Thomas 1737–1809
entry |2 pages
Parker, Dorothy 1893–1967
entry |5 pages
Parody
entry |3 pages
Pastoral Literature
entry |4 pages
Pater, Walter 1839–1894
entry |3 pages
Peacock, Thomas Love 1785–1866
entry |1 pages
Pearl-Poet
entry |3 pages
Pepys, Samuel 1633–1703
entry |1 pages
Performance Theory
entry |3 pages
Philips, Katherine 1632–1664
entry |1 pages
The Picturesque
entry |3 pages
Pinter, Harold 1930
entry |2 pages
Plath, Sylvia 1932–1963
entry |4 pages
Poe, Edgar Allan 1809–1849
entry |3 pages
Poetry: Theory
entry |5 pages
Poetry: General
entry |2 pages
Poetry: 20th Century
entry |3 pages
Poetry: Recent and Contemporary
entry |5 pages
Poetry: British—General
entry |2 pages
Poetry: Old English
entry |4 pages
Poetry: Middle English
entry |3 pages
Poetry: Renaissance
entry |2 pages
Poetry: 18th Century
entry |3 pages
Poetry: Romantic
entry |3 pages
Poetry: Victorian
entry |3 pages
Poetry: British—20th Century
entry |4 pages
2. Before World War II
entry |2 pages
3. Postwar Period (to 1960s)
entry |3 pages
4. Recent and Contemporary
entry |6 pages
Poetry: American—General
entry |3 pages
Poetry: American—19th Century
entry |4 pages
Poetry: American—20th Century
entry |6 pages
Poetry: American—General
entry |4 pages
Poetry: American—19th Century
entry |3 pages
Poetry: American—20th Century
entry |4 pages
2. Before World War II
entry |7 pages
3. Postwar Period (to 19608)
entry |8 pages
4. Recent and Contemporary
entry |3 pages
Poetry: Australian
entry |2 pages
Poetry: Canadian
entry |4 pages
Politics and Literature
entry |5 pages
Pope, Alexander 1688–1744
entry |3 pages
Popular Fiction: General
entry |4 pages
Popular Fiction for Women
entry |4 pages
Popular Literature in Britain
entry |3 pages
Grub Street and Popular Publishing
entry |3 pages
Porter, Katherine Anne 1890–1980
entry |3 pages
Postcolonial Theory
entry |2 pages
Postmodern Literature
entry |4 pages
Postmodernist Literary Theory
entry |1 pages
Poststructuralism
entry |6 pages
Pound, Ezra 1885–1972
entry |2 pages
Powys, John Cowper 1872–1963
entry |3 pages
Pratt, E.J. 1882–1964
entry |3 pages
Pre-Raphaelitism
entry |3 pages
Proletarian Literature in America
entry |3 pages
Prose: Old English
entry |3 pages
Prose: Renaissance
entry |3 pages
Prose and Journalism: 18th Century
entry |3 pages
Prose and Journalism: Romantic—Historical and Political
entry |4 pages
Prose and Journalism: Victorian
entry |3 pages
Prose in America: Historical and Political
entry |4 pages
Prose in America: 19th Century
entry |3 pages
Psychoanalytic Literary Theory
entry |3 pages
Puritan Literature: British
entry |3 pages
Puritan Literature: American
entry |4 pages
Pynchon, Thomas 1937
letter |66 pages
R
entry |2 pages
Radcliffe, Ann 1764-1823
entry |3 pages
Ralegh, Sir Walter ?1552–1618
entry |2 pages
Rao, Raja 1908
entry |4 pages
Reader-Response Theory
entry |8 pages
Realism: General
entry |4 pages
Realism in American Literature
entry |2 pages
Reaney, James 1926
entry |3 pages
Religion and Literature
entry |3 pages
Rhys, Jean 1894–1979
entry |3 pages
Rich, Adrienne 1929-
entry |3 pages
Richards, I.A. 1893–1979
entry |2 pages
Richardson, Dorothy 1873–1957
entry |2 pages
Richardson, Henry Handel 1870–1946
entry |4 pages
Richardson, Samuel 1689–1761
entry |4 pages
Robinson, Edwin Arlington 1869–1935
entry |3 pages
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of 1647–1680
entry |2 pages
Roethke, Theodore 1908–1963
entry |3 pages
Romance
entry |3 pages
Romance Fiction
entry |4 pages
Romanticism: British
entry |5 pages
Romanticism and Transcendentalism in America
entry |2 pages
Ross, Sinclair 1908-
entry |2 pages
Rossetti, Christina 1830–1894
entry |3 pages
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828–1882
entry |4 pages
Roth, Philip 1933-
entry |3 pages
Rushdie, Salman 1947—
entry |3 pages
Ruskin, John 1819–1900
letter |170 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Salinger, J.D. 1919-
entry |4 pages
Sandburg, Carl 1878–1967
entry |4 pages
Satire: General
entry |5 pages
Satire: 18th Century
entry |2 pages
Schreiner, Olive 1855–1920
entry |4 pages
Science and Literature
entry |3 pages
Science Fiction
entry |3 pages
Scott, Sir Walter 1771–1832
entry |3 pages
Scottish Literature: Medieval and Renaissance
entry |3 pages
Scottish Literature: 18th and 19th Centuries
entry |3 pages
Scottish Literature: 20th Century
entry |4 pages
Semiotics
entry |3 pages
Sentimentalism
entry |5 pages
Shakespeare, William 1564–1616
entry |5 pages
2. Recent and Contemporary Approaches
entry |5 pages
3. Performance History
entry |6 pages
4. Tragedies
entry |2 pages
5. Hamlet
entry |3 pages
6. King Lear
entry |5 pages
7. Histories
entry |4 pages
8. Problem Plays
entry |3 pages
9. Early Comedies
entry |5 pages
10. Middle Comedies
entry |4 pages
111. Late Comedies (Romances)
entry |4 pages
12. Poetry
entry |6 pages
Shaw, George Bernard 1856–1950
entry |3 pages
Shelley, Mary 1797–1851
entry |4 pages
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792–1822
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Shepard, Sam 1943-
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1751–1816
entry |7 pages
Short Fiction: General
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Short Fiction: British
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Short Fiction: American
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Sidney, Sir Philip 1554–1586
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Simms, William Gilmore 1806–1870
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Sinclair, Upton 1878–1968
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1904–1991
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The Sitwells
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Osbert Sitwell 1892–1969
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Sacheverell Sitwell 1897–1988
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Skelton, John c.1460–1529
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Slave Narrative see Douglass, Frederick; Equiano, Olaudah; Jacobs, Harriet
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Smollett, Tobias 1721–1771
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The Sonnet
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South African Literature: General
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South African Literature: Black Writers
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Southern United States Literature: General
entry |3 pages
Southern United States Literature: 19th Century
entry |4 pages
Southern United States Literature: 20th Century
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Southey, Robert 1774–1843
entry |4 pages
Soyinka, Wole 1934-
entry |2 pages
Spark, Muriel 1918-
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Spenser, Edmund c.1552–1599
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Stead, Christina 1902–1983
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Steele, Sir Richard 1672–1729
entry |3 pages
Stein, Gertrude 1874–1946
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Steinbeck, John 1902–1968
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Sterne, Laurence 1713–1768
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Stevens, Wallace 1879–1955
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Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850–1894
entry |5 pages
Stoppard, Tom 1937-
entry |3 pages
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811–1896
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Structuralism
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Styron, William 1925-
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The Sublime
entry |4 pages
Swift, Jonathan 1667–1745
entry |3 pages
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 1837–1909
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Synge, John Millington 1871–1909
letter |50 pages
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Tagore, Rabindranath
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Taylor, Edward c.1642–1729
entry |4 pages
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 1809–1892
entry |4 pages
Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811–1863
entry |2 pages
The Thirties Generation
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Thomas, Dylan 1914–1953
entry |3 pages
Thomas, R.S. 1913–
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Thoreau, Henry David 1817–1862
entry |3 pages
Tolkien, J.R.R. 1892–1973
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Topographical Poetry
entry |3 pages
Tragedy: Theory
entry |5 pages
Tragedy: Renaissance
entry |3 pages
Tragedy: Restoration
entry |2 pages
Tragicomedy
entry |2 pages
Traherne, Thomas 1637–1674
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Transcendentalism
entry |4 pages
Transcendentalism
entry |2 pages
Travel Literature: General
entry |3 pages
Travel Literature: British—18th and 19th Centuries
entry |4 pages
Trollope, Anthony 1815–1882.
entry |5 pages
Twain, Mark 1835–1910
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U
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Updike, John 1932-
entry |6 pages
Utopian Literature
letter |25 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Vaughan, Henry
entry |4 pages
Victorian Literature: General
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Victorian Literature and the City
entry |3 pages
Victorian Literature and Religion
entry |5 pages
Victorian Literature and Society
entry |3 pages
Victorian Literature, Science, and Evolutionary Theory
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Vidal, Gore 1925—
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Vietnam War Literature
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Visual Arts and Literature
entry |3 pages
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 1922
letter |110 pages
W
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Walcott, Derek 1930–
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Walker, Alice 1944–
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Walpole, Horace 1717–1797
entry |5 pages
War and Literature
entry |3 pages
The War Poets
entry |4 pages
Warren, Robert Penn 1905–1989
entry |3 pages
Waugh, Evelyn 1903–1966
entry |3 pages
Webster, John c.1580–c.1633
entry |2 pages
Wells, H.G. 1866–1946
entry |4 pages
Welsh Literature
entry |3 pages
Welty, Eudora
entry |3 pages
West, Nathanael 1903–1940
entry |3 pages
West, Rebecca 1892–1983
entry |3 pages
West Indian Literature see Caribbean Literature
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White, Patrick 1912–1990
entry |4 pages
Whitman, Walt 1819–1892
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Wilde, Oscar 1854–1900
entry |3 pages
Wilder, Thornton 1897–1975
entry |4 pages
Williams, Tennessee 1911–1983
entry |5 pages
Williams, William Carlos 1883–1963
entry |4 pages
Wilson, Angus 1913–1991
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Wilson, Edmund 1895–1972
entry |4 pages
Wolfe, Thomas 1900–1938
entry |3 pages
Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759–1797
entry |6 pages
Women Writers: General
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Women Writers: 20th Century
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Women Writers: Contemporary
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Women Writers: British—General
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Women Writers: Renaissance
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Women Writers: Restoration and 18th Century
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Women Writers: British—19th Century
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2. Romantic Era
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3. Victorian
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Women Writers: British—20th Century
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Women Writers: American—General
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Women Writers: American—to 1900
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Women Writers: American—1900 to the Present
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Women Writers: African-American
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Woolf, Virginia 1882–1941
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Wordsworth, William 1770–1850
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Wright, Judith
entry |3 pages
Wright, Richard
entry |3 pages
Wyatt, Sir Thomas
entry |3 pages
Wycherley, William
letter |7 pages
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Yeats, W.B.
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Poetry
entry |3 pages
Drama
entry |2 pages
Yonge, Charlotte 1823—1901