Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Achebe, Chinua 1930—

Adams, Henry 1838–1918

Addison, Joseph 1672–1719

Aestheticism see Decadence, Aestheticism, and the 1890s African Literature: General

Decolonisation, Language Choice, and Politics

African Literature: East and Central

African Literature: West

African-American Writers: General

African-American Writers: 20th Century

African-American Writers: Recent and Contemporary

Agrarians see Fugitives and Agrarians

Alcott, Louisa May 1832–1888

Allegory

Alliterative Tradition

American Civil-War Literature

American Humor

American Literary Naturalism

American Literature: General

American Literature: Early Period

American Literature: 19th Century

American Literature: 20th Century

American Renaissance

Amis, Kingsley 1922–1995

Anand, Mulk Raj 1905-

Anderson, Sherwood 1876–1941

Anglo-Irish Literature see Irish Literature

Arnold, Matthew 1822–1888

Ashbery, John 1927-

Asian-American Literature

Atwood, Margaret 1939-

Auden, W.H. 1907–1973

Augustan Literature see British Literature: 18th Century

Australian Literature: General

Australian Literature: Recent and Contemporary

Autobiography

Bacon, Francis 1561–1626

Baldwin, James 1924–1987

Bale, John 1495–1563

The Ballad

Baraka, Amiri [LeRoi Jones] 1934–

Barth, John 1930–

Barthelme, Donald 1931–1989

Baxter, James K. 1926–1972

Beat Generation

Beaumont, Francis see Fletcher, John

Behn, Aphra

Bellow, Saul 1915—

Bennett, Arnold 1867–1931

Beowulf

Berryman, John 1914–1972

Bestsellers see Popular Fiction

Bierce, Ambrose 1842–1914

Biography: General

Biography: Renaissance

Biography and Autobiography: Victorian

Bishop, Elizabeth 1911–1979

Black Mountain Poets

Blake, William 1757–1827

The Bloomsbury Group

Boswell, James 1740–1795

Bowen, Elizabeth 1899–1973

Bradstreet, Anne c.1612–1672

British Literature: General

British Literature: Medieval

British Literature: 15th Century

British Literature: Renaissance

Tudor and Elizabethan

British Literature: Restoration

British Literature: 18th Century

British Literature: 19th Century

British Literature: 20th Century

Brontë, Charlotte 1816–1855

Brontë, Emily 1818–1848

Brown, Charles Brockden 1771–1810

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 1806–1861

Browning, Robert 1812–1889

Bunyan, John 1628–1688

Burgess, Anthony 1917–1993

Burke, Edmund 1719–1797

Burney, Frances [Fanny] 1752–1840

Burns, Robert 1759–1796

Burroughs, William S. 1914–

Butler, Samuel 1835–1902

Byron, Lord 1788–1824

Canadian Literature: General

Canadian Literature: Recent and Contemporary

Caribbean Literature

Carlyle, Thomas 1795–1881

Carroll, Lewis 1832–1898

Carver, Raymond 1938–1988

Gather, Willa 1873–1947

Chandler, Raymond 1888–1959

Chapman, George c.1560–1634

Chaucer, Geoffrey c.1340–1400

Chesterton, G.K. 1874–1936

Children's Literature: General

Children's Literature: 20th Century

2. Translation into English

3. Picture Books

Children's Literature: British—General

Children's Literature: British—to 1900

Children's Literature: British—1900 to the Present

Children's Literature: American

Chopin, Kate 1851–1904

Chronicle Literature

Churchill, Caryl 1938–

Clare, John 1793–1864

Coetzee, J.M. 1940–

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772–1834

Collins, Wilkie 1824–1889

Comedy: Theory

Comedy: Renaissance

City Comedy

Comedy: Restoration

Commonwealth Literature see New Literatures

Conrad, Joseph 1857–1924

Cooper, James Fenimore 1789–1851

Corpus Christi Plays see Drama: Medieval

Crabbe, George 1754–1832

Crane, Hart 1899–1932

Crane, Stephen 1871–1900

Crime Fiction 1871–1900

Critical Theory see Literary Theory

Davies, Robertson 1913–1995

Decadence, Aestheticism, and the 1890s

Deconstruction

Defoe, Daniel 1660–1731

Dekker, Thomas c.1572–1632

De Quincey, Thomas 1785–1859

Dickens, Charles 1812–1870

Dickinson, Emily 1830–1886

Donne, John 1572–1631

Doolittle, Hilda 1886–1961

Dos Passes, John 1896–1970

Douglass, Frederick 1818–1895

Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859–1930

Drama: Theory

The Dramatic Text and Its Performance: Structure, Language, Semiotics

Performance Theories: Directors, Alternative Theatre, Intercultural Performance

Drama: British—General

Drama: Medieval

2. Cycle Plays

3. Morality Plays

Drama: Renaissance

2. Elizabethan

3. Jacobean and Caroline

Drama: Restoration

Drama: 18th Century

Drama: British—19th Century

Drama: British—20th Century

2. Before World War II

3. Postwar Period (to 19608)

4. Recent and Contemporary

Drama: Irish

Drama: American—General

Drama: American—19th Century

Drama: American—20th Century

2. Postwar Period (to 1960s)

3. Recent and Contemporary

Drama: Australian

Dramatic Censorship

Dramatic Monologue

Drayton, Michael 1563–1631

Dream-Vision Literature

Dreiser, Theodore 1871–1945

Dryden, John 1631–1700

Du Bois, W.E.B. 1868–1963

Dunbar, William c.1460–c.1520

Durrell, Lawrence 1912–1990

Edgeworth, Maria 1768–1849

Edwards, Jonathan 1703–1758

Elegy and Poetry of Death

Eliot, George 1819–1880

Eliot, T.S. 1888–1965

Elizabethan Literature

Ellison, Ralph 1914–1994

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803–1882

Encounter Literature

Epistolary Novel

Equiano, Olaudah 1745–1797

Erdrich, Louise 1954

The Erotic in Literature

The Essay

Etherege, Sir George 1636–1692

Exploration Literature

Fantasy Literature

Farquhar, George c.1677–1707

Faulkner, William 1897–1962

Feminist Literary Theory

Fiction: Theory

Fiction to 1700

Fiction: 18th Century see Novel: 18th Century

2. Before World War II

3. Postwar Period (to 1960s)

4. Recent and Contemporary

Fiction: American—General

Fiction: American—19th Century

Fiction: American—20th Century

2. Before World War II

3. Postwar and Contemporary

Fiction: African

Fiction: Australian

Fiction: Canadian

Fiction: Indian

Fiction: New Zealand

Fielding, Henry 1707–1754

Film and Literature

Findley, Timothy 1930-

Fitzgerald, F.Scott 1896–1940

Fletcher, John 1579–1625

Ford, Ford Madox 1873–1939

Ford, John 1586-c.1640

Forster, E.M. 1879–1970

Fowles, John 1926-

Frame, Janet 1924-

Franklin, Benjamin 1706–1790

Frontier and Western Literature

Frontier Literature, the West, and Regional Voices

Frontier Literature, the Western Genre, and the Pioneer Experience

Frost, Robert 1874–1963

Fugard, Athol 1931-

Fugitives and Agrarians

Fuller, Margaret 1810–1850

Gaddis, William 1922-

Gaskell, Elizabeth 1810–1865

Gawain-Poet fl. 14th Century

Gay and Lesbian Literature

Gender and Literature

Georgian Poetry

Gibbon, Edward 1737–1794

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860–1935

Ginsberg, Allen 1926-

Gissing, George 1857–1903

Godwin, William 1756–1836

Golding, William 1911–1993

Goldsmith, Oliver 1730–1774

Gordimer, Nadine 1923-

Gower, John c.1330–1408

Graves, Robert 1895–1985

Green, Henry 1905–1973

Greene, Graham 1904–1991

Greene, Robert 1558–1592.

The Grotesque

Hardy, Thomas 1840–1928

Harlem Renaissance

Harris, Wilson 1921-

Hawkes, John 1925-

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804–1864

Hazlitt, William 1778–1830

H.D.

Heaney, Seamus 1939-

Hearn, Lafcadio 1850–1904

Heller, Joseph 1923-

Hellman, Lillian 1905–1984

Hemingway, Ernest 1899–1961

Herbert, George 1593–1633

Heroic Tragedy

Historical Drama

Historical Fiction

Hobbes, Thomas 1588–1679

Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844–1889

Housman, A.E. 1859–1936 English poet

Howells, William Dean 1837–1920

Hughes, Langston 1902–1967

Hughes, Ted 1930-

Hurston, Zora Neale c.1901–1960

Huxley, Aldous 1894–1963

Imagism

Indian Literature

Irish Literature: General

Women Writers

Irish Literature: Literary Revival to the Present

Irony

Irving, Washington 1783– 1859

Isherwood, Christopher 1904– 1986

Jacobean Literature

Jacobs, Harriet 1813–1897

James, Henry 1843–1916

James, William 1842–1910

Jeffers, Robinson 1887–1961

Jefferson, Thomas 1743–1826

Jewish-American Writers

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 1927-

Johnson, Samuel 1709–1784

Jolley, Elizabeth 1923-

Jonson, Ben 1572–1637

Journalism and Literature in Britain

Joyce, James 1882–1941

Julian Of Norwich 1342/43-After 1416

Keats, John 1795–1821

Kempe, Margery ?1373–?1438

Kerouac, Jack 1922–1969

Kingsley, Charles 1819–1875

Kipling, Rudyard 1865–1936

Lamb, Charles 1775ߝ1834

Landscape and Literature in 18th-and 19th-century Britain

Langland, William c.1332-c.1390

Larkin, Philip 1921ߝ1985

Latino Writers

Laurence, Margaret 1926ߝ1987

Lawrence, D.H. 1885ߝ1930

Leavis, F.R. 1895ߝ1978

le Carré, John 1931-

Lesbian Literature

Lessing, Doris 1919-

Lewis, C.S. 1898ߝ1963

Lewis, Sinclair 1885ߝ1951

Lewis, Wyndham 1882ߝ1957

Life Writing

Literary Aesthetics: Renaissance

Literary Aesthetics: Romantic

Literary Theory: General

Literary Theory: Postwar Approaches

Literary Theory: Contemporary Approaches

Locke, John 1632ߝ1704

London, Jack 1876ߝ1916

Lovecraft, H.P. 1890ߝ1937

Lowell, Robert

Lowry, Malcolm 1909ߝ1957

Lyly, John c.1554ߝ1606

Lyric in Medieval Literature

Macaulay, Thomas Babington 1800–1859

McCullers, Carson 1917–1967

MacDiarmid, Hugh 1892–1978

MacLennan, Hugh 1907–1990

MacNeice, Louis 1907–1963

Macpherson, James 1736–1796

Madness and Literature

Mailer, Norman 1923—

Malamud, Bernard 1914–1986

Malory, Sir Thomas fl. 15th Century

Malouf, David 1934-

Mamet, David 1947-

Mansfield, Katherine 1888–1923

Marlowe, Christopher 1564–1593

Marston, John 1576–1634

Martineau, Harriet 1802–1876

Marvell, Andrew 1621–1678

Marxist Literary Theory

The Masque

Massinger, Philip 1583–1640

Medicine and Literature

Medieval Literature

Melodrama

Melville, Herman 1819–1891

Meredith, George 1828–1909

Metaphysical Poetry

Middle English Literature

Middleton, Thomas 1580–1627

Millay, Edna St Vincent 1892–1950

Miller, Arthur 1915-

Milton, John 1608–1674

Paradise Lost

Other Poetry and The Prose

Modernism: Fiction

Modernism: Poetry

Moore, George 1852–1933

Moore, Marianne 1887–1972

More, Sir Thomas 1478–1535

Morris, William 1834–1896

Morrison, Toni 1931-

The Movement

Muir, Edwin 1887–1959

Munro, Alice 1931-

Murdoch, Iris 1919-

Music and Literature

Mystery Plays

Mystical Literature

Nabokov, Vladimir 1899–1977

Naipaul, V.S. 1932-

Narayan, R.K. 1906-

Narrative Theory

Native American Literature

New Criticism

New England Literature

New Historicism

New Literatures: General

New Zealand and South Pacific Literatures

South Pacific Literature

Newman, John Henry 1801–1890

Nigerian Literature

Ngugi wa Thiong'o 1938

Norris, Frank 1870–1901

Novel: General

Novel: 20th Century

Novel: Recent and Contemporary

Novel: British—General

Novel: 18th Century

Novel: Romantic Era

Novel: Victorian

Victorian Novel of Social Conscience

Oates, Joyce Carol 1938—

O'Casey, Sean 1880–1964

O'Connor, Flannery 1925–1964

Old English Literature

Olson, Charles 1910–1970

Ondaatje, Michael 1943

O'Neill, Eugene 1888–1953

Orwell, George 1903–1950

Osborne, John 1929–1995

Owen, Wilfred 1893–1918

Paine, Thomas 1737–1809

Parker, Dorothy 1893–1967

Parody

Pastoral Literature

Pater, Walter 1839–1894

Peacock, Thomas Love 1785–1866

Pearl-Poet

Pepys, Samuel 1633–1703

Performance Theory

Philips, Katherine 1632–1664

The Picturesque

Pinter, Harold 1930

Plath, Sylvia 1932–1963

Poe, Edgar Allan 1809–1849

Poetry: Theory

Poetry: General

Poetry: 20th Century

Poetry: Recent and Contemporary

Poetry: British—General

Poetry: Old English

Poetry: Middle English

Poetry: Renaissance

Poetry: 18th Century

Poetry: Romantic

Poetry: Victorian

Poetry: British—20th Century

2. Before World War II

3. Postwar Period (to 1960s)

4. Recent and Contemporary

Poetry: American—General

Poetry: American—19th Century

Poetry: American—20th Century

Poetry: American—General

Poetry: American—19th Century

Poetry: American—20th Century

2. Before World War II

3. Postwar Period (to 19608)

4. Recent and Contemporary

Poetry: Australian

Poetry: Canadian

Politics and Literature

Pope, Alexander 1688–1744

Popular Fiction: General

Popular Fiction for Women

Popular Literature in Britain

Grub Street and Popular Publishing

Porter, Katherine Anne 1890–1980

Postcolonial Theory

Postmodern Literature

Postmodernist Literary Theory

Poststructuralism

Pound, Ezra 1885–1972

Powys, John Cowper 1872–1963

Pratt, E.J. 1882–1964

Pre-Raphaelitism

Proletarian Literature in America

Prose: Old English

Prose: Renaissance

Prose and Journalism: 18th Century

Prose and Journalism: Romantic—Historical and Political

Prose and Journalism: Victorian

Prose in America: Historical and Political

Prose in America: 19th Century

Psychoanalytic Literary Theory

Puritan Literature: British

Puritan Literature: American

Pynchon, Thomas 1937

Radcliffe, Ann 1764-1823

Ralegh, Sir Walter ?1552–1618

Rao, Raja 1908

Reader-Response Theory

Realism: General

Realism in American Literature

Reaney, James 1926

Religion and Literature

Rhys, Jean 1894–1979

Rich, Adrienne 1929-

Richards, I.A. 1893–1979

Richardson, Dorothy 1873–1957

Richardson, Henry Handel 1870–1946

Richardson, Samuel 1689–1761

Robinson, Edwin Arlington 1869–1935

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of 1647–1680

Roethke, Theodore 1908–1963

Romance

Romance Fiction

Romanticism: British

Romanticism and Transcendentalism in America

Ross, Sinclair 1908-

Rossetti, Christina 1830–1894

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828–1882

Roth, Philip 1933-

Rushdie, Salman 1947—

Ruskin, John 1819–1900

Salinger, J.D. 1919-

Sandburg, Carl 1878–1967

Satire: General

Satire: 18th Century

Schreiner, Olive 1855–1920

Science and Literature

Science Fiction

Scott, Sir Walter 1771–1832

Scottish Literature: Medieval and Renaissance

Scottish Literature: 18th and 19th Centuries

Scottish Literature: 20th Century

Semiotics

Sentimentalism

Shakespeare, William 1564–1616

2. Recent and Contemporary Approaches

3. Performance History

4. Tragedies

5. Hamlet

6. King Lear

7. Histories

8. Problem Plays

9. Early Comedies

10. Middle Comedies

111. Late Comedies (Romances)

12. Poetry

Shaw, George Bernard 1856–1950

Shelley, Mary 1797–1851

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792–1822

Shepard, Sam 1943-

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1751–1816

Short Fiction: General

Short Fiction: British

Short Fiction: American

Sidney, Sir Philip 1554–1586

Simms, William Gilmore 1806–1870

Sinclair, Upton 1878–1968

Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1904–1991

The Sitwells

Osbert Sitwell 1892–1969

Sacheverell Sitwell 1897–1988

Skelton, John c.1460–1529

Slave Narrative see Douglass, Frederick; Equiano, Olaudah; Jacobs, Harriet

Smollett, Tobias 1721–1771

The Sonnet

South African Literature: General

South African Literature: Black Writers

Southern United States Literature: General

Southern United States Literature: 19th Century

Southern United States Literature: 20th Century

Southey, Robert 1774–1843

Soyinka, Wole 1934-

Spark, Muriel 1918-

Spenser, Edmund c.1552–1599

Stead, Christina 1902–1983

Steele, Sir Richard 1672–1729

Stein, Gertrude 1874–1946

Steinbeck, John 1902–1968

Sterne, Laurence 1713–1768

Stevens, Wallace 1879–1955

Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850–1894

Stoppard, Tom 1937-

Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811–1896

Structuralism

Styron, William 1925-

The Sublime

Swift, Jonathan 1667–1745

Swinburne, Algernon Charles 1837–1909

Synge, John Millington 1871–1909

Tagore, Rabindranath

Taylor, Edward c.1642–1729

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 1809–1892

Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811–1863

The Thirties Generation

Thomas, Dylan 1914–1953

Thomas, R.S. 1913–

Thoreau, Henry David 1817–1862

Tolkien, J.R.R. 1892–1973

Topographical Poetry

Tragedy: Theory

Tragedy: Renaissance

Tragedy: Restoration

Tragicomedy

Traherne, Thomas 1637–1674

Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism

Travel Literature: General

Travel Literature: British—18th and 19th Centuries

Trollope, Anthony 1815–1882.

Twain, Mark 1835–1910

Updike, John 1932-

Utopian Literature

Vaughan, Henry

Victorian Literature: General

Victorian Literature and the City

Victorian Literature and Religion

Victorian Literature and Society

Victorian Literature, Science, and Evolutionary Theory

Vidal, Gore 1925—

Vietnam War Literature

Visual Arts and Literature

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 1922

Walcott, Derek 1930–

Walker, Alice 1944–

Walpole, Horace 1717–1797

War and Literature

The War Poets

Warren, Robert Penn 1905–1989

Waugh, Evelyn 1903–1966

Webster, John c.1580–c.1633

Wells, H.G. 1866–1946

Welsh Literature

Welty, Eudora

West, Nathanael 1903–1940

West, Rebecca 1892–1983

West Indian Literature see Caribbean Literature

White, Patrick 1912–1990

Whitman, Walt 1819–1892

Wilde, Oscar 1854–1900

Wilder, Thornton 1897–1975

Williams, Tennessee 1911–1983

Williams, William Carlos 1883–1963

Wilson, Angus 1913–1991

Wilson, Edmund 1895–1972

Wolfe, Thomas 1900–1938

Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759–1797

Women Writers: General

Women Writers: 20th Century

Women Writers: Contemporary

Women Writers: British—General

Women Writers: Renaissance

Women Writers: Restoration and 18th Century

Women Writers: British—19th Century

2. Romantic Era

3. Victorian