ABSTRACT

Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition.

chapter Three|20 pages

A guide literary to basic terms

chapter Four|18 pages

Practical criticism: poetry

chapter Five|14 pages

Practical criticism: prose

chapter Six|11 pages

Practical criticism: drama

chapter Seven|18 pages

Chaucer

chapter Eight|14 pages

Elizabethan and Jacobean drama

chapter Nine|23 pages

Shakespeare

chapter Ten|10 pages

The Metaphysical poets

chapter Eleven|13 pages

Milton

chapter Twelve|12 pages

Restoration drama

chapter Sixteen|9 pages

Gothic

chapter Seventeen|17 pages

Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot

chapter Nineteen|7 pages

Victorian drama: Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and Wilde

chapter Twenty|21 pages

War Literature

chapter Twenty-One|14 pages

Modern and contemporary poetry

chapter Twenty-Two|18 pages

The modern and contemporary novel

chapter Twenty-Three|12 pages

Modern and contemporary drama

chapter Twenty-Four|16 pages

American literature

chapter Twenty-Five|19 pages

Literary and critical theory