English Literature by Jonathan Bate

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English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English poetry, English drama and The English novel.

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English Literature by Jonathan Bate

While exploring towering works, Bate remins us that literature can also be terrific fun* Christopher Hirst. The Independent *

Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. Among his many books are John Clare: A Biography (Farrar Straus Giroux), which won Britain's two oldest literary prizes, the Hawthomden and the James Tait Black, a best-selling book on Shakespeare for the general reader, The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador, UK and OUP, USA), and a major intellectual biography of Shakespeare in the cultural context of the Elizabethan Age (The Soul of the Age. He is also chief editor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan UK/Random House Modern Library USA).

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ISBN 10	0199569266
Title	English Literature
Author	Jonathan Bate
Series	Very Short Introductions
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2010-10-07
Number of pages	192
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