Everyman's History of English Literature by Peter Conrad

Everyman's History of English Literature by Peter Conrad

This is an updated edition of a classic and much-admired history of English Literature. In it Peter Conrad offers not an encyclopedic survey but a personal, chronological interpretation of the 'history' through an emphasis on the continuity of major literary forms and on the ways in which major figures transform the tradition, which in turn is accommodated, reacted against or reinterpreted by later generations. He attempts to characterise the literature as a whole, to suggest something of its Englishness. Above all, he emphasizes that English literature represents the self-image of English people whose testament and inheritance it is.

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Peter Conrad is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Fellow of All Souls. He has taught English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, since 1973. he has lectured widely in America, and contributed articles and reviews to magazines and journals on both sides of the Atlantic. His books include The Victorian Treasure-House, Shandyism and Imagining America.

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ISBN 13	9780304366101
ISBN 10	0304366102
Title	Everyman's History of English Literature
Author	Peter Conrad
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2003-09-18
Number of pages	780
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