A Companion to British Literature, 4 Volume Set

A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject. Provides an authoritative reference on British literature, and the contexts, writers, and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries Spans historical, social, political, domestic, linguistic, institutional, and material contexts Offers the most inclusive and far-reaching overview available of British literature from 700-2,000,across four volumes and over 100 chapters Written by an internationally diverse range of expert contributors including both distinguished academics and up-and-coming young stars Comprises readings from across geographical, cultural, institutional, economic and mediological contexts Features a general index and a thematic table of contents to enable readers to navigate the development of British Literature 4 Volumes: www.britishliteraturecompanion.com

Volume I: Medieval Literature 700 - 1450 Full Table of Contents ix Editors xix Notes on Contributors to Volume I xx General Introduction xxiv Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Medieval Literature xxxi Samantha Zacher Chronology 43 - 1476 xlvii 1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 1 Karl Reichl 2 Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16 Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe 3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30 Emily V. Thornbury 4 Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48 Paul E. Szarmach 5 The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints' Legends in John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium 65 Virginia Blanton 6 Racial Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard, Coer de Lion 81 Suzanne M. Yeager 7 The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After 1066 97 Neil Cartlidge 8 Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 114 Liz Herbert McAvoy 9 Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 130 Christine Chism 10 Writing Revolution 146 Marion Turner 11 The Romance Genre 161 Corinne Saunders 12 Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream Vision Genre 180 Michael Calabrese 13 British Chaucer 202 John M. Ganim 14 Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 215 Andrew Galloway 15 Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture 232 Denise L. Despres 16 Sources, Analogues, Creativity 243 Tim William Machan 17 Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices in Medieval England 256 Christina M. Fitzgerald 18 Old English and Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 273 Andy Orchard 19 Before the Makars: Older Scots Literature Under the Early Stewart Kings 293 Rhiannon Purdie 20 Originating Britain: Welsh Literature and the Arthurian Tradition 308 Helen Fulton 21 Writing from the "Other Shore" and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland 323 Joseph Falaky Nagy 22 The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books: Assessing the Material Evidence of Women's Reading 337 Jacqueline Jenkins 23 Collectors and Collections: Libraries and Their Social and Private Functions 355 David N. Bell 24 In Praise of Power: Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry 369 Robert J. Meyer-Lee 25 Word and Image 384 Elaine Treharne 26 New Technologies: From Manuscript to Print 403 Sian Echard Selected References and Further Reading 418 Index to Volume I 435 Volume II: Early Modern Literature 1450 - 1660 Full Table of Contents ix Editors xix Notes on Contributors to Volume II xx General Introduction xxv Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Early Modern Literature xxxii Robert DeMaria, Jr. Chronology 1450 - 1662 xxxix 1 The Spectral Past: Medieval Literature in the Early Modern Period 1 David Matthews 2 The Fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton 16 Willy Maley and Adam Swann 3 Robert Burton and the Discontents of Print 29 David J. Baker 4 Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century 40 Alessandra Petrina 5 Mapping the British Archipelago in the Renaissance 54 Stewart Mottram 6 Renaissance or Reformation? 70 Michael Payne 7 Religious Reading and Writing in an Age of Bloodshed 82 Achsah Guibbory 8 Translations of Virgil from Gavin Douglas to Sir John Denham 98 Robin Sowerby 9 England, the "Orient," and the Ocean 116 Benedict Robinson 10 Politics and Religion in Elizabethan Drama 129 Lisa Hopkins 11 Women's Literary and Intellectual Endeavors: A Case for the Anonymous Riposte 142 Marcy L. North 12 Shakespeare and the Arts of Persuasion 164 Michael Macdonald 13 Texts and Performances in the Age of Elizabeth 181 Tom Rutter 14 Physics, Metaphysics, and Religion in Lyric Poetry 197 Wendy Beth Hyman 15 The Early English Essay 213 Joshua Scodel 16 Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives 231 Christopher Crosbie 17 Scots Literature in the Age of the Makars and Beyond 249 Katherine H. Terrell 18 Violence in Jacobean Drama 264 Zoltan Markus 19 First Folios: Jonson and Shakespeare 280 Adam G. Hooks 20 Riding Westward: Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and the Literature of Empire 295 Jonathan Locke Hart 21 Cheap Print and Popular Reading During the Civil Wars, 1637 - 1660 309 Joad Raymond 22 Republican Writing from Milton to Locke 326 Nigel Smith 23 John Bunyan and the Spaces of Religious Writing 342 Cynthia Wall 24 Paradise Lost: Contexts and Poetic Creation 359 Barbara K. Lewalski 25 Human, Animal, and Machine in the Seventeenth Century 375 Lucinda Cole and Robert Markley Selected References and Further Reading 391 Index to Volume II 402 Volume III: Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660 - 1837 Full Table of Contents ix Editors xix Notes on Contributors to Volume III xx General Introduction xxiv Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Long Eighteenth-Century Literature xxxi Robert DeMaria, Jr. Chronology 1658 - 1835 xxxviii 1 Understanding Genre: Epic, Mock Epic, and Some Versions of Heroism from Milton to Pope 1 David Venturo 2 History and Literature from Milton to Wollstonecraft 19 Ruth Mack 3 Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century 35 Neil Rhodes 4 Aphra Behn and the Profession of Writing in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century 49 Catherine Ingrassia 5 The Virgilian Way from Milton to Wordsworth 62 Adam Potkay 6 Women Readers and the Rise of the Periodical Essay 78 Manushag N. Powell 7 Female Satirists of the Eighteenth Century 95 Paul Baines 8 Ireland, England, and Anglo-Irish Writers in England 113 David Oakleaf 9 Alexander Pope: Religion, Politics, and Poetry 127 Pat Rogers 10 Eighteenth-Century Science and the Literary Imagination 143 Tita Chico 11 Epistolary Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century 159 Thomas Keymer 12 Poetry Anthologies, Taste, and the Canon 174 Adam Rounce 13 Performance in Eighteenth-Century English Verse: Oral Expressiveness 189 John Richetti 14 Ranging Knowledge by the Alphabet: The Literature of Categorization and Organization 1700 - 1830 207 Lynda Mugglestone 15 History, Biography, and Anecdote 223 Freya Johnston 16 The Other in the British Eighteenth Century 240 Lynn Festa 17 Aesthetics and Taste: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Beyond in the Eighteenth Century 258 G. Gabrielle Starr 18 The Poetry of Melancholy from Finch to Keats 277 John Sitter 19 Jane Austen and the Conditions of Knowledge 298 Jenny Davidson 20 Genius and Originality 1750 - 1830: Young, Wordsworth, and Shelley 312 Christopher R. Miller 21 Blake and His Contemporaries 329 Laura Quinney 22 Romantic Celebrities: Poets in an Age of Print 345 Richard Cronin 23 Gothic and Celtic Revivals: Antiquity and the Archipelago 361 Nick Groom 24 Romantic Women Writers in the Lecture Room 380 Sarah M. Zimmerman Selected References and Further Reading 396 Index to Volume III 408 Volume IV: Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature 1837 - 2000 Full Table of Contents ix Editors xix Notes on Contributors to Volume IV xx General Introduction xxiv Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature xxxi Heesok Chang Chronology 1800 - 2006 xxxvii 1 Charles Dickens, Dramatist 1 Eileen Gillooly 2 Becoming George Eliot: Female Authorship in the Nineteenth Century 14 Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi 3 "What Do the Women Do?": The Work of Women in the Fiction of the Brontës 33 Susan Zlotnick 4 Evolution and Entropy: Scientific Contexts in the Nineteenth Century 52 Suzy Anger 5 Theater, Exhibition, and Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century 68 Sharon Aronofsky Weltman 6 Art, Self, and Society: Tennyson and the Brownings, 1830 - 1857 89 Matthew Campbell 7 Pre-Raphaelite Brothers, Lovers, and the Sister Arts 107 Wendy Graham 8 Regionalism and Consciousness: Thomas Hardy's Imagined Geographies 129 Keith Wilson 9 Modernism and Empire 144 Laura Winkiel 10 The Irish Literary Revival 160 James L. Pethica 11 Re-Envisioning Yeats's A Vision: Modernist Spirality and the Distribution of the Sensible 175 Nico Israel 12 First World War Poetry 195 Adam Piette 13 "How to Enjoy James Joyce's Great Novel": Making and Marketing in Ulysses 210 Stephen Dilks 14 Anglophobia and Anglophilia: Hugh MacDiarmid and T. S. Eliot 231 Robert Crawford 15 Virginia Woolf and Experimental Fiction 246 Anne E. Fernald 16 Sartorial Modernity: Fashion, Gender, and Sexuality in Modernism 260 Jane Garrity 17 Doom in the Bud: Beckett's Drama and After 280 Paul Lawley 18 Form, Figure, and Ground: Auden and England After Modernism 296 C. D. Blanton 19 Historical Turns in Twentieth-Century Fiction 314 John T. Connor 20 Anthologizing Poetry: The Movement and After 333 Nigel Alderman 21 "Frail, and So Full of Fire": The Angry Young Man and Changing Masculinities 350 Praseeda Gopinath 22 Imagining Female Authorship After 1945: Lessing's and Spark's Portraits of the Artist Manqué 367 Maria Francesca Fackler 23 Sticks and Stones: Three Nearly Unnamable Figures and a Review of Postcolonialism 385 Elaine K. Chang 24 The Modern Scottish Novel 404 Cairns Craig 25 Queer Fiction in Contemporary Britain 424 Jodie Medd 26 Global Markets: Contemporary British Fiction and the Book Trade 440 Richard Todd 27 The British Dystopian Novel from Wells to Ishiguro 454 Phillip E. Wegner Selected References and Further Reading 471 Index to Volume IV 484 Consolidated Index 511