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The land and literature of England : a historical account

A companion to British literature explores the political, social, intellectual, and cultural history and background of English poetry, fiction, prose, and drama, and analyzes the changing conditions of literary activity
Print Book, English, ©1983
Norton, New York, ©1983
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 555 pages, 68 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780393017045, 9780393303438, 0393017044, 0393303438
8709081
Celtic Britain, Roman Britain, and their fate, 1500 B.C.-A.D. 600
Saxon England, 600-1066
From the Norman conquest to the age of Chaucer, 1066-1399
The fifteenth century, 1399-1509
Henry VIII and the reformation, 1509-1557
Intrigues, conspiracies, and an almost-invasion, 1558-1588
Gathering shades : the last years of Elizabeth, 1588-1603
The early Stuarts and their revolution, 1603-1649
Commonwealth and restoration, 1649-1688
The settlement of '88 and Queen Anne, 1688-1714
The early eighteenth century : the rising novel, 1714-1748
The first Pitt and the Wars of Empire, 1748-1789
Revolution, romanticism, reaction, 1789-1815
Peace, controversy, reform, 1815-1851
High Victorianism, 1851-1887
Victorian conservatism, Edwardian liberalism, and World War I, 1887-1919
Between two wars, 1919-1939
World War II and after, 1939-