British and Irish Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
1916
Clair Wills
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
1916 Introduction The Easter Rising of 1916 is seen as the most significant single event in modern Irish history. On Monday, 24 April 1916, a gr...
Arthurian Literature
Stephen Knight
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Arthurian Literature Introduction The myth of King Arthur has attracted writers and commentators for at least a thousand years. Starting in pr...
Austen, Jane
Katherine Halsey
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Jane Austen Introduction Jane Austen (b. 1775–d. 1817) was the author of six novels and a number of juvenile and unfinished works. Sense and S...
Beckett, Samuel
Luke Thurston
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Samuel Beckett Introduction “You must choose,” Samuel Beckett’s title character Molloy tells us, “between the things not worth mentioning and ...
Biography and Autobiography
Margaretta Jolly
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Biography and Autobiography Introduction The history of life writing reflects the history of selfhood itself, particularly as it has tracked t...
Blake, William
Jason Whittaker
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
William Blake Introduction William Blake (b. 1757–d. 1827) was a painter, engraver, and poet traditionally considered as being among the first...
Burney, Frances
Peter Sabor, Hilary Havens
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Frances Burney Introduction Frances Burney (b. 1752–d. 1840), the third child of the famous musicologist Dr. Charles Burney and his wife, Esthe...
Byron, Lord
Tom Mole
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Lord Byron Introduction George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (b. 1788–d. 1824), was one of the most important poets of the British romantic p...
Censorship
Cyndia Susan Clegg
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Censorship Introduction As Donald Thomas aptly suggests, the difficulty of writing about literary censorship “is to avoid writing the history ...
Coffeehouse
Markman Ellis
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Coffeehouse Introduction The coffeehouse is an important and distinctive social and cultural institution deeply embedded in modern notions of ...
Donne, John
Hugh Adlington
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
John Donne Introduction John Donne (b. 1572–d. 1631) continues to fascinate general readers and scholars alike. Donne himself chose to present...
Early Modern Prose, 1500-1650
Andrew Hadfield
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Early Modern Prose, 1500–1650 Introduction Prose has, of course, always existed as a means of defining nonmetrical writing. It assumed particu...
English Bible and Literature, The
Kevin Killeen
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
The English Bible and Literature Introduction The centrality of the Bible to Anglophone culture and to its literature is evident and everywher...
Fielding, Henry
Thomas Keymer
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Henry Fielding Introduction We think of Fielding above all as a pioneer of the novel genre: “the Founder of a new Province of Writing,” as he ...
Gower, John
Siân Echard
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
John Gower Introduction John Gower (d. 1408) cared deeply about his legacy. Nearly thirty of the surviving manuscripts of his works include th...
Gray, Thomas
Adam Rounce
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Thomas Gray Introduction Thomas Gray (b. 1716–d. 1771) is one of the most significant English poets from the time of Alexander Pope’s death to...
Herbert, George
Chauncey Wood
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
George Herbert Introduction A few months after George Herbert’s death in 1633 his friend Nicholas Ferrar took a manuscript of his English poem...
Highlands, The
Murray Pittock
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
The Highlands Introduction The “Highlands” is a key imagined space in British literature, art, and culture. The lasting power of the region—or...
Hogg, James
Gillian Hughes
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
James Hogg Introduction James Hogg (b. 1770–d. 1835) was known as the Ettrick Shepherd because of his original occupation as a shepherd and th...
Irish Modernism
Lauren Arrington
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Irish Modernism Introduction Irish modernism is an emerging field in literary studies. Historically, scholars have had a critical reticence to...
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