British and Irish Literature - C - Oxford Bibliographies
Carroll, Lewis
Selwyn Goodacre
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Lewis CarrollIntroductionCharles Lutwidge Dodgson (b. 1832–d. 1898) was born on 27 January 1832 at Daresbury, near Warrington, England, the third chil...
Carter, Angela
Nicoletta Caputo
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Angela Carter Introduction Angela Carter (née Stalker) was born on 7 May 1940 in Eastbourne, Sussex. She spent much of her childhood in South ...
Catholic Literature
Lucy Underwood, Eilish Gregory
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2022-10-27
Catholic LiteratureIntroductionCatholic literature was a diverse field in early modern England. Manuscript and printed texts were an integral part of ...
Celtic and Irish Revival
Michael McAteer
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Celtic and Irish RevivalIntroductionThe phrase Celtic Revival describes past movements in literature, the arts, and social practices in which legends,...
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 ...
Chatterton, Thomas
Daniel Cook
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Thomas Chatterton Introduction Dead at the age of seventeen, the poet and artist Thomas Chatterton (b. 1752–d. 1770) found plenty of admirers ...
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Brendan O'Connell
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Geoffrey ChaucerIntroductionIn the Prologue to what is probably the first work in English about a scientific instrument, Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340–...
Chorographical and Landscape Writing
Bridget Keegan
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Chorographical and Landscape Writing ...
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 ...
Congreve, William
Paul Baines
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
William Congreve Introduction William Congreve (b. 1670–d. 1729) represents for many the refined culmination of the tradition of Restoration d...
Conrad, Joseph
Mark Larabee
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Joseph ConradIntroductionBorn Józef Teodor Konrad Nałęcz Korzeniowski in Russian-annexed Polish Ukraine, Joseph Conrad (b. 1857–d. 1924) spent twenty ...
Crime Fiction
Janice M. Allan
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Crime FictionIntroductionAs an umbrella term for an increasingly diverse body of writing, “crime fiction” is a category recognized by readers across t...
Defoe, Daniel
Andreas Mueller
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Daniel DefoeIntroductionSince the 1950s, not least due to the appearance of Ian Watt’s seminal study The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richards...
Dickens, Charles
Melisa Klimaszewski
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Charles Dickens Introduction Charles Dickens (b. 1812–d. 1870) lived for fifty-eight years, and his writings have impacted readers for nearly ...
Donne, John
Hugh Adlington
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
John DonneIntroductionJohn Donne (b. 1572–d. 1631) continues to fascinate general readers and scholars alike. Donne himself chose to present his life ...
Dracula
Jarlath Killeen
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
DraculaIntroduction“I have more. My revenge has just begun! I spread it over centuries and time is on my side” (Count Dracula, Bram Stoker, Dracula, e...
Drama, Northern Irish
Eva Urban
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Northern Irish Drama Introduction Northern Irish drama is a productive laboratory of political theater practice that has made a significant co...
Drayton, Michael
Sara Trevisan
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Michael Drayton Introduction Michael Drayton (b. 1563–d. 1631) was one of the most versatile of English poets: he wrote sonnets and theatrical...
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...
Eighteenth-Century Novel
Louise Curran
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2022-11-29
Eighteenth-Century NovelIntroductionThe “18th-century novel” used to refer to works primarily by Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, and Sterne, but it has l...
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