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Ralegh (Raleigh), Sir Walter
Carlo M. Bajetta
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh)IntroductionAgnes Latham once wrote that everything Ralegh (b. 1554–d. 1618) did “seems to have been tainted by a curious i...
Ramsay, Allan and Robert Fergusson
Rhona Brown
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson Introduction Allan Ramsay (b. 1684–d. 1758) was born in Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He attended Crawfo...
Richardson, Samuel
Thomas Keymer
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Samuel RichardsonIntroductionWith his virtuoso handling of epistolary narration, and the psychological and circumstantial realism made possible by his...
Rise of the Novel in Britain, 1660–1780, The
Nicholas Seager
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
The Rise of the Novel in Britain, 1660–1780IntroductionEvery premise of the phrase “the rise of the novel” has been assailed in recent years. “The ris...
Robin Hood Literature
Stephen Knight
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Robin Hood Literature Introduction The Robin Hood tradition is late medieval in origin and was initially an inherently popular element in Engl...
Romance
Helen Moore
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
RomanceIntroductionWestern European romance (understood in its broadest outlines as a vernacular narrative of love and war, often with a supernatural ...
Romance, Medieval English
Aisling Byrne
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Medieval Romance, English Introduction Romance is probably the mode of writing that modern audiences most readily associate with the Middle Ag...
Romanticism
Tim Fulford
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Romanticism Introduction “Romanticism” is a retrospective, 20th-century name for a literary movement created, retrospectively, by critics and ...
Ruskin, John
Stephen Wildman
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
John RuskinIntroductionIn an era of great prose writers—although he did win the Newdigate Prize for Poetry at Oxford—John Ruskin (b. 1819–d. 1900) ris...
Science Fiction
Aris Mousoutzanis
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Science FictionIntroductionThere has been a trend for introductory texts on science fiction (SF) criticism to start by announcing that SF is now an in...
Scott, Walter
Ainsley McIntosh
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Walter Scott Introduction Walter Scott (b. 1771–d. 1832) began his literary career as a translator and collector of ballads from the German an...
Shakespeare, William
Andrew Hadfield, Amy Kenny
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
William Shakespeare Introduction William Shakespeare (b. 1564–d. 1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer and dramatist of all time. Hi...
Shaw, George Bernard
Brad Kent
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
George Bernard ShawIntroductionBorn in Dublin, George Bernard Shaw (b. 1856–d. 1950) was one of the foremost men of letters of his time, winning the N...
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Andrew Lacey
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Percy Bysshe ShelleyIntroductionPercy Bysshe Shelley (b. 1792–d. 1822) is now recognized as a major writer, chiefly a poet, of the Romantic period. Hi...
Sidney, Mary, Countess of Pembroke
Margaret P. Hannay
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke Introduction Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (b. 1561–d. 1621), was the first woman in England to be celeb...
Sinclair, Iain
Jamie Harris
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Iain SinclairIntroductionIain Sinclair was born in 1943 in Cardiff, Wales, and was brought up in Maesteg. He attended school in Wales until, at the be...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thomas Hahn, Leah Haught
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Introduction Sir Gawain and the Green Knight stands in a class by itself as the most ambitious, most accomplis...
Smollett, Tobias
Aileen Douglas
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Tobias Smollett Introduction “I am so fatigued with the unremitting Labour of the Pen that I begin to loathe the sight of Paper” (from the 197...
Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence
John Roe
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence Introduction Although our brief here is to concentrate on the fortunes and achievements of the sonnet (and sonnet s...
Spenser, Edmund
Andrew Hadfield
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Edmund Spenser Introduction Edmund Spenser (b. 1554?–d. 1599) is one of the most significant poets writing in English, probably the most impor...
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