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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...
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...
Sterne, Laurence
Paul Goring
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Laurence Sterne Introduction Within just weeks of the appearance of the first installment of Tristram Shandy in London in 1760, this eccentric...
Swift, Jonathan
Gregory Lynall
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Jonathan SwiftIntroductionJonathan Swift (1667–1745) was born in Dublin to Anglo-Irish parents. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1682 and in 1689 ...
Synge, John Millington
Soudabeh Ananisarab
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
John Millington SyngeIntroductionJohn Millington Synge (b. 1871–d. 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, and prose writer. While his life was short-liv...
Thomas, Dylan
John Goodby
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Dylan Thomas Introduction Dylan Thomas is a unique example of a “difficult” modernist poet who is also a popular writer. This used to be refle...
Thomas, R. S.
Damian Walford Davies
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
R. S. Thomas Introduction R. S. Thomas is acknowledged as Wales’s most distinguished anglophone poet of the second half of the 20th century. H...
Tóibín, Colm
Liam Harte
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
Colm TóibínIntroductionColm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford in 1955, the fourth of five children. His childhood was disrupted by the il...
Travel Writing
Alasdair Pettinger
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Travel WritingIntroductionA minimal definition of travel writing might be any account of a journey or description of a place that is based on firsthan...
Trollope, Anthony
John McCourt
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Anthony TrollopeIntroductionAnthony Trollope (b. 1815–d. 1882) was one of the most widely read, prolific, and respected novelists of the 19th century....
Tudor Literature
Cathy Shrank
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Tudor Literature Introduction The 16th century saw many major developments in England: the consolidation and growth of the print trade; the re...
Utopian and Dystopian Literature to 1800
Steve Mentz, Erin M. Gallagher
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Utopian and Dystopian Literature to 1800 Introduction Few subgenres of European literature can be said to emerge from a single human imaginati...
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