British and Irish Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
Burgess, Anthony
Jim Clarke
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Anthony BurgessIntroductionJohn Anthony Burgess Wilson (b. 1917–d. 1993) was a prominent British-born novelist, composer, critic, essayist, journalist...
Burney, Frances
Hilary Havens, Peter Sabor
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Frances BurneyIntroductionFrances Burney (b. 1752–d. 1840), the third child of the famous musicologist Dr. Charles Burney and his wife, Esther Sleepe ...
Burns, Robert
Pauline Mackay
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Robert BurnsIntroductionRobert Burns (b. 1759–d. 1796) is the national bard of Scotland and is recognized globally as the country’s most iconic litera...
Butler, Hubert
Robert Tobin
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Hubert ButlerIntroductionA product of the Anglo-Irish gentry, Hubert Butler (b. 1900–d. 1991) was born in Bennettsbridge, County Kilkenny. He was educ...
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...
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 ...
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...
