Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings

Cover
Review
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Preface, Volume Outline and Rationale
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
Part I Medieval English, 500–1500
	Introductory Note
		1 Finding The Dream of the Rood in Old English Literature
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		2 The Translator as Author: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		3 Arthurian Romance as a Window on to Medieval Life: The Case of Ywayne and Gawayne and The Awntyrs off Arthure
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
Part II The Renaissance, 1485–1660
	Introductory Note
		4 The Renaissance in England: A Meeting Point
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		5 ‘Mr Spencer’s Moral Invention’: The Global Horizons of Early Modern Epic
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		6 Arden of Faversham
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		7 ‘A Little Touch of Harry in the Night’: Mysteries of Kingship and the Stage in Shakespeare’s The Life of King Henry the Fifth
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		8 Poems and Contexts: The Case of Henry Vaughan
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
Part III The Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1660–1780
	Introductory Note
		9 Periodising in Context: The Case of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		10 Truth-Telling and the Representation of the Surinam ‘Indians’ in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		11 ‘The Pamphlet on the Table’: The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
Part IV The Romantic Period, 1780–1832
	Introductory Note
		12 ‘Transported into Asiatic Scenes’: Romanticism and the Orient
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		13 Historical Fiction in the Romantic Period: Jane Porter, Walter Scott and the Sublime Hero
			Critical Reflections and Further Studies
		14 Jane Austen and Her Publishers: Northanger Abbey and the Publishing Context of the Early Nineteenth Century
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		15 ‘O for a Life of Sensations’ or ‘the Internal and External Parts’: Keats and Medical Materialism
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
Part V The Victorian Age, 1832–1901
	Introductory Note
		16 Poetry and Science in the Victorian Period
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		17 ‘In Characters of Tint Indelible’: Life Writing and Legacy in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		18 Money, Narrative and Representation from Dickens to Gissing
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		19 Reading and Remediating Nineteenth-Century Serial Fiction: Closing Down and Opening Up Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		20 Public Places, Private Spaces in Fin-de-Siècle British Women’s Writing
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
Part VI The Twentieth Century, 1901–1939
	Introductory Note
		21 D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love: An Anthropological Reading
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		22 The Epigraph for T. S. Eliot’s Marina: Classical Tradition and the Modern Era
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		23 Passing as a Male Critic: Mary Beton’s Coming of Age in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
Part VII The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, 1939–2020
	Introductory Note
		24 An Ecocritical Reading of the Poetry of Ted Hughes
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		25 Women Publishers in the Twenty-First Century: Assessing Their Impact on New Writing – and Writers
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		26 Crisis and Community in Contemporary British Theatre
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
Part VIII Postcolonial Literature in English
	Introductory Note
		27 Complexities and Concealments of Eros in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		28 Bessie Head’s Feminism of Everyday Life
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		29 The Gender Politics of Grace Nichols: Joy and Resistance
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		30 ‘The All-purpose Quote’: Salman Rushdie’s Metacontextuality
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
		31 Postcolonial Literature and the World, 2017–2019: Contemporary Complexities
			Critical Reflections and Further Study
Appendices
	Appendix A: Glossary of Critical Terms
	Appendix B: Study Guide: Learning from the Essays
	Appendix C: Essays Listed by Genre and Theme
Index