Table of Contents:
  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE AND CRITICISM; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; I. Introduction; 1 Literature; 2 Criticism; II. Literature and History; 3 Medieval Literature and the Medieval World; 4 The Renaissance; 5 Augustanism; 6 Romanticism; 7 Modernism; 8 Postmodernism; III. Poetry; 9 Genre; 10 Poetry; 11 Epic and Romance; 12 Lyric; 13 Narrative Verse; 14 Women and the Poetic Tradition; 15 Medieval Poetry; 16 Renaissance Poetry; 17 'Augustan' Poetry; 18 Romantic Poetry; 19 Victorian Poetry; 20 The French Symbolists; 21 Modern Poetry; 22 British Poetry Since 1945
  • 23 Contemporary American PoetryIV. Drama; 24 Stagecraft; 25 Tragedy; 26 Comedy; 27 Shakespeare; 28 Medieval Drama; 29 Renaissance Drama; 30 Restoration Theatre; 31 The Origins of the Modern British Stage; 32 Theories of Modern Drama; 33 The Theatre of the Absurd; 34 Theatre and Politics; 35 Feminist Theatre; V. The Novel; 36 Modes of Eighteenth-Century Fiction; 37 Feminine Fictions; 38 The Historical Novel; 39 The Nineteenth-Century Social Novel in England; 40 The Realist Novel: The European Context; 41 Realism and the English Novel; 42 American Romance
  • 43 Formalism and the Novel: Henry James44 The Novel and Modern Criticism; 45 The Modernist Novel in the Twentieth Century; 46 British Fiction Since 1930; 47 Contemporary Fiction; VI. Criticism; 48 Biblical Hermeneutics; 49 Neo-classical Criticism; 50 The Romantic Critical Tradition; 51 Great Traditions: The Logic of the Canon; 52 Marxist Criticism; 53 The New Criticism; 54 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism; 55 Feminist Literary Criticism; 56 Psychoanalytic Criticism; 57 Deconstruction; 58 New Historicism; VII. Production and Reception; 59 Production and Reception of the Literary Book
  • 60 The Printed Book61 Literacy; 62 Publishing Before 1800; 63 Publishing Since 1800; 64 British Periodicals and Reading Publics; 65 Libraries and the Reading Public; 66 Censorship; 67 The Bibliographic Record; 68 The Institutionalization of Literature: The University; VIII. Contexts; 69 Literature and the History of Ideas; 70 Literature and the Bible; 71 Literature and the Classics; 72 Folk Literature; 73 Literature and the Visual Arts; 74 Literature and Music; 75 Literature and Landscape; 76 The Sentimental Ethic; 77 The Gothic; 78 Aestheticism; 79 Literature and Science
  • 80 Literature and Language81 Culture and Popular Culture; IX. Perspectives; 82 New English Literatures; 83 African Literature in English; 84 The African-American Literary Tradition; 85 Australian Literature and the British Tradition; 86 Canadian Literature; 87 Indian Literature in English; 88 New Zealand and Pacific Literature; 89 West Indian Literature; 90 Western Literature in Modern China; X. Afterword; W(h)ither 'English'?; The Contributors; Index