"Originally published as: Bloomsbury guide to English literature"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Editor's note -- Essay section -- 1. Political history and social context -- 2. Contemporary approaches to literature -- 3. Medieval English literature -- 4. Eighteenth-century prose literature -- 5. The nineteenth-century novel -- 6. Culture and consciousness : the twentieth-century novel -- 7. Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama -- 8. Restoration and eighteenth-century drama -- 9. Developments in modern drama : the slow road to change -- 10. Reading Renaissance poetry -- 11. Enlightenment, sensibility and romanticism : poetry 1660-1830 -- 12. Behind the 'silken-folded mask' : Victorian and modern poetry -- Reference section -- Chronology -- Picture acknowledgments
