A Brief History of English Literature (Paperback, 2 ed)

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Old English Literature.- 2. Middle English Literature.- 3. Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose.- 4. Shakespeare.- 5. Renaissance and Restoration Drama.- 6. Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose.- 7. The Eighteenth Century.- 8. The Novel: The First Hundred Years.- 9. The Romantic Period.- 10. Victorian Literature 1837-1857.- 11. Victorian Literature 1857-1876.- 12. Victorian Literature 1876-1901.- 13. The Twentieth Century: The Early Years.- 14. The Twentieth Century: Between the Wars.- 15. The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to the End of the Millennium.- 16. The Twenty-First Century.- Periods of English Literature and Language.- Chronology.- Further Reading.- Index.