This is an updated edition of a classic and much-admired history of English Literature. In it Peter Conrad offers not an encyclopedic survey but a personal, chronological interpretation of the 'history' through an emphasis on the continuity of major literary forms and on the ways in which major figures transform the tradition, which in turn is accommodated, reacted against or reinterpreted by later generations. He attempts to characterise the literature as a whole, to suggest something of its Englishness. Above all, he emphasizes that English literature represents the self-image of English people whose testament and inheritance it is.
- ISBN10 0304366102
- ISBN13 9780304366101
- Publish Date 18 September 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 July 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Cassell Reference
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 780
- Language English