Thoroughly updated to include writers such as Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel, Martin Amis and Graham Swift, this book remains the best overall survey of English literature available.Robert Barnard looks selectively at the most important writers within each period from the time of Chaucer, and focuses on one or two of their works in detail. He deals briefly with the earlier periods and more fully with the last two centuries, moving right to the present with a detailed coverage of the post-war novel and theatre. In the best sense eclectic, his book draws together history, criticism, established ideas and fresh views.
- ISBN10 0631190058
- ISBN13 9780631190059
- Publish Date 30 August 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 January 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Blackwell Publishers
- Imprint BBL International Student Editions
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English