TY  - BOOK
AU  - Franco Marucci
PY  - 2019
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781788742269
TI  - History of English Literature, Volume 3
T2  - From the Metaphysicals to the Romantics
DO  - 10.3726/b13170
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063144
N2  - For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact orders@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £90.00, $135.90). ‘Franco Marucci’s History of English Literature is unique in its field. There is no other book that combines such erudition and authority in such a compact format. An indispensable work of reference.’ — J. B. Bullen, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical, historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 3 begins with Jacobean poetry and prose, explores Milton’s great biblical epic and moves on to the licentious court poetry of the Restoration period. The early and mid-eighteenth century came then to be dominated by the Neo-Classical and the Augustan style. A few decades later, the novel debuted with Defoe and underwent a rapid development with a range of proposals of astonishing difference and divergence, such as those of Swift, Fielding and Sterne. At the end of the century the Romantic poets gave rise to the densest period of great figures and great works in English literature since the Elizabethan age.
KW  - From the Metaphysicals to the Romantics, History of English Literature, Volume 3, Augustan, Restoration, Romantic
LA  - English
ER  -