| Companion Lit Milton to Blake Contributor(s): Womersley, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 063121285X ISBN-13: 9780631212850 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2001 Annotation: This definitive "Companion" provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. The "Companion" is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work. The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the "Companion" consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Reference - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.9 |
| LCCN: 00031018 |
| Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 2.12" H x 7.1" W x 9.99" (2.67 lbs) 632 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. Composed of 60 contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work.The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the Companion consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied. |