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Online-Ressource (368 p.)
ISBN:
9780415045575
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Nearly one hundred years after the death of Queen Victoria, Victorian history is, on the face of it, in remarkably good shape. Alongside Hitler, the period remains the staple fare of the English and Welsh sixth-form syllabus. In the universities ¾ old and new ¾ British nineteenth-century historians outnumber their eighteenth-century counterparts by about two to one. The subject boasts two interdisciplinary journals:- Victorian Studies, now in its early forties, and the more recently established Journa l of Victorian Culture, as well as a handful of other journals mainly devoted to literature a
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; Folk, State, and Speech; Anglo-Latin Writings; The Old Tradition: Poetic Form; The Old Tradition: Popular Poetry; The Old Tradition: Courtly Poetry; Religious Poetry: Cædmon and His School; Religious Poetry: Cynewulf and His School; Religious Poetry: Poems on Various Themes; Secular Poetry; Literary Prose; General Characteristics of the Period; The Survival of the Native Tradition (1100-1250); The Ancrene Riwle; Anglo-Norman Literature; Early Latin Writers; Wit and Wisdom; For Their Soul's Need
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The Arthurian Legend to LayamonThe Romance: I; The Romance: II; The Omnibus of Religion; The Lyric; Richard Rolle and Other Mystics; The Alliterative Revival; Piers Plowman and Other Alliterative Poems; Chaucer: I; Chaucer: II; Other Contemporaries of Chaucer; The Beginnings of the Drama; Ebb Tide; Looking Forward; Bibliographical Supplement; Index;
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ISBN 9780203392737
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Literary History of England : Vol 1: The Middle Ages (to 1500)
Sprache:
Englisch
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