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CONTENTS List of Articles ix Preface Chronology ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH LITERATURE Directory of Contributors Index ARTICLES: Abbey Theatre Joseph Addison Ælfric Aestheticism Mark Akenside Alfred Almanacs Kingsley Amis Martin Amis Anglo-Saxon Elegies Anglo-Saxon Riddles Angry Young Men Anonymous Anthologies Matthew Arnold Arthurian Literature Roger Ascham Mary Astell John Aubrey W. H. Auden Jane Austen The Author Francis Bacon John Bale Ballads Anna Laetitia Barbauld Richard Barnfield J. M. Barrie Aubrey Beardsley The Beatles Francis Beaumont Samuel Beckett Bede Max Beerbohm Brendan Behan Aphra Behn Alan Bennett Arnold Bennett Richard Bentley Beowulf John Berger John Betjeman The English Bible The Bildungsroman Black British Literature William Blake The Bloomsbury Group Bluestockings Thomas Bodley Osbern Bokenham Eavan Boland Edward Bond Book Illustration James Boswell Dion Boucicault Elizabeth Bowen Malcolm Bradbury Breton Lays Robert Bridges Alexander Brome The Brontës Thomas Browne Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning John Buchan George Buchanan Edward George Bulwer Lytton Basil Bunting John Bunyan Anthony Burgess Frances Burney Robert Burns Robert Burton Samuel Butler (1613-1680) Samuel Butler (1835-1902) George Gordon Byron Caedmon Thomas Campion The Canon John Capgrave Thomas Carew Thomas Carlyle Lewis Carroll Angela Carter Elizabeth Cary Joyce Cary Cavalier Poetry Margaret Cavendish William Caxton Censorship Susanna Centlivre Chapbooks George Chapman Chartist Literature Thomas Chatterton Geoffrey Chaucer G. K. Chesterton Children's Literature Agatha Christie Mary, Lady Chudleigh Caryl Churchill Colley Cibber Circulating Libraries John Clare John Cleland John Cleveland Anne Clifford Closet Drama J. M. Coetzee The Coffeehouse Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wilkie Collins Commonwealth Literature Ivy Compton-Burnett William Congreve Joseph Conrad Copyright Cornish Ordinalia Noel Coward Abraham Cowley William Cowper George Crabbe Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Richard Crashaw Cynewulf Samuel Daniel Charles Darwin William Davenant Mary Davys Daniel Defoe Thomas Dekker Walter de la Mare Thomas Deloney Thomas De Quincey Detective Fiction Charles Dickens Dictionaries The Digby Mary Magdalen The Digby Plays Benjamin Disraeli Domestic Fiction John Donne Gawin Douglas Keith Douglas Arthur Conan Doyle Margaret Drabble Michael Drayton John Dryden Daphne du Maurier William Dunbar Lawrence Durrell Maria Edgeworth Eighteenth-Century Journalism Elegy George Eliot T. S. Eliot Elizabeth I Emblem Books William Empson Epistolary Novel Olaudah Equiano John Evelyn Everyman Exeter Book George Farquhar Festival of Britain Michael Field Henry Fielding Ronald Firbank Edward FitzGerald Ian Fleming John Fletcher Ford Madox Ford John Ford E. M. Forster John Fowles John Foxe Sigmund Freud Christopher Fry John Galsworthy David Garrick George Gascoigne Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Gawain and the Green Knight John Gay and Ned Ward Genre Geoffrey of Monmouth George Gissing Globe Theatre William Godwin William Golding Oliver Goldsmith Barnabe Googe Edmund Gosse The Gothic John Gower Kenneth Grahame Robert Graves Thomas Gray Henry Green Graham Greene Robert Greene Gretna Green Novels Fulke Greville Grub Street Thom Gunn H. Rider Haggard Radclyffe Hall Thomas Hardy John Harington Harley Lyrics Stephen Hawes Eliza Haywood William Hazlitt Seamus Heaney Felicia Hemans Robert Henryson George Herbert Robert Herrick John Heywood Thomas Heywood Geoffrey Hill Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hoccleve James Hogg Gerard Manley Hopkins A. E. Housman T. E. Hulme Leigh Hunt Aldous Huxley Elizabeth Inchbald The Industrial Novel The Inklings Christopher Isherwood Kazuo Ishiguro Jacobin and Anti-Jacobin Fiction James I of Scotland James VI and I Henry James P. D. James Richard Johnson Samuel Johnson David Jones Inigo Jones Ben Jonson James Joyce Judith Julian of Norwich Junius Manuscript Patrick Kavanagh John Keats James Kelman Margery Kempe Thomas Killigrew Rudyard Kipling Arthur Koestler Hanif Kureishi Charles Lamb Letitia Landon Walter Savage Landor Aemilia Lanyer Philip Larkin D. H. Lawrence T. E. Lawrence Layamon F. R. Leavis John LeCarré Nathaniel Lee J. S. Le Fanu Charlotte Lennox Doris Lessing Charles Lever C. S. Lewis Wyndham Lewis George Lillo David Lindsay Literary Criticism and Theory Literary Journals Literature Ann Vaughan Lock John Locke David Lodge The Lollards Malcolm Lowry John Lydgate John Lyly The Mabinogion Thomas Babington Macaulay Hugh MacDiarmid Henry Mackenzie Louis MacNeice Macro Plays Thomas Malory The Travels of John Mandeville Delarivier Manley Katherine Mansfield Marie de France Christopher Marlowe John Marston Harriet Martineau Martin Marprelate Andrew Marvell Karl Marx John Masefield Masque W. Somerset Maugham Ian McEwan John McGahern Medieval Anglo-Latin Literature Medieval Devotional Prose Medieval History and Chronicle Medievalism Medieval Saints' Lives Melodrama George Meredith Metaphysical Poets Middle English Middle English Romance Thomas Middleton John Stuart Mill A. A. Milne John Milton A Mirror for Magistrates Modernism Mary Wortley Montagu George Augustus Moore Morality Plays Hannah More Thomas More William Morris Edwin Muir Paul Muldoon Mummers' Plays and Folk Drama Anthony Munday Iris Murdoch Mystery Plays V. S. Naipaul Narrative Thomas Nashe National Theatre Neoclassicism John Henry Newman New Woman Novel The Novel Object Narratives Edna O'Brien Flann O'Brien Sean O'Casey Old English John Oldham Margaret Oliphant Orientalism Joe Orton George Orwell John Osborne Ossian Poems Thomas Otway The Oxford English Dictionary Parody The Paston Letters Walter Pater Patronage Tom Paulin Pearl Samuel Pepys Katherine Philips Piers Plowman Arthur Wing Pinero Harold Pinter Plagiarism Poet Laureate Alexander Pope Popular Romance Peter Porter Postcolonial Literature Beatrix Potter Anthony Powell John Cowper Powys Pre-Raphaelites V. S. Pritchett Puns Puritanism Barbara Pym Ann Radcliffe Kathleen Raine Walter Ralegh Terrence Rattigan Reading Realism Restoration Drama Revenge Tragedy Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Jean Rhys I. A. Richards Dorothy Richardson Samuel Richardson Kate Roberts Robin Hood Mary Robinson John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester Richard Rolle Roman de Silence Romantic Drama Romanticism Christina Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti J. K. Rowling Salman Rushdie John Ruskin Vita Sackville-West Satire Dorothy Sayers Olive Schreiner Science Fiction Walter Scott Sensation Novel Sensibility Serialization William Shakespeare: The Life of Shakespeare William Shakespeare: The History Plays William Shakespeare: The Comedies William Shakespeare: The Tragedies William Shakespeare: The Poems George Bernard Shaw Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Richard Brinsley Sheridan James Shirley Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke Philip Sidney Edith Sitwell John Skelton Christopher Smart Charlotte Smith Stevie Smith Tobias Smollet The Sonnet in the Renaissance Robert Southey Robert Southwell Space Muriel Spark Rachel Speght Stephen Spender Edmund Spenser Henry Morton Stanley and Richard Burton Stationers' Company Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker Tom Stoppard The Sublime Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Jonathan Swift Algernon Charles Swinburne John Millington Synge Nahum Tate Philip Meadows Taylor Alfred, Lord Tennyson William Makepeace Thackeray Dylan Thomas R. S. Thomas Thomason Tracts James Thomson Hester Thrale J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Traherne Travel Writing Anthony Trollope Nicholas Udall Thomas Usk Utopianism John Vanbrugh Henry Vaughan Vercelli Book Versification Queen Victoria The Victorian Stage Edmund Waller Horace Walpole Isaac Walton Evelyn Waugh Augusta Webster John Webster H. G. Wells Irvine Welsh Rebecca West Isabella Whitney Oscar Wilde Helen Maria Williams Raymond Williams Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Jeanette Winterson P. G. Wodehouse Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf Dorothy Wordsworth William Wordsworth World War I Poetry Mary Wroth Thomas Wyatt William Wycherley William Butler Yeats Edward Young Israel Zangwill
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English literature -- Encyclopedias.
Great Britain -- Literatures -- Encyclopedias.
Great Britain -- In literature -- Encyclopedias.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- Encyclopedias.