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xii | |
| Acknowledgements |
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xiii | |
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xiv | |
| Introduction: literature in Britain and Ireland to 1150 |
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1 | (1) |
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1 Writing in Britain and Ireland, c. 400 to c. 800 |
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19 | (31) |
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2 The art of writing: scripts and scribal production |
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50 | (23) |
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3 Art and writing: voice, image, object |
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73 | (26) |
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4 Of Bede's `five languages and four nations': the earliest writing from Ireland, Scotland and Wales |
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99 | (21) |
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5 Insular Latin literature to 900 |
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120 | (38) |
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6 Bede and the northern kingdoms |
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158 | (27) |
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II EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE |
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7 Across borders: Anglo-Saxon England and the Germanic world |
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185 | (24) |
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8 English literature in the ninth century |
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209 | (23) |
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9 The writing of history in the early Middle Ages: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in context |
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232 | (25) |
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10 The literary languages of Old English: words, styles, voices |
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257 | (21) |
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11 Old English poetic form: genre, style, prosody |
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278 | (31) |
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12 Beowulf: a poem in our time |
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309 | (23) |
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13 Old English lyrics: a poetics of experience |
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332 | (25) |
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14 Literature in pieces: female sanctity and the relics of early women's writing |
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357 | (24) |
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15 Saintly lives: friendship, kinship, gender and sexuality |
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381 | (25) |
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16 Sacred history and Old English religious poetry |
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406 | (21) |
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17 Performing Christianity: liturgical and devotional writing |
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427 | (24) |
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18 Riddles, wonder and responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon literature |
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451 | (20) |
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III LATIN LEARNING AND THE LITERARY VERNACULARS |
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19 In measure, and number, and weight: writing science |
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471 | (28) |
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20 Legal documentation and the practice of English law |
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499 | (31) |
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530 | (24) |
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22 The authority of English, 900-1150 |
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554 | (25) |
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23 Crossing the language divide: Anglo-Scandinavian language and literature |
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579 | (28) |
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24 European literature and eleventh-century England |
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607 | (30) |
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25 Gaelic literature in Ireland and Scotland, 900-1150 |
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637 | (23) |
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26 Writing in Welsh To 1150: (re)creating the past, shaping the future |
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660 | |
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| Bibliography |
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687 | (75) |
| Index of manuscripts |
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762 | (4) |
| Index |
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766 | (68) |
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x | |
| Acknowledgements |
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xi | |
| Introduction |
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1 | (1) |
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1 MODES AND MEANS OF LITERARY PRODUCTION, CIRCULATION AND RECEPTION |
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1 Literacy, society and education |
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15 | (40) |
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2 Manuscript transmission and circulation |
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55 | (26) |
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3 Print, literary culture and the book trade |
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81 | (36) |
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117 | (24) |
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5 Languages of early modern literature in Britain |
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141 | (29) |
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6 Habits of reading and early modern literary culture |
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170 | (31) |
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2 THE TUDOR ERA FROM THE REFORMATION TO ELIZABETH I |
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7 Literature and national identity |
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201 | (28) |
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8 Literature and the court |
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229 | (28) |
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9 Literature and the church |
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257 | (56) |
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3 THE ERA OF ELIZABETH AND JAMES VI |
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10 Literature and national identity |
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313 | (30) |
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11 Literature and the court |
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343 | (31) |
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12 Literature and the church |
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374 | (25) |
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399 | (29) |
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14 Literature and the theatre |
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428 | (31) |
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15 Literature and national identity |
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459 | (28) |
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16 Literature and the court |
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487 | (25) |
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17 Literature and the church |
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512 | (32) |
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544 | (21) |
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19 Literature and the theatre to 1660 |
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565 | (38) |
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20 Literature and the household |
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603 | (30) |
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5 THE CIVIL WAR AND COMMONWEALTH ERA |
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21 Literature and national identity |
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633 | (31) |
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22 Literature and religion |
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664 | (50) |
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714 | (23) |
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24 Literature and the household |
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737 | (26) |
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25 Alternative sites for literature |
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763 | (27) |
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26 From Revolution to Restoration in English literary culture |
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790 | |
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| Chronological outline of historical events and texts in Britain, 1528-1674, with list of selected manuscripts |
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834 | (45) |
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| Select bibliography (primary and secondary sources) |
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879 | (86) |
| Index |
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965 | |
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x | |
| Acknowledgements |
|
xii | |
| Introduction |
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1 | (1) |
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PART I THE ENDS OF ENLIGHTENMENT |
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19 | (108) |
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1 Sentiment and sensibility |
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21 | (24) |
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2 Antiquarianism, balladry and the rehabilitation of romance |
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45 | (26) |
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3 The Romantics and the political economists |
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71 | (30) |
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4 The problem of periodization: Enlightenment, Romanticism and the fate of system |
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101 | (26) |
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PART II GEOGRAPHIES: THE SCENES OF LITERARY LIFE |
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127 | (228) |
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129 | (30) |
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6 Edinburgh and Lowland Scotland |
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159 | (23) |
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7 Romantic Ireland: 1750-1845 |
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182 | (22) |
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8 France, Germany, America |
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204 | (20) |
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224 | (22) |
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246 | (25) |
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11 Romanticism and the wider world: poetry, travel literature and empire |
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271 | (22) |
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293 | (21) |
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13 Writing, reading and the scenes of war |
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314 | (21) |
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335 | (20) |
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PART III HISTORIES: WRITING IN THE NEW MOVEMENTS |
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355 | (224) |
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15 Rebellion, revolution, reform: the transit of the intellectuals |
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357 | (20) |
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16 Changes in the world of publishing |
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377 | (26) |
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403 | (24) |
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18 Romanticism and poetic autonomy |
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427 | (24) |
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19 Transformations of the novel - I |
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451 | (22) |
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20 Transformations of the novel - II |
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473 | (17) |
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21 Theatre, performance and urban spectacle |
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490 | (17) |
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22 The epigenesis of genre: new forms from old |
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507 | (20) |
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23 The literature of the new sciences |
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527 | (28) |
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24 The making of child readers |
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555 | (24) |
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PART IV THE ENDS OF ROMANTICISM |
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579 | |
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25 Representation restructured |
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581 | (20) |
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26 Romantic cultural imperialism |
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601 | (20) |
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27 Romanticism and religious modernity: from natural supernaturalism to literary sectarianism |
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621 | (27) |
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28 Is Romanticism finished? |
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|
648 | |
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| Chronology |
|
665 | (13) |
| Bibliographies |
|
678 | (71) |
| Index |
|
749 | |
| Notes on contributors |
|
xi | |
| Introduction |
|
1 | (1) |
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PART I AUTHORS, READERS, AND PUBLISHERS |
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1 Publishing and the materiality of the book |
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15 | (19) |
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34 | (22) |
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3 Periodicals and reviewing |
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56 | (23) |
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PART II WRITING VICTORIA'S ENGLAND |
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4 The expansion of Britain |
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79 | (23) |
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102 | (22) |
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124 | (27) |
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PART III MODES OF WRITING |
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151 | (21) |
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172 | (21) |
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193 | (27) |
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220 | (23) |
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243 | (22) |
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265 | (23) |
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13 Innovation and experiment |
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288 | (23) |
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311 | (20) |
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PART IV MATTERS OF DEBATE |
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331 | (19) |
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350 | (20) |
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370 | (18) |
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388 | (17) |
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405 | (17) |
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422 | (22) |
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444 | (22) |
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22 Science and literature |
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466 | (21) |
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23 Subjectivity, psychology, and the imagination |
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487 | (23) |
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510 | (22) |
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25 The rural scene: Victorian literature and the natural world |
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532 | (18) |
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26 `The annihilation of space and time': literature and technology |
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550 | (25) |
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27 Spaces of the nineteenth-century novel |
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575 | (23) |
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28 National and regional literatures |
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598 | (24) |
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622 | (19) |
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641 | (21) |
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662 | (23) |
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|
PART VI VICTORIAN AFTERLIVES |
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32 1900 and the debut de siecle: poetry, drama, fiction |
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|
685 | (27) |
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|
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33 The future of Victorian literature |
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|
712 | |
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| Select bibliography |
|
730 | (29) |
| Index |
|
759 | (47) |
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|
|
xii | |
| Acknowledgements |
|
xiv | |
| Introduction |
|
1 | (1) |
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|
PART ONE WRITING MODERNITY |
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1 Science and knowledge at the beginning of the twentieth century: versions of the modern Enlightenment |
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11 | (19) |
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2 The Victorian fin de siecle and Decadence |
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30 | (20) |
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3 Empire and modern writing |
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50 | (11) |
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4 The gender of modernity |
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61 | (22) |
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PART TWO THE EMERGING AVANT-GARDE |
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|
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5 Edwardians to Georgians |
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83 | (17) |
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|
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6 The avant-garde, bohemia and mainstream culture |
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100 | (17) |
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7 `Our London, my London, your London': the Modernist moment in the metropolis |
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117 | (15) |
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|
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8 Futurism, literature and the market |
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132 | (20) |
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|
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9 Literature and World War I |
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152 | (23) |
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PART THREE MODERNISM AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1918-1945 |
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|
175 | (22) |
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11 The time-mind of the twenties |
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197 | (21) |
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|
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12 Modern life: fiction and satire |
|
|
218 | (14) |
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13 Modernist poetry and poetics |
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232 | (19) |
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251 | (18) |
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|
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15 Psychoanalysis and literature |
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269 | (17) |
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|
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16 Biography and autobiography |
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286 | (18) |
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|
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17 `Speed, violence, women, America': popular fictions |
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304 | (14) |
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|
|
18 Theatre and drama between the wars |
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318 | (17) |
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335 | (24) |
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20 The thirties: politics, authority, perspective |
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359 | (20) |
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21 Literary criticism and cultural politics |
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379 | (17) |
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396 | (21) |
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23 World War II: contested Europe |
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417 | (19) |
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24 World War II: the city in ruins |
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436 | (19) |
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PART FOUR POST-WAR CULTURES, 1945-1970 |
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25 Culture, class and education |
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455 | (19) |
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26 Post-war broadcast drama |
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474 | (20) |
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27 Drama and the new theatre companies |
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494 | (16) |
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28 Modernism and anti-Modernism in British poetry |
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510 | (18) |
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29 Nation, region, place: devolving cultures |
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528 | (17) |
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|
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30 The sixties: realism and experiment |
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545 | (18) |
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31 `Voyaging in': colonialism and migration |
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563 | (22) |
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PART FIVE TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM, 1970-2000 |
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32 The seventies and the cult of culture |
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585 | (15) |
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33 Feminism and writing: the politics of culture |
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600 | (18) |
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|
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34 The half-lives of literary fictions: genre fictions in the late twentieth century |
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618 | (17) |
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635 | (18) |
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36 Irish literature: tradition and modernity |
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653 | (15) |
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|
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37 Scottish literature: Second Renaissance |
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668 | (17) |
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|
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38 Towards devolution: new Welsh writing |
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685 | (15) |
|
|
|
39 British-Jewish writing and the turn towards diaspora |
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|
700 | (16) |
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40 Fiction and postmodernity |
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716 | (20) |
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|
736 | (15) |
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751 | (17) |
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768 | (19) |
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44 Ending the century: literature and digital technology |
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|
787 | |
|
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| Bibliography |
|
806 | (36) |
| Index |
|
842 | |
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|
xi | |
| Acknowledgements |
|
xii | |
| Notes on contributors |
|
xiii | |
| Introduction |
|
1 | (2) |
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PART I LITERARY PRODUCTION AND DISSEMINATION: CHANGING AUDIENCES AND EMERGING MEDIA |
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1 Publishing and bookselling 1660-1780 |
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11 | (26) |
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2 The social world of authorship 1660-1714 |
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37 | (24) |
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3 Popular entertainment and instruction, literary and dramatic: chapbooks, advice books, almanacs, ballads, farces, pantomimes, prints and shows |
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61 | (26) |
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87 | (20) |
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PART II LITERARY GENRES: ADAPTATION AND REFORMATION |
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5 Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama |
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107 | (25) |
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6 Dryden and the poetic career |
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132 | (28) |
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7 Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (1): from the Restoration to the death of Pope |
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160 | (49) |
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|
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8 Eighteenth-century women poets |
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209 | (26) |
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9 Systems satire: Swift.com |
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235 | (2) |
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10 Persistence, adaptations and transformations in pastoral and Georgic poetry |
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|
237 | (50) |
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|
|
11 Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (II): after Pope |
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287 | (29) |
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|
|
12 Drama and theatre in the mid and later eighteenth century |
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|
316 | (24) |
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|
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13 Scottish poetry and regional literary expression |
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340 | (23) |
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|
|
PART III LITERATURE AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE: THE PRODUCTION AND TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE |
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|
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14 History and literature 1660-1780 |
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|
363 | (28) |
|
|
|
15 A preliminary discourse on philosophy and literature |
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391 | (32) |
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|
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16 Britain and European literature and thought |
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|
423 | (22) |
|
|
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17 Religion and literature |
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445 | (26) |
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|
|
18 Literary criticism and the rise of national literary history |
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471 | (27) |
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|
|
19 Augustan England and British America |
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|
498 | (27) |
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|
|
PART IV LITERATURE AND SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE |
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|
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20 The eighteenth-century periodical essay |
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|
525 | (24) |
|
|
|
21 Public opinion and the political pamphlet |
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|
549 | (23) |
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|
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22 Sentimental fiction: ethics, social critique and philanthropy |
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|
572 | (30) |
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|
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23 Folklore, antiquarianism, scholarship and high literary culture |
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|
602 | (21) |
|
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|
PART V LITERARY GENRES: TRANSFORMATION AND NEW FORMS OF EXPRESSIVENESS |
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|
623 | (26) |
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25 Diary and autobiography |
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|
649 | (24) |
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|
673 | (34) |
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|
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27 Eighteenth-century travel literature |
|
|
707 | (38) |
|
|
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28 Women novelists 1740s-1780s |
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|
745 | (23) |
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29 Burke and the uses of eloquence: political prose in the 1770s and 1780s |
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|
768 | (27) |
|
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|
|
30 More is different: literary change in the mid and late eighteenth century |
|
|
795 | |
|
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| Chronology |
|
824 | (9) |
| Bibliographies |
|
833 | (80) |
| Index |
|
913 | |
|
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|
x | |
| General preface david Wallace |
|
xi | |
| Acknowledgments |
|
xxiv | |
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|
xxv | |
|
I AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST |
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|
3 | (4) |
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1 Old English and its afterlife |
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|
7 | (28) |
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|
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2 Anglo-Norman cultures in England, 1066-1460 |
|
|
35 | (26) |
|
|
|
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|
61 | (31) |
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|
|
4 National, world and women's history: writers and readers in post-Conquest England |
|
|
92 | (30) |
|
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122 | (30) |
|
|
|
6 Romance in England, 1066-1400 |
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|
152 | (27) |
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|
II WRITING IN THE BRITISH ISLES |
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|
|
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|
179 | (3) |
|
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182 | (26) |
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208 | (21) |
|
|
|
9 Writing in Scotland, 1058-1560 |
|
|
229 | (26) |
|
|
|
10 Writing history in England |
|
|
255 | (29) |
|
|
|
11 London texts and literate practice |
|
|
284 | (29) |
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|
|
III INSTITUTIONAL PRODUCTIONS |
|
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|
|
|
313 | (3) |
|
|
|
316 | (33) |
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13 The friars and medieval English literature |
|
|
349 | (27) |
|
|
|
14 Classroom and confession |
|
|
376 | (31) |
|
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|
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15 Medieval literature and law |
|
|
407 | (25) |
|
|
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16 Vox populi and the literature of 1381 |
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432 | (22) |
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17 Englishing the Bible, 1066-1549 |
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454 | (31) |
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485 | (3) |
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488 | (25) |
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513 | (26) |
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20 The Middle English mystics |
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539 | (27) |
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566 | (23) |
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589 | (21) |
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610 | (27) |
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637 | (3) |
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24 Hoccleve, Lydgate and the Lancastrian court |
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640 | (22) |
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662 | (28) |
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690 | (30) |
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720 | (19) |
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28 English drama: from ungodly ludi to sacred play |
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739 | (28) |
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29 The allegorical theatre: moralities, interludes and Protestant drama |
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767 | (26) |
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30 The experience of exclusion: literature and politics in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII |
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793 | (28) |
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31 Reformed literature and literature reformed |
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821 | (31) |
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| Chronological outline of historical events and texts in Britain, 1050-1550 |
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852 | (29) |
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| Bibliography |
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881 | (110) |
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| Index of manuscripts |
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991 | (3) |
| Index |
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