English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature – English poetry, English drama and The English novel.

DSB

820.9

Jonathan Bate (Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick) – Oxford University Press