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Title: The Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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| The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Oxford University Press, USA Oxford Companion to English Literature | | This reference book provides a comprehensive guide to English literature. Authors, book titles and characters from novels are included and the coverage of literature and quality of entries are excellent and its layout very good, but not every author is included, particularly with regard to new authors (writing within the last 10 years or so) and authors of television plays, series etc. However there is no immediate rival to this book, but I cannot award it 5 stars as not every author is included and some omissions are peculiar (eg Patricia Wentworth, although a pseudonym for Dora Amy Elles, is not included). | | The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Oxford University Press, USA Product Description | The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as the standard source of reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, the text
was thoroughly and sensitively revised to bring it up to date.
The sixth edition, published in 2000, was extensively revised, expanded, and updated. Almost 600 new entries covered new writers, genres, and issues, and existing entries were reworked to incorporate the latest scholarship. In addition to the extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory,
allusions, and characters, there are sixteen featured entries on key topics including black British literature, fantasy fiction, and modernism. The Companion remains an unrivaled work that places English literature in its widest context: no other book offers such extensive exploration of the
classical roots of English literature, and the European and non-European works and writers that have influenced its development.
The sixth edition has now been revised to ensure that it remains absolutely up to date: the invaluable appendices - the chronology, and lists of winners of major literary awards - have been updated, as have many of the entries. Informed by the latest scholarly thinking, and comprehensively
cross-referenced to guide the reader to topics of related interest, the Companion retains its position as the best guide to English literature available.
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