Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism

Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall, John Peck

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN:
  9780415020657
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134977093
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature.
Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading.
An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature.
Special Features
* Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines
* In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present
* Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading
* Single index of authors, terms, topics

INDEX

(An asterisk indicates the listing of a work under Further Reading.)

A la recherche du temps perdu see Proust, Marcel

Aarne, Antti 985

The Types of the Folktale 978

Aberdeen University 890

Abbot, C.C. 310

Abbot, The see Scott, Sir Walter

Aboriginal writers 1158–60

Aborigines 1155–7

Abrams, M.H. 24*, 166*, 666, 680*, 694*, 789*, 962*

Glossary of Literary Terms 120

literary theory 4–5, 13–14, 690

The Mirror and the Lamp 108, 267

Romanticism 17, 108, 190, 267, 685

Social Conscience neo-Romantic 693

Absalom and Achitophel see Dryden, John

absence 1168

abstract painting 992

Abstracts of English Studies 921

Absurd, Theatre of the 460, 464–73

Achebe, Chinua 1115, 1125, 1128, 1130, 1132, 1133, 1134*

‘Africa and her Writers’ 1129

Arrow of God 1116, 1126

Things Fall Apart 1116, 1119, 1120, 1122, 1126

Achurch, Janet 438

Ackroyd, P.R. 697

acting, Method 453

Action Française 316–17

actor-managers 436–7, 439, 442

actors

as part of design 455

training 446, 456, 461

Actresses's Franchise League, The 478

Adamov, Arthur 460, 466

Adams, Ann 1128

Adams, Hazard 9, 10, 17, 19, 24*

Adams, Henry 1073

Adams, W.G.S. 898

adaptation, in folk literature 983, 984

Adcock, Fleur 330, 1189

Addison, Joseph 670, 876, 883

legal references 674

‘Pleasures of the Imagination’ (Spectator) 1015, 1019

Spectator 260, 666, 886, 1036

address, terms of 1092–5

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• I. INTRODUCTION
• 1 Literature
• 2 Criticism
• II. LITERATURE AND HISTORY
• 3 Medieval Literature and the Medieval World
• 4 The Renaissance
• 5 Augustanism
• 6 Romanticism
• 7 Modernism
• 8 Postmodernism
• III. POETRY
• 9 Genre
• 10 Poetry
• 11 Epic and Romance
• 12 Lyric
• 13 Narrative Verse
• 14 Women and the Poetic Tradition
• 15 Medieval Poetry
• 16 Renaissance Poetry
• 17 ‘Augustan’ Poetry
• 18 Romantic Poetry
• 19 Victorian Poetry
• 20 The French Symbolists
• 21 Modern Poetry
• 22 British Poetry Since 1945
• 23 Contemporary American Poetry
• IV. DRAMA
• 24 Stagecraft
• 25 Tragedy
• 26 Comedy
• 27 Shakespeare
• 28 Medieval Drama
• 29 Renaissance Drama
• 30 Restoration Theatre
• 31 The Origins of the Modern British Stage
• 32 Theories of Modern Drama
• 33 The Theatre of the Absurd
• 34 Theatre and Politics
• 35 Feminist Theatre
• V. THE NOVEL
• 36 Modes of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
• 37 Feminine Fictions
• 38 The Historical Novel
• 39 The Nineteenth-Century Social Novel in England
• 40 The Realist Novel: The European Context
• 41 Realism and the English Novel
• 42 American Romance
• 43 Formalism and the Novel: Henry James
• 44 The Novel and Modern Criticism
• 45 The Modernist Novel in the Twentieth Century
• 46 British Fiction Since 1930
• 47 Contemporary Fiction
• VI. CRITICISM
• 48 Biblical Hermeneutics
• 49 Neo-classical Criticism
• 50 The Romantic Critical Tradition
• 51 Great Traditions: The Logic of the Canon
• 52 Marxist Criticism
• 53 The New Criticism
• 54 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
• 55 Feminist Literary Criticism
• 56 Psychoanalytic Criticism
• 57 Deconstruction
• 58 New Historicism
• VII. PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION
• 59 Production and Reception of the Literary Book
• 60 The Printed Book
• 61 Literacy
• 62 Publishing Before 1800
• 63 Publishing Since 1800
• 64 British Periodicals and Reading Publics
• 65 Libraries and the Reading Public
• 66 Censorship
• 67 The Bibliographic Record
• 68 The Institutionalization of Literature: The University
• VIII. CONTEXTS
• 69 Literature and the History of Ideas
• 70 Literature and the Bible
• 71 Literature and the Classics
• 72 Folk Literature
• 73 Literature and the Visual Arts
• 74 Literature and Music
• 75 Literature and Landscape
• 76 The Sentimental Ethic
• 77 The Gothic
• 78 Aestheticism
• 79 Literature and Science
• 80 Literature and Language
• 81 Culture and Popular Culture
• IX. PERSPECTIVES
• 82 New English Literatures
• 83 African Literature in English
• 84 The African-American Literary Tradition
• 85 Australian Literature and the British Tradition
• 86 Canadian Literature
• 87 Indian Literature in English
• 88 New Zealand and Pacific Literature
• 89 West Indian Literature
• 90 Western Literature in Modern China
• X. AFTERWORD
• 91 W(h)ither ‘English’?
• The Contributors
• Index