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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Fourth Edition
Edited by Dinah Birch and Katy Hooper
832 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-960821-8
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Paperback
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14 June 2012
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- Over 5,500 entries - all fully revised and updated for this new edition. Also features new entries, such as nature writing, Lee Child, and vampires in literature.
- Covers world fiction, literary theory, historical and cultural context.
- Appendices include lists of literary prize winners, as well as a historical timeline charting the development of literature through the ages.
- Extended entries give fascinating and informative discursive overviews of major genres in fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, biography, and crime fiction.
- Written by a team of more than 140 distinguished contributors, edited by Dinah Birch and Katy Hooper.
- Based on the acclaimed 7th edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature, published in 2009.
New to this edition - Over 5,500 new and thoroughly revised A-Z entries, encompassing recent writers, scholarship, and approaches to literature.
- Improved representation of many areas including postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature
- All appendices have been revised and updated
- A-Z features recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website
Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Discursive feature entries supply a wealth of information about important genres in literature.
For this fourth edition, the dictionary has been fully revised and updated to include expanded coverage of postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature, as well as
improved representation in the areas of science fiction, biography, travel literature, women's writing, gay and lesbian writing, and American literature.
The appendices listing literary prize winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker, and Pulitzer prizes, have all been updated and there is also a timeline, chronicling the development of English literature from c. 1000 to the present day. Many entries feature recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website.
Written originally by a team of more than 140 distinguished authors and extensively updated for this new edition, this book provides an essential point of reference for English students, teachers, and all other readers of literature in
English.Readership: Anyone interested in English Literature, from students to the general reader.
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Edited by Dinah Birch, University of Liverpool, and Katy Hooper, University of Liverpool Dinah Birch is Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, and has edited novels by Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her books include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), and Our Victorian Education (2007).
Katy Hooper is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Liverpool Library and Assistant Editor for The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7/e.
Previous editions of the Concise Oxford Companion to Literature were edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer.
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Review(s) from previous edition
"This is a scrupulously produced, smartly laid-out, academically serious and at the same time relishably browsable book. - Henry Hitchings, The Times Literary Supplement
"a work of extraordinary value ... No library, no matter how small, can claim not to be able to afford at least one copy of this invaluable and almost incomparable, reference book. Another authoritative reference work of remarkable value will be welcome news to those libraries which found themselves unable to purchase the full edition." - Library Review
"No guide could come more classic than The Oxford Companion to English Literature ... the literary reference source of first resort ... indispensable ... . Contemporary international writing is excellently covered ... excellent chronology" - Malcolm Bradbury, The Times
"Always good company" - Ian Sansom, Guardian
"Everybody with an interest in English literature will want to own it" - David Sexton, Evening Standard
"Remains irresistible" - Sue Gaisford, Harpers & Queen
"Continues to stand out as distinctive, authoritative, and a work of excellence" - Reference Reviews
"Increasing user-friendliness and a nice "up to date" feel" - Reference Reviews
"Sumptuous volume." - Ferdinand Mount, Standpoint
"Detailed, clear and lively accounts." - Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
"A classic now made contemporary, this really is a boon companion." - Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
"Birch and the contributors have done an excellent job." - Sameer Rahim, Daily Telegraph
"Excellence is in the details." - Times Literary Supplement, Henry Hitchings
"It offers companionable assistance; it's your pal in literary need." - John Sutherland, Sunday Times
"It is a fascinating, compact and readable reference work." - Day by Day
"accessible, readable" - Mail on Sunday
"If you are at all interested in literature, then this is your essential reference book" - Writers News
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Preface
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
Concise Companion
Appendices
Literature Timeline
Poets Laureate
Nobel Prize for Literature
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Library Association Carnegie Medallists
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Children's Laureates
King's & Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
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