Book description
CONTENTS:
1. INTRODUCTORY: BEFORE AND AFTER CHAUCER
2. THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND
3. AND AGE OF TRANSITION
4. THE AGE OF PROSE
5. THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL
6. POETRY AND THE VICTORIANS
7. VICTORIAN PROSE WRITERS AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE TIMES
8. POLITICS, SOCIETY AND THE GREAT VICTORIAN NOVELISTS
9. NEW TRENDS IN VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN FICTION
10. THE MODERNS TO 1939: 1. DRAMA AND POETRY
11. THE MODERNS TO 1939: 2. THE NOVELISTS