A HISTORY OF OLD
ENGLISH LITERATURE
R. D. Fulk
and
Christopher M. Cain
with a chapter on saints’ legends by
Rachel S. Anderson
,
,A History of Old English Literature
, BLACKWELL HISTORIES OF LITERATURE
General editor: Peter Brown, University of Kent at Canterbury
This series aims to be comprehensive and succinct, and to recognize
that to write literary history involves more than placing texts in chrono-
logical sequence. Thus the emphasis within each volume falls both on
plotting the significant literary developments of a given period and on
the wider cultural contexts within which they occurred. “Cultural his-
tory” is construed in broad terms and authors address such issues as
politics, society, the arts, ideologies, varieties of literary production and
consumption, and dominant genres and modes. Each volume evaluates
the lasting effects of the literary period under discussion, incorporating
such topics as critical reception and modern reputations. The effect of
each volume is to give the reader a sense of possessing a crucial sector of
literary terrain, of understanding the forces that give a period its dis-
tinctive cast, and of seeing how writing of a given period impacts on,
and is shaped by, its cultural circumstances. Each volume recommends
itself as providing an authoritative and up-to-date entrée to texts and
issues, and their historical implications, and will therefore interest
students, teachers and the general reader alike. The series as a whole
will be attractive to libraries as a work that renews and redefines a famil-
iar form.
A History of Old English Literature R. D. Fulk and
Christopher M. Cain
A History of Middle English Literature Andrew Galloway
A History of English Renaissance Literature Donna Hamilton
A History of Seventeenth-Century English
Literature Thomas N. Corns
A History of Romanticism Gary Kelly
A History of Victorian Literature James Eli Adams
A History of Modernist Literature: The British, Irish,
and Anglo-American Traditions Molly Hite
A History of Irish Literature in English Terence Brown
A History of Postcolonial Commonwealth Literature
1947–2000 Shirley Chew
ENGLISH LITERATURE
R. D. Fulk
and
Christopher M. Cain
with a chapter on saints’ legends by
Rachel S. Anderson
,
,A History of Old English Literature
, BLACKWELL HISTORIES OF LITERATURE
General editor: Peter Brown, University of Kent at Canterbury
This series aims to be comprehensive and succinct, and to recognize
that to write literary history involves more than placing texts in chrono-
logical sequence. Thus the emphasis within each volume falls both on
plotting the significant literary developments of a given period and on
the wider cultural contexts within which they occurred. “Cultural his-
tory” is construed in broad terms and authors address such issues as
politics, society, the arts, ideologies, varieties of literary production and
consumption, and dominant genres and modes. Each volume evaluates
the lasting effects of the literary period under discussion, incorporating
such topics as critical reception and modern reputations. The effect of
each volume is to give the reader a sense of possessing a crucial sector of
literary terrain, of understanding the forces that give a period its dis-
tinctive cast, and of seeing how writing of a given period impacts on,
and is shaped by, its cultural circumstances. Each volume recommends
itself as providing an authoritative and up-to-date entrée to texts and
issues, and their historical implications, and will therefore interest
students, teachers and the general reader alike. The series as a whole
will be attractive to libraries as a work that renews and redefines a famil-
iar form.
A History of Old English Literature R. D. Fulk and
Christopher M. Cain
A History of Middle English Literature Andrew Galloway
A History of English Renaissance Literature Donna Hamilton
A History of Seventeenth-Century English
Literature Thomas N. Corns
A History of Romanticism Gary Kelly
A History of Victorian Literature James Eli Adams
A History of Modernist Literature: The British, Irish,
and Anglo-American Traditions Molly Hite
A History of Irish Literature in English Terence Brown
A History of Postcolonial Commonwealth Literature
1947–2000 Shirley Chew
