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ISBN 10: 1615301178 
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Author:  J E Luebering

English Literature from the 19th Century Through Today 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Nineteenth Century

Chapter 1: The Romantic Age (c. 1789-1832)

• A. Overview of Romanticism: Emphasis on emotion, nature, individualism, imagination.
• B. Major Poets:
  • William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads, "Tintern Abbey," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality."
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Kubla Khan.
  • Lord Byron: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Byronism.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind."
  • John Keats: "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
• C. Prose and Novelists:
  • Jane Austen: Social satire, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility.
  • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein and the Gothic novel.
  • Sir Walter Scott: Historical novels.

Chapter 2: The Victorian Era (c. 1832-1901)

• A. Overview of Victorianism: Industrialization, social change, moral earnestness, doubt and faith.
• B. Victorian Poetry:
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "Ulysses," In Memoriam A.H.H..
  • Robert Browning: Dramatic monologues, My Last Duchess.
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese.
  • Matthew Arnold: Cultural criticism, "Dover Beach."
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins: Sprung rhythm.
• C. The Victorian Novel:
  • Charles Dickens: Social commentary, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist.
  • William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair.
  • George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans): Realism, psychological depth, Middlemarch.
  • Thomas Hardy: Naturalism, tragic vision, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
  • Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.
  • Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre.
• D. Victorian Prose and Criticism:
  • Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Walter Pater.

Part II: The Twentieth Century (Early to Mid-Century)

Chapter 3: Early Modernism and the Dawn of a New Century (c. 1901-1945)

• A. Transition and Fragmentation: Aftermath of WWI, shifting societal values.
• B. Modernist Poetry:
  • W.B. Yeats: Irish revival, symbolism.
  • T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land, experimentation, disillusionment.
  • Ezra Pound (American, but influential on British modernism).
• C. Modernist Novel:
  • Joseph Conrad: Psychological depth, Heart of Darkness.
  • D.H. Lawrence: Psychology, sexuality, Sons and Lovers.
  • Virginia Woolf: Stream of consciousness, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse.
  • James Joyce: Irish, but monumental influence, Ulysses.
  • E.M. Forster: Social commentary, A Passage to India.
• D. Drama:
  • George Bernard Shaw: Social satire, Pygmalion.

Chapter 4: Post-War and Mid-Century Literature (c. 1945-1970s)

• A. Aftermath of WWII and Decline of Empire.
• B. The Angry Young Men and Social Realism:
  • John Osborne: Look Back in Anger.
  • Kingsley Amis, Alan Sillitoe.
• C. Post-War Poetry:
  • Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney (Irish).
• D. The Novel in Transition:
  • George Orwell: Dystopian vision, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  • William Golding: Lord of the Flies.
  • Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing.

Part III: Contemporary English Literature (Late 20th Century to Today)

Chapter 5: Postmodernism and Beyond (c. 1970s-2000s)

• A. Overview of Postmodernism: Deconstruction, skepticism, intertextuality.
• B. Novelistic Diversification:
  • Salman Rushdie: Postcolonialism, magical realism, Midnight's Children.
  • Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Julian Barnes.
  • Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson: Feminist and experimental fiction.
  • The rise of genre fiction (fantasy, sci-fi) influencing literary fiction.
• C. Contemporary Poetry:
  • Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage.
• D. Drama:
  • Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard.

Chapter 6: Global English Literature and the 21st Century

• A. The Broadening Canon: Inclusion of Commonwealth and postcolonial voices.
• B. Contemporary Themes and Trends:
  • Globalization, technology, identity politics, climate change.
  • New narrative forms and digital literature.
• C. Notable Authors of the New Millennium:
  • Zadie Smith, Hilary Mantel, Bernardine Evaristo, Maggie O'Farrell, Caryl Phillips, Colson Whitehead (American, but influence).
• D. The Impact of Literary Prizes (Booker Prize, Nobel Prize).
• E. The Future of English Literature.

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