This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.

• This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies
• Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings
• Includes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental texts
• Incorporates...

A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690.

• An energetic and provocative history of English literature from 1603-1690.
• Part of the major Blackwell History of English Literature series.
• Locates seventeenth-century English literature in its social and cultural contexts.
• Considers the physical conditions of literary production and consumption.
• Looks at the complex political, religious, cultural and social pressures on...

A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years.

• A stimulating and coherent account of literary modernism in England which emphasizes the artistic achievements of particular figures and offers detailed readings of key works by the most significant modernist authors whose work transformed early twentieth-century English literary culture
• Provides in-depth...

A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history.