{"product_id":"a-companion-to-british-literature-4-volume-set-isbn-9780470656044","title":"A Companion to British Literature, 4 Volume Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to British Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an authoritative reference on British literature, and the contexts, writers, and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSpans historical, social, political, domestic, linguistic, institutional, and material contexts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers the most inclusive and far-reaching overview available of British literature from 700-2,000,across four volumes and over 100 chapters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by an internationally diverse range of expert contributors including both distinguished academics and up-and-coming young stars\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComprises readings from across geographical, cultural, institutional, economic and mediological contexts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a general index and a thematic table of contents to enable readers to navigate the development of British Literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Volumes: www.britishliteraturecompanion.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume I: Medieval Literature 700 - 1450\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFull Table of Contents ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume I xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction xxiv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert DeMaria, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Medieval Literature xxxi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSamantha Zacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology 43 - 1476 xlvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKarl Reichl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatherine O'Brien O'Keeffe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmily V. Thornbury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul E. Szarmach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints' Legends in John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVirginia Blanton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Racial Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard, Coer de Lion 81\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuzanne M. Yeager\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After 1066 97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeil Cartlidge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiz Herbert McAvoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 130\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristine Chism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Writing Revolution 146\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarion Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Romance Genre 161\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCorinne Saunders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream Vision Genre 180\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Calabrese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 British Chaucer 202\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn M. Ganim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 215\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Galloway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture 232\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDenise L. Despres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Sources, Analogues, Creativity 243\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTim William Machan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices in Medieval England 256\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristina M. Fitzgerald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Old English and Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 273\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndy Orchard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Before the Makars: Older Scots Literature Under the Early Stewart Kings 293\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRhiannon Purdie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Originating Britain: Welsh Literature and the Arthurian Tradition 308\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Fulton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Writing from the \"Other Shore\" and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland 323\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoseph Falaky Nagy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books: Assessing the Material Evidence of Women's Reading 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJacqueline Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Collectors and Collections: Libraries and Their Social and Private Functions 355\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid N. Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 In Praise of Power: Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry 369\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert J. Meyer-Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Word and Image 384\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElaine Treharne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 New Technologies: From Manuscript to Print 403\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSian Echard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected References and Further Reading 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to Volume I 435\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume II: Early Modern Literature 1450 - 1660\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFull Table of Contents ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume II xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction xxv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert DeMaria, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Early Modern Literature xxxii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert DeMaria, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology 1450 - 1662 xxxix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Spectral Past: Medieval Literature in the Early Modern Period 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Matthews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton 16\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilly Maley and Adam Swann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Robert Burton and the Discontents of Print 29\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid J. Baker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century 40\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlessandra Petrina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Mapping the British Archipelago in the Renaissance 54\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStewart Mottram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Renaissance or Reformation? 70\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Payne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Religious Reading and Writing in an Age of Bloodshed 82\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAchsah Guibbory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Translations of Virgil from Gavin Douglas to Sir John Denham 98\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobin Sowerby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 England, the \"Orient,\" and the Ocean 116\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBenedict Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Politics and Religion in Elizabethan Drama 129\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLisa Hopkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Women's Literary and Intellectual Endeavors: A Case for the Anonymous Riposte 142\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarcy L. North\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Shakespeare and the Arts of Persuasion 164\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Macdonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Texts and Performances in the Age of Elizabeth 181\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Rutter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Physics, Metaphysics, and Religion in Lyric Poetry 197\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWendy Beth Hyman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Early English Essay 213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoshua Scodel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives 231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Crosbie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Scots Literature in the Age of the Makars and Beyond 249\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatherine H. Terrell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Violence in Jacobean Drama 264\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eZoltan Markus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 First Folios: Jonson and Shakespeare 280\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdam G. Hooks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Riding Westward: Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and the Literature of Empire 295\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJonathan Locke Hart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Cheap Print and Popular Reading During the Civil Wars, 1637 - 1660 309\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoad Raymond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Republican Writing from Milton to Locke 326\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNigel Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 John Bunyan and the Spaces of Religious Writing 342\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCynthia Wall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Paradise Lost: Contexts and Poetic Creation 359\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara K. Lewalski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Human, Animal, and Machine in the Seventeenth Century 375\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLucinda Cole and Robert Markley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected References and Further Reading 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to Volume II 402\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume III: Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660 - 1837\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFull Table of Contents ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume III xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction xxiv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert DeMaria, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Long Eighteenth-Century Literature xxxi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert DeMaria, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology 1658 - 1835 xxxviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Understanding Genre: Epic, Mock Epic, and Some Versions of Heroism from Milton to Pope 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Venturo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 History and Literature from Milton to Wollstonecraft 19\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuth Mack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century 35\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeil Rhodes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Aphra Behn and the Profession of Writing in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century 49\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Ingrassia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Virgilian Way from Milton to Wordsworth 62\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdam Potkay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Women Readers and the Rise of the Periodical Essay 78\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eManushag N. Powell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Female Satirists of the Eighteenth Century 95\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Baines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Ireland, England, and Anglo-Irish Writers in England 113\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Oakleaf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Alexander Pope: Religion, Politics, and Poetry 127\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePat Rogers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Eighteenth-Century Science and the Literary Imagination 143\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTita Chico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Epistolary Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century 159\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Keymer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Poetry Anthologies, Taste, and the Canon 174\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdam Rounce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Performance in Eighteenth-Century English Verse: Oral Expressiveness 189\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Richetti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Ranging Knowledge by the Alphabet: The Literature of Categorization and Organization 1700 - 1830 207\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLynda Mugglestone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 History, Biography, and Anecdote 223\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFreya Johnston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Other in the British Eighteenth Century 240\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLynn Festa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Aesthetics and Taste: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Beyond in the Eighteenth Century 258\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eG. Gabrielle Starr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Poetry of Melancholy from Finch to Keats 277\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Sitter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Jane Austen and the Conditions of Knowledge 298\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJenny Davidson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Genius and Originality 1750 - 1830: Young, Wordsworth, and Shelley 312\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher R. Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Blake and His Contemporaries 329\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura Quinney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Romantic Celebrities: Poets in an Age of Print 345\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Cronin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Gothic and Celtic Revivals: Antiquity and the Archipelago 361\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNick Groom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Romantic Women Writers in the Lecture Room 380\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah M. Zimmerman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected References and Further Reading 396\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to Volume III 408\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume IV: Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature 1837 - 2000\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFull Table of Contents ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume IV xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction xxiv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert DeMaria, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature xxxi\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeesok Chang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology 1800 - 2006 xxxvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Charles Dickens, Dramatist 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEileen Gillooly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Becoming George Eliot: Female Authorship in the Nineteenth Century 14\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKyriaki Hadjiafxendi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 \"What Do the Women Do?\": The Work of Women in the Fiction of the Brontës 33\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Zlotnick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Evolution and Entropy: Scientific Contexts in the Nineteenth Century 52\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuzy Anger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Theater, Exhibition, and Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century 68\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSharon Aronofsky Weltman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Art, Self, and Society: Tennyson and the Brownings, 1830 - 1857 89\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatthew Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Pre-Raphaelite Brothers, Lovers, and the Sister Arts 107\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWendy Graham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Regionalism and Consciousness: Thomas Hardy's Imagined Geographies 129\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKeith Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Modernism and Empire 144\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura Winkiel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Irish Literary Revival 160\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames L. Pethica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Re-Envisioning Yeats's A Vision: Modernist Spirality and the Distribution of the Sensible 175\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNico Israel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 First World War Poetry 195\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdam Piette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 \"How to Enjoy James Joyce's Great Novel\": Making and Marketing in Ulysses 210\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Dilks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Anglophobia and Anglophilia: Hugh MacDiarmid and T. S. Eliot 231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Crawford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Virginia Woolf and Experimental Fiction 246\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnne E. Fernald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Sartorial Modernity: Fashion, Gender, and Sexuality in Modernism 260\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane Garrity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Doom in the Bud: Beckett's Drama and After 280\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Lawley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Form, Figure, and Ground: Auden and England After Modernism 296\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eC. D. Blanton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Historical Turns in Twentieth-Century Fiction 314\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn T. Connor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Anthologizing Poetry: The Movement and After 333\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNigel Alderman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 \"Frail, and So Full of Fire\": The Angry Young Man and Changing Masculinities 350\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePraseeda Gopinath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Imagining Female Authorship After 1945: Lessing's and Spark's Portraits of the Artist Manqué 367\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaria Francesca Fackler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Sticks and Stones: Three Nearly Unnamable Figures and a Review of Postcolonialism 385\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElaine K. Chang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Modern Scottish Novel 404\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCairns Craig\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Queer Fiction in Contemporary Britain 424\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJodie Medd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Global Markets: Contemporary British Fiction and the Book Trade 440\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Todd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The British Dystopian Novel from Wells to Ishiguro 454\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhillip E. Wegner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected References and Further Reading 471\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to Volume IV 484\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsolidated Index 511\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A Companion to British Literature is a fascinating four-volume set. Most of the essays are engaging and informative, and the comprehensive index as well as the chronology makes the volumes easy to browse.\" (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003eMay 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert DeMaria, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College, USA. He is the General Editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, the editor of the \u003ci\u003eJohnsonian News Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eJohnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Samuel Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1993), and \u003ci\u003eSamuel Johnson and the Life of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eClassical Literature and Its Reception\u003c\/i\u003e (with Robert Brown, Blackwell, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eBritish Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1996; 3rd edn, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeesok Chang\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, USA. He is the author of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell title \u003ci\u003eHandbook to British Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, and is currently working on a book on literary modernism and media technologies. In addition, he is the author of articles on critical theory and literary modernism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamantha Zacher\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Cornell University, USA,  where she teaches Old and Middle English Literature. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePreaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (\u003c\/i\u003e2009) and co-editor, with Andy Orchard, of \u003ci\u003eNew Readings in the Vercelli Book\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). Her new monograph, \u003ci\u003eRewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming (2013). She is also editing a new collection of essays entitled \u003ci\u003eImagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to British Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject. 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