Edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer
5,000 entries
Entries for this guide to all aspects of English Literature have been carefully selected from Margaret Drabble's renowned Oxford Companion to English Literature. It includes character entries and plot summaries, literary movements, critics, and critical theories, literary societies, periodicals, libraries, copyright, censorship, coffee houses, actors and actresses, printers, publishers, booksellers, and private presses. Author biographies are provided covering novelists, dramatists, poets, historians, philosophers, scholars, critics, editors and journalists.
This edition also includes the winners of the Nobel, Booker, and Pulitzer prizes. It covers topics once regarded as non-literary such as detective stories, science fiction, children's stories, and comic strips, as well as important movements and critical theories, including the latest developments in Freudian and Marxist criticism. It encompasses English and American literature and commonwealth, African, Caribbean, and Indian literature written in English.
Margaret Drabble is one of modern Britain's most distinguished novelists. Her books include The Middle Ground, The Realms of Gold, The Ice Age, and A Writer's Britain.
Jenny Stringer was an assistant editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition and has since contributed to and edited several other reference works.
ISBN: 0198605595
Print edition publication date: 2003
