English Literature

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks. This volume covers 100 key topics, titles, and authors, from Beowulf to the modern era.

THEME 1: Ancient Britain

1

(7)

Cultural backgrounds of ancient British literature

2

(1)

The Old English language

3

(1)

Old English poetry

4

(1)

Beowulf

5

(1)

Old English Christian poetry

6

(1)

Alfred and the beginning of English prose

7

(1)

THEME 2: Medieval England

8

(13)

Cultural backgrounds of Medieval English literature

9

(1)

Middle English as a language

10

(1)

The importance of The Wycliffe Bible

11

(1)

The alliterative revival in Medieval poetry

12

(2)

Chaucer and his works

14

(2)

The prose of Sir Thomas Malory

16

(1)

The beginnings of English drama

17

(1)

Mystery and miracle plays

18

(1)

The morality plays

19

(1)

Middle English lyrics and ballads

20

(1)

THEME 3: Renaissance prose

21

(11)

Characteristics of Renaissance England

22

(1)

The beginnings of modern English

23

(1)

Prose of the Renaissance humanists

24

(1)

Sidney and Raleigh

25

(2)

Elizabethan prose

27

(1)

Literary philosophers: Bacon and Hobbes

28

(1)

Early 17th Century prose stylists

29

(2)

The King James Bible

31

(1)

THEME 4: Renaissance poetry

32

(9)

Early Renaissance poets: Wyatt and Surrey

33

(1)

Spenser and his works

34

(1)

Other Elizabethan poets

35

(1)

The Cavalier poets

36

(1)

John Donne and metaphysical poetry

37

(2)

John Milton and his works

39

(1)

Other Commonwealth poets

40

(1)

THEME 5: Renaissance drama

41

(11)

Pre-Shakespearean drama

42

(2)

Shakespeare

44

(1)

Shakespeare's history plays

45

(1)

Shakespeare's comedies and romances

46

(2)

Shakespeare's tragedies

48

(2)

Other Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists

50

(2)

THEME 6: The Restoration and the 18th Century

52

(20)

Cultural characteristics

54

(1)

John Bunyan, popular allegorist

55

(1)

Restoration comedy

56

(1)

Other Restoration dramas

57

(1)

Dryden and his works

58

(1)

The satire of Swift

59

(2)

The essays of Addison and Steele

61

(1)

Defoe and the birth of the novel

62

(1)

Richardson: New direction for the novel

63

(1)

The novels of Fielding and Smollett

64

(2)

Sterne's controversial novels

66

(1)

Pope and Neoclassicism

67

(1)

Boswell and the early biographers

68

(1)

Samuel Johnson, man of letters

69

(1)

Three 18th Century comic dramatists

70

(1)

The Pre-Romantic poets

71

(1)

THEME 7: The Romantic period

72

(10)

Characteristics of the Romantic period

73

(1)

Blake and Burns

74

(1)

Wordsworth and his revolutionary theory of poetry

75

(1)

Coleridge: Poet, critic, visionary

76

(1)

Byron: Neoclassical and Romantic poet

77

(1)

Shelley: Poet and political rebel

78

(1)

Keats: A Romantic symbol

79

(1)

Prose essayists of the Romantic period

80

(1)

Major novelists: Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott

81

(1)

THEME 8: Victorian prose

82

(11)

Characteristics of the Victorian period

83

(1)

Major prose writers: Carlyle, Newman, Mill

84

(1)

Three major critics: Arnold, Ruskin, Pater

85

(1)

The Victorian novel

86

(1)

The novels of the Brontes

87

(1)

Dickens and Thackeray

88

(1)

George Eliot and Anthony Trollope

89

(1)

Novelists opposed to ``Victorianism''

90

(1)

The novels of Thomas Hardy

91

(1)

Victorian drama: Oscar Wilde and others

92

(1)

THEME 9: Victorian poetry

93

(6)

The significance of Tennyson

94

(1)

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

95

(1)

The poetry of Matthew Arnold

96

(1)

Pre-Raphaelite poets: Rossetti and Morris

97

(1)

Swinburne, antagonist to Victorianism

98

(1)

THEME 10: 20th Century fiction

99

(13)

Characteristics of the Modern period

100

(1)

Social criticism in the Modern novel

101

(1)

The fiction of Joseph Conrad

102

(2)

The experimental fiction of James Joyce

104

(1)

The innovative novels of Virginia Woolf

105

(1)

The novels of D.H. Lawrence

106

(1)

Satirical novelists: Huxley and Waugh

107

(1)

Critics of society: Orwell and Golding

108

(1)

Novelists in search of meaning: Forster and Greene

109

(1)

Novelists of the distant past: Graves and Tolkein

110

(1)

Masters of the short story: Saki, Coppard, Mansfield

111

(1)

THEME 11: 20th Century poetry

112

(9)

Early Modern poets: Hardy and Hopkins

113

(1)

Poets of World War I: Brooke, Housman, Owen

114

(1)

The poetry of William Butler Years

115

(1)

Eliot and Modernist poetry

116

(1)

Other Modernist poets: Sitwell and Thomas

117

(1)

The ``New Signatures'' poets: Auden and Spender

118

(1)

Poets of ``The Movement'': Larkin, Fuller, Davie

119

(1)

Traditional poets: Blunden, Muir, Betjeman

120

(1)

THEME 12: 20th Century drama

121

(7)

Shaw: Major dramatic influence

122

(1)

Shaw's contemporary dramatists

123

(1)

Irish playwrights: Synge and O'Casey

124

(1)

Beckett, dramatist of the absurd

125

(1)

Contemporary British dramatists

126

(2)

Glossary

128

(8)

Index

136

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