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Volume I: Medieval Literature 700 - 1450    Full Table of Contents ix    Editors xix    Notes on Contributors to Volume I xx    General Introduction xxiv  Robert DeMaria, Jr.    Introduction to Medieval Literature xxxi  Samantha Zacher    Chronology 43 - 1476 xlvii    1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 1  Karl Reichl    2 Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16  Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe    3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30  Emily V. Thornbury    4 Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48  Paul E. Szarmach    5 The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints' Legends in John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium 65  Virginia Blanton    6 Racial Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard, Coer de Lion 81  Suzanne M. Yeager    7 The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After 1066 97  Neil Cartlidge    8 Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 114  Liz Herbert McAvoy    9 Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 130  Christine Chism    10 Writing Revolution 146  Marion Turner    11 The Romance Genre 161  Corinne Saunders    12 Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream Vision Genre 180  Michael Calabrese    13 British Chaucer 202  John M. Ganim    14 Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 215  Andrew Galloway    15 Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture 232  Denise L. Despres    16 Sources, Analogues, Creativity 243  Tim William Machan    17 Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices in Medieval England 256  Christina M. Fitzgerald    18 Old English and Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 273  Andy Orchard    19 Before the Makars: Older Scots Literature Under the Early Stewart Kings 293  Rhiannon Purdie    20 Originating Britain: Welsh Literature and the Arthurian Tradition 308  Helen Fulton    21 Writing from the "Other Shore" and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland 323  Joseph Falaky Nagy    22 The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books: Assessing the Material Evidence of Women's Reading 337  Jacqueline Jenkins    23 Collectors and Collections: Libraries and Their Social and Private Functions 355  David N. Bell    24 In Praise of Power: Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry 369  Robert J. Meyer-Lee    25 Word and Image 384  Elaine Treharne    26 New Technologies: From Manuscript to Print 403  Sian Echard    Selected References and Further Reading 418    Index to Volume I 435    Volume II: Early Modern Literature 1450 - 1660    Full Table of Contents ix    Editors xix    Notes on Contributors to Volume II xx    General Introduction xxv  Robert DeMaria, Jr.    Introduction to Early Modern Literature xxxii  Robert DeMaria, Jr.    Chronology 1450 - 1662 xxxix    1 The Spectral Past: Medieval Literature in the Early Modern Period 1  David Matthews    2 The Fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton 16  Willy Maley and Adam Swann    3 Robert Burton and the Discontents of Print 29  David J. Baker    4 Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century 40  Alessandra Petrina    5 Mapping the British Archipelago in the Renaissance 54  Stewart Mottram    6 Renaissance or Reformation? 70  Michael Payne    7 Religious Reading and Writing in an Age of Bloodshed 82  Achsah Guibbory    8 Translations of Virgil from Gavin Douglas to Sir John Denham 98  Robin Sowerby    9 England, the "Orient," and the Ocean 116  Benedict Robinson    10 Politics and Religion in Elizabethan Drama 129  Lisa Hopkins    11 Women's Literary and Intellectual Endeavors: A Case for the Anonymous Riposte 142  Marcy L. North    12 Shakespeare and the Arts of Persuasion 164  Michael Macdonald    13 Texts and Performances in the Age of Elizabeth 181  Tom Rutter    14 Physics, Metaphysics, and Religion in Lyric Poetry 197  Wendy Beth Hyman    15 The Early English Essay 213  Joshua Scodel    16 Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives 231  Christopher Crosbie    17 Scots Literature in the Age of the Makars and Beyond 249  Katherine H. Terrell    18 Violence in Jacobean Drama 264  Zoltan Markus    19 First Folios: Jonson and Shakespeare 280  Adam G. Hooks    20 Riding Westward: Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and the Literature of Empire 295  Jonathan Locke Hart    21 Cheap Print and Popular Reading During the Civil Wars, 1637 - 1660 309  Joad Raymond    22 Republican Writing from Milton to Locke 326  Nigel Smith    23 John Bunyan and the Spaces of Religious Writing 342  Cynthia Wall    24 Paradise Lost: Contexts and Poetic Creation 359  Barbara K. Lewalski    25 Human, Animal, and Machine in the Seventeenth Century 375  Lucinda Cole and Robert Markley    Selected References and Further Reading 391    Index to Volume II 402    Volume III: Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660 - 1837    Full Table of Contents ix    Editors xix    Notes on Contributors to Volume III xx    General Introduction xxiv  Robert DeMaria, Jr.    Introduction to Long Eighteenth-Century Literature xxxi  Robert DeMaria, Jr.    Chronology 1658 - 1835 xxxviii    1 Understanding Genre: Epic, Mock Epic, and Some Versions of Heroism from Milton to Pope 1  David Venturo    2 History and Literature from Milton to Wollstonecraft 19  Ruth Mack    3 Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century 35  Neil Rhodes    4 Aphra Behn and the Profession of Writing in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century 49  Catherine Ingrassia    5 The Virgilian Way from Milton to Wordsworth 62  Adam Potkay    6 Women Readers and the Rise of the Periodical Essay 78  Manushag N. Powell    7 Female Satirists of the Eighteenth Century 95  Paul Baines    8 Ireland, England, and Anglo-Irish Writers in England 113  David Oakleaf    9 Alexander Pope: Religion, Politics, and Poetry 127  Pat Rogers    10 Eighteenth-Century Science and the Literary Imagination 143  Tita Chico    11 Epistolary Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century 159  Thomas Keymer    12 Poetry Anthologies, Taste, and the Canon 174  Adam Rounce    13 Performance in Eighteenth-Century English Verse: Oral Expressiveness 189  John Richetti    14 Ranging Knowledge by the Alphabet: The Literature of Categorization and Organization 1700 - 1830 207  Lynda Mugglestone    15 History, Biography, and Anecdote 223  Freya Johnston    16 The Other in the British Eighteenth Century 240  Lynn Festa    17 Aesthetics and Taste: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Beyond in the Eighteenth Century 258  G. Gabrielle Starr    18 The Poetry of Melancholy from Finch to Keats 277  John Sitter    19 Jane Austen and the Conditions of Knowledge 298  Jenny Davidson    20 Genius and Originality 1750 - 1830: Young, Wordsworth, and Shelley 312  Christopher R. Miller    21 Blake and His Contemporaries 329  Laura Quinney    22 Romantic Celebrities: Poets in an Age of Print 345  Richard Cronin    23 Gothic and Celtic Revivals: Antiquity and the Archipelago 361  Nick Groom    24 Romantic Women Writers in the Lecture Room 380  Sarah M. Zimmerman    Selected References and Further Reading 396    Index to Volume III 408    Volume IV: Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature 1837 - 2000    Full Table of Contents ix    Editors xix    Notes on Contributors to Volume IV xx    General Introduction xxiv  Robert DeMaria, Jr.    Introduction to Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature xxxi  Heesok Chang    Chronology 1800 - 2006 xxxvii    1 Charles Dickens, Dramatist 1  Eileen Gillooly    2 Becoming George Eliot: Female Authorship in the Nineteenth Century 14  Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi    3 "What Do the Women Do?": The Work of Women in the Fiction of the Brontes 33  Susan Zlotnick    4 Evolution and Entropy: Scientific Contexts in the Nineteenth Century 52  Suzy Anger    5 Theater, Exhibition, and Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century 68  Sharon Aronofsky Weltman    6 Art, Self, and Society: Tennyson and the Brownings, 1830 - 1857 89  Matthew Campbell    7 Pre-Raphaelite Brothers, Lovers, and the Sister Arts 107  Wendy Graham    8 Regionalism and Consciousness: Thomas Hardy's Imagined Geographies 129  Keith Wilson    9 Modernism and Empire 144  Laura Winkiel    10 The Irish Literary Revival 160  James L. Pethica    11 Re-Envisioning Yeats's A Vision: Modernist Spirality and the Distribution of the Sensible 175  Nico Israel    12 First World War Poetry 195  Adam Piette    13 "How to Enjoy James Joyce's Great Novel": Making and Marketing in Ulysses 210  Stephen Dilks    14 Anglophobia and Anglophilia: Hugh MacDiarmid and T. S. Eliot 231  Robert Crawford    15 Virginia Woolf and Experimental Fiction 246  Anne E. Fernald    16 Sartorial Modernity: Fashion, Gender, and Sexuality in Modernism 260  Jane Garrity    17 Doom in the Bud: Beckett's Drama and After 280  Paul Lawley    18 Form, Figure, and Ground: Auden and England After Modernism 296  C. D. Blanton    19 Historical Turns in Twentieth-Century Fiction 314  John T. Connor    20 Anthologizing Poetry: The Movement and After 333  Nigel Alderman    21 "Frail, and So Full of Fire": The Angry Young Man and Changing Masculinities 350  Praseeda Gopinath    22 Imagining Female Authorship After 1945: Lessing's and Spark's Portraits of the Artist Manque 367  Maria Francesca Fackler    23 Sticks and Stones: Three Nearly Unnamable Figures and a Review of Postcolonialism 385  Elaine K. Chang    24 The Modern Scottish Novel 404  Cairns Craig    25 Queer Fiction in Contemporary Britain 424  Jodie Medd    26 Global Markets: Contemporary British Fiction and the Book Trade 440  Richard Todd    27 The British Dystopian Novel from Wells to Ishiguro 454  Phillip E. Wegner    Selected References and Further Reading 471    Index to Volume IV 484    Consolidated Index 511

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