Edited by David Scott Kastan
500 entries
The Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant (e.g., The Stationers' Company, the sonnet, the "School of Night," or the Sublime).
David Scott Kastan is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, and the General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare.
ISBN: 0195169212
Publishing history: first published in 2006
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