The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)

Edited by: Dinah Birch and Katy Hooper

Previous Edition (3 ed.)

Over 4,900 entries

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 4,900 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries.

For this fourth edition, the dictionary has been fully revised and updated to include expanded coverage of postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature, as well as improved representation in the areas of science fiction, biography, travel literature, women's writing, gay and lesbian writing, and American literature.

The appendices listing literary prize winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker, and Pulitzer prizes, have all been updated and there is also a timeline, chronicling the development of English literature from c. 1000 to the present day.

Written originally by a team of more than 140 distinguished authors and extensively updated for this new edition, this book provides an essential point of reference for English students, teachers, and all other readers of literature in English.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: 2012

Print ISBN-13:: 9780199608218

Published online:: 2013

Current Online Version:: 2013

DOI:: 10.1093/acref/9780199608218.001.0001

eISBN:: 9780191744556

Authors

Dinah Birch, editor

Katy Hooper, editor

Dinah Birch is Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, and has edited novels by Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her books include Ruskin's Myths (1988), Ruskin on Turner (1990), and Our Victorian Education (2007).

Katy Hooper is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Liverpool Library and Assistant Editor for The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7/e.

Previous editions of the Concise Oxford Companion to Literature were edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer.

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Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Abbot, The

Abelard, Peter (1079–1142/4)

Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881–1938)

Abish, Walter (1931– )

Aboulela, Leila (1964– )

Absalom and Achitophel

Abse, Dannie (1923–2014)

Absentee, The

Absurd, Theatre of the

Achebe, Chinua (1930–2013)

Acker, Kathy (1947–97)

Ackerley, J. R. (1896–1967)

Ackland, Rodney (1908–91)

Ackroyd, Peter (1949– )

Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell (1904–94)

Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days, Touching Matters of the Church

Acts of the Apostles

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Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Abbot, The

Abelard, Peter (1079–1142/4)

Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881–1938)

Abish, Walter (1931– )

Aboulela, Leila (1964– )

Absalom and Achitophel

Abse, Dannie (1923–2014)

Absentee, The

Absurd, Theatre of the

Achebe, Chinua (1930–2013)

Acker, Kathy (1947–97)

Ackerley, J. R. (1896–1967)

Ackland, Rodney (1908–91)

Ackroyd, Peter (1949– )

Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell (1904–94)

Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days, Touching Matters of the Church

Acts of the Apostles

Adam

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Poets Laureate

Children's Laureates

Literary Awards

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