A History of English Literature

Abstract

The teaching and studying of British Literature is a challenge to all of us. This manual is designed to help everybody face this challenge. The course embraces the leading points of British literary process from its dawn to the present period. The manual provides updated information on literary trends, the plots and critique of famous books, brief biographies of the authors and their artistic views. Its contents correspond to the general line of development of British literature as viewed by the leading British scholars and sometimes deviate from the official scholarly tradition in this country; in such cases we thought it necessary to present both points of view.