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This book, devised as a study guide, is unique amidst plenty of literature on the theme. The history of English literature in different genres is portrayed periodwise. Representative literatteurs are described alsongwith their notable literary output. The following chapters make core of the study-Making of the English & English Race; English Literature (1350-1500); Medieval Plays; Renaissance & the Elizabethan Period; Landmarks in Seventeenth Century ...
From the Preface: The history of literature in the Modern period in Europe begins with the age of enlightenment and the conclusion of the Baroque Period in the eighteenth century, succeeding the renaissance and early modern periods. In the classical literary cultures outside of Europe, the Modern Period begins later, in Ottoman Turkey with the Tanzimat Reforms (1820s), in Qajar Persia under Nasser al-Din Shah (1830s), in India with the end of the Mughal era and ...
In a strict sense, Victorian Literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) and corresponds to the Victorian era. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20 century. This will be equally useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students besides researchers and the teachers of English.