The Short Oxford History of English Literature

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"The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present." "Chapters cover all major periods of English Literature chronologically from Old English literature to Post-war literature including medieval literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorian period, and Modernism. The book examines impact of British literature on contemporary political, social, and intellectual developments."--BOOK JACKET