Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword by Malcolm Bradbury The Beginnings of English: Old and Middle English 600-1485 The Renaissance: 1485-1660 Restoration to Romanticism: 1660-1789 The Romantic Period: 1789-1832 The Nineteeth Century The Twentieth Century: 1900-1945 The Twentieth Century: 1945 To The Present Timelines Nobel Prize Winners Index Each section contains an average of three language notes related to the period.

About the Author

Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language in the Department of English Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is editor of the Routledge Interface series in language and literary studies.
John McRae is a Special Professor of English Language in Literature Studies at the University of Nottingham and has been Visiting Professor and Lecturer in more than twenty countries.

Reviews

'The Routledge History of Literature in English is, as its title implies, an enormously ambitious and wide-ranging work. It offers judicious thumb-nail sketches of significant individual writers, and also valuable portraits of literary movements. Students of writing are bound to be indebted to it - and it has a clarity of structure and analysis that everyone will welcome.- Andrew Motion