Acknowledgements
Preface: How to use the book
PART I: ABOUT LITERATURE
Literature: Fundamental Questions
Introduction; J.Wolfreys
What is Literature?; B.Overton
Why Study Literature?; K.Womack
Your Literature Course
What to Expect from your English Course; J.Wolfreys
Typical Structure and Content; J.Wolfreys
Literature and Language; J.Wolfreys
Literature and Creative Writing; [...]
Comparative Literature; [...]
Getting the Most from your Course: J.Wolfreys
Study Skills for Literature
Introduction: J.Wolfreys
Study Skills: C.Ringrose
Writing and Presentation; J.Wolfreys
PART II: LITERATURE MODULES
Literature
Introduction
Critical Studies: an Example of a Core Module; J.Wolfreys
Periods
Old English Literature; P.Semper
Medieval Literature; D.Griffith
The Sixteenth Century; J.Fitzpatrick
The Seventeenth Century; H.Adlington
The Eighteenth Century; B.Overton
Romanticism and Gothic; I.McCormick
The Nineteenth Century and the Victorians; C.Kelley
Modernism; A.Murray
Forms, Genres and Other Popular Modules
Tragedy; J.Wolfreys
Comedy; J.Wolfreys
The Novel; H.Wright
Poetry; B.Overton
Drama; N.Swettenham & R.J.Brocklehurst
Epic; [...]
Lyric; [...]
Satire; [...]
Realism; L.Phillips
Fiction; L.Phillips
Contemporary and Postmodern Fiction; A.Murray
Gender; [...]
Class; N.Freeman
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; J.Ramone
Subjectivity; M.Becker-Leckrone
Chidren's Literature; J.Bavidge
Film Studies; [...]
Popular Fiction; J.Baetens
American Literature; B.Jarvis & [...]
Contemporary Literature; J.Wolfreys
PART III: CRITICAL APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT
Critical Approaches
Introduction; J.Wolfreys
Formalism; M.Becker-Leckrone
Archetypal Criticism; [...]
New Criticism; M.Becker-Leckrone
Bakhtin and Dialogic Criticism; K.Zbinden
Feminism; R.Robbins
Marxism; A.Murray
Structuralism; A.Murray
Psychoanalysis; B.Jarvis
Deconstruction; [...]
Postcolonialism; J.Ramone
New Historicism; C.Ringrose
Cultural Materialism; A.Murray
African American Criticism; [...]
Chicano/a Studies; J.Ramone
Gay Studies and Queer Theory; H.Davies
Cultural Studies; B.Jarvis
Ecocriticism; J.Bavidge
Postmodernism; [...]
PART IV: KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS; R.Robbins, J.Wolfreys & K.Womack
PART V: CAREER PATHWAYS
Introduction; J.Wolfreys
Careers for English Graduates; R.Robbins
The Experience of a Degree in English; C.Bowditch
Interview, Conducted by Claire Bowditch
Conclusion; J.Wolfreys
PART VI: LEARNING RESOURCE; J.Wolfreys
Chronology
List of Contributors
Index.