The Continuum Encyclopedia Of British Literature

The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature is an essential companion to a literary tradition of extraordinary depth. Now published at a popular price, this massive one-volume encyclopedia extends from Aneirin and the poet of Widsith to C�dmon and the author of Beowulf; from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Geoffrey Chaucer; from Spenser to Shakespeare; from Donne to Milton to Dryden; from Dr. Johnson and Jane Austen to William Blake; from Thackeray, the Bront�s, and Dickens to Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Coe, and Zadie Smith. This magisterial volume is a guide to literature that is British in scope and origin, including surveys of the literatures written English from the colonial to the postcolonial experience in Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, and New Zealand.