ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE AND CRITICISM -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- 1 Literature -- 2 Criticism -- II. Literature and History -- 3 Medieval Literature and the Medieval World -- 4 The Renaissance -- 5 Augustanism -- 6 Romanticism -- 7 Modernism -- 8 Postmodernism -- III. Poetry -- 9 Genre -- 10 Poetry -- 11 Epic and Romance -- 12 Lyric -- 13 Narrative Verse -- 14 Women and the Poetic Tradition -- 15 Medieval Poetry -- 16 Renaissance Poetry -- 17 'Augustan' Poetry -- 18 Romantic Poetry -- 19 Victorian Poetry -- 20 The French Symbolists -- 21 Modern Poetry -- 22 British Poetry Since 1945 -- 23 Contemporary American Poetry -- IV. Drama -- 24 Stagecraft -- 25 Tragedy -- 26 Comedy -- 27 Shakespeare -- 28 Medieval Drama -- 29 Renaissance Drama -- 30 Restoration Theatre -- 31 The Origins of the Modern British Stage -- 32 Theories of Modern Drama -- 33 The Theatre of the Absurd -- 34 Theatre and Politics -- 35 Feminist Theatre -- V. The Novel -- 36 Modes of Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- 37 Feminine Fictions -- 38 The Historical Novel -- 39 The Nineteenth-Century Social Novel in England -- 40 The Realist Novel: The European Context -- 41 Realism and the English Novel -- 42 American Romance -- 43 Formalism and the Novel: Henry James -- 44 The Novel and Modern Criticism -- 45 The Modernist Novel in the Twentieth Century -- 46 British Fiction Since 1930 -- 47 Contemporary Fiction -- VI. Criticism -- 48 Biblical Hermeneutics -- 49 Neo-classical Criticism -- 50 The Romantic Critical Tradition -- 51 Great Traditions: The Logic of the Canon -- 52 Marxist Criticism -- 53 The New Criticism -- 54 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism -- 55 Feminist Literary Criticism -- 56 Psychoanalytic Criticism -- 57 Deconstruction -- 58 New Historicism -- VII. Production and Reception.

59 Production and Reception of the Literary Book -- 60 The Printed Book -- 61 Literacy -- 62 Publishing Before 1800 -- 63 Publishing Since 1800 -- 64 British Periodicals and Reading Publics -- 65 Libraries and the Reading Public -- 66 Censorship -- 67 The Bibliographic Record -- 68 The Institutionalization of Literature: The University -- VIII. Contexts -- 69 Literature and the History of Ideas -- 70 Literature and the Bible -- 71 Literature and the Classics -- 72 Folk Literature -- 73 Literature and the Visual Arts -- 74 Literature and Music -- 75 Literature and Landscape -- 76 The Sentimental Ethic -- 77 The Gothic -- 78 Aestheticism -- 79 Literature and Science -- 80 Literature and Language -- 81 Culture and Popular Culture -- IX. Perspectives -- 82 New English Literatures -- 83 African Literature in English -- 84 The African-American Literary Tradition -- 85 Australian Literature and the British Tradition -- 86 Canadian Literature -- 87 Indian Literature in English -- 88 New Zealand and Pacific Literature -- 89 West Indian Literature -- 90 Western Literature in Modern China -- X. Afterword -- W(h)ither 'English'? -- The Contributors -- Index.