Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.

A thorough and well-illustrated history with eight long essays by leading scholars which cover the history and culture of England, rather than the British Isles

This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that the

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmesh

In 14 original essays, this book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present