Reader's Guide to Literature in English
- List Price: $355.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish date: 03/01/1998
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Reader's Guides are not encyclopedias or dictionaries; they are guides to reading in particular subjects. Their aim is to evaluate the secondary material in a broad area of study by means of comparative essays on hundreds of specific topics. Reader's Guide to Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British, and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
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Each entry in the Reader's Guide to Literature in English identifies a particular subject -- for example, Charles Dickens -- then lists those books generally considered to be the most important on that subject, followed by an essay of analysis and evaluation. These essays -- more than 600 in all, written by 300 scholars and critics of English literature -- provide the reader with advice on the quality, emphasis, range and depth of coverage, and point of view, of each book listed.
This survey of secondary sources in English literature is now widely regarded as the most authoritative text in its field, indispensable in academic, public, and high school libraries.
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