The Years Work in English Studies 1994, Volume 75

The Year′s Work in English Studies is an annual narrative bibliography which aims to cover all work of quality in English Studies for a given year. It contains:

∗ Critical notices of some 1100 books

∗ extensive coverage of English Language, American Literature, New Literatures in English and English Literatures

∗ Coverage of specialist periodicals (including volume numbers for journals and pagination of all articles cited)

∗ Comprehensive indexing by critic, author and subject

∗ Bibliographical endnotes for each chapter

Volume 75 evaluates work published in 1994. The Year′s Work in English Studies is a companion volume to The Year′s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.

1. English Language.

2. Old English Literature.

3. Middle English.

4. Chaucer.

5. The Sixteenth Century (excluding drama after 1550).

6. Shakespeare.

7. Renaissance Drama (excluding Shakespeare).

8. The Earlier Seventeenth Century (excluding drama).

9. Milton.

10. The Later Seventeenth Century.

11. The Eighteenth Century.

12. The Nineteenth Century: Romantic Period.

13. The Nineteenth Century: Victorian Period.

14. The Twentieth Century.

15. American Literature to 1990.

16. American Literature: The Twentieth Century.

17. New Literatures in English.

18. Books Received.

Peter J. Kitson is Lecturer in English, specializing in Romantic literature, at the University of Wales Bangor. He is editor of Romantic Criticism 1800–1825 (1989) and Coleridge, Keats and Shelley (1995) and co–editor with T. N. Corns of Coleridge and the Armory of the Human Mind (1990).

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