The most comprehensive and scholarly history of English Literature on the market.\r\nExplores the full range of English literature from Anglo-Saxon through to the present day\r\nNow revised and updated for the twenty-first century reader\r\n \r\nNew to thisedition\r\nAdditional material on female writers such as Marjory Kempe and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu\r\nNew entries on contemporary authors including Malcolm Lowry, Patrick O´Brien, Colm Toibin and Matthew Kneale