About Course
A massive compilation of engaging, in-detail information with vivid pictures and informative links, A Contemporary Encyclopedia of British Literature in three volumes takes you through British literature from the very beginnings to recent times. The approach is thoroughly interdisciplinary, and merits easy comprehension even by average students.

Course Content
The Beginnings till Medieval Period
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32:06
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11:56
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3. Old English & Middle English Periods
22:52 -
4. Geoffrey Chaucer
19:00 -
5. Chaucer’s Contemporaries
11:10
The Renaissance Period
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6. Renaissance
21:46 -
7. Edmund Spenser
15:39 -
8. Philip Sidney
09:58 -
9. Francis Bacon
09:40 -
10. University Wits
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11. William Shakespeare
11:50 -
12. Early Works of Shakespeare
14:08 -
13. Shakespeare’s History Plays (no PDF)
17:27 -
14. Shakespeare’s Dark Comedies & Hamlet
17:59 -
15. Shakeapean Tragedy: Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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16. Shakespeare’s Roman Plays
09:52 -
17. Shakespeare’s Romances
22:44 -
18. Ben Jonson
13:29 -
19. John Donne
12:45
The Seventeenth Century (Jacobean and Civil War Periods)
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20. Jacobean Playwrights
25:00 -
21. Civil War Period
07:21 -
22. John Milton
32:48 -
23. Metaphysical Poets
20:00 -
24. 17th Century Prose
Restoration & Augustan Periods
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25. The Restoration Period
14:33 -
26. John Dryden
17:43 -
27. Restoration Comedy
22:02 -
28. Augustan Age
29:34 -
29. Alexander Pope
19:29 -
30. Other Neoclassical Poets
11:41 -
31. Neoclassical Prose
27:16 -
32. Neoclassical Fiction 1
33:19 -
33. Neoclassical Fiction 2 (same PDF)
36:12
Romantic Period
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34. Transitional Poets
21:57 -
35. Gothic Romance
17:21 -
36. Romantic Period
15:03 -
37. William Wordsworth Part 1
28:59 -
38. William Wordsworth Part 2 (same PDF)
22:48 -
39. ST Coleridge & Southey (two PDFs)
33:31 -
40. Lord Byron
18:04 -
41. PB Shelley
34:30 -
42. John Keats
25:52 -
43. Walter Scott (no PDF)
11:11 -
44. Jane Austen
43:43 -
45. Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey
25:29
Victorian Period
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46. Victorian Period (no PDF)
28:34 -
47. Alfred Tennyson
26:28 -
48. The Brownings
21:06 -
49. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
20:17 -
50. Charles Dickens Part 1
22:24 -
51. Charles Dickens Part 2 (same PDF)
27:48 -
52. The Brontes Part 1
19:49 -
53. The Brontes Part 2 (same PDF)
21:28 -
54. George Eliot
20:56 -
55. Thomas Hardy Part 1
26:32 -
56. Thomas Hardy Part 2 (same PDF)
34:11 -
57. Other Victorian Novelists
15:39 -
58. Henry James
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59. Victorian Prose Writers
25:48 -
60. WB Yeats
27:08 -
61. Aesthetic Movement & Oscar Wilde (two PDFs)
20:46 -
62. GM Hopkins
21:53
Twentieth Century (Till World War II)
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63. Edwardian Era
23:05 -
64. Joseph Conrad
23:56 -
65. Rudyard Kipling
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66. John Galsworthy & Arnold Bennett (no PDF)
11:46 -
67. Georgian Poets (no PDF)
16:07 -
68. George Bernard Shaw
22:43 -
69. JM Synge (no PDF) & Sean O Casey
22:57 -
70. EM Forster (no PDF)
18:21 -
71. Modernism
22:20 -
72. Virginia Woolf
27:49 -
73. James Joyce
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74. DH Lawrence Part 1 (no PDF)
25:53 -
75. DH Lawrence Part 2 (no PDF)
27:37 -
76. Ezra Pound
20:00 -
77. TS Eliot Part 1
32:13 -
78. TS Eliot Part 2
19:15 -
79. Aldous Huxley
13:29 -
80. Thirties Poets (no PDF)
15:18 -
81. Somerset Maugham, JB Priestley, Evelyn Waugh (no PDF)
17:24 -
82. Graham Greene (no PDF)
15:16 -
83. Malcolm Lowry, Lawrence Durrell, John Masters, JG Farrell (no PDF)
09:43
Post-War Writers
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84. Seamus Heaney and Other Poets (no PDF)
16:35 -
85. Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes (no PDF)
21:14 -
86. Drawing Room Comedy (no PDF)
21:41 -
87. Angry Young Man (no PDF)
23:05 -
88 Theatre of the Absurd Part 1 (no PDF)
32:23 -
89. Theatre of the Absurd Part 2 (no PDF)
16:09 -
90. Caryl Churchill & Other Contemporary Playwrights (no PDF)
24:27 -
91. George Orwell (no PDF)
24:35 -
92. William Golding (no PDF)
20:26 -
93. Muriel Spark & Iris Murdoch (no PDF)
26:12 -
94. Doris Lessing, John Fowles, JG Ballard (no PDF)
15:51 -
95. AS Byatt and Margaret Drabble (no PDF)
15:25 -
96. Angela Carter & Julian Barnes (no PDF)
21:12 -
97. Ian McEwan & Peter Ackroyd (no PDF)
23:04 -
98. Diasporic Writers 1 (no PDF)
23:07 -
99. Diasporic Writers 2 (no PDF)
19:17
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