British Writers Retrospective: Supplement 2

The "Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and a styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political concerns for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 17 sets comprising this series. To see listings of writers for any volume in this section, go to the "Scribner Writers Series section online at www.gale.com/scribners. Twenty-two of the most studied and most popular writers in British literature are re-examined in this second retrospective supplement to the "British Writers Series. Authors covered include Jane Austen, Chaucer, T. S. Eliot, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and others.Jay Parini is the author of 'British Writers Retrospective: Supplement 2', published 2002 under ISBN 9780684312286 and ISBN 068431228X.