Halleck's New English Literature

Subject Matter and Aim.--The history of English literature traces the development of the best poetry and prose written in English by the inhabitants of the British Isles. For mo...

The Norman Conquest.--The overthrow of the Saxon rule in England by William the Conqueror in 1066 was an event of vast importance to English literature. The Normans (Norsemen or...

The Course of English History.--The century and a half that followed the death of Chaucer appealed especially to Shakespeare. He wrote or helped to edit five plays that deal wit...

The Reign of Elizabeth.--Queen Elizabeth, who ranks among the greatest of the world's rulers, was the daughter of Henry VIII. and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth reigned...

History of the Period.--James I. (1603-1625), son of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and the first of the Stuart line to reign in England, succeeded Elizabeth. His stubbornness and...

History of the Period.--This chapter opens with the Restoration of Charles II. (1660-1685) in 1660 and ends before the appearance, in 1740, of a new literary creation, Richardso...

The Colonial Expansion of England.--The most important movements in English history during the second forty years of the eighteenth century are connected with colonial expansion...

History of the Period.--Much of the English history of this period was affected directly or indirectly by the French Revolution (1789). The object of this movement was to free m...

History of the Period.--In the two periods of English history most remarkable for their accomplishment, the Elizabethan and the Victorian, the throne was occupied by women. Quee...

Interest in the Present.--One result of the growing scientific spirit has been an increasing interest in contemporary problems and literature. At the beginning of the Victorian...

The Drama.--From Jones, read _The Manoeuvers of Jane, Mrs. Dane's Defence_ (Samuel French); from Pinero, _The Amazons, The School Mistress_, or _Sweet Lavender_ (W.H. Baker); fr...