Inhaltsverzeichnis; Vorwort; Autoren; Achebe, Chinua; Ackroyd, Peter; Adams, Douglas [Noel]; Addison, Joseph; Aidoo, Ama Ata; Alfred [the Great, King of Wessex]; Amis, Kingsley [Sir]; Amis, Martin; Anand, Mulk Raj; Anthony, Michael; Arden, John; Armah, Ayi Kwei; Arnold, Matthew; Ascham, Roger; Atwood, Margaret [Eleanor]; Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh]; Austen, Jane; Ayckbourn, Alan [Sir]; Bacon, Francis; Bail, Murray; Bale, John; Ballantyne, R[obert] M[ichael]; Ballard, J[ames] G[raham]; Banks, Iain [Menzies]; Banville, John; Barbauld, Anna Laetitia; Barker, George [Granville]; Barker, Howard. Barker, Pat[ricia]Barnes, Julian [Patrick]; Barrie, [Sir] J[ames] M[atthew]; Baxter, James K[eir]; Beattie, James; Beaumont, Francis; Beckett, Samuel [Barclay]; Beckford, William; Beddoes, Thomas Lovell; Beerbohm, [Sir] Max [Henry Maxwell]; Behan, Brendan; Behn, Aphra; Bekederemo, John Pepper Clark; Bennett, [Enoch] Arnold; Bentham, Jeremy; Berger, John [Peter]; Berkeley, George [Bishop of Cloyne]; Betjeman, John; Bissoondath, Neil; Blair, Robert; Blake, William; Blyton, Enid; Boland, Eavan [Aisling]; Bolt, Robert [Oxton]; Bond, Edward; Boswell, James; Bowen, Elizabeth [Dorothea Cole] Bowering, GeorgeBoyd, Martin; Bradbury, [Sir] Malcolm [Stanley]; Braddon, Mary Elizabeth; Braine, John; Brand, Dionne; Brathwaite, [Lawson Edward] Kamau; Brenton, Howard; Breytenbach, Breyten; Brink, André [Philippus]; Brittain, Vera [Mary]; Brodber, Erna; Brontë, Anne; Brontë, Charlotte; Brontë, Emily [Jane]; Brooke, Rupert [Chawner]; Brooke-Rose, Christine; Brookner, Anita; Brophy, Brigid [Antonia]; Brown, George Douglas; Browne, Sir Thomas; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; Browning, Robert; Brunton, Mary; Bulwer-Lytton, Edward [George Earle]; Bunting, Basil; Bunyan, John. Burgess, Anthony [John Anthony Burgess Wilson]Burke, Edmund; Burney, Frances [Fanny; Madame D'Ablay]; Burns, Robert; Burton, Robert; Butler, Samuel [der Ältere]; Butler, Samuel [der Jüngere]; Byatt, A[ntonia] S[usan]; Byron, [George Gordon Noël] Lord; Campbell, [Ignatius] Roy[ston Dunnachie]; Campion, Thomas; Carew, Thomas; Carey, Peter; Carleton, William; Carlyle, Thomas; Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]; Carter, Angela [Olive]; Cartland, [Dame] Barbara; Cary, Elizabeth, [Viscountess Falkland]; Cary, [Arthur] Joyce [Lunel]; Causley, Charles. Cavendish, Margaret, [Duchess of Newcastle]Centlivre, Susanna; Chandra, Vikram; Chapman, George; Chatterjee, Upamanyu; Chatterton, Thomas; Chatwin, [Charles] Bruce; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Chaudhuri, Amit; Cheney-Coker, Syl; Chesterfield, [Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of], Lord; Chesterton, G[ilbert] K[eith]; Christie, [Dame] Agatha; Churchill, Caryl; Cibber, Colley; Clare, John; Clark, John Pepper; Clarke, Austin [Chesterfield]; Cleland, John; Clough, Arthur Hugh; Cobbett, William; Coetzee, J[ohn] M[ichael]; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Collins, [William] Wilkie; Collins, William.
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650 Autoren im Porträt. Wer sich als englischsprachiger Literat oder als Schriftstellerin einen Namen gemacht hat - hier ist das Wichtigste über Werk und Wirken nachzulesen: vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur unmittelbaren Gegenwart. Über den bekannten Kanon hinaus präsentiert das Lexikon viele Autoren aus dem globalen Einzugsbereich der "New English Literatures" und Autoren der neuesten Zeit. Vertreten sind u.a. Bacon, Shakespeare, Defoe, Fielding, Swift, Jane Austen, Byron, Dickens, Keats, Christie, T.S. Eliot, Huxley, Orwell, Wallace, Virginia Woolf, Golding, Hornby, Doris Lessing, McEwan, Rowling und Tolkien. Beckett, Joyce, Shaw u. v. a. repräsentieren die irische Literatur. Porträtiert sind darüber hinaus Naipaul, Rushdie, Atwood, Ondaatje, Achebe, Coetzee, Gordimer, Carey, Mansfield u. v. m.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Authors -- Dictionaries.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
REFERENCE -- Dictionaries.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
herausgegeben von Eberhard Kreutzer und Ansgar Nünning.