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The Oxford Companion to English Literature Reproduced by kind permission of Margaret Drabble.

Advisers and Contributors

Isobel Armstrong (19th-century poetry), Rosemary Ashton (German), Christopher Baldick (Critical Theory), Jacques Berthoud, with Stephen Minta and Jack Donovan (French), Michael Billington (20th-century drama), R. R. Bolgar (Classics), Gordon Campbell (17th century), John Carey (Metaphysicals), Jonathan Coe (20th-century fiction), Tony Curtis (Welsh literature), Stevie Davies (17th century), Katherine Duncan-Jones (16th century), Barbara Garvin (Italian), Julian Graffy (Russian), Harriet Harvey Wood (Walter Scott), Helen Langdon (Art), Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (Welsh literature), Bernard O'Donoghue (Old and Middle English), Robin Robertson (20th-century poetry), Michael Rose (Music), Harvey Sachs (Music), M. A. Stewart (18th-century philosophy), Michael F. Suarez, S. J. (18th century), Sheila Sullivan (18th–century topics), John Sutherland (19th-century fiction), Jason Wilson (Latin American literature), H. R. Woudhuysen (16th century).

Dawn Ades, Brian Aldiss, Carole Angier, Lisa Appignanesi, Gillian Avery, Robert Barnard, Jonathan Barnes, John Batchelor, D. Berman, Paul Binding, J. W. Binns, V. Blain, A. Bold, C. Bryce, F. Burns, Ian Buruma, Marilyn Butler, H. Carpenter, Helen Carr, Vincent Carretta, Ciaran Carson, Glen Cavaliero, Graham Caveney, Kate Clanchy, Susannah Clapp, Jeanne Clegg, Michael Coveney, Michael Cox, Patricia Craig, Ursula Creagh, David Dabydeen, Hilary Dickinson, Charles Drazin, Dorothy Driver, Tony Durham, P. Edwards, A. C. Elias, G. Engle, Michael Erben, Lukas Erne, Magdalen Fergusson, Penelope Fitzgerald, Kate Flint, R. A. Foakes, Mark Ford, Margaret Forster, Ian Gibson, Stuart Gillespie, Nicholas Gleghorn, Gill Gregory, John Gribbin, V. Grosvenor Myer, P. S. Guptara, Daniel Hahn, Alethea Hayter, Andrew Hedgecock, L. Heyworth, Lesley Higgins, Michael Hofmann, R. V. Holdsworth, P. Holland, Richard Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Ted Honderich, Michael Horovitz, J. D. Hunt, F. L. Huntley, Simon James, Jeri Johnson, Hester Jones, P. Jones, Daniel Karlin, J. P. Kenyon, Paulina Kewes, Tom Keymer, Lynn Knight, Mary Lago, Sarah Lawson, John Levitt, Paul Levy, Andrew McAllister, Peter McDonald, Helen McNeil, P. Merchant, J. Milton, Julian Mitchell, R.T. Mole, J. Moore, Sheridan Morley, Brian Morris, R. Musgrave, W. Myers, Ira Nadel, Benedict Nightingale, Sean O'Brien, Leonard Orr, Fintan O'Toole, Judith Palmer, Catherine Peters, Ralph Pite, Kate Pool, Roy Porter, Lois Potter, Jocelyn Powell, Richard Price, Tore Rem, Matthew Reynolds, R. Robbins, David Rodgers, Nicholas Royle, Salman Rushdie, M. Secrest, Roger Sharrock, Ned Sherrin, Jan Lo Shinebourne, Tom Shippey, Melanie Silgardo, Helen Small, R. D. Smith, Colin Smythe, Jane Spencer, Hilary Spurling, David Stafford, Meic Stephens, Anthony Storr, Matthew Sweet, Adam Swift, Clive Swift, Rebecca Swift, Helen Thomson, Anthony Thwaite, Antonia Till, E.'M. Trahern, Jeremy Treglown, Jenny Turner, John Tydeman, Sue Vice, Brian Vickers, Stephen Wall, C. Webster, Duncan Webster, Stanley Wells, John Wilders, David Womersley, P. Wood, Gregory Woods.

The editor and publisher would like to extend particular thanks to Dr Michael Suarez and Professor Gordon Campbell for reading the entire text of the previous edition for errors, revisions, and omissions in addition to their contributions as period advisers on the sixth edition, and to Professor Henry Woudhuysen, who read and advised on the entire text of the sixth edition

Edited by Margaret Drabble

Over 8,300 entries

‘No guide could come more classic than The Oxford Companion to English Literature ... the literary reference source of first resort’, Malcolm Bradbury, The Times

The sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, published in 2000, was extensively revised, expanded, and updated; this is a revised issue of that edition, ensuring that the Companion remains absolutely up to date. In addition to the extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters, there are sixteen featured essay-style entries on key topics including black British literature, fantasy fiction, and modernism. The text has been written by a team of more than 140 contributors under Margaret Drabble's editorial direction, including such distinguished names as Brian Aldiss, Lisa Appignanesi, Penelope Fitzgerald, Roy Porter, and Salman Rushdie, each writing on his or her specialist field of knowledge. The Companion places English literature in its widest context, offering an extensive exploration of the classical roots of English literature, and the European and non-European works and writers that have influenced its development.

Margaret Drabble is a distinguished novelist and biographer. Her many novels include Jerusalem the Golden (1967), The Needle's Eye (1972), The Witch of Exmoor (1996), and The Peppered Moth (2001). She has also written biographies of Arnold Bennett (1974) and Angus Wilson (1995).

The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drabble. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Sixth Edition revised

ISBN: 9780198614531

ISBN: 0198614535

MARGARET DRABBLE

Published: 2000

First published 2000.