Literature and Western Man

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American, European and Russian literature from the fifteenth century to today. Dust wrapper 1 ......Page 2 Dust wrapper 2 ......Page 4 Books by J.B. Priestley ......Page 7 Title Page ......Page 8 Contents ......Page 12 Introduction ......Page 14 I: The Golden Globe / 1. Movable Types ......Page 16 2. The Italian Scene and Machiavelli ......Page 22 3. France: Rabelais and Montaigne ......Page 29 4. England and Shakespeare ......Page 35 5. Spain and Cervantes ......Page 49 II: 'The Order'd Garden' / 6. 'And All was Light' ......Page 56 7. The Drama ......Page 64 8. The Novel ......Page 80 9. The Enlightenment ......Page 93 III: Shadows of the Moon / 10. Rousseau and the Romantic Age ......Page 104 11. Germany and Goethe ......Page 112 12. The English Romantics ......Page 125 13. The Romantic Movement in France ......Page 141 14. Russians and Others ......Page 153 IV: The Broken Web / 15. The Age and its Prophets ......Page 163 16. The Poets ......Page 179 17. The Novelists ......Page 192 18. The Dramatists ......Page 235 V: The Moderns / 19. Background to the Books ......Page 254 20. Mostly Before 1914 ......Page 283 21. Brief Interlude ......Page 310 22. Between the Wars ......Page 315 Conclusion ......Page 369 Appendix: Brief Biographies ......Page 374 Index ......Page 400 Back Cover ......Page 422