Author: Gillie, Christopher
Title: Character in English Literature
Description: London, Chatto & Windus, 1970. 3rd impression, orig.board. 22x14cm, 206 pp. Minor rubbing, VG, in a slightly browned dustwrapper. dustwrapp ¶ Contents: Introduction: Character & the Reader; Character as Role in Ritual: Man & his Universe: Everyman - Sir Gawain & the Green Knight; Women by Chaucer: The Wife of Bath - Criseyde; Kings: A Study of 'Macbeth';Lovers by Shakespeare: Anthony & Cleopatra; The Emergence of Loneliness: Milton's Satan; The Picaresque Hero: Emma Woodhouse - Catherine Earnshaw; The Heroine Victim: Gwendolen Harleth - Isabel Archer; Character & Environment: Pip of 'Great Expectations'; Henchard of 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'; Human Subject & Human Substance: Dedalus of 'A Portrait of the Artist'; Birkin of 'Women in Love'.

Keywords: English literature, Character, Fictional, Characters, Literary criticism, , , ,