TY - BOOK AU - jonathan bate TI - ENGLISH LITERATURE : A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION SN - 9780199569267 U1 - O-:g PY - 2010/// CY - NEW YORK PB - OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS KW - ENGLISH LITERATURE N2 - This title discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jonathan Bate considers how we determine the content of the field, and looks at the three major kinds of imaginative literature - English poetry, English drama and the English novel ER -