Character in English Literature by Gillie, Christopher - 1970

Minor rubbing, VG, in a slightly browned dustwrapper., dustwrapp English literature Chatto & Windus London 1970 3rd impression orig.board 22x14cm, 206 pp 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'.