Research Guides: English Literature Research Guide: Books and eBooks

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The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor)
ISBN: 9780393603026
Publication Date: 2018
The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus, featuring exciting, teachable core selections of some of the very best of English literature from the print anthology.
Anthology of American Literature by George McMichael; James Leonard
ISBN: 9780131987999
Publication Date: 2006
In addition to varied and time-tested selections, an expanded chronological chart and interactive timeline help readers associate literary works with historical, political, technological, and cultural developments.
Writing About American Literature by Karen Gocsik; Coleman Hutchison
ISBN: 9780393937558
Publication Date: 2014
Writing About American Literature is an accessible, step-by-step guide to writing about literature, from reading critically and creatively, generating ideas, narrowing a topic, constructing a thesis, structuring an argument, and revising lead students through the entire arc of the writing process.
Infographic Guide to Literature by Joana Eliot
ISBN: 9781844037872
Publication Date: 2014
The Infographic Guide to Literature graphically represents facts about literature, from Shakespeare and Austen to Nabakov and Orwell, to George R. R. Martin and E. L. James.
Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British by Shelley DeWees
ISBN: 9780062394620
Publication Date: 2016
Shelley DeWees weaves history, biography, and critical analysis into a rip-roaring narrative of the nation's fabulous, yet mostly forgotten, female literary heritage.

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A Companion to American Literature by Susan Belasco (Editor); Theresa Strouth Gaul (Editor); Linck Johnson (Editor); Michael Soto (Editor)
ISBN: 9781119653349
Publication Date: 2020
Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period.
Postcolonial Literature by Dave Gunning
ISBN: 9780748689804
Publication Date: 2013
This guide examines how writers from Africa, Australasia, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, and South Asia have engaged with the postcolonialism through literature.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability by Alice Hall (Editor)
ISBN: 9781351699686
Publication Date: 2020
Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre, this is an important resource for those interested in exploring and deepening their knowledge of the field of literature and disability studies.
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature by Dennis Denisoff (Editor); Talia Schaffer (Editor)
ISBN: 9780429018183
Publication Date: 2019
Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies.
A History of Romantic Literature by Frederick Burwick
ISBN: 9781119044376
Publication Date: 2019
Going beyond the general literary survey, A History of Romantic Literature examines the literatures of sensibility and intensity as well as the aesthetic dimensions of horror and terror, sublimity and ecstasy, by providing a richly integrated account of shared themes, interests, innovations, rivalries and disputes among the writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.