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.