Literature

Useful links

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Reading Lists

Got an assignment? Have you looked at the reading list to see lecturer recommendations?

Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations

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After looking at your online reading list, try these to help with your assignments

• Finding print and ebooks using the Library Catalogue

• Online resources to try first

• When you need more, try this

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• Oxford Handbooks Online: Literature

Oxford Literature Handbooks offer thorough introductions and a survey of the current state of research on key topics and authors such as adaptations, Arab novelistic traditions, children's literature, ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, war poetry, the Victorian novel, Shakespearean tragedy, Milton, Shelley, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser etc. Chapters review key issues and major debates and indicate how the debates might evolve.

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