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Major British Writers LIT 327: Finding Library Materials

Major British authors, ranging from Britain’s early history to contemporary times

Books/eBooks

 

Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. Oxford UP, 1971.

---. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature. 1971. Norton, 1973.

Barth, J. Robert. Romanticism and Transcendence: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Religious Imagination. U of Missouri P, 2003.

Berlin, Isaiah. The Roots of Romanticism. Princeton UP, 2001.

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of Human. Riverhead, 1998.

Botting, Fred. Gothic. The New Critical Idiom. Routledge, 1996.

Bree, Linda, Peter Sabor, and Janet Todd, eds. Jane Austen’s Manuscript Works. Broadview, 2012.

Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. Clarendon, 1988.

Byrne, Paula. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things. Harper, 2014.

Cooke, Michael G. The Romantic Will. Yale UP, 1976.

Curran, Stuart, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. 2nd ed.Cambridge UP, 2010.

Curran, Stuart. Poetic Form and British Romanticism. Oxford UP, 1986.

Damrosch, Leopold. Jonathan Swift. Yale UP, 2013.

Danielson, Dennis, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge UP, 1999.

Donnelly, Phillip J. Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant Toleration. U of Cambridge P, 2009.

Ferry, Anne. Milton’s Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost. 1963. U of Chicago P, 1983.

Fish, Stanley. Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost. U of California P, 1967.

Fox, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. Cambridge UP, 2003.

Garber, Marjorie. Shakespeare after All. Anchor, 2005.

Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. 1979. 2nd ed. Yale UP, 2000.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Norton, 2004.

Griffin, Michael. Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England. Cross Currents in Religion and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Johnson, Claudia L. Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel. U of Chicago P, 1990.

Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare’s Language. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001.

Keymer, Thomas, and John Mee, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830. Cambridge UP, 2004.

Knight, G. Wilson. The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy. 1930. Routledge, 1989.

Knox-Shaw, Peter. Jane Austen and Enlightenment. Cambridge UP, 2009.

Lewis, C. S. A Preface to Paradise Lost. Oxford UP, 1961.

Marx, Steven. Shakespeare and the Bible. Oxford UP, 2000.

McLane, Maureen N., and James Chandler, eds. The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry. Cambridge UP, 2008.

Nicholl, Charles. The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street. Penguin, 2008.

Parkes, Adam. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day: A Reader’s Guide. Continuum, 2001.

Peckham, Morse. The Triumph of Romanticism: Collected Essays. U of South Carolina P, 1970.

Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox-Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England. Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Prickett, Stephen. Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible. Cambridge UP, 2005.

---. Romanticism and Religion: The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church. 1976. Cambridge UP, 2008.

Rawson, Claude, ed. Politics and Literature in the Age of Swift. Cambridge UP, 2010.

Reardon, Bernard M. G. Religion in the Age of Romanticism: Studies in Early Nineteenth-Century Thought. Cambridge UP, 1985.

Renwick, W. L. English Literature 1789-1815. Oxford History of English Literature. Ed. F. P. Wilson and Bonamy Dobrée. Clarendon, 1963.

Richetti, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge UP, 1996.

Shapiro, James. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Simon and Schuster, 2010.

Schwartz, Louis, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014. Print.

Shaffer, Brian W. Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro. Understanding Contemporary British Literature. U of South Carolina P, 2008.

Shaffer, Brian W., and Cynthia F. Wong, eds. Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro. Literary Conversations Series. U of Mississippi P, 2008.

Sim, Wai-chew. Kazuo Ishiguro. Routledge Guides to Literature. Routledge, 2009.

Sugimura, N. K. “Matter of Glorious Trial” Spiritual and Material Substance in Paradise Lost. Yale UP, 2009.

Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. 1989. Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.

Sutherland, Kathryn. Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood. Oxford UP, 2005.

Todd, Janet, ed. Jane Austen in Context. Cambridge UP, 2006.

Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Viking, 2012.

Wells, Stanley. Shakespeare for All Time. Oxford UP, 2002.

Wood, Michael. Shakespeare. Basic, 2003.

Browse for books: Call Numbers

Each Branch library is arranged according the the Library of Congress Classification system. Once you know the general area where books on your topic are kept, it can be very effective to browse the shelves. How to read an call number

PR1-9680 English literature

  • PR1-56 Literary history and criticism
  • PR57-78 Criticism
  • PR111-116 Women authors
  • PR125-(138.5) Relations to other literatures and countries
  • PR161-488 By period
    • PR171-236 Anglo-Saxon (Beginnings through 1066)
    • PR251-369 Medieval. Middle English (1066-1500)
    • PR401-488 Modern
    • PR421-(429) Elizabethan era (1550-1640)
    • PR431-(439) 17th century
    • PR441-(449) 18th century
    • PR451-(469) 19th century
    • PR471-(479) 20th century
    • PR481-488 21st century
  • PR500-614 Poetry
    • PR521-614 By period
  • PR621-744 Drama
    • PR641-744 By period
  • PR750-890 Prose
    • PR767-818 By period
    • PR821-890 Prose fiction. The novel
  • PR901-907.2 Oratory
  • PR908 Diaries
  • PR911-918 Letters
  • PR921-928 Essays
  • PR931-938 Wit and humor
  • PR(951)-981 Folk literature
  • PR1098-1369 Collections of English literature
    • PR1110 Special classes of authors
    • PR1119-1151 By period
    • PR1170-1228 Poetry
    • PR1241-1273 Drama
    • PR1281-1309 Prose (General)
    • PR1321-1329 Oratory
    • PR1330 Diaries
    • PR1341-1349 Letters
    • PR1361-1369 Essays
  • PR1490-1799 Anglo-Saxon literature
  • PR1803-2165 Anglo-Norman period. Early English. Middle
    • PR English
  • PR2199-3195 English renaissance (1500-1640)
  • PR3291-3785 17th and 18th centuries (1640-1770)
  • PR3991-5990 19th century, 1770/1800-1890/1900
  • PR6000-6049 1900-1960
  • PR6050-6076 1961-2000
  • PR6100-6126 2001-
  • PR8309-9680 English literature: Provincial, local, etc.