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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Essays Contemporary Writers - Introduction Dominic Davies
Essays Lost Generation Kate O'Connor
Essays English Renaissance Timeline: Some Historical and Cultural Dates Kate O'Connor
Essays Thomas Kyd: An English Tragedy Kate O'Connor
Essays Caribbean Writers Dominic Davies
Essays Notions of Authorship Kate O'Connor
Essays What is Literature, and Why Does It Matter? Kate O'Connor
Essays Approaching Political Literature Kate O'Connor
Essays Feminist Approaches to Literature Kate O'Connor
Essays Economic and Social Literary Criticism Kate O'Connor
Essays Questions of Genre Kate O'Connor
Essays Aimé Césaire Jason Allen
Essays Victorian Poetry and Fiction Charlotte Barrett
Essays First World War Charlotte Barrett
Essays The Art of Mourning in First World War Poetry Charlotte Barrett
Essays Victorian Publishing History Charlotte Barrett
Essays James Joyce: A Biography Cleo Hanaway
Essays ‘‘Beauty […] lay not within the thing but in what the thing symbolised’’: Female Clothing and the Senses in the Works of Thomas Hardy Charlotte Barrett
Essays Olive Schreiner Dominic Davies
Essays Derek Walcott Dominic Davies
Essays The Importance of Being Wilde Kate O'Connor
Essays Aphra Behn Kate O'Connor
Essays Gothic Elements in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' Charlotte Barrett
Essays The Celebration of Nature in Victorian Poetry Charlotte Barrett
Essays Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels' Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays Aphra Behn and Poetic Culture Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays Aphra Behn and Political Culture Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays The Anonymous Jane Austen Kate O'Connor
Essays Why Shakespeare Was Shakespeare Kate O'Connor
Essays A Short Literary History of Vampires Kate O'Connor
Essays Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub' Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays George Eliot and The Influence of Science Charlotte Barrett
Essays George Eliot Charlotte Barrett
Essays Joseph Conrad Dominic Davies
Essays Rudyard Kipling Dominic Davies
Essays J.M. Coetzee Dominic Davies
Essays Who is Aphra Behn? Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays Stephen Duck Jennifer Batt
Essays Mary Leapor Jennifer Batt
Essays The Georgians will inherit the earth... Stuart Lee https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/?p=888
Essays Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres Kate O'Connor
Essays Post/Colonial Writing - Introduction Dominic Davies
Essays Eighteenth century labouring-class writing Jennifer Batt
Essays The Passion for Tales: an Introduction to Ros Ballaster’s Fabulous Orients (2005) Ros Ballaster
Essays Key works on the oriental tale. Recommended references Ros Ballaster
Essays Victorian Poetry and Fiction: some historical and cultural dates Charlotte Barrett
Essays Character and Environment in Thomas Hardy's Fiction Charlotte Barrett
Essays Thomas Hardy Charlotte Barrett
Essays Aphra Behn: A "Life dedicated to Pleasure and Poetry" Kate O'Connor