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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks Belgravia, a London magazine https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=OXV…
Other The Cornhill magazine https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=OXV…
eBooks The physiology of common life https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Barnaby Rudge https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Other Walt Whitman's Editorial Work on the New York Aurora https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/editing/aurora.html
Other Whitman's Journalism https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/index.html
Other Bibliography of Whitman's poems first published in periodicals https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/bibliography/index.html
Other Editing Whitman's Poetry in Periodicals https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/technical_introduction/index.ht…
Other Introduction to Whitman's Poems in Periodicals https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/general_introduction/index.html
Other Leaves of Grass https://whitmanarchive.org/published/books/other/rhys.html
Other Poems by Walt Whitman https://whitmanarchive.org/published/books/other/rossetti.html
Other Leaves of Grass: six American editions https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/index.html
eBooks Walt Whitman, poet and democrat https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Alias Walt Whitman https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Cornhill Magazine (vol 29) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Diary of Samuel Pepys https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/pepys/samuel/wheatley/
eBooks The Hind and the Panther https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dryden/john/hind_and_the_panther/
eBooks The Medal https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dryden/john/medal/
eBooks Absalom and Achitophel https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dryden/john/absalom_and_achitophel/
eBooks Annus Mirabilis https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dryden/john/annus_mirabilis/
eBooks The Life of John Dryden https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dryden/john/life/
eBooks The libertine : a tragedy. As it is now acted by His Majesty's servants https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Pictures Life of Martin Luther https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Other Commonwealth Cemeteries of World War I (visualisation) Patrick Lockley https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/commonwealth-cemeteries-of-…
Video Hogarth's London (lecture) Robin Simon https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/hogarths-london
Other Reading Culture in the Victorian Underworld Rosalind Crone https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other From old English to modern English Marisa Lohr https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/english-language/old-en…
Other The brave new world of modernism Peter Lawson https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/the-brave-new-world-modernism
Other Ever your affectionate Father, Charles Dickens https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ever-your-affectionate-father-charles-dicke…
Other Charles Dickens and his readers Mary Hammond https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Robert Louis Stevenson’s reading Shafquat Towheed https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other A famous novel and its readers: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) Rosalind Crone https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Jane Austen’s readers (essay) Katie Halsey https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
eBooks Essays, criticisms and reviews https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Gull's hornbook: : Stultorum plena sunt omnia. Al savio mezza parola basta. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Patient Grissil https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Dekker his dreame https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Adventure of the Black Lady https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/black_lady/
Video Are traditional texts always what they seem? Great Expectations pt2 (lecture) Simon Swift https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/303-are-traditional-texts-alway…
Video Are traditional texts always what they seem? Great Expectations pt1 (lecture) Simon Swift https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/306-are-traditional-texts-alway…
Video Studying William Blake in context pt.2 (lecture) David Higgins https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/193-studying-william-blake-in-c…
Video Studying William Blake in context pt.1 (lecture) David Higgins https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/289-studying-william-blake-in-c…
Other Oscar Wilde reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNcIvIuybyQ
Other Seeing Joyce (article) https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/seeing-joyce
Other The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/
Other A Few Words about F. Scott Fitzgerald (article) https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-few-words-about-f-scott-fitzgerald
Video Narrative in The Great Gatsby Andrew Warnes https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/212-narrative-in-the-great-gats…
Video The Great Gatsby and the roaring twenties (pt1) Andrew Warnes https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/213-the-great-gatsby-and-the-ro…
Video The Great Gatsby and the roaring twenties (pt2) Andrew Warnes https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/214-the-great-gatsby-and-the-ro…
Other Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (course) Wai Chee Dimock https://oyc.yale.edu/american-studies/amst-246