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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Pictures 1855 Colton Map of the West Indies https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Evening Post map of the West Indies https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures William Blake https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Katherine Mansfield https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Other Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love (course) David O'Connor https://www.nd.edu:443/
Other ULYSSES: Gerty, Romance, and You Tara Prescott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghOdFx8cjs
Essays Notions of Authorship Kate O'Connor
Essays What is Literature, and Why Does It Matter? Kate O'Connor
Other The future of books (article) John Thompson https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-future-of-books
Other Introduction to Theory of Literature (course) Paul Fry https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300
Video Beyond AC Bradley & FR Leavis: The critics & how to handle them pt2 Alaric Hall https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/211-beyond-ac-bradley-fr-leavis…
Video Beyond AC Bradley & FR Leavis: The critics & how to handle them pt1 Alaric Hall https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/35-beyond-ac-bradley-fr-leavis-…
Video The concept of 'literariness' or 'the literary' pt2 Katie Mullan, Francis O'Gorman https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/272-the-concept-of-literariness…
Video The concept of 'literariness' or 'the literary' pt1 Francis O'Gorman, Katie Mullan https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/273-the-concept-of-literariness…
Pictures David Garrick - Between Tragedy and Comedy (image) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The age of brass. or the triumphs of Woman's rights https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Approaching Political Literature Kate O'Connor
eBooks The Great Gatsby https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/
Other Reading and World War I https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
eBooks Heart of Darkness https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/conrad/joseph/c75h/
eBooks The White Man’s Burden https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/five/
eBooks Sons and Lovers https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41s/
eBooks The Soul of Man under Socialism https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/index.htm
eBooks The Prose Works of John Milton https://oll.libertyfund.org/
eBooks De Profundis https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/profundis/
eBooks The Picture of Dorian Gray https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/dorian/
eBooks Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and other stories https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/w67l/
eBooks A House of Pomegranates https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/house/
eBooks The Happy Prince and other stories https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/happy/
eBooks Salomé https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/salome/
eBooks A Woman of No Importance https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/woman_of_no_importance/
eBooks Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/harris/
Essays Feminist Approaches to Literature Kate O'Connor
eBooks Pamela https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/richardson/samuel/pamela/
eBooks The Faerie Queene https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/spenser/edmund/faerie/
Video Queer Theory and Gender Performativity Paul Fry https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-23
Video How words, form and structure create meaning: Women and writing (pt2) Simon Swift https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/249-how-words-form-and-structur…
Video How words, form and structure create meaning: Women and writing (pt1) Simon Swift https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/250-how-words-form-and-structur…
eBooks The Yellow Wallpaper https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/gilman/charlotte_perkins/yellow/
Essays Economic and Social Literary Criticism Kate O'Connor
eBooks Lady Windermere's Fan https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/lady_windermeres_fan/
eBooks The Ballad of Reading Gaol https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/w67p/
eBooks Jane Eyre https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bronte/charlotte/b869j/
eBooks Venus and Adonis https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/venus/
eBooks The Rape of Lucrece https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/lucrece/
Video The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (lecture) OpenYale https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-17
Video The Classical Feminist Tradition (lecture) OpenYale https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-20
eBooks The Manifesto of the Communist Party https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/marx/karl/m39c/
Video Genre (pt.2) Jane Rickard https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/290-genre-pt2
Video Genre (pt.1) Jane Rickard https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/291-genre-pt1