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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Essays Joseph Conrad Dominic Davies
Essays Rudyard Kipling Dominic Davies
eBooks The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (vol 1) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Mayor of Casterbridge https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Far From the Madding Crowd https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Woodlanders https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Return of the Native https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Audio The Romance of the Middle Ages Nicholas Perkins https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks Chamber Music https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/chamber-music/
eBooks Jacob’s Room https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91j/
eBooks Night and Day https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91n/
eBooks The Voyage Out https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91v/
Essays J.M. Coetzee Dominic Davies
Other Special Topics in Literature: Milton's "Paradise Lost" (course) Mary Fuller https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Essays Who is Aphra Behn? Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Other Reading Ulysses - visualising the text Patrick Lockley https://www.pgogy.com/james/
eBooks Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/b42o/
eBooks A Room of One's Own https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/
Audio Dickens's Points of View Jon Mee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Essays Stephen Duck Jennifer Batt
Essays Mary Leapor Jennifer Batt
Audio Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored Kathryn Sutherland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored Kathryn Sutherland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising Kathryn Sutherland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising Kathryn Sutherland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Essays The Georgians will inherit the earth... Stuart Lee https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/?p=888
Pictures The Rose https://www.gutenberg.org/
Pictures Second Globe Theatre https://www.gutenberg.org/
Video World War I Poetry in England (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-7
Video Ezra Pound (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-9
Essays Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres Kate O'Connor
Essays Post/Colonial Writing - Introduction Dominic Davies
eBooks Finnegans Wake https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8f/
eBooks Ulysses https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8u/
eBooks A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8p/
eBooks Dubliners https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8d/
eBooks Poems, on several occasions https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The royal captives: a fragment of secret history https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The farmer's boy; a rural poem https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The earl of Essex. A tragedy https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Poems on several occasions https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Essays Eighteenth century labouring-class writing Jennifer Batt
Video Great Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project Joshua Carr https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
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
Video Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"? Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"? Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Literature and Form 2: Chapters Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/