English literature

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English literature (Q320): The study of literature originally written in English. Includes the use of techniques of literary analysis and interpretation.

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Title	Description	Keywords	Full details
John Aubrey Reading List	A list of books and other resources useful for students attending this course.	Seventeenth century, John Aubrey, History of Medicine, Industrial history, Exploration, English Civil War	view
"Pointed Roofs" by Dorothy Richardson	The full text of "Pointed Roofs" by Dorothy Richardson	Fiction, Modernism	view
'Shades Of Meaning': The Significance Of Hair Colour In Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862) And Rossetti's Lady Lilith (1866–68, Altered 1872–73), Jessica Lenihan	In a culture obsessed with physiognomy, where the Victorian female body was a canvas of symbols to be read, the portrayal of hair – and...	Social history, Gender, Sexuality, 19th century	view
1. Introduction	Introduction to Vides Volume 6 - 2018. ...		view
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century	Open-access peer-reviewed journal on nineteenth-century literature and culture.	Nineteenth-century, Victorian, Criticism	view
2012 British Graduate Shakespeare Conference	The Shakespeare Institute’s 2012 Graduate Conference. Includes lectures and discussions on the plays.	Shakespeare, Renaissance, Drama, Plays, Analysis	view
A border to the unknown: folk ritual and interpretations of astrological phenomena in Edmond Halley’s A Description of the Passage of the Shadow of the Moon over England (1723) and James Catnach’s almanac, The Prophetic Messenger (1833), Anya Hancock	Halley’s widely circulated broadside presents one of the earliest rational analyses of a solar eclipse. In it, the Enlightenment scientist...	Enlightenment, Astrology	view
A Chapel, a Novel, and the Word of God. Virginia Brookes	This essay attempts to portray two artefacts, the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in Oxford, and the novel Adam Bede by George Eliot. These two...		view
A comparative study of Lady Hertford’s grotto at Marlborough and William Kent’s illustration of Spring in James Thomson's The Seasons. Richard D A Lamont	‘Poetry, Painting and Gardening, or the Science of Landscape, will forever by men of taste be deemed Three Sisters, or the Three Graces who dress...	History	view
A Conversation with Tim O'Brien on Writing and War	From Stanford University: Authors Tim O'Brien and Tobias Wolff discuss war, ethics, and writing.	Fiction, Contemporary, Analysis, War	view

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