Resources


Dictionaries

  1. Oxford English Dictionary (through Oviatt Library)

Online Resources

  1. Medieval Literature Slideshow
  2. Timeline of Anglo-Saxon England
  3. English History (1066-1413)
  4. Middle English Grammar
  5. British History (1485-1714)

Style Guides

  1. My Essay Style Guide

Further Reading

Compiling a bibliography for this type of course is a daunting task. It cannot be expected that you will read too deeply about an single author or work, and that you only have a limited amount of time to get to know each historical period. Hence I have included a list of Companion volumes published by Cambridge University Press, which you should be able to delve into for background material and current thought about some of the texts we are studying. The links take you to the publisher's web site, but you can also find these volumes in the university library (where indicated by a call number) and sometimes in local bookshops.

  1. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (PR173 .C36 1991)
  2. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (PN671 .C36 2000)
  3. The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (PR1924 .C28 1986 )
  4. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600 (PR413 .C29 2000)
  5. The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism
  6. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, 2nd end (PR651 .C36 1990)
  7. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (PR2894 .C33 2001)
  8. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell (PR541 .C36 1993)
  9. The Cambridge Companion to Milton, 2nd edn
  10. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (PR437 .C36 1998)
  11. The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (PR551 .C27 2001 )
  12. The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson (PR3534 .C34 1997)

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