Library: ENGL 2201: British Literature I: Library Resources

Online Reference Books

The following reference books will help you gather background information on your topic.

Books on the Shelf

The Library has a variety of books available in print or online on British literature. Browse the library shelves in the following Dewey Decimal ranges for materials related to different areas of British literature:

820	English & Old English literatures
821	English poetry
822.2	English drama--1400-1558
822.3	Drama of Elizabethan Period, 1558-1625

The Yale Companion to Chaucer by Seth Lerer (Editor)
Call Number: 821.1 Y17
The Yale Companion to Chaucer provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of current critical interpretation, and on the poe's place in English and European literary history.
The Renaissance: English Literature in Its Historical, Cultural, and Social Contexts
Call Number: 820.9 L477r
"Provides cultural, historical, and social contexts for the study of English literature, covering leaders, laws, social movements, scientific developments, religious changes, and the details of everyday life."
A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789
Call Number: 820.99287 S798L
"[P]rovides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution."

Harold Bloom: Literary Criticism

Canterbury Tales (Wikimedia Commons)

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