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The library has a number of resources on British literature that can provide valuable introductions.
Just In! Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature PR413.O94 (REF) | Google Book Preview
BACKGROUND SELECTIONS
- Oxford Companion to English Literature PR19 .D73 1985 (REF)
- Cambridge History of English Literature PR83 .C32 (REF)
- The Cambridge companion to English literature, 1500-1600 PR413 .C29 2000 | Google Book Preview
- Literary Research Guide PR83 .H37 1998 (REF)
- British Writers: Langland to Bible PR85 .B688 (REF)
- Feminist Companion to Literature in English PR111 .B57 1990 (REF)
- Critical Survey of Poetry PR502 .C85 1982 (REF)
- Encyclopedia of British Women Writers PR111 .S34 1988 (REF)
- Guide to British Poetry Explication PR311 .M37 (REF)
- Spenser Encyclopedia PR2362 .S65 1990 (REF)
Shakespeare Reference Sources PR2892 etc.
BACKGROUND EXAMPLES FROM THE COLLECTION (Second floor)
- The Dicitonary of National Biography | Google Versions
- Silent but for the word : Tudor women as patrons, translators, and writers of religious works
- The Historical renaissance : new essays on Tudor and Stuart literature and culture | Google Book Preview
- Humanism and poetry in the early Tudor period; an essay
- Redeeming Eve : women writers of the English Renaissance
- The thought & culture of the English Renaissance; an anthology of Tudor prose 1481-1555
- Music & poetry in the Early Tudor Court
- Early Tudor criticism, linguistic and literary
- Patriotism, power, and print : national consciousness in Tudor England
- The Cambridge companion to English literature, 1500-1600
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English prose literature Early modern, 1500-1700
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