English Literature

English Literature

Books

Novels

• Solar, Enduring Love, Saturday by Ian McEwan

• Spies by Michael Frayn

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

• A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

• Outcast by Sadie Jones

• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Color Purple by Alice Walker Dracula by Bram Stoker

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• The Reader by Bernard Schlink

• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Literary Books

• The Penguin Short History of English Literature by Stephen Coote

• Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

• The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg

• The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt

• 1599 by James Shapiro

• The Artful Dickens by John Mullan

• English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate

• A Dictionary of Literary Terms by Martin Gray

• Doing English by Robert Eaglestone

• How to Write Better Essays by Bryan Greetham

• Oxford concise companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer

• Pastoral by Terry Gifford

• The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

• The Poet’s Craft by Sandy Brownjohn

Podcasts

• BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time

• BBC Radio 3’s Words and Music

• LRB Bookshop Podcast

• The TLS Podcast

• Inside the New York Times Review of Books

• Between the Covers

• New Yorker Fiction Podcast

• BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth

Lectures

• Massolit 

• Gothic Literature: https://massolit.io/search?q=gothic 

• Romanticism: https://massolit.io/courses/romanticism 

• William Shakespeare: https://massolit.io/subjects/english-literature/william-shakespeare 

Visits

• The Globe Theatre, London: https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ 

• The Charles Dickens Museum, London: https://dickensmuseum.com/ 

• The RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon: https://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/ 

• Jane Austen Museum, Bath: https://janeausten.co.uk/ 

• Samuel Johnson’s House, London: https://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/ 

• Shakespeare’s birthplace / Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon: https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/ 

• Milton’s Cottage, Buckinghamshire: https://www.miltonscottage.org/ 

• Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein, Bath: https://houseoffrankenstein.com/ 

• Any theatre (local or London based)

• Local libraries

Web sites 

• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books

• The British Library: https://www.bl.uk/ 

• The Booker Prizes: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/ 

Research

• Future Learn Course: Shakespeare: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/explore-english-shakespeare 

• Future Learn Course: Poetry: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/what-is-poetry 

• Jstor

• Project Muse

• Oxford University's Staircase 12

• Yale Open Courses

• Harvard University’s Free Online Courses