Research Guides @ Fordham: English and American Literature: Getting Started

Avanti! [1968], first read through

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1968). Avanti! [1968], first read through. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0164a3b0-b3f9-0130-64cb-58d385a7b928

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Empire of Culture by Waiyee Loh
Call Number: (RH) PR468.C64 L64 2024
Albany : State University of New York Press, 2024

Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume "culture" in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Europe in British Literature and Culture by Petra Rau (Editor); William T. Rossiter (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) PR129.E85 E97 2024
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

How has Europe shaped British literature and culture - and vice versa - since the Middle Ages?
The Letter from Prison by W. Clark Gilpin
Call Number: (RH) PR408.P74 G55 2024
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]

Letters from prison testifying to deeply felt ethical principles have a long history, extending from antiquity to the present day.
Misrecognitions by Ben Parker
Call Number: (RH) PN56.R33 P37 2024
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2024

Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations and coincidences.
Writing Through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century by Chantel Lavoie
Call Number: (RH) PR448.B69 L38 2024
Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2024

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century--not simply in children's literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions.

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English and American Literature: Getting Started

Avanti! [1968], first read through

Study of English and American Literature at Fordham

Recent Books

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