British and Irish Literature

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As a key part of Western literary and cultural history, British and Irish literature encompasses a massive range of periods, authors, and works that make it one of the most active fields in academia today. As such, this area of study invites trans-disciplinary collaboration with fields as varied as history, cultural studies, political science, and philosophy making it challenging for students and scholars to stay informed about every applicable area. In addition, a great deal of this work has moved online with the most recent scholarship, research, and statistics appearing in online databases. With advances in online searching and database technologies, researchers and practitioners can easily access library catalogs, bibliographic indexes, and other lists that show thousands of resources that might also be useful to them. In this situation what is most needed is expert guidance. Researchers and practitioners at all levels need tools that help them filter through the proliferation of information sources to material that is reliable and directly relevant to their inquiries. Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature will offer a trustworthy pathway through the thicket of information overload.

 

Editor in Chief

Andrew Hadfield is a professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005; 2008), co-editor of Early Modern English Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Spenser (Cambridge University Press, 2001), among other publications. He is currently working on a biography of Edmund Spenser, which will be published by Oxford University Press. He is also editing The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640.

 


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Fall 2012
1916
Clair Wills
Alexander Pope
Tom Jones
University of St. Andrews
Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson
Rhona Brown
University of Glasgow
Arthurian Literature
Stephen Knight
Unversity of Melbourne
Beowulf
Andy Orchard
Censorship and English and Irish Literature
Cyndia Clegg
Pepperdine Unversity
Charles and Mary Lamb
Felicity James
University of Leicester
Charles Dickens
Vybarr Cregan-Reid
University of Kent
Christopher Marlowe
M.L. Stapleton
Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Coffeehouse
Markman Ellis
David Jones
Thomas R. Dilworth
University of Windsor
Dunbar, Henryson and Douglas
Antony Hasler
E.M. Forster
Vybarr Cregan-Reid
University of Kent
Early Modern Prose, 1500-1650
Andrew Hadfield
University of Sussex
Edmund Spenser
Andrew Hadfield
University of Sussex
Edwin Muir
Margery Palmer McCulloch
English Bible and Literature
Kevin Killeen
University of York
English Civil War/War of the Three Kingdoms
James Loxley
Famine
Margaret Kelleher
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sue Niebryzdowski
George Herbert
Chauncey Wood
Henry Fielding
Thomas Keymer
University of Toronto
Hugh MacDiarmid
Margery Palmer McCulloch
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Irish Modernism
Lauren Arrington
University of Liverpool
James Hogg
Gillian Hughes
James Joyce
Anne Fogarty
University College Dublin
James Macpherson
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Dafydd Moore
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John Donne
Hugh Adlington
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John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester
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Laurence Sterne
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Lord Byron
Tom Mole
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Mabinogion
Sioned Davies
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Margery Kempe
Diane Watt
University of Surrey
Marxist Criticism
Drew Milne
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
Margaret Hannay
Siena College
Metaphysical Poets
Michael Schoenfeldt
Modernism
Suzanne Hobson
Queen Mary
Northern Irish Drama
Eva Urban
Universite de Rennes 2
Old English Literature
Elaine Treharne
Parody and Satire
Robert Mack
University of Exeter
Postmodernism
Tim Woods
Aberystwyth University
Post-war Irish Drama
Eva Urban
Universite de Rennes 2
Psychoanalysis
David Punter
University of Bristol
Robert Burns
Pauline Mackay
Robert Herrick
Syrithe Pugh
Robin Hood Literature
Stephen Knight
Unversity of Melbourne
Samuel Beckett
Luke Thurston
Aberystwyth University
Samuel Johnson
Jack Lynch
Rutgers University
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Felicity James
University of Leicester
Seamus Heaney
Bernard O’Donoghue
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thomas Hahn
University of Rochester
Sonnet and sonnet sequence
John Roe
T. S. Eliot
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Thomas De Quincey
Julian North
University of Leicester
Thomas Gray
Adam Rounce
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Utopian and dystopian literature
Steve Mentz
St John's University
Erin M. Gallagher
St John's University
Vampire Fiction
Dale Townshend
University of Stirling
W. B. Yeats
Lauren Arrington
University of Liverpool
Walter Scott
Ainsley McIntosh
University of Aberdeen
William Blake
Jason Whittaker
University College Falmouth
William Wordsworth
Simon Bainbridge
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Ben Jonson
Martin Butler
Chorographical and Landscape Writing
Bridget M. Keegan
Daniel Defoe
Stephen Gregg
Eco-Criticism
Richard Pickard
Epistolatory Novel
Siv Gøril Brandtzæg
Gothic Literature
Robert Miles
John Keats
Rachel Falconer
Philip Lindholm
Mysticism
Denis Renevey
University of Lausanne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Madeleine Callaghan
Paige Tovey
Michael Rossington
Newcastle University
Susan Ferrier
Ainsley McIntosh
University of Aberdeen
William Shakespeare
Amy Kenny
University of Sussex
Andrew Hadfield
University of Sussex

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