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Essential Resources for Literary Studies
Literary Criticism: How to Find it
Jane Austen
Beowulf
William Blake
British Modernist Writers
Chaucer
Dracula
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
The Gawain-Poet: A Research Guide
Gothic Fiction
James Joyce
King Arthur and His Knights
C.S Lewis
Literary Modernism: Collected Research Guides
Middle English - Language and Literature
John Milton
Mystery and Detective Fiction
Robin Hood: A Research Guide
Science Fiction
Shakespeare: A Research Guide
Shakespeare and the Four Humors
Edmund Spenser
J.R.R Tolkien
Was William Shakespeare a Catholic?
Women Mystics
W.B Yeats
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American Literature: Collected Research Guides
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This guide was created by Alivia Austin, English Department Intern, and Ted Bergfelt, Humanities Librarian, September 2023
