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Liaison Librarian: English Literature and History
Rebecca Dowson
rda26@sfu.ca
778.782.4304

Welcome to the English Literature Information Resources Subject Guide!

This guide lists selected print and electronic information sources available to SFU faculty, students, and staff.  Check the library catalogue to find additional materials at the SFU Library.

If you do not find what you need, contact Rebecca Dowson, the Liaison Librarian for English Literature, 778.782.4304, .

What's New?

English Literature Research Resources

   

A list of new books for English Literature is updated weekly on the English Literature new books page.

New databases of interest to English Literature faculty, students and researchers:

Literature Online  A searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 328 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. 

The Bible in English  A collection of 20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament. 

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection  Digital access to the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1852.

Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels:   Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960’s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform. 

Victorian Popular Culture: Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment:  The Victorian and Edwardian periods were a golden era for variety, vaudeville and theatre. The era also played host to a vast range of other public entertainments and spectacles, from the educational to the decidedly decadent.  This section of Victorian Popular Culture features material on music halls; theatre (legitimate and illegitimate); pantomime; pleasure gardens; exhibitions; scientific institutions, and visual delights such as magic lanterns shows and dioramas.

Help with Course Assignments

Click on the course number below for course instruction.  Click here for information regarding services to English Literature graduate students.

COURSE LAST UPDATED
ENGL 101: Introduction to Fiction May 2012
ENGL 103:  Introduction to Drama September/10
ENGL 104: Introduction to Prose Genres February/07
ENGL 105: Introduction to Issues in Literature & Culture (Utopianism) February/12
ENGL 199: University Writing September/09
ENGL 201: Medieval Literature May/09
ENGL 203:  Early Modern Literature October/10
ENGL 205: 18th Century Literature 1685-1800 October/06
ENGL 207: Twentieth Century Literatures in English June/04
ENGL 210:  Writing and Critical Thinking September/09
ENGL 320: Studies in 18th Century Literature May/11
ENGL 322: Studies in the Eighteenth Century Fiction
 March/10
ENGL 327: Studies in Romantic Literature October/10
ENGL 330:  Studies in Victorian Literature March/11
ENGL 338: Studies in Modernism June/05
ENGL 340 Twentieth-Century British Literature Before 1945 October/06
ENGL 347 Studies in American Literature Before 1900 June/07
ENGL 357 Studies in Canadian Literature since 1920 January/11
ENGL 369 Studies in Prose Genres October/05
ENGL 394 Studies in Asian Diasporic Literatures November/10
ENGL 410  Topics in Early Modern Non-Dramatic Literature October/10
ENGL 420  Topics in Eighteenth Century Literature January/12
ENGL 427  Ballads, Bards and Banshees September/10
ENGL 434 Cultural Memory and Cosmopolitanism: Alfred Tennyson, Victorian Poet Laureate October/09
ENGL 447 After the Ethical Turn June/10
ENGL 457 Asian Diasporic Food February/11
ENGL 465 Frankenstein's Progeny: Media & Theory at the Limits of Human May/09
ENGL 492 Women Writers From Africa: Writing Woman, Writing Difference October/08
ENGL 494: Honours Essay January/08
ENGL 841: Studies in Canadian Literature July/11 (HH)

ENGL 881:Research Methods and Methodologies

 May/12 (HH)
ENGL 821:  Digital Romanticism Sept/11
ENGL 832:  Eighteenth Century Media Cultures September/10
Renaissance and Early Modern Britain May 2011

 

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