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literature degree

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All of the books and works that Billy has studied as part of his English Literature degree.
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Anthologies of English Literature

 
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This covers the middle ages, the restoration period and the sixteenth & seventeenth century.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Package 1
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This packages covers the twentieth century, romanticism and victorian periods.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Package 2
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Romanticism (2023-24)

Autumn 2023-2024

 
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Studied for week 1 on Romanticism/
Sorrows of Young Wether, Goethe
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Gothic Fictions (2023-24)

All of these books are associated with gothic literature.

 
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The Monk - highly provactive
The Monk, Matthew Lewis
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A Christmas Carol, Dickens
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The Italian, Anne Radcliffe
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Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Gods, Monsters and Heroes (2022-23)

 
The Odyssey by Homer
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Beowulf by Maria Headley
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Paradise Lost by John Milton
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The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Writing and the Modern World 1500-1600 (2022-23)

 
Hamlet by Shakespeare
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The Tempest by Shakespeare
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Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
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Writing and the Modern World 1600-1700 (2022-23)

 
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
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Fantomina by Eliza Haywood
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The Beggar's Opera by John Gay,
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Pamela by Samuel Richardson
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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
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Rewritings (2022-2023)

 
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
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Dramatic Writing (2023-24)

 
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Core text for the study of dramatic writing, undertaken in second term.
Art of Dramatic Writing - Lajos Agri
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Victorian Literature (2023-24)

 
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This edition is the Norton Critical. Studied for week three of victorian literature.
North & South - E. Gaskell
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