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Writing the Sphinx : literature, culture and egyptology /

Dobson, Eleanor, author.

2020. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-14

ISBN

9781474476263; 1474476260

Subjects

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; English literature--20th century--History and criticism.; Egyptology--Great Britain--History--19th century.; Egyptology--Great Britain--History--20th century.; Egypt--In literature.

LC Classification

PR451

Translation and literature.

1992. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-14

ISBN

9781474468497; 1474468497

Subjects

English literature--History and criticism--Periodicals.; Translating and interpreting--Periodicals.; Literature--Translations--Periodicals.--History and criticism

LC Classification

PN241

Robert Southwell : snow in Arcadia : redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586-95 /

Sweeney, Anne, author.

2006. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781847791917; 1847791913

Subjects

Southwell, Robert,--Saint,--1561?-1595--Criticism and interpretation.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; Christian literature, English--History and criticism.

LC Classification

PR2199

Gothic masculinities in the Victorian Age /

Heholt, Ruth, author.

2026. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781009582209; 1009582208

Subjects

Masculinity in literature.; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.; English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

LC Classification

PR821

Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain /

2015. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9780719098178; 0719098173

Subjects

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.; Saints in literature.; Religion in literature.

LC Classification

PR251

Cultural value in twenty-first-century England : the case of Shakespeare /

McLuskie, Kathleen, author.

2014. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781526102997; 1526102994

Subjects

Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Influence.; English literature--Social aspects--Great Britain.; Great Britain--Civilization.

LC Classification

PR2199

Forms of faith : literary form and religious conflict in early modern England /

2017. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781526107169; 1526107163

Subjects

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; Religion and literature--England--History.

LC Classification

PR421

Unemployment in British and American literature since the 1930s /

Aarhus, Mathies G. author

2026. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781009788694; 1009788698

Subjects

Unemployment in literature; English literature--20th century--History and criticism; English literature--21st century--History and criticism; American literature--20th century--History and criticism; American literature--21st century--History and criticism; Unemployment--Political aspects--Great Britain; Unemployment--Political aspects--United States

LC Classification

PR471

Between two stools : scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift /

Smith, Peter J., 1964- author.

2012. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9780719098796; 0719098793

Subjects

Scatology in literature.; Feces in literature.; English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

LC Classification

NX650

The language of empire : myths and metaphors of popular imperialism, 1880-1918 /

MacDonald, Robert H., 1934-2018, author.

1994. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781526123718; 1526123711

Subjects

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Imperialism--Public opinion--History--19th century.; Imperialism--Public opinion--History--20th century.; English literature--20th century--History and criticism.; Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.; Imperialism in literature.; Myth in literature.; Metaphor.

LC Classification

PR451

Irish women's writing, 1878-1922 : advancing the cause of liberty /

2016. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781526100740; 1526100746

Subjects

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.; English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

LC Classification

PR8309

Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry : work, play and politics /

Lodge, Sara author. (Sara J.),

2007. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781526101655; 1526101653

Subjects

Hood, Thomas,--1799-1845--Criticism and interpretation.; English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.; English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Leisure--Great Britain--History--19th century.; Labor--Great Britain--History--19th century.

LC Classification

PR3991

The Edinburgh introduction to studying English literature /

2010. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9780748642335; 0748642331

Subjects

English literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain.; English literature--History and criticism.; Study skills.

LC Classification

PR1

Women writers and alchemy in early modern Britain /

Chowdhury, Sajed, author.

2026. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781009744621; 1009744623

Subjects

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.; Alchemy in literature.; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

LC Classification

PR421

Britain in 1859 : custom, history, modernity /

Marshall, Gail, 1965- author

2026. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781009739030; 1009739034

Subjects

English literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century; Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901; Eighteen fifty-nine, A.D.

LC Classification

PR451

Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture /

Baker, Naomi, 1974- author.

2010. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781526129680; 152612968X

Subjects

Ugliness in literature.; Ugliness in art.; Abnormalities, Human, in literature.; Abnormalities, Human, in art.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; European literature--History and criticism.

LC Classification

PN45

Irish Gothic : an Edinburgh companion /

[2023] Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781399500579; 1399500570

Subjects

Gothic revival (Literature)--Ireland.; English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

LC Classification

PR8309

Postcolonial Manchester : diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture /

Pearce, Lynne, author.

2013. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-09-03

ISBN

9781526101884; 1526101882

Subjects

English literature--England--Manchester--Minority authors.; Minority authors--England--Manchester.; Immigrants' writings, English--England--Manchester--History and criticism.; Manchester (England)--Literatures.

LC Classification

PR8309

Rewriting the past in Scottish literature, 1350-1550 /

Ash-Irisarri, Kate, author.

2025. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-07-21

ISBN

9781805436232; 1805436236

Subjects

Scotland--History--Literature and the war.--War of Independence, 1285-1371; English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.; Collective memory--Scotland.

LC Classification

PR8309

The making and meaning of a medieval manuscript : interpreting MS Bodley 851 /

Sawyer, Thomas C., author.

2025. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-07-21

ISBN

9781805436669; 180543666X

Subjects

Bodleian Library.--Manuscript.--Bodley 851.; English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Criticism, Textual.; Manuscripts, Medieval--England--History.

LC Classification

PR251

The ecology of dress in Shakespeare and his contemporaries /

2025. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-07-21

ISBN

9781399523165; 1399523163

Subjects

Clothing and dress in literature.; Clothing and dress--England--History--16th century.; English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

LC Classification

PR641

Renaissance papers 2024 /

Southeastern Renaissance Conference Citadel Academy), 2024 : creator. (81st :

2025. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-07-21

ISBN

9781805438670; 1805438670

Subjects

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Congresses.; Renaissance--Congresses.

LC Classification

CB305

Reimagining persuasion in British Romantic literature /

Solomonescu, Yasmin, author.

2026. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-07-21

ISBN

9781009785334; 1009785338

Subjects

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.; English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Persuasion (Psychology) in literature.; Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.

LC Classification

PR441

Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature : emotions, ethics, dreams /

Leitch, Megan G., author.

2021. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-07-21

ISBN

9781526151117; 1526151111

Subjects

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.; Sleep in literature.

LC Classification

PR251

Convention and the individual in medieval English romance /

Brookes, Lucy, author.

2025. Book - Electronic

Acquisition Date

2026-07-21

ISBN

9781805435730; 1805435736

Subjects

Characters and characteristics in literature.; Subjectivity in literature.; Romances, English--History and criticism.; English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

LC Classification

PR251

Cover	Title	Author	Publisher	Publication Date	Resource Type
	Writing the Sphinx : literature, culture and egyptology /	Dobson, Eleanor, author.	Edinburgh University Press	2020.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-14 ISBN 9781474476263; 1474476260 Subjects English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; English literature--20th century--History and criticism.; Egyptology--Great Britain--History--19th century.; Egyptology--Great Britain--History--20th century.; Egypt--In literature. LC Classification PR451
	Translation and literature.	-	Edinburgh University Press	1992.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-14 ISBN 9781474468497; 1474468497 Subjects English literature--History and criticism--Periodicals.; Translating and interpreting--Periodicals.; Literature--Translations--Periodicals.--History and criticism LC Classification PN241
	Robert Southwell : snow in Arcadia : redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586-95 /	Sweeney, Anne, author.	Manchester University Press	2006.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781847791917; 1847791913 Subjects Southwell, Robert,--Saint,--1561?-1595--Criticism and interpretation.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; Christian literature, English--History and criticism. LC Classification PR2199
	Gothic masculinities in the Victorian Age /	Heholt, Ruth, author.	Cambridge University Press	2026.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781009582209; 1009582208 Subjects Masculinity in literature.; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.; English literature--19th century--History and criticism. LC Classification PR821
	Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain /	-	Manchester University Press	2015.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9780719098178; 0719098173 Subjects English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.; Saints in literature.; Religion in literature. LC Classification PR251
	Cultural value in twenty-first-century England : the case of Shakespeare /	McLuskie, Kathleen, author.	Manchester University Press	2014.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781526102997; 1526102994 Subjects Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Influence.; English literature--Social aspects--Great Britain.; Great Britain--Civilization. LC Classification PR2199
	Forms of faith : literary form and religious conflict in early modern England /	-	Manchester University Press	2017.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781526107169; 1526107163 Subjects English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; Religion and literature--England--History. LC Classification PR421
	Unemployment in British and American literature since the 1930s /	Aarhus, Mathies G. author	Cambridge University Press	2026.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781009788694; 1009788698 Subjects Unemployment in literature; English literature--20th century--History and criticism; English literature--21st century--History and criticism; American literature--20th century--History and criticism; American literature--21st century--History and criticism; Unemployment--Political aspects--Great Britain; Unemployment--Political aspects--United States LC Classification PR471
	Between two stools : scatology and its representations in English literature, Chaucer to Swift /	Smith, Peter J., 1964- author.	Manchester University Press	2012.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9780719098796; 0719098793 Subjects Scatology in literature.; Feces in literature.; English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism. LC Classification NX650
	The language of empire : myths and metaphors of popular imperialism, 1880-1918 /	MacDonald, Robert H., 1934-2018, author.	Manchester University Press	1994.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781526123718; 1526123711 Subjects English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Imperialism--Public opinion--History--19th century.; Imperialism--Public opinion--History--20th century.; English literature--20th century--History and criticism.; Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.; Imperialism in literature.; Myth in literature.; Metaphor. LC Classification PR451
	Irish women's writing, 1878-1922 : advancing the cause of liberty /	-	Manchester University Press	2016.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781526100740; 1526100746 Subjects English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.; English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism. LC Classification PR8309
	Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry : work, play and politics /	Lodge, Sara author. (Sara J.),	Manchester University Press	2007.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781526101655; 1526101653 Subjects Hood, Thomas,--1799-1845--Criticism and interpretation.; English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.; English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Leisure--Great Britain--History--19th century.; Labor--Great Britain--History--19th century. LC Classification PR3991
	The Edinburgh introduction to studying English literature /	-	Edinburgh University Press	2010.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9780748642335; 0748642331 Subjects English literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain.; English literature--History and criticism.; Study skills. LC Classification PR1
	Women writers and alchemy in early modern Britain /	Chowdhury, Sajed, author.	Cambridge University Press	2026.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781009744621; 1009744623 Subjects English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.; Alchemy in literature.; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.; Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century. LC Classification PR421
	Britain in 1859 : custom, history, modernity /	Marshall, Gail, 1965- author	Cambridge University Press	2026.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781009739030; 1009739034 Subjects English literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century; Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901; Eighteen fifty-nine, A.D. LC Classification PR451
	Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture /	Baker, Naomi, 1974- author.	Manchester University Press	2010.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781526129680; 152612968X Subjects Ugliness in literature.; Ugliness in art.; Abnormalities, Human, in literature.; Abnormalities, Human, in art.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; European literature--History and criticism. LC Classification PN45
	Irish Gothic : an Edinburgh companion /	-	Edinburgh University Press	[2023]	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781399500579; 1399500570 Subjects Gothic revival (Literature)--Ireland.; English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism. LC Classification PR8309
	Postcolonial Manchester : diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture /	Pearce, Lynne, author.	Manchester University Press	2013.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-09-03 ISBN 9781526101884; 1526101882 Subjects English literature--England--Manchester--Minority authors.; Minority authors--England--Manchester.; Immigrants' writings, English--England--Manchester--History and criticism.; Manchester (England)--Literatures. LC Classification PR8309
	Rewriting the past in Scottish literature, 1350-1550 /	Ash-Irisarri, Kate, author.	DS Brewer	2025.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-07-21 ISBN 9781805436232; 1805436236 Subjects Scotland--History--Literature and the war.--War of Independence, 1285-1371; English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.; Collective memory--Scotland. LC Classification PR8309
	The making and meaning of a medieval manuscript : interpreting MS Bodley 851 /	Sawyer, Thomas C., author.	DS Brewer	2025.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-07-21 ISBN 9781805436669; 180543666X Subjects Bodleian Library.--Manuscript.--Bodley 851.; English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Criticism, Textual.; Manuscripts, Medieval--England--History. LC Classification PR251
	The ecology of dress in Shakespeare and his contemporaries /	-	Edinburgh University Press	2025.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-07-21 ISBN 9781399523165; 1399523163 Subjects Clothing and dress in literature.; Clothing and dress--England--History--16th century.; English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism. LC Classification PR641
	Renaissance papers 2024 /	Southeastern Renaissance Conference Citadel Academy), 2024 : creator. (81st :	Camden House	2025.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-07-21 ISBN 9781805438670; 1805438670 Subjects English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Congresses.; Renaissance--Congresses. LC Classification CB305
	Reimagining persuasion in British Romantic literature /	Solomonescu, Yasmin, author.	Cambridge University Press	2026.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-07-21 ISBN 9781009785334; 1009785338 Subjects English literature--18th century--History and criticism.; English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; Persuasion (Psychology) in literature.; Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature. LC Classification PR441
	Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature : emotions, ethics, dreams /	Leitch, Megan G., author.	Manchester University Press	2021.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-07-21 ISBN 9781526151117; 1526151111 Subjects English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.; Sleep in literature. LC Classification PR251
	Convention and the individual in medieval English romance /	Brookes, Lucy, author.	DS Brewer	2025.	Book - Electronic
Acquisition Date 2026-07-21 ISBN 9781805435730; 1805435736 Subjects Characters and characteristics in literature.; Subjectivity in literature.; Romances, English--History and criticism.; English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism. LC Classification PR251