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The selection below is a sample of the Library's broader collection of English literature titles, more of which can be found by searching the Library's Catalogue.

Women, Literature and Development in Africa by Anthonia C. Kalu
ISBN: 9780429650918
Publication Date: 2019
This book is a powerful exploration of the role of women in the evolution of African thinking and narratives on development, from the precolonial period right through to the modern day. Whilst the book identifies women's oppression and marginalization as significant challenges to contemporary Africa's advancement, it also explores how new written narratives draw on traditional African knowledge systems to bring deep-rooted and sometimes radical approaches to progress.
Romanticism and Slave Narratives by Helen Thomas; Marilyn Butler (Contribution by); James Chandler (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780511033728
Publication Date: 2004
Helen Thomas' study opens a new avenue for Romanticism by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of eighteenth-century Britain.
The Cosmopolitan Novel by Berthold Schoene
ISBN: 9780748638154
Publication Date: 2009
While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community.
Old English Literature by John D. Niles
ISBN: 9780631220565
Publication Date: 2016
This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature Reinforces key perspectives with excerpts from ten critical studies.
Literature and the Creative Economy by Sarah Brouillette
ISBN: 9780804789486
Publication Date: 2014
This book contends that mainstream considerations of the economic and social force of culture, including theories of the creative class and of cognitive and immaterial labor, are indebted to historic conceptions of the art of literary authorship. It shows how contemporary literature has been involved in and has responded to creative-economy phenomena, including the presentation of artists as models of contentedly flexible and self-managed work, the treatment of training in and exposure to art as a pathway to social inclusion, the use of culture and cultural institutions to increase property values, and support for cultural diversity as a means of growing cultural markets.
Reading Contingency by David Wylot
ISBN: 9781000763041
Publication Date: 2019
In this book, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental.
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature by M. Fludernik (Editor); M. Nandi (Editor)
ISBN: 9781137404008
Publication Date: 2014
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis.