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Prerequisites
Literary History and Periodization
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. Routledge, 2001.
Ford, Boris (ed.). The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Volumes 5–8). Penguin Books.
Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Waugh, Patricia (ed.). Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Key works by period (Romanticism to Contemporary)
Romanticism: Blake (Songs of Innocence...), Wordsworth & Coleridge (Lyrical Ballads), Keats, Shelley, Byron.
Victorian Literature: Dickens (Hard Times), Eliot (Middlemarch), Tennyson, Browning, Wilde.
Modernism: T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land), Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway), Joyce, Hopkins, H.G. Wells.
Postmodernism & Contemporary: Fowles (The French Lieutenant’s Woman), Byatt (Possession), Lessing (The Golden Notebook).
Essential literary theory and criticism
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Blackwell, 1983.
Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. OUP, 1953.
Leavis, F.R. The Great Tradition. Chatto & Windus, 1948.
Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. Yale University Press, 1979.
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society: 1780–1950. Columbia University Press, 1958.
McGann, Jerome. The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Additional digital archives and anthologies
The Cambridge Companion Series (e.g., to the Victorian Novel, to Modernism, etc.).
Norton Anthologies of English Literature (selected volumes).
British Library – Discovering Literature
Project Gutenberg
Romantic Circles