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Literature Degree Reading List
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items As an english literature student, it's no surprise that Billy has to read a lot of books that normally he wouldn't for his degree. This list details all of the books studied over his three years on his english literature degree and places them into d...
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Norton Anthologies
Year 01 - Gods, Monsters & Heroes
Year 01 - Writing and the Modern World 01
Year 01 - Writing and the Modern World 02
Year 01 - Rewritings
Norton Anthologies
These are the core text books that provided the majority of the set readings over the course of the whole BA degree.
Contains a wide variety of works from: the middle ages, the restoration and eighteenth century period and the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Package 01)
This package of anthologies includes the literature of the romantic period, the twentieth/twenty-first century and the victorian period.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Package 02)
Year 01 - Gods, Monsters & Heroes
One of my modules in the first term of university was all about gods, monsters and heroes in relation to myths and legends in literature. We studied works by Milton, Headley and Ishiguro
Paradise Lost is a retelling of the story of Adam and Eve from the biblical book of Genesis which describes the creation of Heaven and Earth and of Adam and Eve.
Paradise Lost by Milton
Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal...
The Buried Giant by Ishiguro
A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the acclaimed novel The Mere Wife. Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf — and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment students around the world — ...
A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all.
A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all.
Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two separa...
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Year 01 - Writing and the Modern World 01
Studied key foundation literature for an understanding of writing the modern world including works by Shakespeare and Behn.
One of the most performed and famous plays in the Western literary canon, Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet is about the tragic titular prince of Denmark mines the themes of revenge and despair to deliver a startling, ever-fresh portrait of a mind pus...
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published ...
The Tempest by Shakespeare
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English capt...
Oroonoko by Behn
Year 01 - Writing and the Modern World 02
This module laid the foundations for the modern world by looking at the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze is a novella by Eliza Haywood which charts an unnamed female protagonist's pursuit of the charming, shallow Beauplaisir. Dealing with major themes such as identity, class and sexual desire, and first published in 1725, '...
Fantomina by Haywood
The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century.
The Beggar's Opera by Gay
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, enlists the help of a native islander who he names...
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe
Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone in the world, is pursued by her dead mistress's son. Although she is attracted to Mr B, she holds out against his demands and threats of abduction and rape, determined to protect her virginity and abide by her m...
Pamela by Richardson
The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a ...
The Castle of Otranto by Walpole
Year 01 - Rewritings
Al of the books below were studied in relation to this idea of ‘writing’ as a form of rewriting. We looked at ideas such as pastiche, parody and imitation before diving into examples of rewriting classical fairytales and stories.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: ...
The Penelopiad by Atwood.
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their stor...
The Stone Gods by Winterson
Charlotte Bronte’s strikingly modern gothic romance continues to weave its spell over millions of readers, with the central relationship between the eponymous heroine and the brooding Mr. Rochester forming a cornerstone of Victorian fiction.
Jane Eyre by Bronte.
A masterpiece of concision and emotional heft, Rhys' audacious prequel to Jane Eyre imagines the life of Bertha Rochester - the notorious 'madwoman in the attic.'
Wide Sargasso Sea by Rhys.
A delirious mix of fairytale, gothic romance and sly feminism, Angela Carter’s breathtaking collection is a sensual, passionate reading experience punctuated by singular supernatural imagery and baroque turns of phrase.
The Bloody Chamber by Carter.