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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Other Ulysses: Stephen's Shining Moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30YC5TYXXM
Essays The Art of Mourning in First World War Poetry Charlotte Barrett
Essays Victorian Publishing History Charlotte Barrett
Essays James Joyce: A Biography Cleo Hanaway
Essays ‘‘Beauty […] lay not within the thing but in what the thing symbolised’’: Female Clothing and the Senses in the Works of Thomas Hardy Charlotte Barrett
Essays Olive Schreiner Dominic Davies
Essays Derek Walcott Dominic Davies
Video What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 Helena Kennedy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 Helena Kennedy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Ulysses: Joyce and Cinema Cleo Hanaway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJYhZWWMfE
Video What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 Judith Luna https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 Judith Luna https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 Ankhi Mukherjee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 Ankhi Mukherjee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks Shakespeare and Stage Costume https://www.ajdrake.com/
eBooks The Decay of Lying: a Dialogue https://victorianprose.blogspot.com/
eBooks Pen, Pencil, and Poison: A Study https://victorianprose.blogspot.com/
eBooks The True Function and Value of Criticism https://victorianprose.blogspot.com/
Audio Shackled by Language: The Representation and Self-Representation of English-Speaking Black Voices in Black Atlantic Writing Cecilia Bennett https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Rewriting Jane Eyre: The Avenging 'Angel in the House' in Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White Erin Nyborg https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks A Kipling Anthology of Prose https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks A Kipling Anthology of Verse https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Pictures Illustrated Book Cover for 'The Jungle Book' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Photograph of Rudyard Kipling https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Photograph of Joseph Conrad in 1916 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks Youth: a Narrative and Two Other Stories https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Pictures Black and White Portrait Photograph of Joseph Conrad https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks On the Origin of Species https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Merry Men and Other Tales https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Wuthering Heights https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Pictures Photograph of Oscar Wilde https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays The Importance of Being Wilde Kate O'Connor
Audio Olive Schreiner Dominic Davies https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Essays Aphra Behn Kate O'Connor
Pictures The Peacock Skirt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/harris/
eBooks The Turn of the Screw https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/james/henry/j2t/
eBooks Northanger Abbey https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93n/
eBooks The Mysteries of Udolpho https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/radcliffe/ann/udolpho/
eBooks Goblin Market and Other Poems https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rossetti/christina/goblin_market/
eBooks Supernatural Horror in Literature https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lovecraft/hp/supernatural/
eBooks The Journal to Stella https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97s/
eBooks Shakespeare and Music https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35721
Audio Shakespeare Lectures Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser https://archive.org/details/ShakespeareLectures
eBooks 'Spenser, Johnson, and Shakspeare' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks The Preface to Shakespeare https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/
eBooks 'A Talk for Twelfth Night' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/
eBooks On 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/
Audio A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. Sally Bayley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Essays Gothic Elements in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' Charlotte Barrett