English Language & Literature: Books

Collections

E-books are accessible via the library catalogue. See the Library's e-books guide for information about the Library's distinct e-book collections:

On the Web

Below are select sources for e-books/e-texts on the web.

Acheson, Katherine

• Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature
• Writing Essays About Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students

Acton, Carol

• Grief in Wartime: Private Pain, Public Discourse
• Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in Warzones

Al Ethari, Lamees 

• Waiting for the Rain: An Iraqi Memoir

Clary-Lemon, Jennifer

• Planting the Anthropocene: Rhetorics of Natureculture
• Try This: Research Methods for Writers

Condon, Frankie

• I Hope I Join the Band: Narrative, Affiliation, and Antiracist Rhetoric

Connolly, Tristanne

• Spectacular Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Morality and (Un)Representability
• William Blake and the Body
• Liberating Medicine 1720-1835

Deman, J. Andrew

• The Margins of Comics: The Construction of Women, Minorities, and the Geek in Graphic Narrative

Dolmage, Jay

• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education
• Disability Rhetoric
• Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Graham, Kenneth

• Shakespeare On Stage and Off
• The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance
• Disciplinary Measures From the Metrical Psalms to Milton
• Shakespeare and Religious Change

Hadfield, Dorothy

• Shaw and Feminisms: On Stage and Off

Harris, Randy

• Voice Interaction Design: Crafting the New Conversational Speech Systems
• The Linguistics Wars
• Rhetoric and Incommensurability

Hirschkop, Ken

• Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy
• Linguistic Turns, 1890-1950: Writing on Language as a Social Theory
• The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin
• Bakhtin and Cultural Theory

Klassen, Norm

• Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves
• Rationality is... The Essence of Literary Theory
• Chaucer on Love, Knowledge, and Sight
• The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education

Kolentsis, Alysia

• Shakespeare's Common Language

Kuzniar, Alice

• The Birth of Homeopathy Out of the Spirit of Romanticism
• The Queer German Cinema
• Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship
• Outing Goethe & His Age

Lamont, Victoria

• Westerns: A Women's History

Lawson, Kate

• The Marked Body: Domestic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Literature

McArther, Murray

• Stolen Writings: Blake's Milton, Joyce's Ulysses, and the Nature of Influence

McMurry, Andrew

• Entertaining Futility: Despair and Hope in the Time of Climate Change
• Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, & the Systems of Nature

Mehlenbacher, Ashley Rose

• On Expertise: Cultivating, Character, Goodwill, and Practical Wisdom
• Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet

Mehlenbacher, Brad

• Instruction and Technology: Designs for Everyday Learning

O'Gorman, Marcel

• Necromedia
• Making Media Theory: Thinking Critically With Technology
• E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities

Randall, Neil

• Teach Yourself the Internet: Around the World in 21 Days
• The Soul of the Internet: Net Gods, Netizens, and the Wiring of the World

Savarese, John

• Romanticism's Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability

Siemerling, Winfried

• Discoveries of the Other Alterity in the Work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard
• The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural, History, and the Presence of the Past
• The New North American Studies Culture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition
• Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities: A practical Introduction to D'eredec

Slethaug, Gordon

• Teaching Abroad: International Education and the Cross-Cultural Classroom
• Adaptation Theory and Criticism: Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA
• Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road
• The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction
• Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction

Szeman, Imre

• Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation
• On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy
• Cultural Theory: An Anthology
• Popular Culture: A User's Guide

Ugor, Paul

• Nollywood: Popular Culture and Narratives of Youth Struggles in Nigeria

Williams, David

• The Life of Words: Etymology and Modern Poetry
• Defending Poetry: Art and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill

Many of the books relevant to English Language & Literature are on the 9th and 10th floors in the Dana Porter Library.

The table below lists broad subject areas and the corresponding call number ranges and floors.

English call number ranges

• P -- Philology and Linguistics (Floor 9)

  • P87-96 -- Communication & Mass Media

  • P101-410 -- Language, Linguistic Theory & Comparative Grammar

  • P301-301.5 -- Style, Composition & Rhetoric

  • P302-302.87 -- Discourse Analysis

• PE -- English Language (Floor 9)

• PR -- English Literature (Floor 9 & 10)

  • PR1-78 -- Literary History & Criticism

    • PR111-116 -- Women Authors

    • PR171-236 & PR1490-1508 -- Old English, ca. 450-1100

    • PR251-369 & PR1119-1131 -- Middle English, ca. 1100-1500

    • PR401-439 & PR1119-1131 -- Early Modern, ca. 1500-1700

    • PR2199-3195 -- English Renaissance, ca. 1500-1640

    • PR441-449 & PR1134-1139 -- 18th Century

    • PR451-449 & PR 1143-1145 -- 19th Century

    • PR471-479 & PR1149 -- 20th Century

    • PR481-488 & PR6100-6126 -- 21st Century

    • PR500-611 & PR1170-1227 -- English Poetry

    • PR908 -- Diaries