English Literature

The following are lists of useful resources on different literary periods and eras. Most of these titles are electronic books available through the Lakehead Library.

The Library has a large number of the Cambridge Companion titles, which cover these areas below and many others. If you search the OMNI system for the phrase "cambridge companion", and limit your search to books, you will find various titles such as: The Cambridge Companion to Prose; The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction.

Renaissance: 1400's-1600's

• Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600 (1999)
• The Oxford handbook of Tudor literature, 1485-1603 (2009)

Enlightenment: 1650- 1800

• Jane Austen and the Enlightenment (2004)
• Oxford handbook of the eighteenth-century novel (2016)

Romanticism: 1798 – 1870

• The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers (2022)
•  Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature (2023)

• Cambridge companion to British Romanticism and religion (2021)

• Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period (2015)

Realism/Naturalism: 1850-1914

• Realism (2004)
• Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form (2020)

Victorian Period: 1832- 1901

• Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry (2019)
• Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Writing (2015)
• The Oxford handbook of the Victorian novel (2013)

Modernism: 1870's – 1965

• Modernism (2007)
•  Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the Occult (2014)

Post-Modernism: 1965- Present

• The Postmodern (2004)
• Postmodern belief: american literature and religion since 1960 (2010)