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English Literature 100: Reading List

Set Texts 2011-12

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage)
Elizabeth C Gaskell, North & South (Oxford World’s Classics)
Margaret Ferguson et al. (eds.), The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition (Norton)
Tony Harrison, Selected Poems (Penguin)
Seamus Heaney, New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (Faber)
David Lodge, Nice Work (Penguin)
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Puffin)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Palgrave)
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room (Oxford World’s Classics)

Film:
Hamlet (Laurence Olivier, 1948).
Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1991).
Hamlet (Michael Almereyda, 2000).
 

Students are not expected to purchase the films.
 
Other Essential Reading will be made available via Lancaster University’s Virtual Learning Environment (LUVLE)

 

 

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