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Key Databases

Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Index New Zealand This link opens in a new window
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Project Muse Standard Collection This link opens in a new window

DigitalNZ

eTV This link opens in a new window

Kanopy

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Oxford English Dictionary Online

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Location of English literature books in the Library

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Welcome to the English Literature Subject Guide

The Library has a huge range of resources available to English literature students. Ask your Subject Librarian for help in using any of these.

News

Landfall Archive

The Landfall Archive (hosted by Otago University Press) offers for the first time free public access to the fine writing (and art) that appeared in the pages of the journal’s earliest issues.

This digital Landfall archive has two components:

Searchable facsimile PDFs of the first 40 years of Landfall: every issue up to the end of 1986 (160 issues); and
An index of every item published in Landfall up to Vol. 40 No. 4 (December 1986), searchable by author, title and keyword.

The digitisation of Landfall is an ongoing project. Further back issues will continue to be digitised and indexed.

Browse the first 20 years of Landfall click here: https://www.landfallarchive.org/omeka/

New Titles

Adulterous Nations by Tatiana Kuzmic
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0810133997
Publication Date: 2016
In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here-George Eliot's Middlemarch, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest, and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, along with August Senoa's The Goldsmith's Gold and Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis- can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family.
Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German by James P. Wilper
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781612494173
Publication Date: 2016
In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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UC Research Repository

Post-Graduate Theses and Dissertations in English Literature are available via the UC Research Repository.

To browse online theses by discipline, go to the Research Repository Faculty of Arts - Te Kaupeka Toi Tangata and filter by Discipline

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