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You can browse the Literature collection on Level 1A and Level 3 of the Adams Library.

General areas are listed below. The letters refer to the first part of the call number on the spine of the book.

PN - Literature (General)
PR - English Literature
PS - American Literature

Literary Criticism - Books

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Examples of Books with Critical Texts

The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen by Edward Copeland (Editor); Juliet McMaster (Editor)
Call Number: PR4036 .C3 2011
Publication Date: 2010-12-23
Major scholars address Austen's six novels, the letters and other works, in terms accessible to students and the many general readers, as well as to academics. With seven new essays, the Companion now covers topics that have become central to recent Austen studies, for example, gender, sociability, economics, and the increasing number of screen adaptations of the novels.
Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
Call Number: PN761 .S28 1993
Publication Date: 1993-02-23
In this dazzling work of historical inquiry, Edward Said shows how the justification for empire-building was inescapably embedded in the Western cultural imagination during the Age of Empire, and how even today the imperial legacy colors relations between the West and the formerly colonized world at every level of political, ideological, and social practice. Includes Said's essay, "Jane Austen and Empire."
Essaying Shakespeare by Karen Newman
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2009-04-09
For more than twenty-five years, Karen Newman has brought her critical acumen to bear on early modern studies. In this collection of her essays on Shakespeare--some acknowledged classics and others never before published--Newman shows how changing theoretical trends have shaped Shakespeare studies, from new historicism and gender studies to critical race studies and globalization.
Othello by Philip Kolin (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2013-01-11
Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello: Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.