Primary & Secondary Sources

17^th Century

• A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature; Thomas N. Corns (2007)
• Norton Anthology of English Literature (Vol. I)
• Seventeenth Century English Literature; Bruce Kings (1982)
• Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture; Jim Daems (2006)
• The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes’s Leviathan; Patricia Springborg (2007)

18^th Century

• The Cambridge Companion to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (2007)
• Routledge Guidebook to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (2013)
• The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (2003)
• The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope (2007)
• The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson (1997)
• Lady Mary Wortley Montague’s Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)
• Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (1759)
• Novel Beginnings: Experiments in 18th Cent. English Fiction; Patricia Meyer Spacks (2006)
• A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century; Cynthia Wall (2005)
• Eighteenth Century English Literature; Maximillian E. Novak (1982)
• Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies; Suvir Kaul (2009)
• Swifts’s Parody; Robbert Fiddian (1995)
• The Eighteenth -Century Literature Handbook; Gary Day, Bridget Keegan (2009)

Primary & Secondary Sources

• Outline of American Literature, by Kathryn VanSpanckeren
• An Outline of American Literature, by Peter B. High, Longman, 1986.
• The Norton Anthology of American Literature, the Shorter Edition

Secondary Sources

• A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, by Ronal Takaki (2008)
• A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (2010)

Primary & Secondary Sources

• Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Blackwell Publishing (2007)
• Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory. University of Minnesota Press (2008)
• Eagleton, Terry. The Event of Literature. Yale University Press (2012)
• Morrissey, Lee. Debating the Canon. Palgrave (2005)
• Fowler, Alastair. Genre and the Literary Canon. New Literary History (1979)
• Krystal, Arthur. Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature. Yale University Press (2002)
• Krystal, Arthur. Except When I Write. Oxford University Press (2011)
• Barthes, Roland. The Death of the Author (1967)
• Barthes, Roland. From Work to Text (1971).
• Foucault, Michel. What is an Author (1969)
• Wilson, Adrian. Foucault on the Question of Author (2004)
• Said, Edward. The World, the Text, the Critic. Harvard University Press (1983)
• Said, Edward. Reflections on Exile. Granta (2000)

Primary Sources

•  Candida; George Bernard Shaw
•  Death of a Salesman; Arthur Miller
•  Mourning Becomes Electera; Eugene O’Neill
•  The Homecoming; Harold Pinter
•  Look back in Anger; John Osborne
•  The Glass Menagerie; Tennessee Williams
•  The Sandbox; Edward Albee

Primary & Secondary Sources

• Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Blackwell Publishing (2007).
• Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair, eds. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Company (2003)

• A Companion to the Global Renaissance; Jyotsna G. Singh (2009)
• A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature; Donna B. Hamilton (2006)
• A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture- Vol 1; Michael Hattaway (2010)
• Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature; James Wyatt Cook (2006)
• English Literature from the Old English Period through the Renaissance; J. E. Luebering (2011)
• Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature: The Renaissance; Gordon Campbell (1989)
• Mimesis and Empire; Barbara Fuchs (2001)
• Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature; Michael Hattaway (2005)
• Renaissance Literature and Culture; Lisa Hopkins, Matthew Steggle (2007)
• The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism; Jill Kraye (2005)
• The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature; C. S. Lewis (1964)
• The Forms of Renaissance Though: New Essays in Literature and Culture; Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack, Sean Keilen (2009)
• The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spener, and Jonson; Mary Ellen Lamb (2006)
• The Renaissance Literature Handbook; Susan Bruce & Rebecca Steinberger (2009)

Primary & Secondary Sources

• A Companion to the American Short Story; Alfred Bendixen, James Nagel (2010)
• A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story; David Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander Malcolm (2008)
• Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities; J. Gerald Kennedy (1995)
• Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English; Jorge Sacido (2012)
• Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story; Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden, Joseph Longo, Mary Rohrberger (2003)
• Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective; Viorica Patea (2012)
• The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story; Martin Scofield (2006)
• The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English; Adrian Hunter (2007)
• The Classic Short Story: 1870-1925. Theory of a Genre; Florence Goyet - (2014)
• The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story; Blanche H. Gelfant (2001)
• The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story; Andrew Maunder (2007)
• The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice; Dominic Head (2009)
• The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays; M. Awadalla, P. March-Russell (2012)
• The Short Story: An Introduction; Professor Paul March-Russell  (2009)
• The American Short Story Cycle; Smith, Jennifer J. (2017)
• Writers on Writing: The Art of the Short Story; Maurice A. Lee (2005)