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Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature

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Your Best Research Starts Here

Editor in Chief: Andrew Hadfield

Concise treatment of large topics such as "Geoffrey Chaucer" or "Postmodernism" to quickly get you up to speed on topics outside of your area of expertise
Expert recommendation on the best works available in British & Irish Literature whether it be a chapter, a book, a journal article, a Website, blog, or data set streamline the research process
Each subject area has an Editor in Chief, an Editorial Board and peer reviewers, ensuring balanced perspective with scholarly accuracy, authority, and objectivity
Each article is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship on a topic with original commentary and annotations by top scholars
A robust update program keeps researchers informed of advances in their field
Intuitive linking and discoverability tools help users quickly locate full text content to prevent dead ends

Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature

Your Best Research Starts Here

Editor in Chief: Andrew Hadfield

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Developed cooperatively with scholars worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across the field of British & Irish Literature.

Offering a rapidly expanding range of articles and a robust update program, Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature is reaching more scholars and students than ever before, increasing productivity, saving time, and elevating the quality of research.

More than just a bibliographic service or an aggregator of links, Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature is an entirely new type of resource. Each article is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship on a topic with original commentary and annotations by top scholars. Designed to streamline the research process, intuitive linking and discoverability tools quickly guide users to the content they are looking for, whether it be a chapter, a book, a journal article, a Website, blog, or data set.

The experience is completely customizable. Users can sign in to save searches and create a personalized list of citations and links to full-text print and online content, saving time in syllabus and reading list preparation. Users can also receive email alerts when articles and bibliographies update making Oxford Bibliographies a first stop for texts to incorporate into a course list.

Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature has an Editor in Chief, Editorial Board, and team of peer reviewers overseeing the development and updating of articles ensuring balanced perspective with scholarly accuracy and a robust updating program to keep researchers informed of advances in the field.

Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature launched with approximately 50 articles; with an additional 50 to 75 articles added each year. New article topics are selected to ensure each subject area offers full and balanced coverage as determined by the Editor in Chief and Editorial Board, scholarly feedback, and research demand.

Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature

Your Best Research Starts Here

Editor in Chief: Andrew Hadfield

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Edwin Muir and a story of Europe

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Posted on May 15, 2017

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Fielding and fake news

Fake news is not only a phenomenon of post-truth politics in the Trump era. It's as old as newspapers themselves'or as old, Robert Darnton suggests, as the scurrilous Anecdota of Procopius in sixth-century Byzantium. In England, the first great age of alternative facts was the later seventeenth century, when they clustered especially around crises of dynastic succession.

Posted on April 30, 2017

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Mary Wollstonecraft, our contemporary

Since the political earthquake of Trump's election, preceded by the earth tremor of Brexit, the commentariat has been awash with declarations of the end of eras'of globalisation, of neoliberalism, of the post-World War II epoch of political stability and economic prosperity. As though to orientate ourselves in this brave new world, the search has been on for historical analogies, through whose lenses we might understand our present moment.

Posted on May 3, 2017

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The many voices of Dickens

Charles Dickens's reputation as a novelist and as the creator of Ebenezer Scrooge, one of the most globally recognized Christmas miser figures, has secured him what looks to be a permanent place in the established literary canon. Students, scholars, and fans of Dickens may be surprised to learn that the voice many Victorians knew as 'Dickens,' especially at Christmastime, was also the voice of nearly forty other people.

Posted on February 19, 2017

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