Get Set for English Literature

David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University. He is the author of The English Novel and Prose Narrative (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) and Victorian Biography: Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992). He is co-editor, with Jeff Wallace, of Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species': New Interdisciplinary Essays (Manchester UP, 1995), and co-editor, with Paul Barlow and Colin Trodd, of Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (Ashgate, 1999).

• Contents; Introduction; Section 1: Studying English Literature; 1.1.What is English literature?; 1.2 Why study English literature?; 1.3 What forms can the study of English literature take?; 1.4 The place of 'theory' in English literature programmes; Section 2: Study Skills in English Literature; 2.1 Reading; 2.2 Getting the most from lectures; 2.3 How to use a tutorial or teaching session; 2.4 Time management; 2.5 Assessment; 2.6 Research and writing skills; 2.7 Revising for and taking examinations; Bibliography and Further Reading.

This book de-mystifies university English in a happy and unique combination of clarification of the discipline's complexities and straight-forward general advice. Most importantly, it conveys the excitement, joy, variety and adventure of English Literature. -- Dr. Monica McLean, Institute for the Advancement of University Learning, University of Oxford This book de-mystifies university English in a happy and unique combination of clarification of the discipline's complexities and straight-forward general advice. Most importantly, it conveys the excitement, joy, variety and adventure of English Literature.