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Great Writers Inspire: Reformation and Restoration
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This collection contains essays, eBooks and other material related to or created during the time of reformation and reform in England.

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Abigail Williams
Kate O'Connor
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02/12/2013
Great Writers Inspire: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Robert Louis Stevenson resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Rudyard Kipling
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Rudyard Kipling resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Samuel Johnson
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Samuel Johnson resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Science and Religion in Victorian Literature
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This collection of resources looks at the simmering debate between science and natural theology raged across the Victorian period and it's influence on literature.

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Charlotte Barrett
Kate O'Connor
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02/12/2013
Great Writers Inspire: Shakespeare's Contemporary Dramatists
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The Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres specialized in new plays which had relatively few performances over a period of a few weeks. There was thus a huge appetite for fresh writing, and hundreds of plays, many now lost, were produced, often collaboratively. In this section of Great Writers Inspire some of these non-Shakespearean plays and authors are introduced through a combination of podcasts, eBooks and supporting materials.

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Emma Smith
Kate O'Connor
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02/12/2013
Great Writers Inspire: Stephen Duck
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Stephen Duck resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: The Victorian Gothic
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In the Victorian era, Gothic fiction had ceased to be a dominant literary genre. However,the Gothic tropes used earlier in the eighteenth century in texts such as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho were transported and interwoven into many late-nineteenth century narratives. These tropes included psychological and physical terror; mystery and the supernatural; madness, doubling, and heredity curses. This collection of resources looks at Gothic fiction.

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Charlotte Barrett
Christopher Adams
Kate O'Connor
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02/12/2013
Great Writers Inspire: Thomas Dekker
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Thomas Dekker resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Thomas Hardy
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Thomas Hardy resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Thomas Kyd
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Thomas Kyd resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Thomas Malory
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Thomas Malory resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Thomas Middleton
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Thomas Middleton resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Victorian Publishing History
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This collection of resources looks at the history of publishing in 19th Century England including magazines, serialized fiction, lending libraries, and the three-volume novel.

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Charlotte Barrett
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02/12/2013
Great Writers Inspire: Virginia Woolf
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Virginia Woolf resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: Walt Whitman
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Walt Whitman resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: What is Literature, and Why Does It Matter?
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This section brings together some resources from the across the Great Writers Inspire site to illustrate how these can be used as a starting point for exploration of or classroom discussion about the the questions 'What is Literature?', and 'Why Does It Matter?'.The 'What is Literature, and Why Does It Matter?' essay introduces a series of topics and questions and gives examples of resources to explore. It is aimed at teachers, students and anyone who is interested in literature who wants to put text into context and be inspired by Great Writers.

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Alex Pryce
Ankhi Mukherjee
Catherine Brown
Helena Kennedy
Judith Luna
Kate O'Connor
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02/12/2013
Great Writers Inspire: Wilfred Owen
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of Wilfred Owen resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: William Blake
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of William Blake resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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Great Writers Inspire: William Shakespeare
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Great Writers Inspire presents an illuminating collection of William Shakespeare resources curated by specialists at the University of Oxford. It includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and eBooks, and background contextual resources.

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