Literary Studies Reading Lists
All reading lists are in PDF format.
Basic Reading List for the M.A. Comprehensive Exam
- Area 1, English Literature to 1500
- Area 2, Renaissance Literature, 1500-1600
- Area 3, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
- Area 4, British Literature, 1798-1914
- Area 5, American Literature to World War I
- Area 6A, Twentieth-Century Literature of the U.S.
- Area 6B, Twentieth-Century British and Anglophone Literatures
- Area 7, The Novel
- Area 8, Narrative
- Area 9, Poetry
- Area 10, Drama
- Area 11, Women's Writing and Feminist Literary Theory
- Area 12, Critical Theory
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