Library Resource Spotlight: New Open Access literary studies ebooks
Do you want to access some free-to-read Open Access ebooks that have no cost, no access limits and are a great way to support open scholarship? If so, let us introduce the new Open Access literary studies ebooks that are now available in Library Search!
These Open Access ebooks bring together research that analyses how literature is read, interpreted and studied across periods and approaches, covering a range from literary history to contemporary forms of storytelling.
Some of the titles that you can freely read include:
‘A Short Media History of English Literature’ by Ingo Berensmeyer, which explains how changes in technology have influenced how texts are produced and circulated,
'Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism’ by Pam Morris, which uses the concept of worldly realism to reframe Austen’s and Woolf’s writing as a response to social upheaval,
‘Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction’ by Laura Oulanne, which explores how modernist writers use short stories to engage with the material world,
'James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination’ by Matt Brim, which discusses themes of race, sexuality and identity within Baldwin’s works, and
'Reading Digital Fiction’ by Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin, which introduces readers to digital fiction and the relationship between narrative, medium and reader experience.
For a list of ebooks and print books that have recently been made available on Library Search to support your studies and research, check out our items recently added to Library Search sub-collection.
Deep dive into how literature has changed and help to support open scholarship at the same time, with no cost, no access limits and free-to-read ebooks!
