Get Set for English Literature

The transition between high school and university is not an easy one. There are unfamiliar subjects to be studied and even familiar subjects are approached in new ways. The pace of learning is much faster, the volume of written work increases and all the deadlines seem to come at once. And then there are the exams. This series of books aims to bridge the gap by introducing subjects as they are taught at university, providing some time management strategies, suggesting how to get the most out of lectures and tutorials, showing how to write an essay to university standards, and taking some of the agony out of exams.

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).

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.