Description
Book SynopsisA guide to research methods for final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs students of 19th- and 20th-century Literary Studies. Each chapter centres on one particular method, offering both advice on how to utilise it and exploring some of the methodological issues that are involved in the use of the particular method.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Introduction (Gabriele Griffin); 2. Archival Methods (Carolyn Steedman); 3. Auto/biographical Methods (Mary Evans); 4. Oral History (Penny Summerfield); 5. Visual Methodologies (Gillian Rose); 6. Discourse Analysis (Gabriele Griffin); 7. The Uses of Ethnographic Methods in English Studies (Rachel Alsop); 8. Numbers and Words: Quantitative Methods for Scholars of Texts (Pat Hudson); 9. Textual Analysis (Catherine Belsey); 10. Interviewing (Gabriele Griffin); 11. Creative Writing as a Research Method (Jon Cook); 12. English Research Methods and the Digital Humanities (Marilyn Deegan); Notes on contributors.
