Essential Readings for Majors in English Lit

This list gathers the core textbooks every English Literature major should study. Covering critical theory, literary movements, prosody, narratology, stylistics, literary criticism, and research methodology, these works provide the conceptual and analytical foundation necessary for rigorous literary scholarship. You can recommend more books in comments section.

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last updated February, 2026

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