Description

Introduces readers to a wide range of research methods for use in English Studies

With a revised Introduction and with all chapters revised to bring them completely up-to date, this new edition remains the leading guide to research methods for final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs students of 19^th- and 20^th-century Literary Studies.

Written by a range of distinguished contributors, each chapter centres on one particular method, offering both concrete practical advice on how to utilise it and exploring some of the methodological issues that are involved in the use of the particular method. The chapters cover research methods familiar to English scholars such as textual analysis, as well as those less commonly explored such as visual and quantitative methods, which also contribute significantly to research in English Studies. Other approaches discussed include auto/biographical methods, discourse analysis, interviewing, archival methods, ethnographic methods, oral history, creative writing as a research method, and research using information and communication technologies (ICTS).

Key Features:

• Focus on reaearch methods
• Chapters on innovative areas such as creative writing, ICT, ethnographic methods
• Includes practical advice as well as methodological discussions
• Offers concrete examples of how methods might be used in English research

 

With a revised Introduction and with all chapters revised to bring them completely up-to date, this new edition remains the leading guide to research methods for final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs students of 19^th- and 20^th-century Literary Studies.

Acknowledgments; 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.