RESEARCH METHODS FOR ENGLISH STUDIES

This revised edition remains the leading guide to research methods for undergraduates, postgraduates and PhDs students of 19th- and 20th-century Literary Studies. It introduces readers to a wide range of research methods for use in English 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).

Contents
1. Research Methods for English Studies: An Introduction / Gabriele Griffin
2. Archival Methods / Carolyn Steedman
3. Auto/biography as a Research Method / Mary Evans
4. Oral History as a Research Method / 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 as a Research Method / 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