Victorian Serial Novels is an exciting new digital collection of 19th century novels published in numbered part format held in UVic Libraries Special Collections. Throughout the Victorian period, serial novels were published in abundance in newspape… more »

Many news stories today are reporting on the death of novelist Jose Saramago, the first Portuguese-language winner of the Nobel Literature prize. Read this biographical and critical essay on Jose Saramago in the online Dictionary of Literary Biograph… more »

This comes from Danielle Russell, the subject librarian for Women Studies. Marilynne Robinson, an American author, has won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Home. The often controversial Orange Prize is one of Britain's most prestigiou… more »

"The Tale of Genji" will be broadcast on Tuesday May 5th on CBC at 9pm. You can listen to it online at http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/. The Tale of Genji, considered as the world’s first novel, is a classic work of Japanese literature in the early eleventh… more »

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a t… more »