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What to read after Defoe and the New Sciences by Ilse Vickers: 24 titles sharing themes of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, and Literary Criticism, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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Anthony Trollope A Victorian in His World

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Imagist Poetry — Peter Jones

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books — Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

Charles Dickens

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England — Kristen Poole

Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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Studies in Early Victorian Literature

Frederic Harrison

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Harry Potter – the Ultimate Book of Facts — Jack Goldstein

Harry Potter – the Ultimate Book of Facts

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Major Barbara — George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

There and Back Again J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit — Mark Atherton

There and Back Again J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings A Guide to Middle Earth — Colin Duriez

Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings A Guide to Middle Earth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Brontes of Haworth Yorkshire’s Literary Giants: Their Lives, Works, Influences and Inspirations — David W. Harrison

The Brontes of Haworth Yorkshire’s Literary Giants: Their Lives, Works, Influences and Inspirations

David W. Harrison

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Adventures in Reading, Athena Edition — Holt Rinehart & Winston

Adventures in Reading, Athena Edition

Holt Rinehart & Winston

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

A History of England in 25 Poems — Catherine Clarke

A History of England in 25 Poems

Catherine Clarke

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Henry IV, Part 2 — William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2

William Shakespeare

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Brodie’s Notes on Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie — Kenneth Hardacre

Brodie’s Notes on Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie

Kenneth Hardacre

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context) — Lyn Pykett

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Hamlet — William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Cracking the AP English Language and Composition Exam, 2013 Edition — Princeton Review

Cracking the AP English Language and Composition Exam, 2013 Edition

Princeton Review

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor [Imaginary Conversations. Third Series]: Conversations of Literary Men (First Series) — Walter Savage Landor

The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor [Imaginary Conversations. Third Series]: Conversations of Literary Men (First Series)

Walter Savage Landor

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England — Mechthild Gretsch

Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Mechthild Gretsch

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Sovereignty Seventeenth-century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary — Feisal Gharib Mohamed

Sovereignty Seventeenth-century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary

Feisal Gharib Mohamed

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine — D. Wynne

The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

On Bear Ridge — Edward Thomas

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Children’s Literature An Illustrated History — Ethel Heins

Children’s Literature An Illustrated History

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, Literary Criticism — the same threads that run through Defoe and the New Sciences by Ilse Vickers. Among the authors featured: Donald Scragg, Richard Mullen, Peter Jones, Charles Dickens, and others.

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