British Literature II Links

Jack Lynch’s excellent "Literary Resources on the Net": http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

English Literature on the Web: http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html

The Literary Encyclopedia: http://www.litencyc.com/LitEncycFrame.htm

A Glossary of Literary Terms (A-L): http://www.litencyc.com/Glossary/GlossaryAL.htm
A Glossary of Literary Terms(M-Z): http://www.litencyc.com/Glossary/GlossaryMZ.htm

Internet Medieval Soucebook
Geoffrey Chaucer site
The English Renaissance in Context

Textbooks:

• M. H. Abrams, et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/
• David Damrosch, et. al. Longman Anthology of British Literature: http://www.awlonline.com/damrosch/

• Damrosch's Neo-Classicism introduction
• Norton Topics Online's 18th Century page
• An Introduction to Neo-Classicism (Victorian Web)
• Neo-Classicism: An Overview (Victorian Web)
• Eighteenth Century England (site created by U of M students)
• Voice of the Shuttle, Restoration and 18th Century Page

1a. The Sublime:

• from Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Inquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful
• "The Sublime" (from the Victorian Web)

1b. Samuel Johnson:

Jack Lynch's Samuel Johnson pages
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite page:
The Rambler #60 [On Biography]
The Rambler #134 [On Procrastination]

1c.  The Spectator Project: http://harvest.rutgers.edu/projects/spectator/index.html

1d. Rictor Norton's selections from the 18th century popular press : http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/grub/grub.htm

An excellent on-line edition of Gulliver's Travels:  http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/index.html

Text of Swift's "A Modest Proposal": http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316ktexts/swift.html

A Swift site: http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/swift/swiftov.html (Victorian Web)

• My study guide to Persuasion:  http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Austen.htm
• The Jane Austen Information Page: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html
• The American Society of JA Scholars page: http://facstaff.uww.edu/hipchene/JAusten/home.htm
• Jane Austen: http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/austen/austenov.html (Victorian Web)
• Jane Austen Calendars: http://mason.gmu.edu/~emoody/emcalendars.html (Ellen Moody)

Damrosch's Romanticism introduction

Norton Topics Online's Romanticism page

"Romantic Related Sites": http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/sites.html

Romantic Circles: http://www.rc.umd.edu/

Voice of the Shuttle, Romantics Page http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-rom.html

Romanticism on the Net (an on-line journal): http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/

5a. Wordsworth:

The Wordsworth Trust: http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/

Lyrical Ballads (1798 Text): http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ballads.html (Univ. of Oregon)

William Wordsworth http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/ww/wwov.html (Victorian Web)

5b. Coleridge:

The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html

with on-line annotated texts of Coleridge's poems

and a critical essay on Coleridge's conversation poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/stc/stcov.html (Victorian Web)

5c. Keats:

The "Real" Grecian Urn?: http://www.luc.edu/publications/keats-shelley/vase.htm

British Library John Keats Exhibit: http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/keats.html

A good Keats page (CUNY): http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/keats.html

John Keats: http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/stc/keatsov.html (Victorian Web)

6a. "The Victorian Web": http://www.victorianweb.org/
6b. "A Timeline of British History": http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/historytl.html
6c. "The Great Exhibition of 1851" http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/other/grtexhib.htm
6d. "Gaskell Web" http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Gaskell.html

6e. Many Dickens pages:


•  "The Dickens Project" http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/index.html
• A handy list of Dickens home pages: http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-HP.html
• David Perdue's Dickens page: http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
• The Dickens House and Museum: http://www.dickensmuseum.com/
• A Christmas Carol and its Adaptations: http://www.dickensachristmascarol.com/index.html

Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" and British (and U. S.) Imperialism:
http://www.boondocksnet.com/kipling/index.html

from Chinua Achebe's "An Image of Africa" [on Conrad's Heart of Darkness] http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/20century/topic_1/chachebe.htm

A William Butler Yeats page:
http://www.launchnet.com/icoggins/yeats.html

7a.  University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: [some access limited]
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

7b.  University of Toronto English Library:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/index.html

7c. Representative Poetry Online:
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm

7d.  The Bartleby Project:
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

7e. Renascence Editions (An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799) http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm

ENG 221 Syllabus

The Enlightenment, Age of Reason:

http://pw2.netcom.com/~giardina/reason.html

Gray's Elegy (as originally printed): http://www.wmich.edu/english/tchg/lit/pms/Gray.Elegy.htm

For George Bernard Shaw, see "The Complete Shavian":
http://members.aol.com/tehart/index.html