| Writing
and Rhetoric
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CSULA's "A
Brief Guide to Online Resources for College Writers"
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| Literary
History |
The
Illustrated Timeline at the National Portrait Gallery
Rethinking
Literary History (part of a University of Toronto project) |
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Restoration |
Rosemary
Allen's overview of the Politics
of the Restoration and 18th Century
Life
in Late 17th Century London (Proceedings of the Old Bailey)
Before
and After the Great
Fire of London (BBC animation)
London
After the Great Fire (BBC online)
Dryden
section from Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (Penn
State)
Amusing
picture of Thomas Shadwell
"Fan
site" for John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
Some
background
to Congreve's The Way of the World
A
Day in 18th Century London (Norton Online)
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|
Travel
and Empire |
The Aphra
Behn Page
Slavery
and the Slave Trade in Britain (Norton Online)
Lee Jaffe's Gulliver's
Travels Page
Travel,
Trade and the Expansion of Empire (Norton Online)
Sketch
of Events of the South Sea Bubble (The Bubble Project at Dalhousie)
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|
Men
and Women
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The
Rape of the Lock Home Page (University of Massachusetts)
Selected
Poetry and Prose of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Oregon)
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|
Civil
Society |
Life
in 18th Century London (Proceedings of the Old Bailey)
A
Population History of London (Proceedings of the Old Bailey)
Excerpt
from Boswell's Life of Johnson (University of Adelaide)
The
Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
William
Hogarth and 18th Century Print Culture (Northwestern University)
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|
The
Country Landscape and the Popular Ballad |
J.
M. W. Turner Online
The
Golden Age of English Watercolorists (exhibition)
From ArtArchive
(commercial) John
Constable, Thomas
Gainsborough,
Lenny
the Cat's Parody of Gray's Elegy
Robert
Burns Country: The Official Robert Burns Site
Dove
Cottage (home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth)
Lyrical
Ballads
Bicentenary Edition (Dalhousie)
Locating
Literary Masterworks (Lyrical Ballads)
Phoebe
Cary's Parody of "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"
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| Nature
and Transcendence |
John
Dawson's Lakeland Walks (photos showing "Wordsworth
Country")
Tintern
Abbey,
Tourism and Romantic Landscape (Norton online)
The
Wordsworths and the Cult of Nature (BBC Online)
A
Reconstruction of Wordsworth's Crossing of the Alps (Romantic Circles)
A
Helpful Overview of Tintern Abbey
A
Helpful Overview of "Kubla Khan" |
| The
City and Protest |
William
Blake archives of Illuminated Texts
The
French Revolution: Apocalyptic Expectations (Norton online)
Thomas
Paine: Citizen of the World (BBC Online)
British
Anti-Slavery (BBC Online)
British
Revolution in the Early 19th Century: How Close? (BBC Online)
Early
Nineteenth Century London (Proceedings of the Old Bailey)
Earning
a Living in the Nineteenth Century (BBC Online)
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| Byronism |
Short
review of "Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Cult of Lord Byron"
The
Byron Chronology (Romantic Circles)
Lord
Byron: A Comprehensive Study
Romantic
Orientalism (Norton online)
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| Art
and Transcendence |
The
Keats-Shelley House in Rome
The
Shelley Chronology (Romantic Circles)
Keats' Tracing
of a "Grecian Urn" (not THE grecian urn)
John
Keats: A Comprehensive Study
British Library Exhibition
on Keats
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| Industrial
Culture |
Charles
Dickens on Victorian Web
Victorian
Economics on the Victorian Web
The
Social Crisis of the Nineteenth Century (Norton online)
History
of the Workhouses
Crime
and the Victorians (BBC Online)
Industrialism:
Progress or Decline? (Norton online)
Cartoons
of the Industrial Age (BBC Online)
Dickens'
London
The
Chartist Movement (BBC Online)
Some
Views of Dirt and Drudgery
London's
Great Stink: The Sour Smell of Success (BBC online)
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| The
Country Life |
All
Change in the Victorian Age (BBC Online)
George
Eliot on Victorian Web
Beneath
the Surface: A Country of Two Nations (BBC Online)
Emancipation
of Women, 1750-1920
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| A
Turn to the Past |
Robert
Browning on Victorian Web
Alfred,
Lord Tennyson on Victorian Web
Ideals
of Victorian Womanhood (BBC Online)
Founders
of the Arts and Crafts Movement
The
William Morris Society
The
Rossetti Archive (University of Virginia)
Germ:
A Hypermedia Critical Edition, The (University of Virginia)
Tennyson's
Arthurian Epic (University of South Carolina)
Visual
Imagery and the Depiction of Women (on Rosetti's Goblin Market)
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| The
End of Seriousness |
Matthew
Arnold on Victorian Web
Oscar
Wilde on Victorian Web
The
Victorian Seaside (BBC Online)
Sex,
Drugs and Music Hall (BBC Online)
"Wilde,
Society and Society Drama" (Cary Mazer)
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| Imperial
Britain |
Britain's
Empire in 1815 (BBC Online)
Trade
and the British Empire (BBC Online)
British
India Before and After the Great Rebellion of 1857 (BBC Online)
Victorian
Imperialism (Norton Online)
Imperialism
to Postcolonialism (Norton Online)
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| The
Great War |
Technology
and Warfare (Norton Online)
Trenches
on the Web
Mass
Politics and the Western Front (BBC Online)
Art
from the Frontline (BBC Online)
Art
of the First World War
Anthem
for Doomed Youth (exhibit at BYU)
Wilfred
Owen Multimedia Digital Archive (WOMDA at Oxford)
The
Easter Rising (BBC Online)
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| The
Fragment and Modern Culture |
The
Waste Land Limericks by Wendy Cope
The
Modernist Revolution: Make It New!
Modernism
Timeline
What
the Thunder Said
T.
S. Eliot Page (Modern American Poetry)
Exploring
the Waste Land (very complex web site using frames for notes)
Eliot's
Parody of Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Brief excerpt: Adorno
on Modernism
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| Endings |
Endgame
(E-text from samuel-beckett.net)
Brief
Biography (from the Literary Encyclopedia)
samuel-beckett.net
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