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Writing and Rhetoric

 

CSULA's "A Brief Guide to Online Resources for College Writers"

Link Pages

Voice of the Shuttle

Jack Lynch's Literary Resources--Theory Site

 

Backgrounds Some Heuristics for Reading 19th Century Novels: a fine, though very long, list of strategies for reading novels from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

 

Robinson Crusoe

 

Daniel Defoe Course Page: excellent resource on Robinson Crusoe; see especially links on Puritanism and Economic Man

Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731 (New School): basic information on the author with a links to online editions

Excerpt from Robinson Crusoe's Earthenware Pot, by Lydia Liu: an interesting take on commodity fetishism in RC.

The Empire Writes Back: Robinson Crusoe: from a course on colonialism and postcolonialism; provides the Caribbean point of view

Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Crusoe in England

 

Joseph Andrews

Henry Fielding Page: excellent though incomplete resource on Joseph Andrews; see especially link on Joseph Andrews

The Game-Theoretical Design of Joseph Andrews: a curious site, not for the faint-of-theory-at-heart

 

The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto Overview: from LitEncyl (Paul Baines, Univ. of Liverpool)

Notes on The Castle of Otranto: from Robert Harris

Literary Gothicism: an overview from Norton Online

Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider: an exhibit from the University of Virginia

LitGothic: an excellent links site

 

Emma

Jane Austen: the famous Jane Austen Information Page where you can find links to everything

Genealogical Charts for Emma: from the folks at Pemberley

A Calendar for Emma: Ellen Moody's detailed chronology of the events of the novel

Notes and Illustrations on Regency Clothing Styles: again from Pemberley

 

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontė Page at VictorianWeb: good collection of miscellaneous information

Wuthering Heights Study Guide: useful but strangely formatted guide

Novel Analysis—Wuthering Heights: useful summary/overview site (not really for college students)

About Haworth in Brontė Country: tourist site for the famed locations of the Yorkshire moors.

Poems by Currer, Acton, & Ellis Bell: real names, the Brontė sisters (Ellis Bell is Emily).

Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider: an exhibit from the University of Virginia

LitGothic: an excellent links site

 

Great Expectations Charles Dickens Page at VictorianWeb: excellent author page from Victorian Web 

Great Expectations Page at VictorianWeb: another excellent resource; see especially Genres, Visual Arts, and many others!

The Dickens Page: Mitsuharu Matsuoka's considerable links page; check out some of the interesting items on the Recreational Resources page

 

Middlemarch

University of Virginia page on Middlemarch: a good site on the publication of the book

George Eliot: Mitsuharu Matsuoka's considerable links page

George Eliot Page at VictorianWeb: excellent author page from Victorian Web 

Middlemarch Page at VictorianWeb: another excellent resource from Victorian Web (worth considerable browsing)

 

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson Page: a good site by the RLS Society

Robert Louis Stevenson Page at VictorianWeb: excellent author page from Victorian Web 

Perspectives on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Martin Danahay's extremely interesting supplement to his Broadview edition of the novel

Novel Analysis—Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: useful summary/overview site (not really for college students)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Sherlock Holmes Museum

Sherlockian.Net: fun site which boasts having "everything the web offers about Sherlock Holmes"

Whodunits and Thrillers: a short note at Victorian Web

 

Dracula

The Dracula Page: Gisele Baxter's site at the University of British Columbia

Dracula's Homepage: Elizabeth Miller's site dedicated to the children of the night

The Historical Dracula: Roy Porter's article on Vlad the Impaler

LitGothic's Link Page for Bram Stoker

 

 british novel                                               csulosangeles
    from defoe to hardy                english 446