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Pathfinder: British Literature |
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In the Elms HS Library: Browse the shelves at these Dewey numbers remembering that during the weeks that British literature research paper is in progress, all British Literature print resources are on reserve.
Check in the Reference section at the 800s and 820s. For biographical information check in the 920s. For women writers, look in "Women in History" at REF 920.72 WOM.
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Databases:
Gale Databases includes the ebooks found in the Virtual Reference Library and the Student Resources in Context database which offers thousands of background and topical essays, biographies and critical analyses. NOTE: See the Librarian for a password to access this database from home.
Worldbook Online from the INFOhio resources has over 40,000 literature ebooks in full text.
EBSCOhost magazine and newspaper articles from over 6,000 sources.
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Bibliomania a wonderful site from Oxford, England. Includes the full text of classic world literature and important non-fiction texts as well as study guides, and the Well Red magazine with contemporary reviews, articles and interviews. You do need to register to get access - just your email address is all they ask for. |
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English Literature Resource List a guide to what's out there on the web on English literature resources from the Medieval through Postmodern eras. |
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| The Cambridge History of English and American Literature contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics on authors and titles. | ||
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A Celebration of Women Writers Women writers throughout historyfrom 3000 B.C. to the 20th Century. Includes biographical and bibliographical information and links to other related material. |
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Early Modern Literary Studies An academic journal. "Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries". Searchable index to articles in the journal as well as links to WWW resources. |
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A Literary Index "provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature." |
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Literary Resources -- Romantic From Rutgers University. Extensive links to sites on Romantic era authors including Austen, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth. |
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Literary Resources -- Victorian British From Rutgers University. Extensive links to sites on Victorian era authors including the Bronte sisters, Browning, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins, Tennyson, and Wilde. |
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Literary Resources -- Twentieth-Century British and Irish From Rutgers University. Extensive links to sites on 20th century authors including Amis, Beckett, Conrad, TS Eliot, Fleming, Greene, Hitchcock, Joyce, Lawrence, Orwell, Waugh, Wolf, Yeats. |
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| Litgoth.com "the web's premier guide to Gothic literature" includes links on Austen, Bowen, the Bronte sisters, Dickens, Hardy, Wilde and many others. | ||
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Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser etc. Includes essays and articles on the various works, biographical information, links to related sources, bibliographies, complete texts. Provides audio clips. |
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Luminarium: Early 17th Century English Literature: (1603-1660) Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Bacon, Marvell, etc. Includes biographical info., bibliographies, links to related sources, complete texts. |
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Luminarium: Medieval English Literature (1350-1485) Chaucer, Sir Gawain, Malory, etc. Includes essays and articles on the various works, biographical information on the authors, links to related sources and complete texts. Includes audio clips. |
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Online Literary Criticism Collection "The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 3326 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period." |
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The Victorian Web: Authors A wonderful compilation of information and links on authors from the Victorian era. |
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Richard Adams The Real Watership Down maps and photographs of the real Watership Down Richard Adams' Watership Down photographs and descriptions Richard Adams' Watership Down a bibliography |
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Jane Austen Jane Austen Information Page the best Austen page on the Web Jane Austen Society of Australia includes biographical information and writings on her novels, as well as useful links Jane Austen Society of North America their publication "Persuasions" includes some excellent essays on Jane Austen and her novels. |
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Robert Bolt Theatre Study Packet a study guide on "A Man for all Seasons" from Brigham Young University Thomas More Website good background information on Thomas More |
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Elizabeth Bowen Elizabeth Bowen from Litgothic. Brief biography and links Elizabeth Bowen: bibliography extensive bibliography of books and journal articles "Elizabeth Bowen: the house, the hotel, & the child" article by Richard Tillinghast in the New Criterion |
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Emily Bronte The Brontė Sisters Web from Japan, an extensive web site with E-texts, links, and other useful information. Emily Bronte Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection Literature Classics - Wuthering Heights |
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Anthony Burgess Clockwork Orange includes links as well as a research paper with a bibliography A clockwork web page Links, background, NASDAT glossary and information from final year University of Southern California students A critical look at Clockwork Orange "a site dedicated to the critical analysis and investigation in to the themes and content of Anthony Burgess's masterpiece" |
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Agatha Christie Agatha Christie the official online home of Agatha Christie SparkNotes: And then There Were None commentary and analysis from SparkNotes |
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Joseph Conrad Center for Conrad Studies "The Center for Conrad Studies is part of Kent State's Institute for Bibliography & Editing. In conjunction with the Libraries' Department of Special Collections, it includes virtually all the first and later book editions of Conrad as well as copies of magazine printings and of Conrad's extant manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs." Department of English at the University of Prince Edward Island a web site to provide students in English 202 with resources to supplement the course content. Look in Twentieth Century authors for the Joseph Conrad page. Joseph Conrad Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Conrad Page - a good collection of Conrad resources and links. Joseph Conrad Society (UK) "a forum and resource for Conrad scholars throughout the world and those interested in things 'Conradian' " Good links to other web sites. Joseph Conrad on the Victorian Web Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness web site related to the film "Apocalypse Now" with some good links to material on Heart of Darkness. |
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Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection |
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Charles Dickens Bibliomania: David Copperfield Study Guide Bibliomania: Great Expectations Study Guide The Charles Dickens Information Page from Nagoya university, Japan. Lots and lots of links! Charles Dickens an exhaustive listing of sites pertaining to Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens from the Victorian Web. includes biography, critical essays, works and links. |
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Daphne Du Maurier |
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E. M. Forster Aspects of E.M. Forster biographical information, pictures, and lots of links E.M. Forster Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection Only Connect the unofficial E.M. Forster site A Passage through Forster a website about Forster and his works. Includes links to essays and bibliographies. |
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Graham Greene |
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Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy from the Victorian Web |
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James Joyce Flying by the Net: James Joyce in Cyberspace extensively annotated guide to Joyce resources on the Web International James Joyce Foundation Online Literary Criticism Collection from the Internet public library Work in Progress "Work in Progress, the original Joycean website, is a constellation of resources available to enthusiasts and scholars of the work of James Joyce." |
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George Orwell Bibliomania: Nineteen Eighty Four Study Guide George Orwell Biography, commentary, essays, pictures and more George Orwell Resources lots of links |
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William Shakespeare All Shakespeare Includes study guides for several plays and Sonnets. Provides general background information, plot summary, character analysis, consideration of major themes, and bibliography for each play. Complete Works of William Shakespeare e-text versions from MIT Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet Provides extensive links to Shakespeare related sites organized by category, including works, life and times, theater, criticism, the Renaissance, sources, and education. Shakespeare Oxford Society Home Page a site devoted to the Shakespeare authorship debate Shakespeare Web Links lots of annotated links Shakespeare's Globe "This site, sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions." The Works of the Bard complete text of Shakespeare's works. This site also has a wonderful search engine for searching Shakespeare's plays and poems for words & phrases. Theatre Study Packets from Brigham Young university. Study guides on a selection of Shakespeare plays. |
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George Bernard Shaw Bernard Shaw a biography from the University of Pennsylvania site Shaw Business "links to the life, times , and work of the Irish playwright" |
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Muriel Spark Internet Public Library: Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie "An excellent overview site, with very useful background information on the political, religious, and regional aspects of the novel, as well as discussions of each of the main characters. Produced by students at Acadia University" |
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Bram Stoker Bram Stoker's Dracula A library study guide to the novel. Includes citations to criticism in reference books, some suggested periodical indexes in which to find articles, and appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings. Also includes some very brief comments on characters, plot, setting, etc., and a biographical sketch of Stoker. Dracula's Homepage site compiled by Professor Elizabeth Miller of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Includes bibliographies and lots of links to other sites. IPL Bram Stoker from the Internet Public library. Links to criticism and discussion of Bram Stoker and his works. |
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Tom Stoppard Lecture on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Professor Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, BC, Canada. |
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William Makepeace Thackeray About.com guide: William Thackeray Thackeray from Bartleby.com and extract from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part One, The Nineteenth Century, II. Analysis of the author's life and work. William Makepeace Thackeray from Nagoya University William Makepeace Thackeray from the Victorian Web. includes biography, critical essays, works and links. |
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J.R.R. Tolkien About.com guide: J.R.R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page a big site with loads of stuff Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics "The purpose of this page is to provide references to useful, generally reliable, and legal resources for those interested in the study of the invented languages of J.R.R. Tolkien" Tolkien Society lots of information and links Tolkien Timeline a chronological list of important events relating to Tolkien's life, career, and scholarly pursuits |
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Evelyn Waugh Bibliomania Study Guide to Brideshead Revisited Doubting Hall "a guided tour around the works of Evelyn Waugh." |
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Oscar Wilde CELT Chronology of Oscar Wilde from University College Cork, Ireland. Chronology of Wilde's life, critical essays, works and lectures on Wilde, as well as the electronic texts of his works. Oscar Wilde from the Victorian Web. includes biography, critical essays, works and links. Oscariana "a pastiche of quotes, anecdotes, personal letters, official documents, observations and commentary from a variety of sources" The World Wide Wilde Web an extensive annotated list of links to web sites on Oscar Wilde |
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Virginia Woolf Computer-Assisted Analysis of Characterisation of Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" a thesis by Andrew Treloar submitted to Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia The International Virginia Woolf Society Virginia Woolf resource materials includes biography, chronology, extensive bibliography of critical works. Virginia Woolf Seminar this site collects materials prepared for a graduate seminar in Virginia Woolf at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. It includes links to Woolf websites, student papers, bibliographies, and other materials. Virginia Woolf Web from Japan. biography, bibliography, chronology, E-texts, and many links |
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