Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature

• The Victorian Web--a very complete site and a good place to start
• Complete History of Prose Style
• Literature in Great Britain, the Victorians and their Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Precursors: A Chronology (there are several key writers who are not mentioned
• Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • The Tate, London
  • Painting and Poetry in the Romantic Period
• the boat episode: an interactive reading of Book First of Wordsworth's The Prelude
• article by Duncan Wu, "Tautology and Imaginative Vision in Wordsworth's Poetry"--a significant addition to our understanding of "spots of time" and Wordsworth's influence on nineteenth-century prose.
• some of Wordsworth's famous "spots of time"
• Terms for Literature of Sensibility--from a course by Jerome McGann at University of Virginia
• Individual and Social Psychologies of the Gothic--from the same course by Jerome McGann
• Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud--a brief essay
• The Gothic Novel: An Introduction
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner--I include this here because of its causal link to later 19th-century writings.
  • The Rime with illustrations 1858 edition. This takes time to load, but worth it. You should click on the list of Parts located to the left of your screen.
  • The Rime--a concordance
  • Important Events in the Life of Coleridge
  • Rime Study Questions to Consider
  • Selected scholarly opinions/abstracts about The Rime
  • Piranesi: a visual paradigm for the Romantic Period
  • Comments by DeQuincy and others about Piranesi's Dreams
• Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Mary W. Shelley, a site for the study of Frankenstein
  • Sigmund Freud's essay on "The Uncanny"--a particularly helpful essay in analyzing significant literary nineteenth-century works
  • Kant's essay/answer to "What is the Enlightenment

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Charles Dickens--Hard Times

• Brief biography of Dickens
• The Dickens Page:some basic information about his life and work
• Some more details about Dickens's life
• The Dickens Project: a scholarly project at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including information relating to the BBC recent production of Our Mutual Friend

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Emily Bronte--Wuthering Heights

• Wuthering Heights:Links to articles and general information
• Essay on a Barthes's Reading of Wuthering Heights
• Background information on Emily Bronte
• Twenty Questions to facilitate discussion and writing in Patten's class.
• Wuthering Heights: Chronology of Emily Bronte, discussion and general questions (from the web)
• Symphonic Imagery in Wuthering Heights: Books, Reading, and Learning: an article
• from The Disappearance of God by J. Hillis Miller, chapter "Emily Bronte"
• Take a trip to Bronte country and experience the Yorkshire moors

Site for The Sublime in Victorian Literature

The Sublime and the Domestic: Structures of Mediation in the Gothic

• George Eliot: Middlemarch--The complete on-line version of Middlemarch
• A Bibliography of Criticism about George Eliot's Middlemarch
• Eliot's pages for Middlemarch
• Metaphors found in Middlemarch
• Virginia Woolf's comments on George Eliot
• Central Headquarters for Information about George Eliot
• Brief Bibliography of References to George Eliot
• "Microscopy and Semiotic in Middlemarch by Mark Wormald
• George Eliot: Religious Themes and Contexts

Adam Bede: Adam Bede: On-line text

• Some General Points to consider while reading Adam Bede
• Central Headquarters for Information about George EliotBrief Bibliography of References to George Eliot
• Methodism in connection with Adam Bede
• The Cultural Influence of Methodism
• Barbara Hardy's "The Tragic Process:Adam Bede"
• a brief explanation of anti-self-consciousness
• from Wordsworth's The Excursion
• Wordsworth's "The Thorn"--a remarkably similar story to Adam Bede
• the boat episode: an interactive reading of Book First of Wordsworth's The Prelude
• an article by Duncan Wu, "Tautology and Imaginative Vision in Wordsworth's Poetry"--a significant addition to our understanding of "spots of time" and Wordsworth's influence on Eliot's prose.
• some of Wordsworth's famous "spots of time"

Early Twentieth-century works

• Arthur Miller's All My Sons--an introduction
• Another basic introduction to Arthur Miller and his works
• Tragedy and the Common Man, an essay by Arthur Miller
• A Definition of Tragedy: Excerpts
• Tragedy: Notes on Apollonian and Dionysian themes
• Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus (a connection to the absurd)
• Arcadia Web Site: an amazingly informative site, by Eden Prairie High School
• George Gordon, Lord Byron: from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
• What Ada Knew: Was Lord Byron's Daughter the First Computer Programmer? an article by Lev Grossma
• Study Questions for One True Thing