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I. The Victorian Era 1832–1901

  • Archaeology and Imperialism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9gt
  • British Empire: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/empire/
  • Child Labor: http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/1851/index.html
  • Dover Beach: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/arnold/writings/doverbeach.html
  • Gender Ideology & Separate Spheres: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/g/gender-ideology-and-separate-spheres-19th-century/
  • Gender Matters: http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/
  • Great Exhibition: http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/exhibition/greatexhibition.html
  • Industrialism: https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/topic_1/welcome.htm
  • Kipling’s Imperialism: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/kipling/rkimperialism.html
  • Norton Topics: “Victorian Imperialism”: https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/topic_4/welcome.htm
  • Saylor.org English 410 Resources Page: http://www.saylor.org/courses/engl410/?ismissing=0&resourcetype=1
  • Social Darwinism: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
  • Suffragists: http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/struggle/struggle.html
  • The British Empire: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/Empire.html
  • The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview”: http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/1851/index.html
  • The Life of the Industrial Worker in Nineteenth-Century England: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers2.html
  • The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies: http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/wojtczak/nuwss.html
  • The Nature of Women: https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/topic_2/nature.htm
  • ‘The Personal is Political’: Gender in Private & Public Life: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/the-personal-is-political-gender-in-private-and-public-life/
  • The Reform Acts: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist2.html
  • The Woman Question: https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/topic_2/welcome.htm
  • The 1833 Reform Act: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/factact.html
  • The 1870 Education Act: http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/school/overview/1870educationact/
  • Uberindustrialism: http://ubervictorianindustrialism.tumblr.com/
  • “Victorian Britain: A Divided Nation?”: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/divided/
  • Victorian Geology: http://www.victorianweb.org/science/geology.htm
  • Victorian Science & Religion.: http://www.victorianweb.org/science/science&religion.html
  • Victorian Technology: http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/index.html
  • 1832 Reform Act: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/takingliberties/staritems/111832reformact.html

II. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

  • Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org.
  • Amoretti: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/amoretti.html#1
  • Astrophil and Stella: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/stella.html
  • Shakespeare Sonnet 1: http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/sonnets/sonnet_view.php?Sonnet=1
  • Study Questions for “Cry of the Children” and “The Runaway Slave”: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/fsboos/questions/ebbrunawayweb.htm
  • Testimony Gathered by Ashley’s Mines Commission: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html
  • The Chimney Sweeper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chimney_Sweeper

III. Robert Browning (1812–1889)

  • About the poems of Robert Browning: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/poetryperformance/browning/josephinehart/aboutbrowning.html
  • Browning’s Porphyria’s Lover: https://archive.is/20121130020324/http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/rb6.htm
  • The Canonization: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/canonization.php
  • The Flea: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/flea.php

IV. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, I, 305: https://archive.org/stream/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft#page/300/mode/2up.
  • A Key to Lord Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Gatty: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36637
  • BBC Radio In Our Time “In Memoriam”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0124pnq
  • BBC Radio In Our Time “Charge of the Light Brigade” http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008md8x
  • Florence Boos’ notes on In Memoriam: http://www.uiowa.edu/~boosf/questions/tennyinmem.htm
  • In Memoriam: https://archive.org/details/inmemoriambyalfr00tennuoft
  • Musical Adaption of “The Lady of Shalott” by Loreena McKennitt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-kp6RDl94
  • Numerous articles from Victorian Web on In Memoriam: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/im/lq.html
  • Princess Ida – from Tennyson to Gilbert: http://archive.is/ZgnpR
  • The Defense of Lucknow: http://www.bartleby.com/297/629.html
  • The Lady of Shalott (1833 & 1842 Versions): http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/tennyson-shalott-comparison
  • The Man Behind the Lady: http://www.nines.org/exhibits/The_Man_Behind_The_Lady_?page=1
  • The Times/1854/News/The Charge of the Light Brigade: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1854/News/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade

V. Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

  • A Walk in a Workhouse: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/poorlaw.html
  • Biography written by Gregor Brdnik: http://www.dickens-online.info/charles-dickens-biography.htm
  • Dickens in Context: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/dickens/dickenshome.html
  • Film Adaptation of A Christmas Carol: http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_on_film.html#carol
  • George Landow’s article on Sabbatarianism: http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/sabbatarianism.html
  • The origins of A Christmas Carol
  • The Story of the Goblin Who Stole a Sexton: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/580/580-h/580-h.htm#link2HCH0029
  • “The Story of the Goblin Who Stole a Sexton” audio adaption: http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/2/4/4/244de6d298a9930c/Episode_42_-_Christmas_bonus_-_The_goblins_who_stole_a_sexton.mp3?c_id=8096089&expiration=1423608543&hwt=e764686b69626625867eed7a866589cd

VI. Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)

  • “Adulterations Detected”: Food and Fraud in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market. By: Rebecca F. Stern: http://www.18thconnect.org/exhibits/Rebecca_Stern_Adulterations
  • BBC “In Our Time” podcast on Christina Rossetti: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017mvwy
  • In the Bleak Mid-Winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRobryliBLQ
  • Katja Brandt’s 2006 Ph.D dissertation: http://www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/4103/TMP.objres.67.pdf?sequence
  • Overview of Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/marketov.html
  • Painting of Christina Rossetti by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s420.raw.html
  • The Eve of St. Agnes: https://www.bartleby.com/126/39.html

VII. Henry James (1843-1916)

  • Henry James Biography: http://modernistcommons.ca/islandora/object/yale:166

VIII. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

  • “If You’re Anxious for to Shine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu_Xk_Vl6fk
  • Internet Definition of Dandy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy
  • Photo of Reading Gaol: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/pva94.html
  • Study Guide to the play: http://www.penguin.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/the_importance_of_being_earnest.pdf
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 Film): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mKJpxIo7c

IX. Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

  • Florence Boos’ Study Questions: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/fsboos/questions/kiplingpoems.htm
  • McClure’s Magazine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClure%27s
  • Original Publication of The White Man’s Burden: http://www.unz.org/Pub/McClures-1899feb-00290
  • The Black Man’s Burden: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5476/
  • The Poor Man’s Burden: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5475/

X. Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

  • Sample Student Essay on “Hap”: http://blue.utb.edu/gibson/Hap.htm

XI. George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

  • Bernard Shaw: A brief Biography: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cmazer/mis1.html
  • British and Irish Drama: 1890-1950. A very good overview of Major Barbara: http://www.rfd2.net/britishdrama3.htm#Barbara
  • Major Barbara Study Guide: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/08/Major-Barbara-Study-Guide.pdf
  • Preface to Major Barbara: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shaw/george_bernard/major_barbara/preface.html
  • The Grand Inquisitor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor

XIV. A.E. Housman (1859–1936)

  • A Shropshire Lad eBook: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/housman/ae/h84s
  • A Shropshire Lad XXXI (“On Wenlock Edge”): http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad/XXXI
  • Small pamphlet by Peter Cash A Shropshire Lad: https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/publications/bookmarks/longer-poems-bookmarks/LP5.pdf
  • Unpublished correspondences between A. E. Housman and Moses Jackman: http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.pdf.N08646.html/f/41/N08646-41.pdf
  • Wenlock Edge by Alice Munro: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/05/051205fi_fiction?currentPage=all

XV. Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870–1916)

  • The Open Doors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBXb-8YoR0E
  • The Schartz- Metterklume Method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2G0U0VUI9g

XVI. World War I Poetry

  • BBC World War One: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nb93y
  • Draft version of “The General”: http://movehimintothesun.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/the-general-siegfried-sassoon/
  • First World War.com – Women and WW1: http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/womenww1_seven.htm
  • Oxford University’s online tutorial on major poets of World War One: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro
  • “Perhaps” by Vera Brittain: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/3084/2738
  • Seminar Introduction, “What is War Poetry?” https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/intro.html
  • Seminar Map: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/map.html
  • The Twentieth Century: Topics – Representing the Great War: Overview: https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/topic_1_05/welcome.htm
  • Trailer for the 2015 film Testament of Youth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3e2nNNJ7-4
  • Women’s Poetry and Verse: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/women
  • World War I Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

XVII. Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

  • Definition and discussion of acronyms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
  • Dr. Stuart Lee’s Background to “Dulce et Decorum Est.” https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/manuscript/owen/backgrnd.html#note.
  • Exposure: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/exposure
  • First World War Digital Archive: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/ww1&CISOBOX1=Anthem+for+Doomed+Youth
  • Ian Brinton’s Booklet on Wilfred Owen: https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/publications/bookmarks/66.pdf
  • Insensibility: http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/bloweninsensibility.htm
  • The Modernism Lab site at Yale University on “Dulce et Decorum Est”: http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Dulce_et_Decorum_est
  • Oxford Tutorial Dulce et Decorum Est: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/manuscript/owen
  • Oxford Tutorial Wilfred Owen: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/owen
  • Regeneration (1977 Film): http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/exposure
  • Strange Meeting: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/strange-meeting
  • The Send-Off: http://www.englishverse.com/poems/the_sendoff
  • WW1 Recruitment Poster “Will they never come?”: https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/476607573048180005/?lp=true

XVIII. Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)

  • Absolution: http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/infodocs/people/pst_sassoon.html
  • Base Detail: http://www.bartleby.com/136/11.html
  • BBC In Our Time podcast on Siegfried Sassoon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007mvl9
  • BBC UK World War One Recruitment Posters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/wars_conflict/art/art_frontline_01.shtml
  • Counter-Attack and Other Poems (Project Bartleby): http://www.bartleby.com/136/
  • Declaration against the war: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/sassoon/declaration.html
  • Does it Matter?: http://www.bartleby.com/136/14.html
  • Essays on Sassoon from Modernism Lab, Yale University: http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Siegfried_Sassoon
  • “From Mametz Wood to the General” Podcast: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-poetry-digital-archive
  • Glory of Women: http://www.bartleby.com/136/18.html
  • Ian Brinton’s Pamphlet on Sassoon: https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/publications/bookmarks/WW1/5Sassoon.pdf
  • Oxford First World War Poetry unit on Sassoon’s “Counter-Attack”: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/sassoon/counter.html
  • Oxford First World War Poetry unit on Sassoon’s “The Death Bed”: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/sassoon/death_bed.html
  • Oxford First World War Poetry unit on Siegfried Sassoon: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/sassoon
  • Sample student essay on a Sassoon poem (“Glory of Women”): http://www.haverford.edu/engl/english354/GreatWar/Sassoon/Sasskanay.html
  • The Colossus painting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colossus_%28painting%29

XIX. Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)

  • A brief guide to Imaginism: https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-imagism
  • About Ezra Pound: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/ezra-pound
  • About Isaac Rosenberg: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/isaac-rosenberg
  • About John Keats: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/john-keats
  • About Percy Bysshe Shelley: https://poets.org/poet/percy-bysshe-shelley
  • About Robert Graves: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/robert-graves
  • About Rupert Brooke: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/rupert-brooke
  • About Wilfred Owen: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/wilfred-owen
  • Audio Clip of Break of Day in the Trenches: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/2738
  • Break of Day in the Trenches: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jtap/rose/hyppoem.html
  • ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’ Hypermedia Edition: http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jtap/rose/hyppoem.html
  • Collecting Isaac Rosenberg: http://www.caxtonclub.org/reading/2009/dec09.pdf
  • Dead Man’s Dump Early Version: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176849
  • Isaac Rosenberg letter to Edward Marsh: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/db/print.php?CISOROOT=/ww1&CISOPTR=4395
  • National Archive Exhibit on Isaac Rosenberg: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/rosenberg/war-poems.htm
  • Oxford First World War Poetry unit on Rosenberg: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/rose
  • Romanticism: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-romanticism

XX. Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

  • Oxford Tutorial on Rupert Brooke: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/brooke

XXI. Sean O’Casey (1880–1964)

  • British Drama 1890-1950 by Richard F Dietrich: http://www.rfd2.net/britishdrama4.htm#O%27Casey
  • Dublin Trilogy, The Shadow of a Gunman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvu87Y6kvT8
  • Plough and the Stars Full Text: https://archive.org/details/twentyfivemodern001705mbp
  • Recording of Juno and the Paycock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ddT2HPSHc
  • Resource pack from the Abbey Theater for their 2012 production of The Plough and the Stars: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/42424412/download-resource-pack-here-abbey-theatre
  • Sean O’Casey Early Plays as Larkinite Stage Parables by Mary Elizabeth Papke: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/09/Sean.pdf
  • Shadow of a Gunman Full Text: https://archive.org/stream/1000yearsofirish00merc/1000yearsofirish00merc_djvu.txt
  • The Easter Rebellion of 1916: https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/topic_3_05/welcome.htm
  • Undercover operation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain-clothed
  • (Yes,) Let Me Like a Soldier Fall: http://www.james-joyce-music.com/song13_discussion.html
  • Young Cassidy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8_dppISrf0
  • 1930 film adaptation of Juno and the Paycock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMVnc-Qnwc
  • 1988 production of Juno and the Paycock at the University of British Columbia: http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/theatre/fw8801.pdf

XXII. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

  • Professions for Women: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chapter27.html
  • The Angel in the House: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/thackeray/angel.html
  • The Light House pdf: https://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/To-the-Lighthouse-Etext-Edited.pdf

XXIII. James Joyce (1882-1941)

  • Dubliners and Biography of James Joyce: http://www.mendele.com/WWD/WWD.dubintro.html
  • Dubliners Teacher’s Guide: http://www.penguin.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/dubliners.pdf
  • John McCormick “I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby.” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDSVmr_HNw
  • “Joyce’s Dublin,” a web talk by Irene Togher: http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/AWriters/JoyceDublin.html
  • Liner Notes “I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby.”: http://www.james-joyce-music.com/song05_discussion.html
  • Lyrics of “I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby.”: http://www.james-joyce-music.com/song05_lyrics.html
  • Notes on the musical allusion in Eveline: http://www.james-joyce-music.com/songb_08_discussion.html
  • Michael Groden’s “Notes on Ulysses
    • “Chapter 1 “Telemachus”: http://www.michaelgroden.com/notes/open01.html
    • “Chapter 4 “Calypso”: http://www.michaelgroden.com/notes/open04.html
    • “Chapter 18 “Penelope”: http://www.michaelgroden.com/notes/open18.html
  • Podcasts on Joyce’s “The Dead.” the final story in Dubliners: http://www.joycesdublin.ie/
  • Reading of “Araby”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nT_qPiPaDs
  • Reading of “Eveline”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soqMb0Hub0
  • The James Joyce Centre, Dublin: http://jamesjoyce.ie/joyce/
  • Ulysses 1967 Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LmGSjPb5Ig

XXIV. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

  • Film Adaptation Rocking Horse Winner: https://archive.org/details/RockingHorseWinner76

XXV. T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)

  • A Hypertext version of T. S. Elliot’s “The Hollow Man”: http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Poem.htm
  • T”he Journey of the Magi”: https://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/journey-magi
  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: https://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
  • “The Waste Land”: http://www.bartleby.com/201/
  • “Voices and Visions” A useful video documentary on T. S. Eliot: http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=595

XXVI. Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)

  • Bliss: the Beginning of Katherine Mansfield: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/bliss-2011
  • Colin Norman’s essay “Prufrock Freud, and the Late Colonel’s Daughters: New Light on the Genesis of a Mansfield Story”:https://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/Colin-Norman-Essay.pdf
  • Film adaptation of Miss Brill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-MoDs3HR1U
  • Monograph on Mansfield’s Representation of single women: http://www.phil.muni.cz/plonedata/wkaa/BSE/BSE_2009-35_Offprints/BSE%202009-35-1-%28137-145%29%20Kascakova.pdf
  • Online Documentary on Katherine Mansfield: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-portrait-of-katherine-mansfield-1986
  • The Garden Party http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-garden-party-1983

XXVII. Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

  • “A Modern Utopia” by H. G. Wells: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45mu/contents.html
  • “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” by William Wordsworth: http://allpoetry.com/Composed-Upon-Westminster-Bridge,-September-3,-1802
  • “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray: http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc
  • Ernest Jones interpretation of Hamlet in light of the Freudian Oedipus complex: http://elsinore.ucsc.edu/Freud/freudSphinx.html
  • Frederick Winslow Taylor from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor
  • Freud’s whore-madonna theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%E2%80%93whore_complex
  • “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54ht/contents.html
  • Le Corbusier Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier#Major_buildings_and_projects
  • “Men like Gods” by H. G. Wells: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45me/contents.html
  • “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” by Thomas Gray: http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec
  • “Preludes” by T. S. Eliot: http://www.bartleby.com/198/3.html
  • “Sophistication of Mass Production”: http://www.willamette.edu/~fthompso/MgmtCon/Scientific_Management.html
  • The Grand Inquisitor Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor
  • “When the Sleeper Wakes” by Aldous Huxley: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45ws/contents.html

XXVIII. George Orwell (1903-1950)

  • “Animal Farm” film 1954: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1DcWw9geig
  • George Orwell (John Freeman) “Why Socialists Don’t Believe In Fun”: http://orwell.ru/library/articles/socialists/english/e_fun
  • George Orwell’s essay on Kipling, 1936: http://theorwellprize.co.uk/george-orwell/by-orwell/essays-and-other-works/rudyard-kipling-1936/
  • George Orwell’s longer essay on Kipling, published in 1942: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/rudyard-kipling/
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954 BBC Adaptation Nigel Kneale): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba4J6umbbp0
  • Oxford 2011 Orwell vs Kipling: http://theorwellprize.co.uk/events/oxford-2011-orwell-vs-kipling/

Back Matter

Appendix 1: A Mini-Casebook on The Turn of the Screw

  • A Closer Look at “The Turn of the Screw” Lamar University Critical Edition: http://acloserlookattheturnofthescrew.weebly.com/index.html
  • Book Drum Turn of Screw annotations: https://web.archive.org/web/20180523013043/http://www.bookdrum.com/books/the-turn-of-the-screw/9781909003019/index.html
  • “Déjà vu in The Turn of the Screw” by Max Duperray: http://books.openedition.org/obp/826
  • “Give the Screw Another Turn—A Cultural Re-Reading of The Turn of the Screw.” http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/jltr/article/view/2407
  •  “Hallucinations or Realities: The Ghosts in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.” byAl-Qurani, Shonayfa Mohammed: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/j.sll.1923156320130602.3255
  • “Non-apparitionist reading of Turn of Screw” by James Sexton (1976): http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/Non-apparitionist-reading-of-Turn-of-Screw.pdf
  • “Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine’s Agency in Female Gothic Novels” by Kyra Kramer: http://studiesingothicfiction.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/8/8/22885250/sgf_oct_10.pdf
  • Shadows of Shadows – Techniques of Ambiguity in Three Film Adaptations of “The Turn of the Screw”: J. Clayton’s The Innocents (1961), D. Curtis’s The Turn of the Screw (1974), and A. Aloy’s Presence of Mind (1999): http://erea.revues.org/550
  • “The Freudian Reading of The Turn of the Screw.” by R. Heilman: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2909426?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  • The Gothic: http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/videos/the-gothic
  • “The Role of the Governess in The Turn of the Screw” by Raul Valino: http://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/ODISEA/article/viewFile/327/298
  • “The Role of Repression in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.” Student essay. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/courses/emotion/web1/jrodriguez.html
  • The Romantic Period – The Gothic Overview: https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_2/welcome.htm
  • “The Turn of the Screw”: http://www.turnofthescrew.com/
  • “The Turn of the Screw” film 1974: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072328/
  • “The Turn of the Screw” film 1999: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209440/
  • “The Turn of the Screw” film 2009:www.imdb.com/title/tt1577883/

Appendix 2: A Mini-Casebook on Brave New World

  • “Aldous Huxley’s Americanization of the Brave New World Typescript.”: http://somaweb.org/w/sub/Americanization.html
  • “Aldous Huxley’s Bokanovsky” from Science Fiction Studies): http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov47.htm
  • “Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as a Parody and Satire of Wells, Ford, Freud and Behaviourism”: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/?attachment_id=456http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2733409/pdf/behavan00027-0062.pdfhttp://somaweb.org/w/sub/Americanization.html
  • “Brave New World Revisited Revisited: Huxley’s Evolving View of Behaviorism.”: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2733409/pdf/behavan00027-0062.pdf
  • BBC RADIO 45 Minute documentary “Brave New World”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jn8bc
  • BBC Podcast on Modernist Utopias: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9fz
  • “Brave New World and the Anthropologists: Primitivism in A.F. 632” by Jerome Meckier: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/latestmeckier-bnw-anthroroughdraft.pdf
  • “Brave New World and the Rationalization of Industry” from English Studies in Canada: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/06/brave-new-world-and-the-rationalization-of-industry-3.pdf
  • Brave New World article Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
  • “‘Brave New World,’ The Feelies, and Elinor Glyn.”: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/09/RevdBrave-New-World-The-Feelies-and-Elinor-Glyn.pdf
  • “Community, Identity, Stability”: The Scientific Society and the Future of Religion in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” by Brad Congdon: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/esc/index.php/ESC/article/view/24890
  • Daedalus: or Science and the Future by J. B. S. Haldane: http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Daedalus.html
  • “Dickens’ Hard Times as Dystopia”: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/hardtimes/sexton1.html
  • “Huxley’s Hopi Sources” by David Leon Higdon: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/06/Hopi-Sources-with-fnsecond-version.pdf
  • Introduction to The Grand Inquisitor. by Ann Fremantle: http://web.pdx.edu/~tothm/religion/Summary%20of%20The%20Grand%20Inquisitor.pdf
  • Los Hermanos Penitentes: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11635c.htm
  • Margaret Atwood’s essay on Brave New World http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/nov/17/classics.margaretatwood”My Life and Work” by Henry Ford http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7213
  • Mirandahttp://www.huxley.net/miranda/home.html
  • Moki Snake Dance by Walter Hough: https://archive.org/details/mokisnake00houg
  • Political figures important to BNW: http://www.huxley.net/miranda/history.html
  •  “Remarks on the Savages of North America.” by Franklin, Benjamin: http://mith.umd.edu//eada/html/display.php?docs=franklin_bagatelle3.xml
  • “Sight-seeing in Alien Englands” by Aldous Huxley: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/?attachment_id=453
  • The “Grand Inquisitor Chapter” from Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/grand.htm
  • The Mind and Face of Bolshevism byRené Fülop-Miller: https://archive.org/details/mindandfaceofbol015704mbp\
  • “The Tissue-Culture King.” by Julian Huxley: http://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/tissue/
  • “The Utopian Tradition and Aldous Huxley” by William Matter: http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/6/matter6art.htm
  • “Utopias Positive and Negative Afterword” by James Sexton: http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/?attachment_id=454
  • “Utopias, Positive and Negative” by Aldous Huxley (1963): http://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/?attachment_id=455
  • Zuni Religion: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/zuni/

Appendix 3: A Mini-Casebook on Heart of Darkness

  • “’A Bloody Racist’: About Achebe’s View of Conrad.”: https://opentextbc.ca/englishliterature/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/A_Bloody_Racist_About_Acheb.pdf
  • “Achebe on Racism in Heart of Darkness” by Rachel Teisch: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/conrad1.html
  • “A Guide to Heart of Darkness” by Allen Kromer: http://www.penguin.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/HeartOfDarknessTG.pdf
  • “ An Ashy Halo: Woman as Symbol in ‘Heart of Darkness'” by Edward Geary: https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/docview/1297934551?pq-origsite=summon
  • “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness'” by Chinua Achebe: http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html
  • BBC In Our Time podcast on Heart of Darkness: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0077474
  • Bookdrum: Heart of Darkness by Gordon Knox: http://www.bookdrum.com/books/heart-of-darkness/9780140186529/index.html
  • “Culture and Imperialism” by Edward Said: http://projects.ecfs.org/eastwest/Readings/SaidConrad.pdf
  • “Conrad’s Bloody Imperialism: Achebe, Said, and What Conrad Really Wrote.” by Stephen Zelnick: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/zelnick.html
  • “Conrad’s Critique of Imperialism in Heart of Darkness” by Hunt Hawkins: https://www.jstor.org/stable/461892?seq=1#page_scan_tab_content
  • “Critical responses to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” by Svensson, M. http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:356589/FULLTEXT01.pdf
  • Heart of Darkness“: “Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism?” by Patrick Brantlinger: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23110450
  • “Heart of Darkness” by Peter Cash: https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/documents/publications/New%20Folder/bookmarks/69.pdf
  • “Imperialism: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” by Jonah Raskin: http://www.jstor.org/stable/259954
  • “Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the World of Western Women” by John Peters: http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=b1ceab0a-4c65-420e-88b3-56e39d9352a9%40sessionmgr4008&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=77324367&db=aph
  • “Kurtz as a Symbol of Imperialism.” by Tesi di Laurea: http://tesi.cab.unipd.it/43470/1/Fazzino_Anna_Maria.pdf
  • Modern Language Association:http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=mla
  • Postcolonial Criticism of Heart of Darkness: A Casebook: http://ibsmarter.edublogs.org/files/2012/05/Heart-of-Darkness-Critical-Survey-p4seaw.pdf
  • “Racism and the Heart of Darkness” by C. P. Sarvan: http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/IFR/issue/view/1094
  • “Reading Race and Gender in Conrad’s Dark Continent.” by Bette London: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23113360
  • “Revisiting Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Women, Symbolism and Resistance.” by Katherine Smith: http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A2980/datastream/OBJ/view
  • “Sexism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” by Haydar Ali: https://digitalshowcase.lynchburg.edu/agora/vol17/iss2008/8/
  • “The Women Do Not Travel: Gender, Difference, and Incommensurability in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” by Gabrielle McIntire: https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/article/21686
  • Victorian History British Empire: http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/empire/index.html
  • “White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” by Philip Allingham: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/pva52.html

Appendix 4: Glossary of Literary Terms

  • “Epic hero” literary term definition: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_E.html
  • “Genre” literary term definition: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_G.html
  • “in medias res” literary term definition: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_I.html
  • The Indo-European Family of Languages: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/IE_Main.html
  • “Theme” Literary Devices definition: https://literarydevices.net/theme/
  • “Tropes” literary term definition: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/tropes.html

Appendix 5: Writing an Analysis of a Poem, Story, or Play

  • Base Detail by Siegfried Sassoon: http://www.bartleby.com/136/11.html
  • “Oxford World War I Poets” on Sassoon: https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/sassoon

Appendix 6: Documenting Essays in MLA Style

  • MLA Formatting and Style Guide from Purdue University: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
  • MLA Tutorial from Hunter College: http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/tutorials/mla/mla_tutorial.html
  • Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting – The Basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Y31UrG2q4&list=PL4917D9E21FA6EDFF

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