General Interest
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Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
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Achebe
Overview -- From the Post-Colonial African Literature site at Brown
University
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Achebe
Web Index -- An extensive list of links on Achebe and related
subjects (Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon CC)
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Nigeria
Page -- Learn more about Achebe's homeland and the setting of Things
Fall Apart (Ali B. Dinar, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
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Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
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William Blake (1757-1827)
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Robert Browning (1812-1889)
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Octavia Butler (1947- )
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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
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Daniel Defoe
Page -- Bibliography and short bio. Roger Blackwell Bailey, San
Antonio College
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Alexander
Selkirk --Defoe's model for Crusoe was Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish
sailor stranded for four years on Juan Fernandez Island off the coast of
Chile. This is an account of his rescue in 1709.
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Robinson Crusoe Island
-- Yes, you can tour Crusoe's island. Just don't tell them Defoe
made the whole thing up
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Castaway
-- The Tom Hanks film based on the tribulations of a modern-day Crusoe
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Don DeLillo (1936- )
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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The Dickens
Page
-- The most comprehensive Dickens page on the web, created and maintained
by Mitsuharu Matsuoka
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Charles
Dickens: An Overview -- A store of information on Dickens, from
one of the first literature sites on the Internet, George Landow's
The
Victorian Web
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The Dickens Project
-- A site prepared by Dickens scholars promoting "the study and enjoyment
of the life, times, and works of Charles Dickens"
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Dickens Concordance
-- Who drinks "negus"? How many times does Mr. Micawber say "pecuniary"?
Use this on-line concordance to find where and how often Dickens used a
particular word in his works.
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David Copperfield on TV-- Official sites for two recent television
productions of the novel. December 2000 TNT
version featured Seinfeld's Michael Richards as Wilkins Micawber.
PBS aired a three-part
BBC production in April 2000 starring Daniel Radcliffe of Harry
Potter fame.
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Greenwood's 1827
Map of London -- Blackfriars? Lincolns Inn Fields? Camden
Town? Use this map to explore London as it would have appeared during
the time period in which David Copperfield is set. John Snow's
1859
Map of London, printed around the time Dickens was writing Great
Expectations, bears witness to the dramatic expansion the city underwent.
Also of interest is Charles
Booth's 1889 Map of London, which indicated the standard of living
in different sections of the city.
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A Christmas Carol and Its
Adaptations -- From magic-lantern shows to Hollywood, this site explores
the many attempts over the past 150 years to adapt Dickens's story to other
media.
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John
Leech's Original Illustrations for A Christmas Carol -- As with
most of his novels, Dickens worked with an illustrator for the first edition
of Carol in 1843.
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A Tale of Two
Cities: The Musical -- Information about a recent musical production
of Dickens's novel
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James Dickey (1923-1997)
- James Dickey Society --
Scholarly organization devoted to the study of Dickey's life and works
- James Dickey Page -- Helpful
background and links. Maintained by Eric Stamey.
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Dickey's Poetry -- Although he is most well-known for his novel
Deliverance, Dickey devoted most of his attention to poetry.
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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Emily Dickinson
International Society -- Background and useful links. In
their own words, "a forum for appreciation of Emily Dickinson's life and
writings and for scholarly research on Dickinson and on her relation to
the tradition of American poetry and women's literature."
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Emily Dickinson Homestead
-- Dickinson's home in Amherst, Massachusetts is now a historic landmark.
Learn more about where and how she lived.
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T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe -- Biography with
illustrations and a bibliography of works (Jane K. Brown, University
of Washington)
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Goethe Page
-- Links to texts in English and German, biography, bibliography, and chronology
(Gonçalo L. Fonseca, Johns Hopkins University)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
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Hawthorne Home
Page -- Comprehensive site containing all of Hawthorne's works,
annotated editions, and links to many useful sites (Eric Eldred, Edritch
Press)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Society -- Scholarly organization devoted to the study of Hawthorne's
life and works
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Salem, Massachusetts -- Notorious for
witch trials, Salem is also Hawthorne's birthplace and was a thriving colonial
port. Worth a visit the next time you are in the Northeast.
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- Views of
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris -- Photographic tour of Notre Dame.
- Gothic Novel Page
- Brief
History of Photography -- Hugo's interest in historic preservation and the
"picturesque," shared by other writers and artists of the Romantic movement,
in many ways anticipated the invention of photography in 1839, eight years
after the publication of Notre-Dame de Paris. This
daguerreotype of a Paris boulevard is believed to be the first photograph
ever taken (look for the person getting his shoe shined in the lower left
corner).
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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
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Soma Web
-- All kinds of information and links related to Huxley and Brave New
World
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Out of
Sight -- A recent profile of Huxley by Clive James in the New Yorker.
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A Defence of Paradise Engineering
-- This critical response to Brave New World calls it "one
of the most bewitching and insidious works of literature ever written."
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Metropolis
-- Informative site devoted to Fritz Lang's 1926 cinematic vision of the
future. Considered by many to be the first science fiction
film.
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Toni Morrison (1931- )
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V. S. Naipaul (1932- )
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Gulliver's Travels
-- Prepared by Lee Jaffe, an excellent site devoted entirely to Swift's
Gulliver's
Travels
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Jonathan Swift
-- The Swift page at Brown University
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
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Tennyson
Overview -- A store of information on Tennyson from The
Victorian Web (George Landow, Brown University)
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The Tennyson Page
-- Many useful links, including musical settings of Tennyson's poetry (Andrew
Chandler)
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The Pre-Raphaelite
Critic -- A comprehensive site devoted to the Pre-Raphaelites, an influential
group of Victorian artists who found inspiration in Tennyson's works.
Well-known paintings include John Everett Millais' "Mariana", and two versions
of "The Lady of Shalott", by William Holman Hunt and John W. Waterhouse.
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H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
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Virgina Woolf
Links -- A comprehensive list of links on Woolf and modernism (Elisa
Kay Sparks, Clemson Univ.)
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Virginia
Woolf Webring -- Created by Rose Norman to "bring together sites that
deal with Virginia Woolf or her work, and to provide an easy and fun way
to navigate through them"
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)
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