English 109 - Cora Agatucci
Survey of Western World Literature: Modern

ENG 109 Links 2 - Short Cuts: The Enlightenment: Reason & Sensibility;
The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic Self & Social Reality
URL of this webpage: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/links2.htm

The Enlightenment Reason & Sensibility

The European Enlightenment Glossary
(World Cultures, Richard Hooker, Washington State Univ., 1996, 1999):
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/ENLGLOSS.HTM

The Enlightenment [Broken link?]
http://pluto.clinch.edu/history/wciv2/civ2ref/read4.html

Great Voyages: The History of Western Philosophy, 1492 to 1776
(Prof. Bill Uzgalis, Philosophy 302, Oregon State Univ. )
"This web site is intended for anyone interested in the stars and marvels of the history of philosophy
from the 16th through the 18th century...": http://ucs.orst.edu/~uzgalisw/302/
...The Era offers timelines, brief discussions of philosophers, and more:
http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/page4.html

Denis Diderot (French, 1713-1784), a brief biography & portrait:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/FrankDemo/People/diderot.html
courtesy of Jack Lynch (Asst Prof., English, Rutgers-Newark),
who is also General Editor of c18 Bibliographies On-Line:
http://www.c18.rutgers.edu/biblio/
...including Thomas Jefferson (by Frank Shuffelton, Univ. of Rochester)

Denis Diderot (John Patrick Michael Murphy, Internet Infidels, 1999)
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_murphy/denisdiderot.html

The Age of Enlightenment in France @ Globe-Gate
("Tennessee"Bob Peckham, Dir. The Globe-Gate Project, Univ. of Tennessee-Martin)
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/franxviii.html
& Enlightened Discourse: 18th-Century French Writings
"over 300 links lead to the major historical events, cultural and literary issues of eighteenth-century France, and lead as well to over 350 literary, scientific, philosophical and economic works by 51 of the period's authors. It is the largest collection of its kind, and it stands as a library-style resource, without a critical appraisal of its links, because the Globe-Gate team feels very strongly that you should be making the choices":
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.18.html

The Enlightenment Reading Guide (Univ. of Adelaide, Australia; 1990 Honors History seminar):
http://chomsky.arts.adelaide.edu.au/person/DHart/Honours/TheEnlightenment/Guide.html
...Topic "3. The Codification and Transmission of the Enlightenment: Denis Diderot and the Encyclopédie ...(1751). If one work symbolises what the Enlightenment was about, it is the great "Encyclopaedia" of Diderot. Within the confines of an admittedly enormous work in many volumes the editor Diderot was able to include articles on politics, philosophy, religion, literature and most importantly science and technology and he arranged for these articles to be written by some of the most famous names of the Enlightenment...."
...Topic "7. Opposition to Slavery and Colonialism:....Raynal, Philosophical History of the Two Indies (1772). The philosophes were not only interested in liberating French citizens from the yoke of the ancien régime but also the blacks enslaved and forced to work in the colonies. Abolitionist thinking was part of the Enlightenment from the very beginning as Davis, Seeber and Gay make clear. For example, articles in the Encyclopédie urged the abolition of slavery on the grounds of the universal natural rights of mankind and Voltaire satirised the Christian religion's tolerance for the practice in Candide. One of the most forceful statements against both slavery and colonialism was the Philosophical History by the Abbé Raynal (with the assistance of Diderot)."

Dictionary of Sensibility (English Dept., Univ. of Virginia):
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enec981/dictionary/
"The language of sensibility in eighteenth-century Europe encompassed a number of interconnected vocabularies and offered manifold and varied meanings to terms such as virtue, imagination, sublime, character, and community." Users explore 24 key terms "through excerpts from primary texts of sensibility," "each of which links to an introduction and a collection of annotated relevant excerpts. Source and critical bibliographies are also provided" and "Readers are invite[d] to contribute to the Dictionary" [Abstract courtesy of "MD," The Scout Report 5.47 (April 2, 1999) - Internet Scout Project, Univ. of Wisconsin]
The Scout Report's Webpage: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/

The c18 Project [c18 = 18th Century], International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies:
http://www.c18.org/18/index.html
Eighteenth-Century Resources (Jack Lynch, Asst. Prof of English, Rutgers Univ.):
http://www.c18.org/li/index.html
...Literature: http://www.c18.org/li/lit.html
See also New Links: http://www.c18.org/li/new.html

Women and Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Martin Maner, Wright State Univ.)
Partially annotated bibliographies, anthologies, journals, and reference sources on 18th-c. English women:
http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/18cwom99.html

Sense and Sensibility (dir. Ang Lee, wr. Emma Thompson, 1995)
Feature film/video adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (British, 1775-1817).
For more on such period films: Visit IMDb - searchable Internet Movie Database
with more than 180,000 titles: http://us.imdb.com/

For more on Jane Austen (British, 1775-1817):
Jane Austen Info Page (Henry Churchyard)
an extensive website, including texts, a biographical sketch,
a few images, a selected bibliography, and more:
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

The French Revolution, 1787-1799
Learning Resources Index (Univ. of Warwick, UK):
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/french-rev/
including ..."'The People' and the French Revolution,"
an online essay by Prof. Gwynne Lewis:
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/french-rev/people.html
... & "Chronology of the French Revolution":
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/french-rev/chrontab.html

Thomas Jefferson, A Film [& PBS special] by Ken Burns:
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/
Called "the most remarkable yet controversial man in American History,"
Jefferson "captured the tone and spirit of Enlightenment thinking:"
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/index.htm

The Thomas Jefferson Papers -- LOC [Library of Congress]:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
"The Library of Congress American Memory Project (see also 20 Nov. 1998 Scout Report) has begun to release digitized documents from the world's largest collection of original Thomas Jefferson papers. The collection, which will be comprised of approximately 83,000 images, will be released as nine Series or groupings, ranging in date from 1606 to 1827. The documents reflect Jefferson's broad intellectual and political interests and his central role in American politics from the second Continental Congress through his two terms as President, 1801-1809....Users may search the document images by keyword
or browse by date (Series 1, Correspondence) or by volume (Series 8, Virginia Records). Additional resources include three special presentations: ..."The Contradictions of Thomas Jefferson," a Virginia Time Line, and a Thomas Jefferson Time Line." [Abstract courtesy of "MD," The Scout Report 5.49 (April 16, 1999) - Internet Scout Project, Univ. of Wisconsin]
The Scout Report's Webpage: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/

Olaudah Equiano: The Equiano Foundation
Brief biography "celebrate[s] the meaningful contribution of Olaudah Equiano to Western, African, and African American culture": http://www.atomicage.com/equiano/index.html

Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) (ed. Angelo Costanzo for Heath Anthology Online Guide)
Notes on teaching the Narrative in the context of American literature, with study questions & bibliography:
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/vassa.html

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, 1789; and
19th-Century African Proverbs (from Reading About the World, Vol. 2, Eds. Paul Brians and others, American Heritage Custom Books)

Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters
(Brycchan Carey, Univ. of London)
"Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) was born a slave on a ship crossing the Atlantic
from Africa to the West Indies." Later, he composed music, appeared on the stage,
and wrote many letters collected and published in 1782, two years after his death.
Site includes Joseph Jekyll's life of Sancho, an annotated bibliography,
selections from Sancho's letters, many links, and more:
http://sites.netscape.net/brycchan/sancho/

Slavery and Abolition links
Africans in America (WGBH Interactive for PBS Online, 1998, 1999; WGBH Educational Foundation):
Equiano's Autobiography (PBS Teacher Resources: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/)
Teachers' Resource Bank: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/index.html
Bibliography: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/bibliography1.html
Part I:  Terrible Transformation:  The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage

Who are we looking for, who are we looking for?
It's Equiano we're looking for.
Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back.
Has he gone to the farm? Let him return.
It's Equiano we're looking for.
- Kwa chant about the disappearance
of an African boy, Equiano

I Is a Long-Memoried Woman (1990; Dir. Frances Anne Soloman. In English and Creole.)
Out of the abusive conditions of the new world sugar plantations, this unforgettable 1990 film of the African Diaspora offers
a powerful rendering of female slavery and defiance in dance-drama performance.
Based on the award-winning poems of Guyanese-British writer Grace Nichols, the film dramatizes
a young African-Caribbean woman's quest for survival and freedom
in evocative dance, griot-style monologue & song. Intersegments present readings and commentary by Nichols.
Some African-Caribbean websites are offered at Hum 211 Links.
Nichols won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her book of poetry,
I is a long memoried woman (London: Karnak House, 1983) on which the film is based.

Mary Wollstonecraft, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, 1792 - Project Bartleby E-text, Ed. Steven van Leeuwen http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/wollstonecraft/
Mary Wollstonecraft resources

Women Writers Project http://www.wwp.brown.edu/
The Brown University Women Writers Project "textbase is a collection of
primarily pre-Victorian (1450-1850) literature written by women.
The initial release of the textbase will include over 200 texts,"
with up to 100 scheduled to be added, with "a wide array of topics and genres,
providing a unique and valuable resource for the study of women's writing in English
The textbase will be freely available until the final version is released,
tentatively scheduled for August 1, 1999."
[Abstract courtesy of "AO," The Scout Report 5.47 (April 2, 1999) - Internet Scout Project, Univ. of Wisconsin]
The Scout Report's Webpage: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/

Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/franklin/index.htm
Online version of "new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery explores the eighteenth-century fascination
with science and the idealization of the 'man of science,' particularly through portraiture.
Although 'science' as we know it today did not yet exist in this period,
[Benjamin] Franklin and his peers seriously investigated the natural and physical sciences
and carefully nurtured friendships with like-minded men to share information
and solidify their positions within the 'international republic of science.'
This collection of annotated portraits is organized in three sections
(The Republic of Science, Portraiture and the Tools of Science, and Science and Liberty),
which examine how these paintings were used
to create a common scientific identity among American and European men of science,
how images of expensive and rare instruments contributed to their cultural authority,
and what efforts American men of science made to reconnect themselves
with European science and learning after the disruption of the Revolution.
An entertaining and informative diversion for art, science, and American history buffs alike."
[Abstract courtesy of "MD," The Scout Report 5.50 (April 23, 1999) - Internet Scout Project, Univ. of Wisconsin]
The Scout Report's Webpage: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/

Esoterica: The Journal of Esoteric Studies http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/
"A relatively new transdisciplinary field that examines
the interweavings of art, literature, early modern science, and religious studies,
Esoteric Studies now has its own electronic, peer-reviewed journal.
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University,
Esoterica focuses on Western esoteric spiritual traditions,
'ranging from Gnosticism and Hermeticism to alchemy, magic, Christian mysticism,
Kabbala, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and other secret or semi-secret societies.'
This new journal will function as both an academic publication,
featuring original scholarly articles, book reviews, and announcements,
and as a research resource, offering short primary texts and links to special collections and archives.
Some of the articles in the inaugural issue include "Western Esotericism and the Harmony Society,"
"Following Lucifer: Miltonic Evil as Gnostic Cabala," and
"Things Done Wisely by a Wise Enchanter: Negotiating the Power of Words in the Thirteenth Century."
Additional resources at the site include a list of recent doctoral dissertations
in the field of Western Esotericism, teaching links, an image library."
[Abstract courtesy of "MD," The Scout Report 5.49 (April 16, 1999) - Internet Scout Project, Univ. of Wisconsin]
The Scout Report's Webpage: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/

The Nineteenth Century The Romantic Self & Social Reality

Romantic Chronology (1785-1791)
Regency Styles ca. 1790
The French & American Revolutions
The Industrial Revolution

Romanticism & The Gothic, and related authors, are among the topics treated by
Eighteenth-Century Resources: Literature
(Jack Lynch, Asst. Prof of English, Rutgers Univ.),
Annotated links are also offered on authors like William Blake:
http://www.c18.org/li/lit.html

The Gothic: Materials for Study (wr. & comp. Christine Ruotolo, Ami Berger, Liz DeGaynor,
Zach Munzenrider, and Amanda French), a class project for a course called "The Novel of Sensibility" (McGann and Spacks, Univ. of Virginia), with discussions of Gothic psychology, female Gothic, the supernatural, and Gothic drama; and an annotated bibliography:
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enec981/Group/title.html

Romanticism & Revolution in the 19th Century:
Readings in the English Romantic Poets, Goethe, Dickens, Hegel, Marx, Adam Smith, et al
(Great Books of Western Civilization, Mercer University)
more...scroll down

William Blake resources

The William Blake Archive (Eds. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi; Library of Congress & Univ. of Virginia)
offers dazzling Illuminated electronic editions of Songs of Innocence and of Experience
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: title page; Innocence

Painting: Ancient of Days (God Creating the Universe) c. 1794 (Univ. of Toronto)
Timeline of Blake's Life, Art and Literary Work
(Charles Beauvais, Connecticut C.)
The Tyger Page -- A Web Study of Blake's "The Tyger" with Blake and other Romanticism links
(Randall Hughes, U. North Carolina, Pembroke)

The Digital Blake Project (Nelson Hilton, Univ. of Georgia),
a graphics-intensive hypertext edition of the Songs [of Innocence & Experience]:
http://parallel.park.uga.edu/~nhilton/digital.blake.project.html

Study Guide for Goethe's Faust (Hum 303, Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
Faust, Part I , with image of Johann Goethe (Clinch Valley College, Univ. of Virginia)
The Alchemical Drama of Goethe’s Faust (essay by Adam McLean, The Alchemy Web site and Virtual Library)

The Brontë Sisters Site, Emily Brontë, 1818 - 1848, & Wuthering Heights links (Cecilia Falk)
Wuthering Heights e-text (Bibliomania)
The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights, by Joyce Carol Oates
Critical InquiryWinter 1983, Rpt. The Profane Art : Essays and Reviews)
Emily Bronte from The Victorian Web, including Bildungsroman (David Cody)
(George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown Univ.)

Voice of the Shuttle: Romantics: 18th and 19th Century LiteraryResources
( comp. Alan Liu, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara)
Romanticism On the Net, a "Peer-reviewed, Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic studies"
(Editor: Michael Eberle-Sinatra, St. Catherine's College, Oxford)
Regency Fashion Page (Cathy Decker, Univ. of Calif.-Riverside)
a view of culture c. 1790-1829 from the perspective of women's and men's clothing styles
Romantic Circles (Univ. of Maryland)
"a Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture."
Romantic Chronology
(Gen. Eds. Laura Mandell, Dept. of English, Miami U., Ohio; &
Alan Liu, Dept. of English, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Romantic Movements geographically situate writings of the period between 1760 and 1830.
(Sheila Minn Hwang & Vince Willoughby, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Women of the Romantic Period
a hypertext response to Richard Polwhele's poem "The Unsex'd Females," 1789 (Univ. of Texas-Austin)
Reason, Romanticism & Revolution Course Materials, Romanticism
& Introduction to 19th-Century Socialism
(Hum 303, Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
Romantic Links, Electronic Texts, Home Pages, and Syllabi
(Michael Gamer, U. Penn)
A Romantic Natural History surveys "relationships between literary works and natural history
in the century before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859)
(Ashton Nichols & Jennifer Lindbeck, Dickinson College)

Realism and Naturalism (Hum 303, Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
The Victorian Web & Victorian Literature Overview
(George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown Univ.)
Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
(Perry Willett, General Editor, Indiana Univ.)
The Learning Commons' Women, Culture, and Power &
Matthew Arnold, Culture is "High Culture" (from Culture and Anarchy, 1869)

19th-Century Russian Literature (Hum 303, Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
Foreign Words and Phrases in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
(Hum 303, Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
Portrait of Dostoevsky, by Vasily Perov (1834-1882)
The Face of Russia: "Take a closer look at Russian art and culture with this elegant site that includes
an interactive timeline of Russian art, discussion forums, lesson plans, links to related sites and more"
http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/intro.html Take a closer look at Russian art and culture and
find out how the Russian people will redefine themselves culturally, spiritually, and politically
now that their long-awaited democracy develops.
Interview the Artists (High School)
(g) http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/reference/lesson4.html
Persona Project (High School)
(g) http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/reference/lesson5.html

Russian On-Line Literary Society
Russian Art (George Mitrevski. Auburn Univ., 1999)

Charles Dickens' Hard Times
"In Victorian England, the inherent correctness of market forces and the fallibility of state regulation
were common assumptions. The creed of self-interest and the cult of numbers are challenged in Dickens' HARD TIMES
Alan Bates and Emma Lewis star in this dramatization of Dickens' novel of broken dreams and family failures.

The Tolstoy Library, including e-texts THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH and
"Tolstoy's Place in European Literature," by Edward Garnett
From G.K. Chesterton, G. Perris, and Edward Garnett,
Leo Tolstoy, (New York: Pott, 1903)
Tolstoy Studies Journal, including Images of Leo Tolstoy
(Janet Hyer, Univ. of Toronto)
Portrait of Lev Tolstoy by Nikolai Ge (1831-1894)
Portrait of Tolstoy by Ivan Kramskoy (1837-1887)
Portrait of Tolstoy by Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945)

Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour"
(Paul Brians, Dept. of English, Washington State Univ.)
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" - Workshop
http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/fiction/kchop/home.htm
(Litweb: W. W. Norton)
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
(Study Text prepared by Ann Woodlief)
Study Text of "The Story of an Hour"
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/course/morgris/hour.html
(Full text with response prompts and notes on relevant literary
terminology from San Diego State University)
"Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910 - Kate Chopin (1851-1904)"
Paul Reuben's PAL: Perspectives in American Literature--A Research and Reference Guide
Kate Chopin Web Page, "maintained by students of Assumption College"
with student interpretations, a biography, bibliography, and list of related sites
Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color (Neal Wyatt, 1995)

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination;
do not become the slave of your model."
-- Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh Museum http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl
Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum
http://www.artmuseum.net/ (Intel Corp)
National Gallery of Art's online exhibit
"On March 29, Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum relaunched its site,"
currently featuring and art "fourteen of the artist's greatest works,"
"an excellent selection of supporting material not on display anywhere else,"
"sketches and studies, lesser known paintings, drawings, watercolors, and digitized letters related to each painting,"
works and "supporting materials by other painters who connected with Van Gogh personally or artistically,"
and "an illustrated biography."
see the Internet Movie Database of more than 180,000 titles]

Archives section of Artmuseum.net features
sketches, drawings, watercolors, photographs,
additional paintings, and several letters to and from Van Gogh's brother Theo"
Users must register "as a member to take the virtual tour and to access the 3-D exhibition,"
but Intel has dropped plans to charge for access, and the site will remain free to all.
[Abstract courtesy of "MD," The Scout Report 5.47 (April 2, 1999) - Internet Scout Project, Univ. of Wisconsin]
The Picture Collection (Time, Inc) http://www.thepicturecollection.com/
Although a commercial site, " users can view "one of 'the most extraordinary collections of pictures in the world."
"An initial free registration is required," then "users need only log on to gain access to over 22 million images."
Archival materials include images from Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly,
and the Mansell Collection, featuring photography "from the beginnings of the medium in the 1840s
through World War II," depicting scenics, important news events, historical personalities,
art and architecture, "extraordinary holdings of engraved illustrations, lithographs,
and drawings predating the advent of photographic imaging."
[Abstract courtesy of "REB," The Scout Report 5.47 (April 2, 1999) - Internet Scout Project, Univ. of Wisconsin]
The Scout Report's Webpage: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/

French Impressionism, ca. 1867 - 1886 (WebMuseum, Paris, 1996)
The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874
virtual reproduction "in tribute to the spirit of . . . iconoclastic pioneers:
Renoir, Monet, Pissaro, Morisot, Degas, Sisley, Boudin, and Cezanne."
Their work " will eventually lead to what is now recognized as Modern Art."
http://www.artchive.com/74nadar.htm

The Influence of [Friedrich] Nietzsche (1844-1900)
(Hum 303, Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)

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ENGLISH 109: Western World Literature - Late 18th to Late 20th Centuries
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