Contexts: Literary History & Movements

Contexts: Literary History & Movements
This webpage: 19th Century | Early to Mid-20th Century | Mid- to Later 20th Century

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19th Century Contexts
including Romanticism, Victorian Age, Realism, Naturalism

Realism & Naturalism (Hum 303, Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/hum_303/naturalism.html

The Victorian Web
(George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown Univ.)
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html
...Victorian Literature Overview:
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/vn/litov.html
...Realism:
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/genre/Realism.html

Victorian Women Writers Project (Perry Willett, General Editor, Indiana Univ.)
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
(New York Public Library, 1999)
"provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920." A full text database "is key-word-searchable . . . to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader.
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

The Learning Commons' What Is Culture?
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html#top
...including important definitions & discussions of culture, such as
...Matthew Arnold, Culture is "High Culture" (from Culture and Anarchy, 1869)
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-definitions/arnold-text.html
...Women, Culture, and Power:
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-definitions/women-text.html
...& The Culture Debate in the U.S.: Whose Culture Is This, Anyway?
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-definitions/whose-text.html

Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color
[in Kate Chopin's The Awakening] (essay by Neal Wyatt, 1995)
http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/fiction/kchop/nwyatt.htm

Documenting the American South (Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/index.html
The Southern experience in nineteenth-century America,
a digitized library of over seventy titles from the beginning of Southern literature to 1920,
in genres such as slave narratives, diaries, memoirs and autobiographies - with links.

LitLinks: Literary Periods (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998-1999)
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/index.htm
Romantic & Victorian
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/romantic.htm

Early to Mid-20th Century Contexts
including Modernism, WWI, Harlem Renaissance, WWII

Twentieth Century
(Michael Lee Groves, West Linn-Wilsonville Sch. District, Oregon, 1996-1999)
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/20thCentury.htm
Indexed by Authors & part of the website:
Literature Resources for the High School & College Student (Michael Lee Groves)
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/index.shtml

People's Century: 1900-1999 (PBS Online)
"looks back at the story of our times," offering
"new insight into the turbulent events of these hundred years through the revealing
personal testimony of the people who were there."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/
Searchable Thematic Overview:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/theme/indexj.html
Clickable People's Century Timeline by program title & time span:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/timeline/

Immigration History Research Center - IHRC
(College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota)
is an international resource on American immigration and ethnic history
http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
(co-production of KCET/Los Angeles & the BBC, with Imperial War Museum of London):
Trace the events leading up to, during, and after the "Great War'" through interviews
with nearly 20 historians, an interactive timeline, critical bibliographies, maps, and
a look at the changing face of Europe through the war.
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

Literary Periods: Modern, 1900 to 1945 (Bedford/St Martins)
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/modern.htm

An Index of Web Sites on Modernism. General Resources
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/Scholes/modlist/General.html

Modernism Timeline, 1890-1940 (John Mark Eckman, Univ. of Washington)
Searchable year-by-year list of literary and historical events, being expanded to encompass 1865-1950.
http://faculty.washington.edu/eckman/timeline.html

Literary Women of the Left Bank (Paula DiTallo)
On-line magazine on early Modernism, especially women in Paris, 1900-1940
http://home.sprynet.com/~ditallop/homepage.htm

The Surrealism Server
http://pharmdec.wustl.edu/juju/surr/surrealism.html
Fun site "on the Surrealist movement and the artists associated with it"

Some Cultural Forces Driving Literary Modernism (John Lye, Dept. of English, Brock Univ.)
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/forces.html
Some Attributes of Modernist Literature (John Lye, Dept. of English, Brock Univ.)
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/modernism.html

Index of Web Sites on Modernism (Sean Latham,
Malcom S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture & Media Studies, Brown Univ.)
A useful list of annotated links to modernist sites.
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/Scholes/modlist/Title.html

Voice of the Shuttle: Modern General Resources,
including International Modernism resources
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-mod.html
(Alan Liu, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara)

Web Sites on Modernism
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/Scholes/modlist/Title.html
Web Sites on Modernism. General Resources
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/people/Scholes/modlist/General.html
(Sean Latham, Malcom S. Forbes Center at Brown University).

The Modernist Explosion: Culture and Ideology in Europe
http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/DSHEP/modernist.HTML
(Course LFS.230, American University, Washington, DC)

The Harlem Renaissance
(part of Univ. of Southern Califoria site on African American Literature)
bibliography of primary & secondary sources,
with a brief essay with advice on doing library research on the Harlem Renaissance:
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/harlem.html

I'll Make Me a World (OPB Online)
"explores African-American literature, visual arts, dance, theater, and music in the twentieth century. "
...Lift Every Voice (1900-1924)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm
...Bright Like A Sun (1935-1954)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm

The Harlem Renaissance
(Circle's African American Links pages):
http://members.aol.com/bonvibre/harsite.html

America in the 1930s Project (Univ. of Virginia)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html

Literature of the Holocaust (Al Filreis, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html
Academic Info:Holocaust Studies
http://www.academicinfo.net/histholo.html
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
"Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994...Dedicated to videotaping and
archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors all over the world."
Holocaust/Shoah
(David M. Dickerson, 1995-1998).
Frontline: Memory of the Camps (OPB Online)
"This documentary on the liberation of the German concentration camps in 1945
was assembled in London that year, but never shown
until FRONTLINE first broadcast it - 40 years later - in May of 1985."
The film was made to "document unflinchingly the conditions of the
death camps [of World War II] and show this to the German population."
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (OPB Online)
"Turn your computer into CourtPC
with this compelling companion site that takes you inside the
courtroom for the 1961 trial of Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann."

America and the Holocaust (OPB Online)
[OPB Broadcast Date: Monday, April 12, 1999]
www.pbs.org/amex/ Themes: WWII, Roosevelt, and the Holocaust
"Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust"
Frontline: Shtetl (OPB Online)- "Discover how the watershed events of the
Holocaust continue to shape the lives of Jewish survivors."
Voices of the Children (OPB Online)
This film tells the story of three people who were imprisoned as children in
Terezin, the small Czech town that the Nazis converted into a concentration camp for Jews.
A Letter Without Words (OPB Online)
"Follow one woman's journey to reclaim her Jewish heritage."
Meet Lisa Lewenz, director and producer of "A Letter Without Words," in this month's forum.

World War II in Recent Postcolonial Literature in English
(George P. Landow, Brown Univ.)
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/misc/ww2litov.html

LitLinks: Literary Periods (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998-1999)
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/index.htm
Modern Literature: 1900-1945
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/modern.htm

Mid to Later 20th Century Contexts
including Postmodernism, Postcolonialism
See also ENG 104 online lecture notes:

People's Century: 1900-1999 (PBS Online)
"looks back at the story of our times," offering "new insight into the turbulent events of these hundred years through the revealing personal testimony of the people who were there."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/
Searchable Thematic Overview: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/theme/indexj.html
Clickable People's Century Timeline by program title & time span:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/timeline/

I'll Make Me a World (OPB Online)
"explores African-American literature, visual arts, dance, theater, and music in the twentieth century. "
...Bright Like A Sun (1935-1954)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm
...Not a Rhyme Time (1963-1986)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm
...The Freedom You Will Take (1985-present)
http://www.pbs.org/immaw/suggestedactivities.htm

Literary Periods: Contemporary, 1945 to present (Bedford/St Martins)
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/contemporary.htm

Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
(Alan Filreis, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
A searchable site, with reading list & lots materials on literature, politics, sociology, and the arts, including multimedia items (e.g. photographs, posters, newsreels & audio) for a course on American Lit and Culture in the '50s.
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Native American Sites (Lisa Mitten, Social Sciences Bibliographer, University of Pittsburgh): http://www.pitt.edu/~lmitten/indians.html

NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World:
http://www.nativeweb.org/

American Studies at the Univ. of Virginia
http://xroads.virginia.edu/
including links to Cultural Maps ("a digital American Historical Atlas")
Hypertexts

National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian)
http://www.nmaa.si.edu/

Pop Art in America
(Tomas Staudek, Masaryk Univ., Czech Republic)
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~toms/PopArt/Overview/america.html

Postmodernism
(Mary Klages, Unv. of Colorado) with comparison to Modernism
http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html

Some Attributes of Post-Modernist Literature
(John Lye, Dept. of English, Brock Univ.)
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/post-mod-attrib.html

Postmodernism
(Tim Spurgin, Contemporary Critical Theory, Lawrence Univ.,Wisconsin)
http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60a/sites.html#pomo

The Learning Commons' What Is Culture?
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html#top
...including important definitions & discussions of culture, such as
...The Culture Debate in the U.S.: Whose Culture Is This, Anyway?
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-definitions/whose-text.html

Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
(George P. Landow, Brown Univ.).
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/misc/postov.html

Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory (John Lye, Dept. of English, Brock Univ.)
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/postcol.html

Postcolonial Studies (Tim Spurgin, Contemporary Critical Theory, Lawrence Univ.,Wisconsin)
http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60a/sites.html#poco

"Postcolonial Literature": Problems with the Term
(Paul Brians, Washington State Univ., 1998)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/postcolonial.html

Categories & Bibliography for Postcolonial Studies:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng458/biblio.htm

LitLinks: Literary Periods (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998-1999)
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/index.htm
Contemporary Literature: 1945-Present
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/contemporary.htm

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