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                   ENG 387: Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Final Exam: Wednesday, May 4. 3:10 to 5:10 pm.  Bring a Blue Book!

Syllabus for ENG 387: Nineteenth Century English Novel Spring 2011, in .pdf format

Resources for researching and writing papers, particularly with resources for the Nineteenth-Century English Novel.  Lots of links, books, databases and the MLA Style Guide in .pdf

R. L. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Notes on Stevenson's chapter on Dreams from the R. L. Stevenson website of the Library of Scotland

Robert Louis Stevenson website.  Very thorough site funded by Edinburgh and Stirling Universities and maintained by academics and enthusiasists.  Good place to start

Read the 1886 edition of the book in a virtual edition, you turn the pages.

General info, photos and quotations about Stevenson

Film versions, links to full films or clips from YouTube

Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Jess Nevin's detailed annotations of The League

Interview with Alan Moore about development of The League on Comic Book Resources website

Alan Moore talks about The League: 1910, part 1 of a 6 part interview from 2009

Warren Zevon singing "Werewolves of London." 1978.  YouTube. 3: 17 min

Alan Moore talks about creating The League on the BBC4. YouTube 7:38 min.

"The Making of Mr. Hyde" from The League film.  YouTube 6 min, part 1

SteampunkArtists of the Steampunk show in Oxford

Steampunk exhibit at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford.  Includes photos, videos and more. Here's a thoughtful blog review of the exhibit including more photos. An informative broadsheet with photos and explanation from the exhibit (in .pdf format).

"Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds" article by Ruth La Ferla in The New York Times May 8, 2008

Steampunk 101, blog with photos of fashion and basic notes

Links and basic notes on steampunk

Steampunk.com, site focues on books and fiction

Steamnouveau: Phantoms Siren.  Website focusing on steampunk fiction.From the Steampunk exhibit: Victorian "Eye-Pod" by Dr. Grymm Laboratories

Girl Genius. Steampunk comic

Steampunk Workshop blog site. DIY, music, and art ideas.

Dr. Grymm Laboratories:  An artist creating steampunk contrapations and more

Steampunk fashion: 

 

A retrofitted, steampunk'd computer laptop

 

 

Lewis Carroll's Alice booksLewis Carroll. Photograph by O.J. Reijlander

The British Library's virtual tour of the original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground.  1. Opening description with images only (not as interactive).  .  2. Shockwave version so it's easy to turn pages. 3.  A page with link to Silverlight version (most interactive)

Jan Susina's interview with Martin Gardener on Annotated Alice from Five Owls. (.pdf file)

Lewis Carroll Society of North America.  Filled with links.  Lewis Carroll home page, hosted by the LCSNA.

Lenny's Alice in Wonderland page.  Good links to basic info on the book.

Victorian Website links on Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll's scrapbook from Library of Congress

Illustrations of Alice that are not by Tenniel

Florence Milner's 1903 essay explaining poems in Alice and original

Lesson Plan for teaching Alice in high school. From Discovery ChannelAlice near the jury box, as illustrated by John Tenniel

Pronouncing Liddell

Ruth Ann Zarnoff's interactive Alice site.

Tim Burton talks with Johnny Depp about Alice in Wonderland and Batman in LA Times (Oct. 15, 2008)

Blog on Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland and pop culture related materials

Notes on Mary Blair's idea illustrations for Disney's Alice in Wonderland that have been reposition into an Alice book with text by Jon Scieszka

Penguin Books USA's reader's guide to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  Middle school and high school level.John Tenniel's White Rabbit illustration

Cooper-Hewitt Museum video of page-by-page of Tony Sarg's Treasure Book.  Video focuses on Alice in Wonderland and shows the pop-ups and details. YouTube. 1.5 min.

Trailer for 1999 television version of Alice in Wonderland. YouTube 1 min.

Unusual online text version with illustrations by many artists from many books.  A Bedtime Story Classic

Link to information on Jan Susina's The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature

 

The first book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Hogwarts, as seen in the Harry Potter films.

In Oxford, Christ Church 16th century dining hall was used during the filming of Harry Potter.Christ Church College in Oxford where some of Harry Potter was filmed.

Victorian British school books, a few more links

Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

"Thomas Arnold in Tom Brown's School Days" and "Thomas Arnold's Theories of Secondary Education" by Thomas HughesGeorge P. Landow from Victorian Web

Kathryn Hughes re-reads and re-considers Tom Brown for The Guardian (Sept. 30, 2008)

Scanned reprint of biographical entry for Thomas Hughes from Encyclopedia Britannica 1911

Historic Rugby, Tennessee, founded by Thomas Hughes

Film and TV adaptations, from YouTube

Old Chapel, inside.

Old Chapel, West End. Completed 1821. "From Radclyffe's 'Memorials of Rugby.'

Jack Maggs by Peter CareyPeter Carey

Interview with Peter Carey, by Powells Bookstore

Book Reviews of Jack Maggs. "Great Extrapolations" in The Guardian by Hermione Lee (Sept. 28, 1997).  also titled "Great Extrapolations" in The New York Times by Caryn James (Feb. 8, 1998).

Paris Review interview of Peter Carey by Radhika Jones, from Summer 2006

"Interplay between Dickens' Great Expectations and Carey's Jack Maggs" by Jason Calhoun at the Queen's University of Belfast

Reading Group questions for Jack Maggs

Peter Carey's website

Post-colonial web site with many links about Jack Maggs.

A few notes on the Victorian Web about Jack Maggs

A young Charles Dickens by Samuel Laurence, from about 1837-39

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Victorian Web's Links and Articles on Great Expectations.  Thorough and interesting like everything on the Victorian Web

Charles Dickens: The Life of the Author by Kenneth Benson, from the NY Public Library website

Oprah's website about Great Expectations, which was one of her Book Club Picks.  Date with Charles Dickens.  Includes Jane Smiley talking with Oprah about the book.  Discussion forum about Great Expectations,   Notes for reading the book  Character Guide.

60 Second Recap.  Go to this website for informatively, lively videos on Great Expectations  (Also check out her good, basic videos on writing a paper)

Charles Dickens Museum

BBC's animated biography of Charles Dickens.  Charming, informative.

PBS' series about Charles Dickens.  Includes a quiz about Dickens and an interactive tour of Dickens' London

John Forster's The Life of Dickens, biography by a friend.  This section is about Great Expectations

Review in The Atlantic Monthly of Great Expectations from Sept. 1861.

"What larks, Pip" a re-reading of Great Expectations by Alison Light in The Guardian. (Sept. 21, 2002)

Dickens 2012, celebrating 200th anniversary of Charles Dicken's birth

The Dickens Project from the University of California. 

List of characters in Great Expectations

Penguin's reading guide to Great Expectations

Great Expectations quiz.  How well did you do?

Child laborers in Victorian England

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from 1946 film

 

YouTube videos related to Charles Dickens and Great Expectations 

 

Great Expectations in the news, in our culture:

In a line from Great Expectations, Charles Dickens  perfectly captures the sensations associated with the beginnings of spring, "It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ("Elementary My Dears: Getting Ready for Spring")

Great Expectations (and serialized novels like it) were as close as Victorian England got to Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, or Lost. People waited anxiously every week for the next "episode" to arrive in the newsstands and on the shelves. (from Schmoop)

Of all the many Dickens tea scenes, I’m most fond of the tortured interactions between Pip and Estella in “Great Expectations.” (read the rest of the article about tea in literature "The Book Bench: Tea: A Literary Tour from The New Yorker, Nov. 24, 2010.

After presenting a sportswear-driven collection for spring 2010, Prabal Gurung delivered an about-face with his Valentine's Day show (2011) inspired by Miss Havisham, the jilted spinster from Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. The glamorous fall collection — complete with corsetry, ostrich feathers, fur, and washed silk — was a critical success for its fabric treatments and gorgeous draped gowns. (from New York Magazine, March 8, 2011)

Mike Newell is gearing up to direct a fresh take on Great Expectations, based on the book by Charles Dickens. Newell plans to direct the feature, which will be part of a year-round celebration of Charles Dickens's bicentenary in 2012. (from The Hollywood Reporter, Feb. 27, 2011)

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

"What Girls Want: A Series of Vampire Novels Illuminates the Complexities of Female Adolescent Desire" by Caitlin Flanagan.  The Atlantic. Dec. 2008.  Article in .pdf

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Film versions of Dracula.  If you go to the trailers, you can then see links to selections from that film.Bela Lugosi as Dracula

Documentaries

Tributes to Dracula

Information on Bram Stoker and DraculaBram Stoker

 

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

PostSecret  PostSecret Archive  PostSecret tumblr

Bridget Jones' Diary

Pride & Prejudice & more

Pride & Prejudice links

from 2005 Pride & Prejudice film

 Helpful materials on Austen's world and time

Map for places in Pride & Prejudice. Click to larger map

Jane Austen

 

Austen's home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pride & Prejudice (2005) with Keira Knightley

Image from 1995 BBC versionPBS Masterpiece Theatre site for the BBC Pride & Prejudice (1995) version with Colin Firth

YouTube mashups comparing 1940, 1995, and 2005 film versions.

1980 BBC version.  Part 16. 1st Darcy proposal comes in at 6 min of 9 min YouTube video

You've Got Mail (1988) segments related to Jane Austen. from YouTube

Bride & Prejudice (2004). selections from film on YouTube.

Resources for Studying 19th Century English Novels

The Victorian Web, a long-running website on Victorian Britain with many resourcesTechnology revolutionized the UK during Queen Victoria's reign, but cell phones were developed later.

Online version of classic 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

Victorian Studies Bibliography. a listing of noteworthy publications (including articles, books, and reviews) to study the Victorian period.  Created by staff of Victorian Studies and MLA's Victorian Division.  Use this to find the resources which you will then have to find in the library or online.

Victorian Links, a U.K website with numerous links.

Victorian Britain, from the BBC's History Trails.  Articles, images and links on history and culture in Victorian England, including quizzes.

Victorian Britain, an interactive teaching guide from the U.K.'s National Archives focusing mainly on social issues, but with links to many primary sources.

Victoria & Albert Museum's online exhibit guide to its 19th Century collection.  Lively and interesting.

The Victorian Dictionary, an organized, large encyclopedic-type collection of articles written during the Victorian period about life and culture. Easily searchable.

Queen Victoria's Empire, website created for related PBS series.  Information on Queen Victoria and life in England.

Resources on Victorian culture and contemporary travel from Britian Express, a modern magazine on UK culture.

Mostly Victorian, a website that reprints articles from The Strand, a popular Victorian magazine.

Art History Resources on the web: 19th Century.  Compiled by C. Whitcombe, professor of art history at Sweet Briar College.  Extensive links on many 19th c. artists, not just British.

 

Links compiled for Jan Susina's course at Illinois State University ENG 387: Nineteenth Century English Novel.