Del.ici.ous Links: Online Resources
TechnoRomanticism (Engl. 149)
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| Howe, Jeffery. “19th Century Architecture: High Victorian Gothic in England.” A Digital Archive of Architecture. 1997. Boston College. 19 Feb. 2008. <http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/hvgothic.html > The website provides photo examples of surviving Gothic architecture in London, including The Albert Memorial and St. Pancras Station. There’s no history or verbal descriptions given about the architecture. The website also offers comparisons with High Victorian Gothic in America through a link. – D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wozniak, Robert H. “The 19th Century: Mind and Brain." Mind and Body: Rene Déscartes to William James. 1995. Bryn Mawr College, Serendip. 19 Feb. 2008 < http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/19th.html > Originally published in 1992 at Bethesda, MD & Washington, DC by the National Library of Medicine and the American Psychological Association The page explains the 19th century attitude toward the relationship between the mind and the brain. The author takes a very detailed journey through the different scientific and philosophical theories on the consciousness, and gives very good background on each theory and theorist. Further chapters on preceding and following theories are provided on the site as well. – D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Delaney, John. “Major Northwest Passage Expeditions and Explorers.” Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of a Northwest Passage. 2004. Princeton University Library. 20 Feb. 2008. <http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/northwest-passage/contents.htm >. This is a comprehensive online exhibition of the history of Arctic explorations before 20th century. The page offers biographies and illustrations from individual expeditions, many of which were conducted in the 19th century. A chronology of maps manifests the accumulative results of these Arctic expeditions throughout the centuries. – D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| “Romantic 1825-1900.” Essentials of Music – Eras Online. 2001. Sony Music Entertainment. 18 Feb. 2008. <http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/eras/romantic.html > The website offers a basic overview of Romanticism in music in the 19th century. It highlights several key points in the historical influences and the musical context of Romanticism, including science, nationalism, artistic autonomy, and nature and the supernatural. It also conveniently provides a list of Romantic era composers with their full biographies and listening samples. Being a summary rather than an extensive study, this document does not explain the intricacies of Romanticism among different disciplines. – D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Nationalism in Music." Performance Today - Milestones of the Millennium. 1999. National Public Radio. 19 Feb. 2008. <http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/milestones/990224.motm.nationalism.html > Intended as the introduction to a 15-minute radio segment on 19th century nationalistic composers, this page provides a concise history of nationalism in classical music, what it means and how it influences later-generation composers. The entire radio program with music samples can be heard online by clicking the Audio button toward the end of the page. – D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Ludwig van Beethoven.” British Library Board. < http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/music/beethoven.html > 15 Feb 2008.
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List, Franz. Letters of Franz List. Globusz Publishing < http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Liszt/00000010.htm > 14 Feb 2008. Of all the links I discovered, this one intrigued me the most because it delves into the personality of a true genius, albeit musical genius, which is perfectly applicable to the idea of creation, rebirth, and emotional impact. The site contains Franz List’s correspondence between various people, and through the letters, a person gain some insight into his mind.-MFL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Galitz, Kathryn Calley. "Romanticism." Timeline of Art History. Oct. 2004. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 18 Feb. 2008. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm>
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| Moore, Richard. “The Napoleonic Guide.” 2006. <http://www.napoleonguide.com/goyaind.htm>. 16 Feb 2008. Obviously a commercial venture, this guide seems more interested in selling travel books and sightseeing tours than promoting education. However, the digitized versions of Goya’s etchings, “The Disasters of War,” make this site worth a peek. –ksr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Krén, Emil. “Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de.” Web Gallery of Art. <http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/goya/index.html>. 16 Feb 2008. I was excited to find this exhaustive catalogue of Goya’s works, as it is the most comprehensive site that I have come across. Of particular note are “The Bewitched Man,” 1798, “Reading,” 1820, and “Saturn Devouring One of His Children,” 1819. –ksr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Craiutu, Mura. “Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Library.” Princeton University. <http://libweb5.princeton.edu/Visual_Materials/cruikshank/index.html>. 20 Feb 2008. The side-by-side presentation of Cruikshank’s pencil studies in contrast to their corresponding final prints reveals the hand of technology in producing these popular works. –ksr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brock, C.E., Isaac Cruikshank, et al. Notes and Illustrations on Regency Clothing Styles. The Republic of Pemberley. 2004. <http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/ppbrokil.html> 20 Feb 2008. Contained in this gallery are a massive number of drawings, including some caricatures, from various artists, each of which depicts the clothing styles of the Romantic Period. Many of these works include female subjects, and some photographs with accompanying explanations about garments are sprinkled into the website. This gallery provides a fantastic view of the dress of the period, along with modern and period commentary about the fashion. dtc
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| “Julia Margaret Cameron.” Photographers in Focus. Victoria and Albert Museum. 19 Feb. 2008. <http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/photo_focus/cameron/index.html > This informative page opens into seven sub-categories about 19th-century British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, including her biography, her works, and her method. Two of her contemporary photographers - Oscar Rejlander David Wilkie Wynfield - with whom she had professional relationships are also surveyed. There’s a further reading list and external links for more information. The V&A Museum website doesn’t have a clear time of its last update, but judging from the information in general, it should be very current. – D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Orientalism.” History of Art. <http://www.all-art.org > 20 Feb 2008 A website devoted to art history, with extensive image inventory of art time periods including some explanation. This is not an academic site but the best I found for images of European Orientalism in painting. Also relevant for our class is the section on 18th and 19th century art including Romanticism, Gothic Architecture, etc. (images are high quality and large, clickable links to specific artists) MO
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Hone, William. Facetiae and Miscellanies. Google Books. 17 April 2006. http://books.google.com/books?id=Mx6YoHnkTfwC 2 February 2008. A digital copy of a second edition book containing one hundred and twenty engravings by George Cruikshank published in 1827. See especially “The Doctor” and “The Scorpion.” RC
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Moore, Lisa L.. The Sister Arts, British Gardening, Painting & Poetry, 1700-1832. The University of Texas at Austin. Lisa L. Moore. http://www.en.utexas.edu/Classes/Moore/index.htm 10 February 2008.From the home page: “This site brings together visual, literary and historical materials that document the interrelation of poetry, painting, and garden design in English culture from 1700-1832. Known as the “sister arts” because they were considered to achieve similar effects on readers and viewers, these three genres were considered the most artistically important forms by many eighteenth-century artists and critics.” A vast amount of information, logically organized. Topics include beautiful, gothic, picturesque, romantic, and sublime. Take the time to look at this site useful information and wonderful images. It is an example of a good, well organized website. RC
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Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Issue 9, December 2002. Cardiff University. Ed. Anthony Mandal. http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey/download/cc09.pdf 10, February 2008. Cardiff Corvey is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Centre for Editorial Intertextual Research, Cardiff University, one of Britain’s major research and teaching universities. Includes four articles: two on gothic blue books, one on archaisms in the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and a final biographical study of “The Mysterious Mrs. Meeke.” RC
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Blake, William. The William Blake Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. 1996 <http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/main.html> 16 Feb 2008 This is an online archive of the work of William Blake. It includes online text versions of his poetry and prose, images of his illustrations and engravings, his biography and related links to other resources. Related to Frankenstein the images are especially relevant as they are full of the dark and monstrous. MO
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Baurbald, Anna Letitia. Anna Letititia Baurbald Website. Ed. Vargo, Lisa Website devoted to the life and work of one of England’s prominent Romantic women writers. Contains some of her poetry and prose, works by other authors concerning her work, literary criticism, etc. (full online text) MO
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| Polwhele, Richard. “The Unsex’d Females: A Poem.” University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. Ed. Peter Byrnes. 1994. <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo/unsex/unsex.html >. 20 Feb 2008. This poem is a scathing attack on the morality of Mary Wollstonecraft and a string of female writers of the Romantic Period, revealing the backlash of a call to propriety in the face of revolution. –ksr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tighe, Mary. “Psyche; or, The Legend of Love.” New Mexico State University. Ed. Harriet Kramer Linkin. Sept 2001. <http://web.nmsu.edu/~hlinkin/ >. 20 Feb 2008. An epic allegorical poem with a slight feminist slant, “Psyche” is Irish poet Mary Blackford Tighe’s major claim to fame. Even Keats was among her admirers. –ksr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unknown. “Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan.” <http://www.sydneyowenson.com/index.html >. 20 Feb 2008. Aside from the fact that the editor/webmaster of this site is nowhere to be found, the e-texts of Irish writer Lady Sydney Owenson Morgan’s works, diary, and letters are priceless. I am still searching, however, for a virtual version of Woman and Her Master, arguably the first women’s history book, which analyzes the roles of women since Biblical times. –ksr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Payne, Charlotte. “British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832.” University of California Davis General Library. <http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/>. 20 Feb 2008. Including both the popular and the fringe women poets of the Romantic Period, this invaluable site provides an astonishing array of works, and a rare glimpse into women’s lives, none of which are to be missed. –ksr
This site provides e-texts (in html, xml and sgml formats) of the poetry of mostly obscure women writers from the Romantic period. Access to these works provides additional insight to the interests of women writers of the era leading up to and beyond Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. VM
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Voller, Jack G. Doing Gothic Research. The Literary Gothic. Ed. Jack G. Voller. http://www.litgothic.com/LitGothic/research.html> 20 Feb 2008 This website hosts a very useful guide to the intricacies of doing scholarly research in the somewhat underrepresented gothic genre. Voller gives some helpful hints including to research ‘romantic’ as well as ‘gothic’ and to never avoid non-internet sources, and also suggests two major annotated bibliographies that specifically relate to gothic literature. dtc
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Voller, Jack G. The Literary Gothic. 23 January 2008. <http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html >. 18 February 2008
Academic website that is a guide to Gothic Literature (“literary Gothicism”) online including alphabetical author index, brief biographies, links to tons of online etexts, primary sources, images (illustrations, author portraits etc) and other miscellaneous information about Gothicism. Our main authors and class texts are included Walpole, the Veiled picture, Mary Shelley, plus tons of extras) MO
This constantly updated site is a guide to resources available for a study of Gothic literature up to the 1950’s. There are links to sites containing e-texts of well known and lesser known works, as well as links to biographies and bibliographies of these authors. VM This particular page of the site The Literary Gothic is tremendously informative about Mary Shelley, but the site in general is also of great use for studies in the Gothic genre. zrw
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Lynch, Jack. A Guide to Eighteenth-Century English Vocabulary. 14 April 2006. <http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/C18Guide.pdf > 19 Feb 2008. Essentially a 1700’s version of a Webster’s Dictionary, Lynch’s guide to vocabulary provides guides to the meanings and usages of words that have fallen out of modern dictionaries. Thus, Lynch’s catalogue can provide the reader with a useful tool to help navigate the rocky vocabulary of Romantic era novels, and thus help to provide a more complete reading of a work when all other glossaries may be obsolete or insufficient. dtc
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Bowling, Maggie, Cynthia Jane, et al. Jane Austen’s Life & Times – Message Index. Jane Austen’s Life & Times. Ed. Julie at pemberley.com. 21 Jan 2008. http://www.pemberley.com/bin/regency/regency.cgi 18 Feb 2008. This portion of the website specifically provides a forum for common reader and viewer perspectives on Jane Austen’s works. It is connected to websites that index Austen’s life and major events, FAQ pages about the author’s influences, relationships, and so on, and links to over a dozen related sites. This site is a great start for an overview on one of the pivotal Romantic writers. dtc
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Brown, Charles Armitage. “The Life of John Keats.” http://englishhistory.net/keats/brownkeats.html 18 Feb 2008.
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“Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider.” Rector and the Visitors of Virginia. 31 Jan 2008. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/gothic/index.html 17 Feb 2008.
The site contains numerous images, which come from the covers of many gothic and romantic novels, by authors such as Mary Shelley and Jane Austen. Accompanying each illustration or image is a brief explanation of the author and how the associated work relates to gothic novels.-MFL
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“The Gothic: Overview.” W.W. Norton and Company. < http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/topic_2/welcome.htm 13 Feb 2008.
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| “Romanticism.” Internet Modern History Sourcebook. Halsall, Paul. 2 Apr. 2007. Fordham University. 19 Feb. 2008. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook15.html. The site has a good compilation of copy-permitted letters, essays, poems and documents by Romantic era authors, artists and philosophers, illustrating the principals of Romanticism. However, the page is more fact-based, thus a lack of narrative insight from the editor. Another relevant site, also under the Internet History Sourcebook Project, is 19th Century Britain, which can be accessed from the links on the left side of the page. – D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Steampunk Magazine. http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/ 20 Feb., 2008. Steampunk is a genre of science fiction that uses the Romantic and Victorian eras as a setting for stories that involve modern technology (based generally on lesser technology available in the 19th century, like steam). Since our whole premise is the study of futuristic technology in a Romantic setting, I thought this would be a fun resource to look at. See the wikipedia article on steampunk for more information. zrw
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Bailey, Matt. NML’s. Facebook: Entertainment & Arts – Fine Arts. Ed. Matt Bailey, Adam Hunter, et. al. http://sjsu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9985793979&ref=mf 15 Feb 2008. This Facebook group, while admittedly not a scholarly source, certainly echoes many of the themes of our class, including studies of the sublime, the supernatural, landscape including outer space, and monstrous figures. It is also a forum for three forms of artistic expression: drawing and painting, videography, and criticism and writing. dtc
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Hsoomal. Marlon Brando—Apocalypse Now—Philosophy of War—Horror. YouTube.com. Ed: hsoomal (user name). 17 November 2006. http://youtube.com/watch?v=_5npYWfRlkw 21 Feb 2008. The famous monologue from Coppola’s movie “Apocalypse Now” features Marlon Brando recounting the way in which the arms of innocent villagers who had been vaccinated were hacked off by invading armies in wartime Vietnam. The aspect of this monologue that is so celebrated is the lingering line, “the horror!”, a theme in all gothic literature. Brando’s account of the psychological profile that the armies must have had reflects an absence of remorse for even the most terrible actions. dtc
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Rowen, Beth. Scariest Movies: Scary Movies Slideshow. Pearson Education: Information Please. 2007. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/scary-movies-intro.html 20 Feb 2008. This is another source for readers interested in the modern translations that gothic themes have undergone. Rowen has ranked the top 10 horror movies of all time, noting in each one a shot plot outline with some gruesome details. dtc
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Melton, J. Gordon. Vampires: A Chronology. Vampire Junction. Ed. Candy Cosner. 2001. http://www.afn.org/~vampires/timeline.html 21 Feb 2008. This website provides a chronology of all the historical and literary instances of or linked to the existence of vampires. Nearly a dozen of the references listed here occur during the Romantic period, although the list starts in the 11th century. This ghoul is an important one to recognize as a major player in gothic literature, as it represents the undead, sexuality, social class, as is bound up with theory of knowledge and period architecture. dtc
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Hail Mary Shelley. Ed. Martin Moore. 5 September 2004. http://www.hailmaryshelley.com/work_space.htm#work%20space. 17 February 2008
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Lovecraft, H.P. Supernatural Horror in Literature. December 2007. <http://www.rosenoire.org/archives/Lovecraft,_H.P._-_Supernatural_Horror_in_Literature.pdf >. 21 February 2008 This link not only provides the opportunity to examine reasons for the appeal of Gothic and supernatural literature through the eyes of one of the greatest writers of the genre, but also the opportunity to discover some of the obscure supernatural works, including those by Defoe and Smollett, that were of interest to the Stephen King of his time. VM
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Kashihara, Tomoko. Solitude and Deformity: A Feminist Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 1999. <http://www2.kobe-c.ac.jp/~watanabe/seminar/1999/kashihar.htm >. 18 February 2008 This link to a seminar paper is a feminist perspective that uses the life of Mary Wollstonecraft as a way to understand how her daughter, a girl of nineteen, could have written a groundbreaking novel. This essay examines the implications of the Creature’s plight in relation to women’s roles in history. VM
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A Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms. Georgia Southern University. Ed. Douglass A. Thomson. May 2001. <http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/goth.html >. 19 February 2008 This html site has both brief and detailed definitions of the terminology associated with Gothic literature. This list compiled by students from GSU is an overview of terms and concepts which provide an understanding of the important aspects of Gothic literature. VM
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Norton, Rictor. Books of Rictor Norton "Mistress of Udolpho: the Life of Anne Radcliffe". 4 November 2000. <http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/radcliff.htm >. 18 February 2008 This site provides information about one of the most popular writers of the female Gothic novel using excerpts from a fairly recent biography. This is not the best site for an in-depth study of Radcliffe, but adequate for understanding her in context within the Romantic period and the Gothic genre. VM
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| The sickly taper. Ed. Fred Frank. 7 January 2008. <http://thesicklytaper.pagedepot.com />. 19 February 2008 This extensive site devoted to bibliographies is filled with links to just about everything you need to know about Gothic literature. These links provide the means to track down detailed information about Gothic writing throughout history and throughout the western world. VM
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Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto English Department and Press. <http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/indexcriticism.cfm> 18 Feb 2008 This is an extensive site of online English language poetry. Included of course are the works of the Romantic poets, Byron, Shelley, Keats, etc., a separated catalogued section which includes writing by poets about other poets (example: P.B. Shelley’s poem about Keats, etc), the chronology of poets (births and deaths, etc), biographical information about poets and some poems, and easy search capability to look for a specific poet or poem, by alphabetical listing of poet name, poem title, date, first/last line etc. This site is fast, very easy to use and comprehensive. MO | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive. Tiefert, Marjorie A. 1994 <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html> 16 Feb 2008 An archive of some of the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including excerpts relating to science, philosophy, and some of his personal letters. MO
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Jackson, Shelly. My body- a Wunderkammer/The Body by Shelly Jackson. 1997. http://www.altx.com/thebody/ 11 February 2008. This hypertext literature is a nonlinear narrative organized by various body parts. The stories may or may not relate to the body part, it seems just a jumping off point. The title page picture is sort of a postmodern female Frankenstein image. (See also Patchwork Girl by Shelly Jackson.) RC
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Youngquist, Paul. Romaticism on the Net. University of Montreal. Ed. Michael eberle-Sinatra. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2006/v/n41-42/013157ar.html 27 January 2008. Moving through the information was simultaneously disconcerting, informative, and a bit frustrating. The site is interesting to explore. It was part of our related text for January 29. Give it a try- bend your brain. RC
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"Women Writers Online." Women Writers Project. 29 Feb. 2000. Brown University. 19 Feb. 2008. <http://textbase.wwp.brown.edu/WWO/php/wTextsList.php?sort=wAut> This is a great source of free digital texts of women’s writings in the English language from 1526-1850. The selection covers poems, plays, essays, letters, as well as writings on history, geography, politics and gender issues, by famous and little known female authors alike. – D.C.
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Coleridge’s Reviews of Radcliffe. Michael Gamer. University of Pennsylvania. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/coleridge.reviews > 20 Feb., 2008. I thought this would be an interesting display of the mindset, not only of Coleridge, but of contemporaries on the Gothic Romantic Novel. Also, this English professor, Michael Gamer, has many other etexts related to the Romantic Period. zrw
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LibriVox. “Frankenstein.” < http://librivox.org/frankenstein-or-modern-prometheus-by-mary-w-shelley/ 20 Feb., 2008. This is a collection of digital texts and audiobooks of Frankenstein. It’s a reputable source of such collections, and I thought it might be useful to have links our chapters to audio sections of the book. zrw
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Literature.org. < http://www.literature.org/ > 20 Feb., 2008. Obviously, there isn’t much information in the way of authorship on the site itself, but as far as I can tell the versions of the texts available through the site are full and unabridged, so it seems reliable. Being able to quickly access parts of texts relevant to our material will be extremely helpful. zrw
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The Centre for the Study of Byron and Romanticism.. Dr. Matt Green. 1999. < http://byron.nottingham.ac.uk/ > 20 Feb., 2008. This site has much information on the Era and specifically Lord Byron, who it seems had dealings with nearly everyone who was anyone during Mary Shelley’s lifetime. zrw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cracuin, Adriana. Women Romantic-Era Writers. University of London. June 14, 2006. < http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/ac/wrew.htm > 20 Feb., 2008. This is a list of women writers during the Romantic Period. It includes links to their works or other sites with information about them. This is handy for any student of the Romantic Period. zrw
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Cynthia Hamberg. My Hideous Progeny. 1999. < http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/ > 20 Feb., 2008. This site was created by a master’s student in Utrecht. The thesis was on the functionality of literary websites. Her websites is made to be both informative on her subject, Mary Shelley/Frankenstein, and also an example of a useful literary website. This is a double-whammy for us. zrw
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British Romanticism. Hunterdon Central Regional High School. D. Bariexca, ed. 21 May, 2007. < http://britishromanticism.wikispaces.com/Art > 20 Feb., 2008. This is a project that seems similar to ours. It was created by an English Honors class at a high school in New Jersey. It would, I think, as a source of information and also as a peer reference for our project itself. zrw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Caro: The Caroline Lamb Website. Douglass, Paul. http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass/caro/ 16 Feb 2008 A website about Caroline Lamb, wife of British Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and a lover of Lord Byron. This website contains her biography, a chronology of her life, related links including information about Lord Byron and Lord Melbourne, and excerpts from her biography. (The creator of the website is an SJSU faculty member and author of her biography) MO
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Beckfordiana: The William Beckford Website ed. Claesson, Dick. 18 Dec 1997 http://beckford.c18.net/beckfordiana.html 20 Feb 2008 William Beckford (art critic, novelist, member of Parliament 1760-1844) academic website with scholarly resources and links to his work, as well as biographical and other information relating to his life and career, online text available as well as extensive information about his life, art and architecture, aesthtics, etc. MO
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Connexions. Rice University. Oct., 1999. < http://cnx.org > 20 Feb., 2008. Connexions is a “kind” of wiki tool that is scholarly and peer-reviewed, so the information is reliable. There’s information about the Romantic Era, and I believe it would be useful as a quick means of finding information and articles to reference our chapters with. zrw
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The below entries needs to be cleaned up so it conforms to the standard format. -Dr. Katherine D. Harris 2/29/08 12:25 PM Frankenstein Exhibit Home Page U.S. National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frank_birth.html,Feb.15,2008 Fr.Exh.H.Page provides a brief, precise overview on the birth of the book, Mary Shelly’s writer’s life, 1818 physicians and scientists’ attempts to cross the boundaries b/n life and death, studies, experiments and pictures, introducing blood transfusion in an attempt to save women from massive blood lost after birth, Galvanism-what the word implied during the writing of the novel etc. Juja http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/ My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein A large section of this web site is specifically devoted to her most famous novel Frankenstein, offering a summary, a title explanation, character descriptions and information about the genre of Gothic literature. The text of Frankenstein is available in a fully annotated HTML format. This web site was last updated on September 23rd 2007. Relatively short definitions of genres and resources included. As a quick reference some might find it very useful. Very simplistic in explanation of the plot, characters and conflicts, not quite what a college use of language might require .Juja http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/westn/scitech.html#sociology In the field of social sciences, the study of Sociology was conceived by August Comte, who wrote of a hierarchy of knowledge: 1. Theological (fictitious)
This website offers course readings on a number of topics among which the French Revolution, Industrialization, Romanticism, Revolutions from 1848 etc. but does not seem very reliable. Looks like any changes can be made!! !Juja
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More, Hannah. British Abolitionists. Carey Brycchan. < http://www.brycchlancarey.com/abolition/index.htm> 20 Feb 2008 A collection of biographies and extensive etexts available about British Abolitionists, one being Hannah More including links to full online texts prose and poetry by authors and links and references to further full text scholarly articles. MO
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Unknown. “The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum Archive.” From History to Her Story: Yorkshire Women’s Lives On-Line, 1100 to Present. Trans. David Brown. <http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk/index.php?targetid=117 >. 18 Feb 2008.
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“History and Chronology of Napoleon I in France.” http://www.badley.info/history/Napoleon-I-France.biog.html 13 Feb 2008. An entire chronology of Napoleon’s life and other related information can be found on this site, which is particularly useful for understanding much of the political confrontations of the period.-MFL
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Royal Web Team, Royal Household at Buckingham Palace. The Official Website of the British Monarchy. The Royal Family of the United Kingdom. Ed. Royal Web Team. http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp> 15 Feb 2008. The Royal Household of the United Kingdom has set up this website in order to disseminate information about their policies, to relate news regarding their actions, and to provide a centralized location for common concerns of its people. This website provides the British government with a lens for its own actions, which allows the reader to see what the government wants to be seen. This is a useful tool that relates to frame narrative, storytelling, and a version of history. dtc
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Barbee, Larry S. Introduction to the Case. Casebook: Jack the Ripper. Ed. Stephen P. Ryder, Alexander Chisholm, et al. 1996. http://www.casebook.org/intro.html 21 Feb 2008. This site features an introduction to one of the most notorious murdering sprees in English history. There are links to the letters left by the killers, witness, victim, and suspect listings, and other official reports centered on the incidents. The grizzly nature of the serial murders relates directly to our studies of the gothic, because of the unbelievable gore, the issues of class, and the presence of a monstrous figure.
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“British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution.” University of California Santa Barbara. Ed. Alan Liu. Feb. 22 2000. http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/research/around-1800/FR/ 19 Feb 2008.
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“19th Century London Images.” http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/London.htm 18 Feb 2008. Images of London can be found here along with accompanying descriptions, which provides a glimpse of the everyday proceedings of London citizens and dwellers. The site is particularly useful for examining the fashions, dress, and countenance of people residing in the 19th century.-MFL
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This too needs to be re-formatted. -Dr. Katherine D. Harris 2/29/08 12:26 PM http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/haynin/haynin0505.htm Scotland in the nineteen century.5.Education Section5.5 Schools Education of the lower orders. Second report from the Select Committee. Minutes of evidence, 1818. Reports of select committees on the conditions of parochial schools on Scotland from 1818, 1834 and on…In these reports there is interesting information on how the schools were run, who paid the masters salary and what it depended on (certainly not on the performance of the pupils as is in public schools today especially those under Title I –interesting comparison. Sounds like property tax of today?-Read this .Juja The landed proprietors in each parish were obliged to build the schoolhouses and provide the schoolmaster with a salary. They had the right, however, to ask the tenants to pay half the schoolmaster's salary. In addition, the teacher received fees from the pupils for instruction in certain subjects. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peake, Richard Brinsley. Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein. Romantic Circles Electronic Edition. Ed. Shephen C. Behrendt. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/peake/toc.html. 15 Feb 2008. While the background, author biography, analysis, and full text of the play are highlights of this site, the most relevant page for our purposes is “Novel into Drama and onto Stage,” which describes the transition from Mary Shelley’s book to theatrical production. –ksr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nelson, Alfred L. . "A Calendar of Performances." The Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900. 1998. 20 Feb 2008 http://www.emich.edu/public/english/adelphi_calendar/acpmain.htm>. Here we will find a listing for the many shows which were performed during our assigned time period, which will provide us with detailed information about theatre activity in the Nineteenth Century. dmm
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Responses to and Adaptations of Frankenstein in Film and Elsewhere. Ed. Melissa J. Sites. December 1999. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/misc/ficrep/frankenstein.html >. 18 February 2008
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This too needs to be re-formatted. -Dr. Katherine D. Harris 2/29/08 12:26 PM http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/Rom_Links.htmResponses to and Adaptations of Most reliable source where a student can find information on adaptations and literary responses, in film etc. Juja | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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“Alchemical Texts” The Alchemy Website. Ed McLean. 1995 http://www.levity.com/alchemy/texts.html 20 Feb 2008 Extensive site from a researcher on Alchemy, which includes transcribed primary sources about physical, philosophical and spiritual alchemy categorized according to time periods (16th century and before, 17th century, 18th and later), also includes descriptions, catalogued collection of images from woodcuts, etc, articles about alchemy, etc. (Includes Paracelsus mentioned in Frankenstein) very interesting. MO
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Ho, Mae-Wan. In Search of The Sublime. Institute of Science In Society, London. Ed. Mae-Wan Ho. http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/MaeWanHo/sublime.html 3 February 2008. The author of the site believes the sublime is induced by scientific knowledge as much as by art. She seeks to “explore the basis for that kernel of sublimity that resides in all those special occasions.” Interesting and has scientific images that are also art. Site cross-pollinates art and science. RC
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Safina, Carl. On the Wings of the Albatross. National Geographic. December 2007. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/12/albatross/safina-text 3 February 2008. This poetic National Geographic article on the albatross includes photographs by Frans Lanting. Includes scientific information and the pictures can be considered art. One fun albatross fact to pique your interest, -they can fly for thousands of miles without touching land. This article will add much to the reading of the “Rime of the ancient Mariner.” (See also Frans Lanting’s Gallery, http://www.lanting.com/.) RC
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Tinkergirl. The Brass Goggles. July, 2006. < http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/ > 20 Feb., 2008.
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von Slatt, Jake. The Steampunk Workshop. < http://www.steampunkworship.com > 20 Feb., 2008. Here's more information about real-life steampunk projects. Take a look just to see what cool things they've done. Again, this is a nice reference to ideas and themes found in Frankenstein. zrw
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Various. Antique Botanical Prints. Prints with a Past Gallery. 2001, last updated 24 January, 2008. http://www.printspast.com/botanical.htm 2 February 2008. An index of Antique Botanical Prints which are not only beautiful to look they provide insight into multiple other areas of study. Areas like botany, gardening, art, culture, the development of printing, and more. It is also interesting since many of our reading have referred to botany. This site has links to prints from 1820s to the early 1900s. RC
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University of Helsinki. Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Botanical Museum. 30 June 2008. http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/english/botany/ 9 February 2008. See especially the Linnaean specimens link which contains pictures and information on some 90 specimens. They are from Carl Linnaeus the elder, known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné . He laid the foundation for binomial nomenclature, the formal system of naming plant species. He is considered the father of taxonomy, describing and categorizing organisms. His son added to his study first published in 1758, over a number of years. RC
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Various. SJSU King Library. SJSU/City of San Jose. http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/special_coll/
For more information on botany see: Sowerby, James. English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth : to which will be added, occasional remarks / James Sowerby. London : Printed for the author, by J. Davis, 1790-1814. This ten-volume set of hand-colored engravings with descriptions, is located in our library’s special collections. See source 10 of 83 on special collections list provided by Dr. Harris for timeline project.) RC
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This entry needs to be re-formatted. -Dr. Katherine D. Harris 2/29/08 12:30 PM http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/garden_design/11491 Main page of the Genuine article. Literally. One will find articles on garden but also references on The Sublime, Edmund Burke, and Romantic Movement-this is what a good Romantic garden was- quote: “The most successful of the Romantic gardens either had a natural setting of sublime grandeur or Medieval ruins; some had both”. There are also related blog posts, may be something similar to what we are trying to do. Check it out! Juja
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A Romantic Natural History. Nichols, Ashton. 2000 <http://users.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/index.html> 20 Feb. 2008.
An author’s and professor’s website about Romantic period Natural History before the time/publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species. The site contains background information about Natural History, and in depth information developments in the field of Natural History (advances in science/evolution) during the romantic era, and showing the relationships between literary figures and natural historians (giving biographies of major figures). Includes references to the authors we have been reading: the Shelleys, Erasmus Darwin, etc. (The creator is an author of scholarly books related to this subject and professor of English) MO This site has information on scientific or “natural history” discoveries and accomplishments during the Romantic Period, 1750-1850. zrw
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Sublime Anxiety http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/gothic/index.html Awesome website, if you dare to enter under a flash of lightening, an inviting sign EXIBIT will lead you into; Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and The Outsider. The outsider will find 12 books (The Shelley’s’ and their Circle, Woman and the Gothic, The Vampire to name a few) and keeping his cool continue the journey into each one. There are Curator’s Instructions, after that, you are on your own. Juja
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http://chemistry2.csudh.edu/rpendarvis/carbstr.html Organic chemistry, the chemistry of the element carbon forms compounds with a few other elements (O, N, P, S and H) and thus becomes the chemical basis for living systems. But why is it called "organic" chemistry? In the beginning of the 19th century, Chemists imagined that organic compounds were held together by a mysterious "vital force". If any one has an interest in organic chemistry, this is a course outline that might be helpful. Juja
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O’Neil, Dennis. Basic Principles of Genetics: An Introduction to Mendelian Genetics. Behavioral Sciences Department, Palomar College, San Marcos, California. Ed. Dr. Dennis O’Neil. 1998, last updated January 20, 2008. http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm 10 February, 2008.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/defense-id.html The main page of PBS contains a long interview with the father of Intelligent Design Phillip Johnson, a law professor at UC Berkeley and author of the book Darwin on Trial. In it, he is defending Intelligent Design and is trying to point the short comings of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. When asked if Intelligent Design is science? His answer is: “If evolution by natural selection is a scientific doctrine, then the critique of that doctrine, and even of the fundamental assumption on which it's based, is a legitimate part of science as well.”?! He goes on distinguishing the difference between I.D. and Creationism and in doing so he touches on questions “Is supernatural outside the realm of science? Are evolution and religious beliefs compatible? “Read on and you decide.Juja
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Carey, Bjorn. Scientists Build Frankenstein Neanderthal Skeleton. Live Science. 10 March, 2005. <http://www.livescience.com/history/050310_neanderthal_reconstruction.html > 20 Feb., 2008. This was an interesting article on the development of a Neanderthal man from various parts of specimens found around the Neanderthal dispersion area. I think the website/journal itself would be helpful in discovering articles and sources for our project. zrw
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“Theory of Animal Electricity.” New York University. http://itp.nyu.edu/~nql3186/electricity/pages/galvani.html 15 Feb 2008. The link provided leads to a site containing some information on Luigi Galvani’s experiment on “Animal Electricity,” in which Galvani used electricity to induce muscle movement in a Frog. Experiments such as this influenced Frankenstein, as Shelley mused upon in her 1831 introduction to the novel.-MFL
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“Heritage: Faraday Page.” The Royal Institute of Great Britain. Ed. Dr. Frank James. http://www.rigb.org/heritage/faradaypage.jsp 14 Feb 2008.
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Fuegi, John. “To Dream Tomorrow – Ada Byron Lovelace.” Women of Power Series. 2003. University of Maryland, College Park and Flare Productions. 19 Feb. 2008 http://www.mith.umd.edu/flare/lovelace/index.html
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Format appropriately, please. -Dr. Katherine D. Harris 2/29/08 12:32 PM http://chemistry2.csudh.edu/rpendarvis/carbstr.html
Organic chemistry, the chemistry of the element carbon forms compounds with a few other elements (O, N, P, S and H) and thus becomes the chemical basis for living systems. But why is it called "organic" chemistry? In the beginning of the 19th century, Chemists imagined that organic compounds were held together by a mysterious "vital force". If any one has an interest in organic chemistry, this is a course outline that might be helpful. Juja
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Format appropriately, please. -Dr. Katherine D. Harris 2/29/08 12:32 PM http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science+society/lectures/lecture27.html In a series of lectures this website reaffirms that 19th century was the century of science. Science affected all areas of life. The years 1760-1840, also known as the Industrial Revolution, brings major changes in society as well. England becomes from agrarian-based society to urban or there is a major shift from feudalism to capitalism. These are just a few of the discoveries in physics (lecture 27). Lecture 24 is on chemistry and 25 on biology. Juja
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McDermott, Kathleen. “Changes in 19th Century Male Fashion.” Á la Mode, 1795 to 1920 Fashion Plates. June 2005. Boston Public Library. 19 Feb. 2008. <http://www.bpl.org/research/rb/fashion/case4.htm>. This is a sub-page under Á la Mode, 1795 to 1920 Fashion Plates, a display and exposition of fashion plates from the Rare Books Department at the Boston Public Library. This above-mentioned page takes a look at the history of male dress code development in 19th-century England, France and the United States, complete with corresponding fashion plates. Other related topics, which can be linked from bottom of this webpage, are: Fashion and Classicism, Fashion Plates 1818-1846, Fashion Plates 1862-1896, Fashion Influences from Abroad and Fashion and Modernism. – D.C
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