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Alliance
Academic Directory
The leading academic websites on British literature
in the 17th and 18th centuries reviewed and cataloged by university experts.
Luminarium:
Early 17th Century
This site, built by Anniina Jokinen, puts a particular
emphasis on the metaphysical poets. Jokinen offers information on several
genres and biographies of individual authors.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th-Century
Part of the Voice of the Shuttle site run by Alan
Liu, this page provides links to a variety of journals, criticism, newsgroups,
and listservs. Although it is stronger in Renaissance literature, it is
still useful for 17th-century authors, particularly Milton.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Restoration and 18th-Century
Also part of the Voice of the Shuttle site, this
page provides links to a variety of journals, criticism, newsgroups, and
listservs.
18th-Century
Resources: Literature
Created by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, this
page features links to a wide range of online resources on everyone from
Milton to the Romantics.
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Neoclassicism:
Overview of 18th-Century Literature
From George Landow's Victorian Web, this site provides
an overview of 18th-century literary form and style, covering poetics,
the heroic couplet, the mock epic, and Augustan satire.
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Eighteenth-Century Studies
Carnegie Mellon University provides links to full
texts of novels, plays, memoirs, treatises, and poems, as well as some
essays of modern criticism.
18th-Century
Resources: E-Texts
This page, developed by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University,
offers links to a wide range of full texts from the 18th century.
Milton
Reading Room
Sponsored by Dartmouth University, this site includes
links to most of Milton's works, including the complete texts of Paradise
Lost, Paradise Regain'd, and Samson Agonistes.
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Metaphysical Poets: A Reader's Guide
In this guide to the early 17th-century metaphysical
poets, George Williamson offers readings of individual poems as well as
a study of the group as a whole.
Writing
Women in Jacobean England
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski's study of women writers
of the early 17th century sheds light on a little-known aspect of literary
history.
New
Casebooks: Paradise Lost
Edited by William Zunder, this anthology offers
several useful critical essays about Milton's epic work.
Surprised
by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost
Stanley Fish's classic changed the face of Milton criticism and remains
an important work for understanding Paradise Lost.
The
Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the 18th Century
John Brewer paints a rich portrait of the arts and
culture of 18th-century England.
English
Society in the 18th Century
Roy Porter's engaging and comprehensive social history
is a terrific introduction to the period.
The
Rise of the Novel
Ian Watts' classic study interweaves examinations
of English literature and English society to show how the novel became
the preeminent literary genre.
Desire
and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
Nancy Armstrong's groundbreaking work draws on a
wide range of sources - from women's "conduct books" to mainstream
novels - to connect the rise of the novel in the 18th and 19th centuries
with new, gendered notions of identity and selfhood.
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Florimène
at the Court of Charles I
The University of Washington offers this animated, interactive exploration
of Florimène, Inigo Jones' once-popular court "masque"
- a combination of participatory drama and masked ball.
Internet
Library of Early Journals
A joint project of the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester,
and Oxford, this searchable archive offers the full text of substantial
runs of three 18th-century journals and three 19th-century journals.
William
Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture
This searchable, categorized archive of images began as a special
exhibit on Hogarth at Northwestern University and is now a permanent
part of the university's online collection.
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