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Links

• Curriculum Vitae
• Faculty Profile
• Publications
• William Morris
  OnLine Edition
• 18th & 19th Century
  Interdisciiplinary Colloquium

Affiliations

• William Morris Society
• Midwest Victorian Studies Association
• North American Conference on British Studies
• Modern Language Association
• Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
• Women's Caucus of the Modern Languages
• Pater Society
• John Clare Society
• Pre-Raphaelite Society (Birmingham)
• Dickens Universe
• National Women's Studies Association

Online Resources

• News from Nowhere, On-line illustrated edition, Florence Boos with Louisa Efner, Karla Tonella and others.
• Arts and Crafts Museum (Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum)
• The Pre-Raphaelite Critic
• The Rossetti Archive
• Victoria Research Web
• Victorian Web
• Victorian Web Sites (Link compendium)
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• Voice of the Shuttle - Victorian (Link compendium)

Online texts that require U.I. hawkID for full access

• Dictionary of Literary Biography(essays by Boos on Janet Hamilton, Augusta Webster, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Annie Matheson and Violet Jacob)
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction
• Nineteenth Century Literature
• Nineteenth Century Music
• Victorian Poetry
• Victorian Literature and Culture
• Victorian Studies: A Journal of the Humanities Arts and Sciences

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

updated May 26, 2012

Art Galleries

• William Morris and the Decorative Arts
  • illuminated manuscripts
  • wallpaper, cloth, tiles
  • furniture and decor
  • stained glass
  • Kelmscott Press
• Pre-Raphaelites
• Victorian and Edwardian Women Artists
• African-American Artists
  • background on paintings
• Scottish Painters

On-line Illustrated Edition of News from Nowhere

The On-line Illustrated Edition was originally created in 2004 by Louisa Efner and Professor Florence Boos. It was revised later with the help of Julie Arensdorf, Sean de Vega and JoAnn Seeman. Most recent redesign by Karla Tonella, 2012.

Study Questions

• Study Questions for American Literature
• Study Questions for British Literature
• Study Questions for Other Literature and Criticism

Comprehensive Examination Lists

• Sample comprehensive examination list 1800-1900
• Sample comprehensive examination list 1900-1940

Bibliographies and Other Materials Compiled for Courses

• Victorian Women Poets Bibliography
• Bibliography of Victorian Poetry and Prose 1830-1900 (to 1990)
• Recent Works on Victorian Literature and Culture (1990-2001)
• Bibliography of Victorian Fiction (to 1990)
• Bibliography of Victorian Sexuality, Gender, and the Lives of Women
• Bibliography on Victorian Historicism (to 1990)
• Selected Bibliography on Ecology, Environmentalism and Literature
• Booklist on the Short Story

• Nineteenth Century British Timeline
• African-American History Timeline
• Chronology of Early Scottish History and Culture
• Chronology of Modern Scottish History and Culture
• Chronology of Britons of African Descent until the Abolition of Slavery
• Timeline for British Women 1750-1930

• Metrics (20th century examples), Metrics (African-American examples) and prosody
• Suggestions on how to write an essay
• On-line illustrated edition of News from Nowhere, Florence Boos with Louisa Efner and others.
• Articles on Nineteenth-Century Working Class Literature (Boos)
• Articles and Other Publications Excluding Those on William Morris and Working-Class Literature(Boos)
• Articles and Other Publications on William Morris (Boos)

Courses
 

Graduate Courses
8:225	Late Victorian Literature: New Women and Decadent Men - Fall 2012
8:432	Victorian Women Writers - Fall 2011
8:229	Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory - Fall 2010
8:432	Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes - Fall 2009
8:224	Victorian Literature - Spring 2008
8:229	Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory - Fall 2007
8:432	British Women Poets 1850-1950 - Spring 2006
8:224	Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature - Spring 2004
8:229	Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory - Fall 2004
8:224	British Literature 1830-1880 - Spring 2002
8:432	Victorian and Edwardian Women Poets - Fall 1999
8:224	Early Victorian Literature - Fall 1998
Undergraduate Courses
8:133 Victorian Fiction - Fall 2012
8:121 Victorian Poetry - Fall 2012
8:154 Literature of the American Midwest - Spring 2012
8:121	Victorian Women Poets - Spring 2012
8:170	Victorian Fiction - Spring 2011
8:121	Victorian Poetry - Spring 2011
8:104	Literature and Culture of the Victorian Period - Fall 2010
8:121	Victorian Women Poets - Fall 2009
8:129	The Critical Tradition: Theory and the Social World - Spring 2009
8:154	Literature of the American Midwest - Spring 2009
8:121	Victorian Poetry - Fall 2008
8.098	Victorian Lives - Fall 2008
8:029	Women Poets from Sappho to the Present - Spring 2008
8:121	Victorian Women Poets - Fall 2007
8:129	The Critical Tradition - Fall 2006
8:104	Literature and Art in Victorian London - June 2007 taught in London
8:090	Victorian Fiction - Spring 2008
8:029	Poems and More Poems - Fall 2006
8:174	Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes - Fall 2006
8:174	Victorian Fiction - Spring 2008
8:129	The Critical Tradition - Fall 2005
8:121	Victorian Poetry - Fall 2005
8:029	News from Nowhere: Art and Ecotopia - Fall 2005
8:104	Literature and Culture of the Nineteenth Century - Spring 2006
8:098	Honors Proseminar: Victorian Literature and Art - Fall 2004
8:161	African-American Women Writers - Spring 2004
8:133	British Novel: Scott to Butler - Spring 2003
8:103	Literature and Culture of Scotland 1780-1930 - Spring 2003
8:125	Modern British and American Poetry - Fall 2002
8:139	African-American Poetry - Fall 2002
8:179	Nature and 'Green' Traditions in British and American Literature since 1800 - Spring 2002
8:188	Victorian Women Writers - Fall 2001
8:121	Victorian Poetry (1837-1901) - Fall 2001
8:098	Honors Proseminar: Poetry and Memoirs by British and American Writers of African Descent - Fall 2000