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Questions for individual authors
English Poetry - includes the works of nearly 1,350 poets from 600-1900 with emphasis on the actual text of the poems and including the poet's own notes but excluding the following: translations into English verse after 1800, hymns published after 1800, works in languages other than English, poems never published or only published in contemporary newspapers, journals or miscellanies, verse dramas intended for stage. Features include keyword, title, first line, poet and period searches and custom printing options. Part of Literature Online (LION). (UI access only)
Modern Language Association Bibliography (MLAB), 1967 - present. Indexes books, chapters of books, dissertations, journal articles, conference proceedings and more. (UI access only)
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) - scanned contents pages of about 2100 magazines and journals, some back to 1770. Excellent resource for book reviews. For example, Edinburgh Review (1802-1929). (UI access only)
Literature Online (LION) - a fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature. Includes Abell (The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature), which contains over 500,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. (UI access only)
Poole's Plus Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) (Editor: W. F. Poole.) All records (490,000) are now available for searching. Additional minor records are being added following the conversion of these records to database form. Record verification and correction continues on minor records. (UI access only) See also the paper copy in Reference Index area.
Bibliographies:
Recent Works on Victorian Literature and Culture
Bibliography of Victorian Poetry and Prose (to 1990)
Bibliography of Victorian Fiction (to 1990)
Bibliography of Victorian Sexuality, Gender, and the Lives of Women
Bibliography of Victorian Historicism
Bibliography of Victorian Women Poets
Sample Comprehensive Examination Lists:
Nineteenth Century British Literature
Timelines:
Timeline for British Women 1750-1930
Walter Pater - biographical, background and critical information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Charlotte
Bronte - biographical, background and critical information from
the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
George
Eliot - biographical, background and critical information from the
Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Robert
Browning - biographical, background and critical information from
the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - biographical, background and critical information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Augusta Webster - biographical, background and critical information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Alfred Tennyson - biographical, background and critical information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
William Morris - biographical, background and critical information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Christina Rossetti - biographical, background and critical information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Victorian Websites - a remarkably extensive and current site to the wealth of Victorian materials on the web. Use your "find in page" command under "edit" in the upper left corner of your screen to effectively maneuver within this site.
The Victorian Web - an encyclopedia of brief entries on Victorian culture including sections for economics, religion, philosophy, visual arts, literature, science, politics, and more.
The William Morris Society - "this site is devoted to William Morris (1834-96), the British craftsman, designer, writer, typographer, and Socialist. It aims to present news of Morris-related events and publications; information about the worldwide William Morris Society; materials relating to the life and work of Morris, his friends and followers; and links to other places of interest on the Internet."
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic - a bibliographic guide to critical reactions to paintings and writings of the Pre-Raphaelites.
The Rossetti Archive - "the Rossetti Archive is a hypermedia environment for studying the works of the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882). In an ideal imagining the Archive will hold a digital image of every textual and pictorial document relevant to the study of Rossetti."
Cambridge History of English and American Literature - the 13 volume set online.
Questions for Individual Authors:
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach," "The Buried Life"
Charlotte Bronte, Villette 1, Villette 2
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Children," "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"
Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi"
Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, The Negro Question
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, Mill on the Floss 2 and 3, Mill on Floss 4 and 5, Mill on Floss 6 and 7, Silas Marner, Silas Marner 2 , Felix Holt
Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Bronte
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring and Fall"
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
William Morris, "The Defence of Guenevere," "Gertha's Lovers," News from Nowhere, A Dream of John Ball, "The Beauty of Life"
Walter Pater, The Renaissance
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince
Christina Rossetti, "Commonplace," "Goblin Market"
Dante Rossetti, "Jenny" "Hand and Soul," "St. Agnes of Intercession"
"The House of Life," paraphrase; Rossetti and Symons
chronology of "The House of Life" and other Rossetti poems
John Ruskin, selections from Modern Painters, vol. 1, Seven Lamps of Architecture; Modern Painters 2-5;
The Nature of Gothic," Unto This Last
Algernon Swinburne, "The Triumph of Time," "The Lake of Gaube"
Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses," "The Lotus Eaters"
Tennyson and Morris: Dates of Medieval Material Published During Their Lifetime
Augusta Webster, "The Castaway"
Working-Class Poets
Introductory remarks on
the nineteenth century
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