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British Lit. timeline - A website by Cindy Adams. Excellent source of general characteristics of the various periods we will study.
Glossary of Literary Terms
Anglo Saxon Period links
Medieval Links
Renaissance Links
Early 17th Century
Romantics - chronology of Romantic writers - William Blake page - Blake special exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art - Web Museum, William Blake -
Victorian - see many of our novels
Novels
Jane Eyre [Victorian Period] by Charlotte Bronte
spring paper topics
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [Victorian period] [yes, Charlotte's sister] - family trees
Humanetrics: On-line personality test based on Jung-Myers-Briggs typology. Find out what "type" you are and let's consider what "type" the characters in Wuthering Heights are.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - [Neo-classical period or Romantic period, depending on the source you consult] a novel of social comedy written when she was only twenty-one - a calendar for the novel - Why her characters are so plan, so normal, so shallow - Manners and customs in Jane Austen's time - Family trees for the novel - study questions [a million of them] if you want them, here they are. I have the answers that you can check, but only after you show me that you've tried them. Table of Honorifics - titles and how they worked.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [Romantic Period] - Discovery of the Elements -
Webquest - for after the novel - Read each essay and discuss with your group and then with the class, agreeing or disagreeing with specific reasons for your thoughts - Monsters at the Margin - Brides of Frankenstein - Marriage and Mary Shelley - Passions of Prometheus
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - [Victorian period] Inflation and Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian money - on-line copy of the novel -
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy [Victorian Period]
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