Major English Novels

Assignments

In addition to the take home exams, students are required to give one to two oral reports in class. Below are links for each class session that students may use to prepare their reports. They are suggested links, not the only sites that may be used.

TOPICS	REPORT URLS
Austen
Antigua, British Colonies in West Indies, Slave Trade, Sugar Plantations	Antigua and Barbuda’s History and Culture The Slave Trade The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain
The Ha-ha, Landscape Design in 18th Cent. The Picturesque Humphry Repton	Horace Walpole’s essay On Modern Gardening: The Ha Ha Landscape Gardening Glossary Question and Answers: Ha Ha Garden Design
Epistolary Novel, Epistolary Fiction, Novel in Letters, etc.	Epistolary Novel Dangerous Liaisons: About Letters Wikipedia Article: Epistolary Novel
Brontë
The Brontë Family	Haworth - Bronte Country
Liverpool The Irish Famine	Medieval British Towns Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 The Peel Web: The Irish Famine: 1845-9
The Gothic in Fiction Northanger Abbey and the Place of the Gothic	The Gothic Experience Northanger Abbey (See chapters 24-25)
Revenge Tragedy	Revenge Tragedy (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Dickens
Mini-biography of Dickens	Dickens: a brief biography A Dickens chronology Charles Dickens biography
Serial publication of Dickens’s novels Household Words and All the Year Round (Magazines)	Dickens: Life and Career Dickens and the Victorian Serial Novel
Walter Scott, Historical Novel	Sir Walter Scott Historical Novel (British), 1814 Scott the Novelist
French Revolution, Reign of Terror, Britain’s Relationship to This	British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution Reign of Terror Reign of Terror: The Terror The French Revolution: The Reign of Terror Jacobins Napoleonic Wars
Dickens and Wilkie Collins The Frozen Deep (esp. Dramatic Version) The Franklin Expedition	The Frozen Deep The Frozen Deep - Dramatic Version The Fate of Franklin The Franklin Expedition: 1845-1859
Eliot
Mini-biography of Eliot	George Eliot (1819-1880) George Eliot: biography
Eliot’s Essay “The Natural History of German Life”	George Eliot (Excerpts)
Darwin and Literature Herbert Spencer	Darwin and Darwinism in Victorian Literature Implementation in the Literature Classroom: Darwin as Synecdoche Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) Herbert Spencer (1820-1903): The Victorian Web, Literature, History, and Culture in the Age of Victoria
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ	Thomas à Kempis Imitation of Christ
Bridgewater Treatises, Buckland’s Treatise	Bridgewater Treatises The Bridgewater Treatises On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God As Manifested in the Creation Canon of Christ Church William Buckland (1784-1856) Geologist
Joyce
Mini-biography of Joyce	James Joyce: a brief biographical chronology James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941)
Charles Stewart Parnell	Charles Stewart Parnell Who was Charles Stewart Parnell?
The Epiphany (in Christian Theology; As used by Joyce)	Epiphany 4 Entries Found for Epiphany James Joyce: Definition of Epiphany Joyce’s Epiphany James Joyce’s Concept of “Epiphanies” James Joyce and ‘Epiphany’
Myth of Daedalus and Icarus	The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus Daedalus in Greek Mythology
Celtic Revival, Irish Literary Revival, Abbey Theater	The Irish Literary Revival Irish Literary Renaissance Revival of Nationalism
Rushdie
Postcolonialism Post-colonial Literatures Postcolonial Era Decolonization	The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures Decolonization
Amritsar Massacre	The Amritsar Massacre (From the Encyclopedia Brittanica) Amritsar Massacre
Independence and Partition of India	Modern History Sourcebook: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964): Speech On the Granting of Indian Independence, August 14, 1947
Indo-Pak Wars (India-Pakistan Wars)	India-Pakistan Wars India Pakistan Wars - A Summary Essay Partition of India India-Pakistan Wars, 1947
Indira Gandhi; her administrations	Indira Gandhi, at a glance Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi biography

Mill Quotations for Eliot (PDF)