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 | |
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The Ha-ha, Landscape Design in 18th Cent. The Picturesque Humphry Repton |
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| Epistolary Novel, Epistolary Fiction, Novel in Letters, etc. | |
| Brontë | |
| The Brontë Family | Haworth - Bronte Country |
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Liverpool The Irish Famine |
Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 The Peel Web: The Irish Famine: 1845-9 |
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The Gothic in Fiction Northanger Abbey and the Place of the Gothic |
Northanger Abbey (See chapters 24-25) |
| Revenge Tragedy | Revenge Tragedy (Encyclopædia Britannica) |
| Dickens | |
| Mini-biography of Dickens | |
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Serial publication of Dickens’s novels Household Words and All the Year Round (Magazines) |
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| Walter Scott, Historical Novel | |
| French Revolution, Reign of Terror, Britain’s Relationship to This |
British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution |
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Dickens and Wilkie Collins The Frozen Deep (esp. Dramatic Version) The Franklin Expedition |
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| Eliot | |
| Mini-biography of Eliot | |
| Eliot’s Essay “The Natural History of German Life” | George Eliot (Excerpts) |
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Darwin and Literature Herbert Spencer |
Darwin and Darwinism in Victorian Literature Implementation in the Literature Classroom: Darwin as Synecdoche |
| Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ | |
| Bridgewater Treatises, Buckland’s Treatise |
The Bridgewater Treatises On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God As Manifested in the Creation |
| Joyce | |
| Mini-biography of Joyce |
James Joyce: a brief biographical chronology |
| Charles Stewart Parnell | |
| The Epiphany (in Christian Theology; As used by Joyce) |
James Joyce: Definition of Epiphany James Joyce’s Concept of “Epiphanies” James Joyce and ‘Epiphany’ |
| Myth of Daedalus and Icarus | |
| Celtic Revival, Irish Literary Revival, Abbey Theater |
The Irish Literary Revival |
| Rushdie | |
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Postcolonialism Post-colonial Literatures Postcolonial Era Decolonization |
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures |
| 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) | |
| Indira Gandhi; her administrations | |
Mill Quotations for Eliot (PDF)
