Eighteenth Century Studies
A Dictionary
of Sensibility
Key words and concepts, like virtue,
understanding, sense, and
benevolence, are defined denotatively and connotatively.
They are illustrated with passages from contemporary writings, including
novels assigned in this course.
C18-L: Resources
for 18th-Century Studies Across the Disciplines
The homepage for C18-l, an international,
interdisciplinary list for the eighteenth century. Subscribe or unsubscribe
to the list. Covers bibliographies, links to libraries with strong
eighteenth century holdings, eighteenth century societies, and numerous
other categories. This site defines the eighteenth century as "the long
century," which extends roughly from 1660 to 1830.
A Dictionary of
Theology
This theological dictionary briefly defines
384 Christian, occult, and New Age terms (like deparvity).
Eighteenth-Century
English Novel Research Guide
Links to sites about a few authors,
including Defoe, and about films of eighteenth century novels, including
Robinson Crusoe, Joseph Andrews,
and Clarissa. Bibliographies.
Eighteenth
Century Resources by Jack Lynch
A comprehensive eighteenth century site.
Covers art, architecture, landscape gardening; history; literature
(and electronic texts); music; philosophy; religion & theology;
and science & mathetmatics. One-word searches.
How Much Is That
Worth Today?
This site enables you to vomparr the
purchasing power of money in the Great Britain from 1600 to any other
year including the present.
Ian's English Calendar
Calculates the date and the day of holidays,
of old style/new style dates, and dates of a king or a queen's reign,
from 325 AD.
Romantic Chronology:
18th Century to 1784
Year by year listing of major events,
developments and publications, some of which are linked to Websites.
Search.
The Julian
and Gregorian Calendars
Explanation of the change from the Julian
(Old Style) calendar to the Gregorian (New Style) calendar in 1752
in England and America (earlier on the continent). Convert dates in
English, Spanish, and German.
The Regency
Page 1777-1828
Focuses on women writers. Includes descriptions
and pictures of dress, year by year, for women, men, and children.
Voice of the
Shuttle: Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Comprehensive site and the most extensive
site. The Voice of the Shuttle is a good place to start any literary
search.
Women's
Cricket--a Brief History
Traces the history of women playing cricket
in England, starting with the first recorded women's cricket match in
1745.
E-Text Archives
Eighteenth Century Studies
Archive of eighteenth century poems,
plays, memoirs, novels and treatises, as well as modern criticism.
Eighteenth
Century E-Texts
Archive of works from Milton to Byron;
links to the major e-text archives.
Fanny Burney, Evelina
Evelina;
or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
E-text of the novel.
Fanny Burney
Brief biography. Don't bother with the
link to the extracts from her diary.
Fanny Burney
Brief comparison of Fanny Burney and
Mary Wollstonecraft; details about Burney's mastectomy in 1811.
Fanny Burney
as a Letter-Writer
Article from The Cambridge History
of English and American Literature.
Fanny Burney
as a Novelist
Article from The Cambridge History
of English and American Literature.
Fanny
Burney Comments on the King and Queen
Burney's description of her meeting
with King George and Queen Charlotte.
Fanny Burney
Fan Site
Links to Burney e-texts, an article
on Burney, sites about Burney, pictures of Burney, and a bibliography.
Fanny Is Us
Brief essay defending Fanny Burney as "one
of the most significant eighteenth-century woman writers of the second
millenium."
Fanny
Burney's Diary: An E-Text
Excerpts dealing with Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Frances (Fanny)
Burney d'Arblay (1752-1840)
A brief history of a discussion on Evelina held
on the Jane Austen List. Scroll to the bottom of the page for links
to two articles on Burney, a bibliography, a biography, and links to
other sites. Or press the Control and End keys simultaneously to automate
moving to the bottom of the page.
Move
Over Austen
Review of two books on Burney.
The Burney Society
Homepage
Biography, links to other Burney sites,
information on joining.
Poets'
Corner Memorial for Fanny Burney
Article from The Guardian about
a window in the Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey to commemorate the
250th anniversary of her birth.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Capitalism:
The Victorian Web
The first two paragraphs discuss capitalism
and Crusoe.
Daniel
Defoe
Capsule biography of Defoe. Numerous
links explain key terms, like dissenter, Tory, and
Anglic Church. I find so many links in short texts
annoying, but you may not.
Daniel Defoe
Short discussions of Defoe's Life, Works,
and Special Features. Chronology of major events in his life and
a few quotations.
Daniel
Defoe
Chronology of major events in his life
and writing, bibliography, Defoe as "the true-born Englishman." Also
a section on studying fiction and basic literary terms. Ignore the
ads unless you are interested in buying.
Daniel Defoe in The Cambridge History of English
and American Literature, 1907-1921
Defoe is discussed in three chapters–"The
Newspaper and the Novel" by W.P. Trent ; "The Literature of Dissent,
1660-1760" by W.A. Shaw; and "Education" by J.W. Adamson. The chapters
are broken down into sections. You might try browsing, or just pick the
section topics that appeal to you.
"The Newspaper and the Novel" (Chapter XVI, Volume 9)
§1. Defoe–The Newspaper and the
Novel: Beginnings of the English Newspaper
§2. The Oxford, afterward
The London Gazette
§3. Roger L’Estrange
§4. His activity as a pamphleteer
before and after the Restoration
§5. The Observator
§6. L’Estrange’s late troubles
and literary work
§7. Henry Care
§8. John Dunton
§9. The Flying Post and
The Post Boy
§10.John Tutchin
§11. Defoe’s early and business life
§12. An Essay upon Projects
§13. The True-Born Englishman
§14. The Shortest Way with the
Dissenters
§15. Defoe in the Pillory
§16. The Review
§17. Defoe and Harley
§18. Mercator and commercial
pamphlets
§19. The Secret History of the
White Staff and An Appeal to Honour and Justice
§20. Discreditable Later Tracts
§21. Defoe’s evolution as a Novelist
§22. Robinson Crusoe and its
sequel
§23. Miscellaneous later writings
§24. Defoe's last years
§25. His posthumous reputation
Bibliography
"The Literature of Dissent, 1660-1760" (Chapter XVI, Volume
10)
§3. The Literature of Dissent from
Defoe to Watts
"Education" (Chapter XV, Volume 9)
§13. Cavils of Swift and Defoe
Desire and
the Origins of the English Novel
The first paragraph is about Crusoe.
Daniel
Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
E-text of the novel.
Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
The title is self-explanatory.
Friday Homepage
Full of valuable information, but very
difficult to access. Keep trying. Sometimes you can get to a recalcitrant
site by dropping off ending slashes and text. For example, the URL for
this site is
http://dewey.rug.ac.be/NewFriday/RCTML/Rob_NO.html
You could try typing it without /Rob_No.html; if
that doesn't work, drop /RCTML also; finally drop NewFriday.
If that doesn't work, try accessing the site another time.
Robinson
Crusoe: An Evolution of Political Religion
An essay on Crusoe's relgious conversion
and its political meanings.
Robinson
Crusoe Homepage
Full of valuable information, but very
difficult to access. Keep trying. Sometimes you can get to a recalcitrant
site by dropping off ending slashes and text. For example, the URL for
this site is
http://dewey.rug.ac.be/NewFriday/RC.html
You could try typing it without /RC.html; if that
doesn't work, drop NewFriday. If that doesn't
work, try accessing the site another time.
Study
questions on Robinson Crusoe
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance, and the Gothic
Anne Radcliffe
Brief discussion and links to other Web
sites on Radcliffe and the Gothic.
Ann Ward Radcliffe
and the Female Gothic
Site being constructed. Not useful now;
check later in semester for progress. Picture of women's dress, 1790.
International Gothic
Association Home Page
A good source, if the Gothic attracts
you. Discussion groups, extensive Web links, and membership form.
Mistress
of Udolpho
A synopsis of Rictor Norton's The
Life of Ann Radcliffe.
The Gothic:
Materials for Study
Topics covered: individual and social
psychologies of the Gothic, the female Gothic, the Gothic and the
supernatural, the sublime and the domestic.
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
Each of the following sites consists of a passage from Clarissa
with a brief interpretation, from A Dictionary of Sensibility (the
first Website on this page):
Belford
describes Clarissa (end)
Belford
on Clarissa
Belford
on Clarissa's end
Clarissa
and cruel remembrance
Clarissa
as an Alien
Clarissa
blames lady for feeding bear
Clarissa
on a feeling heart
Clarissa
on language and purity
Clarissa
to Anna Howe, re encouraging Lovelace
Clarissa
to Anna Howe, re guilt and explanation
Lovelace
describes Clarissa
Virtue
and Clarissa
Clarissa
Description of BBC production of Clarissa;
pictures of authentic costumes.
Diderot
on Richardson
Extensive quotation of Diderot's tribute
to Richardson, with a brief interpretation, from A Dictionary of Sensibility
(the first Web site on this page).
No
Longer What I Was in Any One Thing
The Main Page for the Clarissa Project
may be somewhat difficult for novices to use, with its various frames.
It interprets quotations from the novel and discusses feminine writing
and hypertext.
Reading
Clarissa in Real Time
The record of an experiment in which a group
read the letters on the dates the letters were suposeldy written and
commenting on them.
Tobias Smollett, Humphrey Clinker
Bramble's
delicacy
Passage with brief interpretation, from
A Dictionary of Sensibility (the first Website on this list).
Bramble's
misanthropy
Passage with brief interpretation, from
A Dictionary of Sensibility (the first Website
on this list).
Fielding
and Smollett
Essay by Harold Child from The Cambridge History
of English and American Literature.
E-text
of The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
Tobias
George Smollett
Brief biography of Smollett.
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Jane
Austen and Laurence Sterne
Discussion of Austen's knowledge of
Sterne.
Laurence
Sterne.
Quotations from Sterne in Bartlett's
Quotations.
Laurence Sterne
Home Page
Brief biography of Sterne and other
eighteenth century novelists, brief discussion of writers who influenced
Sterne, discussion of the world of Tristram Shandy, characters, and
themes. William Dodd's essay on Sterne. A bibliography and links.
Laurence
Sterne in Cyberspace
Includes most of the Websites in this
list and more.
Shandy
Hall
Pictures of Sterne's home, including
his study.
The Life and
Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1759-67)
E-text of the novel.
The Vienna Web
A Shandean Website, presented in the
voice of Tristram.
Tristram
Shandy Bibliography
Annotated bibliography of articles since
1978.
Tristram
Shandy (The Electronic Bulletin Board)
A brief analysis of the novel.
Tristram Shandy
Page
E-text of Chapters 1 and 2. Useful topics
to look at: Themes and Student papers.
Revised: August 30, 2004
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