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Writing Assistance Sources

MLA Guide for Writing Research Papers

--very handy reference, deals with proper documentation, working with quotations, the technical stuff English majors need to know

Writing a Literature Paper: Guidelines, Suggestions, Strategies

--an excellent resource by Jon Smith that details everything you need to know, from pre-writing through editing and proofreading. Pay particular attention to the section on the introduction and thesis!

Close Reading Guidelines

--a few helpful suggestions to guide you in doing an explication (close reading) of a passage.

Guide to Grammar and Style

--the indefatigable Jack Lynch has put together a wonderful miscellany of comments and rubrics about grammar, style, and usage

North Carolina State University's Online Writing Lab

--your tuition supports this, so check it out--it's very good

The UVic Writer's Guide

--fine source for brushing up on all those things Freshman Comp was supposed to make indelible . . . also glossary of literary terms; beware, however, of punctuation and spelling differences between British/Canadian and U.S./American English

Hypertext Webster's Dictionary

--type it in and look it up

Roots of English: an Etymological Dictionary

--free (as far as I can tell) downloadable dictionary that will frequently come in handy

Roget's Thesaurus--Hyptertext

--a new edition, but apparently based on the 1911 edition, so?????

Word Net Lexical Database

--developed using concepts from cognitive psychology, this site is a little confusing at first (particularly in what, exactly, it's doing) but it's fun and useful

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Individual Authors (listed alphabetically)

Brontë, Charlotte (and sisters Emily & Anne)

      

Charlotte Brontë: An Overview  (Brown University's excellent Victorian Website pages provide extensive biographical and background information on Bronte in general and on Jane Eyre in particular, with links to other sites)

The Brontë Family Site (lots of good links)
The Brontë Parsonage Museum (impressive site that has all sorts of useful information on the Brontë sisters, plus a virtual tour of the parsonage)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Site (University of Virginia's very helpful site; includes Gilman's own explanation of why she wrote the story)

Charlotte Perkins Society (Cortland University's site that includes links to online resources for Gilman's work)

James, Henry

The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites (a first-rate site that provides countless links to everything you ever needed to know about James)

Kesey, Ken

Kingwood College's site on Kesey (contains overview of Kesey's life and work, as well as some helpful links to cultural and historical background of the 1960s and the beat generation).

Merrick, Joseph (aka The Elephant Man)

Website for Lynch's film on the Elephant Man (There isn't a lot of useful stuff on the web on Joseph Merrick, but this looks like a fun site if you're interested in knowing more about David Lynch's film version)

Poe, Edgar Allan

"The Black Cat"

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

Edgar Allan Poe: Dark Genius of the Short Story (includes poems and a few tales, but if you click on Poe's name, you'll go to a useful biography)

Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Works of the Master of the Macabre (has links to bioraphical and other resource material, as well as poems and stories)

Shelley, Mary

 

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein (junky looking site with some good, varied material)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (published by the University of Maryland, with lots of resources -- looks better than the previous one)

Frankenstein Web Resources (an useful-looking site out of Hamberg)

The Myth and Mystery of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (a helpful short bio put together by high school students)

Prometheus myth  (there are many versions of this Greek myth, to which Shelley refers in her subtitle; this is one short, succinct version of it)

Another version of the Prometheus myth

Stevenson, Robert Louis

       

 The Robert Louis Stevenson Website (Richard Drury's  wonderfully exhaustive and ever-expanding site) University of South Carolina's new website on Jekyll and Hyde

Stoker, Bram (Although we aren't reading Dracula this semester, I've included some websites about Stoker's quintessential monster for obvious reasons)

        

The Dracula Homepage: Fact and fiction (an informative site that has a lot of good links to pertinent sites on Dracula)
The Dracula Page (an interesting site put together by a professor at the University of British Columbia)

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General References

Voice of the Shuttle

--meta-site that should link you to websites for just about everything pertinent about things taught in English; the problem is going through it all

Victorian Web

--super site from George Landow at Brown, really worth investigating

Victoria Research Web

--well-organized site devoted to scholarly research (duh!) in Victorian Studies . . . includes a section on planning your research trip to Britain

Victorian Literary Studies Archive

--another meta-site that links you to all sorts of first-rate nineteenth-century websites

Photos of Victorian London

--self-explanatory

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