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A Brief History of English Literature in 13.5 Chapters Choose linkLinks Course Description   This course is designed as a general introduction to, and a condensed survey of, the history  of English literature from Old English Literature to  post-modern/contemporary writing in the British Isles. Landmarks in English literature as well as major  authors and major genres will be discussed in their  respective historical, socio-political, and cultural  contexts: (1) Beowulf and Old English Literature, (2)  Chaucer and Middle English Literature, (3) Shakespeare's  Friends and Elizabethan Literature, (4) Shakespeare,  (5) Donne, Milton, and 17th-C. Literature,  (6) Sterne and 18th-C. Literature, (7) Wordsworth,  Byron, and Romantic Poetry, (8) Jane Austen and the Romantic-Era Novel, (9) the Brontё Sisters and Victorian Literature, (10) Joyce and High Modernism, (11) 1956 and All That, (12) Metafiction and Postmodernism, (13) Eng. Lit. and Postcolonialism. Recommended  Reading: Hans Ulrich Seeber, ed. (1993). Englische Literaturgeschichte. 2nd ed. Stuttgart: Metzler. Links:   Link   Description   Rating   Posted by               The English Server     Huge and brilliant collection of e-texts, criticism,  etc.   Content: 5 Layout: 5 Speed: 5   P               The Cambridge History of English and American Literature     This excellent page is apparently based on the Cambridge History as published in 1921 and  includes the full text (over 11,000 printed  pages), various indexes and a full-text  search engine.   Content: 5 Layout: 4 Speed: 5   P               Life in Elizabethan England     Wonderful  collection of material on a wide range of  topics.   Content: 5 Layout: 5 Speed: 5   WH               Project Gutenberg     THE  archive of online e-texts. A huge collection of online material combined with a well-working, detailed search engine.   Content: 5 Layout: 4 Speed: 4   P               Fiction.Bartleby.co m     Very valuable text archive/ e-library.   Content: 5 Layout: 4 Speed: 5   P               Literary Resources on the Net     Beautifully  annotated collection of links and resources  arranged according to themes.   Content: 5 Layout: 3 Speed: 5   P               Luminarium     Beautifully  illustrated collection of links and resources  for poets up to the 17th century.   Content: 4 Layout: 5 Speed: 4   P               The Victorian Web     Reference  page considered by G. Landow as true hypertext.  Includes numerous essays and e-texts.   Content: 4 Layout: 3 Speed: 5   P               Sonnet Central     Huge collection of online sonnets of all periods. Main navigation is in Java-script! (But  access is possible via multiple ways.)   Content: 4 Layout: 4 Speed: 4   P               Glossary of Poetic Terms  from BOB'S BYWAY     Useful glossary and examples.   Content: 4 Layout: 3 Speed: 4   P               Literary History     Web-index  of online resources.   Content: 4 Layout: 3 Speed: 4   P               Short history of English  Literature     The  complete history of English Literature in  one single html-file.   Content: 4 Layout: 3 Speed: 3   P               English Literature     An overview over different periods.   Content: 3 Layout: 3 Speed: 4   P               History of Prose Style     Collection of examples regarding the development of prose style (focussing on the British Isles).   Content: 3 Layout: 3 Speed: 5   P

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