Mrs. Denny - How does British Literature depict women?
(Beginning with Medieval, Anglo Saxon, and Renaissance periods, then comparing with modern works)
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This is a 3 min. lecture. If you use it, here's the citation:Women in Literature: Medieval Saint or Sinner: Chaucer's Women. 1996 . Audio.
Discovery Education. Web. 28 January 2013. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>. |
Shmoop has info & resources: The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Sir Gawain, Samuel Beckett, Chaucer, Joseph Conrad, Roald Dahl, & MUCH more.
This is Elspeth Green from Education Portal. Watch her. Listen to her. She will help you. I promise.
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Online databases, full-text lit, poems, essays, plays, photos, maps, etc. You need a library card # to access the databases.
Free online lectures and courses from Yale.
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The Labryinth - Resources for medieval studies - has primary sources, criticisms, images, maps, etc.
The Camelot Project - Arthurian texts, bibliographies, images, etc.
Read "A Wife's Lament" online
Britannia.com - all kinds of resources on Brit. Lit. (FYI- some of the links don't work)
Modern British Writers and Poets:
Click here for a list of contemporary British writers and their works. (From Western Michigan U.)
Click here for web resources for contemporary British Literature (from Kansas State U.)
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
Conrad, Joseph (Heart of Darkness, etc)
Cope, Wendy
Dahl, Roald (Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc)
Eliot, T.S.
Forster, E.M.
Fowles, John Robert
Golding, William (Lord of the Flies, Free Fall)
Greene, Graham
Heaney, Seamus
Hornby, Nick
Hughes, Ted (poet – was married to Sylvia Plath)
Huxley, Aldous (Brave New World)
Ishiguro, Kazuro - yes, he's British! (Remains of the Day, etc.)
Kipling, Rudyard (The Jungle Book, etc.)
Lawrence, D.H. (Sons and Lovers, etc.)
Lessing, Doris
Levy, Andrea (Small Island- great book and BBC miniseries!)
Lewis, C.S. (Chronicles of Narnia and lots of other good works!)
Macauley, Rose (The World My Wilderness)
Maugham, Somerset (Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil)
McEwan, Ian (Atonement, etc.)
Milne, A.A. (Winnie the Pooh)
Murdoch, Iris
Orwell, George (1984, Animal Farm, etc.)
Powell, Anthony (A Dance to the Music of Time)
Rushdie, Salman (The Satanic Verses, etc.)
Sharp, Evelyn (In Dull Brown)
Tolkien, J.R.R. (Lord of the Rings books)
Waugh, Evelyn (he's a man!)
Weldon, Faye
Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, etc.)