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British: 18th Century
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- Keats
- https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#4
- This lengthy analysis of the author’s life and work includes sections on “Early years”, “Endymion”, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, and “Sonnets.”
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: C. H. Herford
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XII: English, The Romantic Revival, The Nineteenth Century, I
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- The Gothic
- https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/themes/the-gothic
From wild and remote landscapes to vulnerable heroines; from violent and erotic fantasies to supernatural and uncanny happenings; Gothic fiction has intrigued and unsettled readers for more than two centuries. How do these works reflect the political, social and cultural contexts in which they were written?
- Contains: Historical Context
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- The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages: MacPherson’s Ossian. Chatterton. Percy and the Wartons.
- https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#9
- This lengthy historical analysis includes sections titled “Limited Influence of the Middle Ages upon Modern Literature”, “DrydenÕs, PopeÕs and AddisonÕs estimates of Medieval Poetic masterpieces”, “PercyÕs Five Runic Pieces”, “Chatterton and his indebtedness to Spenser “, and “Tyrwhitt, the Restorer of Chaucer.”
- Author: W. P. Ker
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume X: English, The Age of Johnson
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- Molland’s
- http://www.mollands.net
- An online community of Jane Austen fans help maintain this website devoted to the author. Contains public domain works on and by Austen as well as a list of links to external resources for more information. Also has an online forum.
- Author: Molland’s
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- Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
- http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
- “Romanticism On the Net is a Peer-reviewed, Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic and Victorian studies. This quarterly journal is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. “
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis,
- Author: Michael Eberle Sinatra
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- Scottish Authors
- http://www.slainte.org.uk/CILIPS/publications/scotauth/scauhome.htm
- This site provides biographical information and links for Scottish authors born since 1320, with a lot of emphasis on the period between 1700 and 1900.
- Author: SLAINTE – Scottlish Libraries Across the INTErnet
- From: Discovering Scottish Writers Scottish Library Association
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- Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns
- https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#14
- This lengthy analysis of Scottish popular poetry of the17th and 18th centuries includes sections on “The long Blight on Scottish Secular Verse”, “Exceptional popularity of Lyndsay”, “Peculiarity of the relation between English and Scottish Song in the Seventeenth Century”, “Allan Ramsay”, “Robert Crawford”, “Jacobite Songs in Hogg’s Jacobite Relics of Scotland”, and “Robert Fergusson: his personality and poetic qualities.”
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: T. F. Henderson
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume IX: English, From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift
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- Sir Walter Scott
- https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#1
- This lengthy analysis of the author’s life and work includes sections on “The Scottish literary revival of the eighteenth century”, “His German studies; Ballad poetry”, “The Lady of the Lake”, “Scott and Byron”, “His treatment of love” and “The influence of his work.”
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: T. F. Henderson
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XII: English, The Romantic Revival, The Nineteenth Century, I
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- WHAT’S A GUINEA? Money and Coinage in Victorian and 20th Century Britain
- http://www.web40571.clarahost.co.uk/currency/PreDecimal/predecimal.htm
- This site explains the curious monetary system of pre-1968 Britain. Find here the relationships between pence, shillings, pounds, florins, sovreigns, crowns, half-crowns and guineas.
- Contains: Historical Context,
- Author: Paul Lewis
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