English 211: Fiction

Links

The following are links to literature pages on the Web.

Book Lovers: This site contains an abundance of links to every imaginable book-related site. Fabulous!

Bookwire: This site also has good links to other sites; more important, it links you to lists of the Nobel, Pulitzer, Pen-Faulkner, and other award winners. And not least, it takes you toThe Boston Review of Books and The Hungry Mind Review, among others.

Nimble Books LLC: This site contains book reviews, articles, author biographies, and also information on book-related Usenet groups.

The Literature Network has links to information and e-texts for a large number of authors. A very good resource.

The Word : This site contains a list of links to other book sites, especially on-line journals and reference sources. A very inclusive list.

Literature.org has full and unadridged e-texts of many American and English classics.

Bartleby.com has links to quotations, e-texts, and information on many writers. Great resource!


The following are links to sites which provide assistance with research, paper writing and documentation.

The Internet Public Library: This site contains all sorts of help on writing research papers, documentation, and information on literature, as well as lots of good links to literature sites.

The University of Wisconsin's Page on Documentation Styles: The name says it all.


The following are links to sites which provide information about some of the writers we're reading.

For general information on the novel:

For information on Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe:

  • Literary History.com has a page with some good links to articles about Defoe's writing in general, and some good articles specifically on Robinson Crusoe.
  • "Daniel Defoe as a Novelist" is an article by Ian Watt which summarizes Defoe's strengths and weaknesses as a writer. Good article!
  • Defcoe: The Newspaper and the Novel is an excellent account of Defoe's life and the relationship between journalism and the novel at the time.
  • Luminarium's page on Defoe is excellent: it has links to biographical information, e-texts of his books and essays, and links to many good critical articles about Defoe's work.

For information on Samuel Richardson and his novels:

  • Samuel Richardson is a brief biography of the writer.
  • Pamela is the e-text of Richardson's novel Pamela.
  • Literary History's page on Richardson has links to many good articles on Richardson and his novels.
  • Samuel Richardson is a more detailed account of the writing and publication of Richardson's novels.
  • Clarissa is the e-text of Richardson's novel Clarissa .

For information on Henry Fielding and his novels:

  • Henry Fielding is a brief biography of Fielding, with a list of his works.
  • Tom Jones is the e-text of Fielding's great novel, Tom Jones.
  • Fielding and Smollett is a section from a The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, and has some good information on Fielding.

For information on Laurence Sterne and his novels:

For information on Gothic and Romantic novels:

  • The Literary Gothic is an excellent site with tons of information on the Gothic novel and lots of links to other resources, as well.
  • Romanticism gives precise, clear definitions of Romanticism and a historical overview of the Romantic Movement.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley contains a brief biography of Mary Shelley and, on the left side of the page, links to e-texts of her work, including Frankenstein

For information on the Industrial Revolution:

  • The Internet Modern History Sourcebook's page on the Industrial Revolution is excellent. It has TONS of information, including essays written at the time about the events occurring. This site gives you a feeling of what it must have been like for the people living through all of this rapid change.
  • The Industrial Revolution is a lecture by Professor Gerhard Rempel of Western England College which sums it all up very nicely.

For information on Charles Dickens:

  • Charles Dickens Timeline is an excellent site with (of course) a timeline of the events of Dickens' life, and links to more complete information on each event.
  • eBooks@Adelaide has e-texts of Dickens' novels. Easy to access, and free!
  • David Perdue's Charles Dicken's Page is a very good site, with links to great information on Dickens--pictures of him, his family, and his houses, maps of London at the time, and more.

For more information on the American Novel

For more information on Nathaniel Hawthorne

For more information on Herman Melville

For more information on Mark Twain:

  • The Official Website of Mark Twain has a biography, quotes by and about Twain, and links to lots of other useful information.
  • Mark Twain: This site has a short biography, and also links to lots of e-texts of Twain's works.
  • Mark Twain in His Times is a great site: lots of information about Twain's life and business; even a very old audio file of his voice.
  • Mark Twain's Interactive Scrapbook is the companion site to the PBS production of Mark Twain. This is a wonderful site: lots of detailed biographical information, and great pictures.

For more information on Ernest Hemingway:

  • Timeless Hemingway is a fun site, with a biography, FAQs, lots of photos, a blog, and links to other Hemingway sites.
  • The Hemingway Resource Center is great: an extensive biography, links to other Hemingway sites, articles on Hemingway from numerous authors, Hemingway's Nobel Prize speech, and lots of other good stuff.
  • The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum is the site for Hemingway's Key West home, which is now a museum. If you can't get to Key West to see it in person, this is the next best thing. Very interesting!
  • The Hemingway Society has an excellent site, with links to lots of good articles on Hemingway's work and life.

For information on F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  • A Fitzgerald Chronology lists the events of Fitzgerald's life. It's very detailed--a great resource!
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary page maintained by the University of South Carolina. This is a great resource--stories, essays, even voice and film clips.
  • The F.Scott Fitzgerald Society has a great site, with biographical information, links to e-texts of some of his stories, and links to lots of other good Fitzgerald sites.

For more information on Virginia Woolf:

For ore information on Michael Cunningham:

  • Michael Cunningham is Michael Cunningham's site, with a biography, interviews, reviews, and contact information.
  • Parallel Lives includes a review of The Hours and some audio clips of Cunningham reading from the book. Very good!
  • Online NewsHour has an interview with Cunningham about The Hours--very informative and interesting!

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