English
305A: English Novel 1700-1900
English
305A:
English Novel 1700-1900
Fall
2011
Stephen C. Behrendt
319 Andrews; 472-1806
office hours: 1230 - 2 TR
and by appointment
sbehrendt1@unl.edu
Study Questions, Internet Resources, Materials for Further Study
General Reources for course-related reading
General Questions for the Study and Analysis of Novels These questions will help you analyze matters of form and content. There are a lot of questions here; pick and choose among them to help you develop your skill at reading within a variety of contexts.
Questions for exploring Authors' Relations to their Texts and their Audiences There are two sets of questions here. The first set will help you analyze the ways in which the authors may have thought about their texts and how they "work." The second set will guide you as you think about the relations that texts in general suggest between themselves and their reading audiences — including ourselves.
Some Notes and Comments on the Reading Activity This is just what it says: a brief commentary on the dynamics of reading, with two intriguing comments from modern theorists on reading.
Resources for the further study of British literature and culture, 1700 - 1900
Eighteenth Century Resources. This is a site maintained by Jack Lych that has enormous numbers of wonderful links to all areas of literary, cultural, social and political study fro the eighteenth century, especially in Great Britain.
Time-Line of the Restoration and 18th-Century. The Restoration of the British monarchy under Charles II occurred in 1660, but this time-line begins during Shakespeare's final years, around 1600, and goes forward to 1859. The years from 1660 through 1820 are covered in the greatest detail.
The Romantic Chronology. Another time-line, this one covering in greatest detail the years from about 1799 through 1851.
Literary Resources — Romantic. Like his 18th-century site, Jack Lynch's site for the Romantic period in Britain (c. 1780 - 1835) is an excellent source of information on the literary, cultural, social and political climate in Britain during these years.
The Regency Page. This is a wonderful interdisciplinary site maintained by Cathy Decker that has links to lots of really interesting visual materials — like images of clothing, furniture, fashion, and other aspects of the physical culture of the times.
The Victorian Web. This is a HUGE site that includes not just literature and the other arts but also history, science, economics and just about every other aspect of cultural life in Britain,from about 1830 into the early 20th century.
Study questions for individual novels:
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Amelia Opie, The Father and Daughter
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde