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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Buddha of Suburbia
"The Buddha of Suburbia" is a bestselling novel by the British writer Hanif Kureishi. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Empire of the Sun
"Empire of the Sun" is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British writer J.G. Ballard. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Crash
"Crash" is a novel by the British writer J.G. Ballard, published in 1973. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Literary Resources: Victorian British
Have you ever wanted to know more about British Victorian literature? Check out this informative site highlighting literary resources from the British Victorian Age. As Professor Jack Lynch, who created the list, has noted, these pages...
Luminarium
Luminarium: Sources for 17th Century English Literature
Contains a plethora of links to websites related to the 17th century. Literature, music, history, politics, and the role of woman are all covered by these links.
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British Association for Victorian Studies
Delve into the world of Victorian studies through this informative website. Serves as a resource for individuals seeking more information on the British Victorian Age.
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Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Wise Children
Read an overview of "Wise Children" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Victorian Age Topics in Literature
This resource discusses four controversies that concerned the Victorians: evolution, industrialism, what the Victorians called "The Woman Question," and Great Britain's identity as an imperial power. Includes multiple-choice quiz and...
University of Toronto (Canada)
Romantic Period, 1785 1830
Read brief descriptions of popular authors and works from the Romantic Period of British literature.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Prose Version) by Anonymous
This is the full text of a prose version of the Medieval British Literature epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, author unknown. It also provides prefaces for the first and second editions and notes about the work.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: British Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: t.s. Eliot
This is a lesson in a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism and focuses on the poety of T.S. Eliot including "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Links to each of these poems and a biography of Eliot are provided. It...
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British Library: Shelley's Frankenstein: The Ghost Story Challenge
Students will explore the origins of Frankenstein and place the novel in its context, considering it alongside the contemporary horror stories and scientific developments that influenced Mary Shelley. They will present their knowledge in...
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British Library: Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles: Fatalism & Sexuality
In this lesson, learners will explore sources related to two key ideas in Thomas Hardy's work: that of people being unable to control their fate, and the imbalance between a man's place and a woman's place in society. Through their study...
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Preface to Sancho: An Act of Remembrance
Paterson Joseph describes how his research into Black British history led him to write his first play, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance. In this one-man show, Paterson Joseph inhabits the life of Ignatius Sancho, the 18th-century composer,...
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British Library: Discovering Literature: 'To Lash the Age': John Gay and the Beggar's Opera
This article introduces "The Beggar's Opera" and its many satirical targets, including the court of George I, the politician Robert Walpole, the British legal system, and Italian opera.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: African Writers and Black Thought in 18th Century Britain
This article describes how four writers, taken from Africa as children and sold into slavery, grew up to write works that challenged British ideas about race, called for African brotherhood, and demanded the abolition of the slave trade.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Myths, Monsters and the Imagination
A shadowy man-eating monster, a strange green knight, and fictional accounts of journeys around the world: investigate the boundaries between the real and imaginary in medieval literature.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Faith and Religion
From stories of saints and demons to reflections on life and death, God and salvation: discover how medieval literature navigates matters of faith and religion.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Gender and Sexuality
Examine representations of gender, sex, and relationships in medieval literature, from the works of women's writers to tales of courtly love to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Gender and Sexuality
Examine representations of gender and sexuality in Restoration and 18th-century literature including Paradise Lost and The Rape of the Lock, and explore the works of early women writers such as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney and Margaret...
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Heroes and Heroines
Discover some of the earliest heroes and heroines in English literature, from Beowulf to King Arthur. What are the typical characteristics of a medieval hero, and what can this reveal about society in the Middle Ages?
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about V.S. Naipaul, the man who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. His life and works are discussed in this detailed website,providing video, original texts and speeches and...
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