Middlebury College
The Definitive Study Guide for the Brothers Karamazov
Middlebury College provides this site authored by a professor of Russian language and literature that provides summaries and analyses for all sections of The Brothers Karamazov, a biography of Dostoevsky, character analyses, and a...
Middlebury College
Middlebury College: Dostoevsky and the Devils
Authored by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site has much to offer the student of Dostoesky's novel The Devils. The site contains plot summaries, character analyses, and links to related...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Race and Identity in Antebellum America
This unit features authors of Antebellum America and how they portray the American identity through their literature. Click on the tabs to explore the various resources available to enhance this unit.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro (1865 85)
Exhibition brings together the work of two masters of the early modern period, Cezanne and Pissarro. Compares and contrasts their styles, choices of subject, techniques, and development, with interesting thematic pathways into the...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: John Greenleaf Whittier
This site provides links to twelve of Whittier's most widely-read poems, including "Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyl," "Barbara Frietchie," "Ichabod," and "The Worship of Nature." Also includes a brief biography.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Bryant and the Minor Poets, Bibliography
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry provides a complete bibliography of William Cullen Bryant and related minor poets among his contemporaries.
University of Michigan
Making of America: Ballads of New England
This site from the University of Michigan provides access to online text for "Ballads of New England," an 1870 collection of Whittier's poetry. Poems can be viewed in plain-text format or as page-by-page images from the original work.
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Project Gutenberg: The Human Comedy (Honore De Balzac)
The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.
Other
Louvre Museum: Thematic Mini Sites: Ingres, 1780 1867
Retrospective, with full-color reproductions of Ingres's masterworks, including the "Grande Odalisque," traces the major episodes in the painter's artistic career.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Wife, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Resource provides multiple digital formats of this eBook.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Traits of Indian Character
This University of Virginia essay offers a selection of Irving's work from the larger work, "The Sketch Book."
University of Virginia
University of Virginia Library: Washington Irving
This University of Virginia essay offers text summarizing and critiquing Washington Irving's work, "A History of New York."
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: George Eliot Middlemarch
At this website, read the full text of George Eliot's novel, "Middlemarch." Included is a brief paragraph intoducing the book, its context, and its plot.
University of Michigan
American Verse Project: Anti Slavery Poems
This site from American Verse Project provides the online text for "Anti-Slavery Poems: Songs of Labor and Reform" by John Greenleaf Whittier. Poems can be viewed in plain text or as page-by-page images of the original work.
Other
Musee D'orsay: Gustave Courbet (1819 1877): A Biography
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, "Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): A Biography" is presented with a breakdown of major periods of the artists life and examples of paintings from each period.
Other
University of California, Riverside: Balzac's Paris [1799 1850]: A Guided Tour
Paris in the early 1800s through the eyes of the author Honore de Balzac. Born in 1799, Balzac lived in Paris during a period of intense renovation. The guided tour provides many unique insights into the city's development as a major...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Whittier: Quaker Ancestry and Nature
Biography and analysis of the works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Describes his Quaker upbringing, his role as an abolitionist, honors bestowed upon him, and his ballads. Includes analysis of his anti-slavery poetry and "Snow-Bound." Use...
Other
University of Virginia: Walt Whitman Archive
An extensive archive of works by and about Walt Whitman, from the University of Virginia. Includes his manuscripts (transcriptions and page images), published works, biography, criticism, images, teaching materials, and much more.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Penn: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Etext)
The whole novel, including illustrations, is reproduced at this site hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. An interesting feature is the brief explanation of the provenance of the work, as well as the inclusion of Anne Bronte's...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Transcendentalism
This is an introduction to the Transcendentalism period (1836-1860) in American Literature. It focuses on the beliefs and characteristics of transcendentalism and its leading authors: Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Edmonia Lewis
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Edmonia Lewis in addition to an extensive listing of her works as displayed at the museum.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Witch and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Resource provides the e-text in many digital formats of fifteen stories by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904 CE).
Other
University of South Carolina: Walt Whitman Exhibit
This extensive site studies the life and work of Walt Whitman. Provides a detailed biography and an analysis of Whitman's literary contributions. Includes detailed information about the development of "Leaves of Grass" and photographs of...
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