Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849)
This site is a professor's guide for students. This guide features information on how to distinguish between Poe and his narrators in his stories.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: The Italian Renaissance (1420 1600)
This brief ibiblio.org article provides an overview of the key painters of the Renaissance in Italy. The artists and their major works are the key focus here and while further links on them are available, but you will not find anything...
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Shorter Poems by Thomas Love Peacock
Index page for 15 full-text selected poems by the 19th century English poet, including "Beyond the Sea," "A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day," and "Castles in the Air."
British Library
British Library: People: Mary Shelley
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Mary Shelley. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber
These activities offer learners a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914?)
This Ambrose Bierce site features a photograph of Bierce and information about his gothic fiction, The Devils Dictionary, a selected bibliogrpahy, and links to related sites, full texts, and the like.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a strange gothic story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Read about his fascinating story in a site that analyses characters, looks in detail at important quotations and themes.
University of Maryland
Mary Shelley: The Last Man
This is the full text of Mary Shelley's futurist novel The Last Man. Set in the twenty-first century, the novel revolves around six characters whose lives, over time and continents, are among the supposedly final generation of humans on...
University of Maryland
Mary Shelley's Short Fiction
This index page links to the full text of four Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly short stories, including "The False Rhyme," "Ferdinando Eboli," "The Mourner," and "The Mortal Immortal."
University of Maryland
Excerpts From Mary Shelley's Letters
Excerpts from four different letters written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
University of Maryland
"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Text of "The Mortal Immortal" written by Mary Shelley.
University of Maryland
"The Last Man": Apocalypse Without Millennium
A critical look at Mary Shelly's "The Last Man" and the idea (widely used in writing of that time) of the last man on earth.
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Up Word: The First Book of Urizen
A verse-by-verse version of William Blake's (1757-1827 CE) First Book of Urizen is offered here at up Word. A lot of clicking, as each verse is a separate page. Not illustrated.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Karen Blixen
This site provides biographical information on Karen Blixen, including several quotes from her own writings.
Emory University
Emory University: Karen Blixen/isak Dinesen
Provides a brief biography of Karen Blixen, a writer who used the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen. This biography is seperated into the stages in her life, from her time in Africa to life as a writer.
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Mary Shelley's "Mathilda"
No text is provided, but there are excerpts from letters about the manuscript, as well as other information regarding the manuscript.
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