Meeting Eight--Links
- . . . O'Donnell, who teaches Classics at UPenn, has been at the forefront of web-based
instruction.
- . . . a course using the Internet, taught by Gene R. Thursby at the University of Florida.
Our colleagues in the sciences, particularly, are doing incredible things with the web and
with presentation software. Here are a few examples:
But our colleagues in the humanities are catching up. . .
The Voice of the Shuttle again comes to the rescue. You
will find over one hundred virtual classroom sites and other educational materials at this
link. Here are a few samples:
Virtual Poetry--An Introduction,
Gerard Donnelly-Smith, Clark College
British Literature Survey, Bret Benjamin, U. Texas, Austin
From Epic to Hypertext, Jack Lynch, UPenn
British and Medieval Drama, John F. Tinkler. Towson State U., Maryland
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, Larry Mitchell, Texas A & M U.
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s, Al Filreis, U. Penn
American Renaissance: 1830-1865, John Getz. Xavier U
Century's End: Race and Gender at the Turn of the Century, Shelley Fisher Fiskin,
U. Texas Austin
African-American Autobiography, William Andrews, U. Kansas
Our students might be one step ahead of us, so beware. . .
Cheater.com
Term Papers On File
The good new is that Bruce Leland, English professor and director of writing at Western
Illinois University, reports that many online papers are so bad that no one is likely to
benefit from them (The New York Times 8 June 1997).
We all hope this technology is taking us
. . . we'll have to see.
Research Links
Research Tools
Homer Babbidge Library Spirit Page
UConn Resources By Title
JSTOR: Electronic Journals
UConn InterLibrary Loan
Richard Bleiler's English Links Page
MLA Bibliography--UConn Only
A Literary Index--impressive
Project Bartleby
Famous English Majors?
Carl UnCover
The British Library
Introduction to E-text
Library of Congress
National Endowment for the Humanities
Literary Resources on the Internet, Jack Lynch
Scholarly Societies, Literature
The Web Concordance
Calls For Papers--E-Mail List Archive
Chronicle of Higher Education
Directory of International Universities
Yahoo Directory of American Universities
Electronic Texts--A Sampling
Bibliomania--The Network Library
British Poetry 1780-1910, A Hypertext Archive
The Electronic Labyrinth
Electronic Texts, Jack Lynch--Great Links
Hypertext Classics
Poetry Online
Master Works of Western Civilization
Online Book Initiative (OBI)
Online Books Page
Project Gutenberg Index
The Western Canon
Alternate Publication Possibilites
Primary Source Media
The Great American Publishing Society (GRAMPS)
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