English 200 Useful Sites

Following are sites I think will be useful for students in my English 200: Seminar in Literary Studies course. I plan to update and add to it regularly. If you've found a site that you think is useful, please e-mail me and I will add it to the list! When using these resources for your papers or presentations, as always, be careful to cite your sources appropriately.

Guides to Literary Terms and Theories:

Introductory Guide to Critical Theory by Dino Felluga at Purdue University: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/
Thomson-Gale Publishers Free Resource Glossary of Literary Terms: http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/glossary/
Professor Mark Canada (of University of North Carolina at Pembroke) collected a glossary with the help of his students: http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm

Frankenstein

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. A wonderful site from the National Library of Medicine about the Frankenstein story and medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html
Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Great listing at Georgetown: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/english016/franken/franken.htm
“Frankenstein Meets Multimedia: A Cultural History of Mary Shelley’s Novel” (many broken links here, but an interesting project) http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rschwart/RecSites.html
Frankenstein: A Hypertext Resource offers comparisons of different versions of the novel: http://www.usask.ca/english/frank/
Compare images of Frankenstein: http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gothic/gallery/images_of_frankenstein.htm

A Rose for Emily

Full text online: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/wf_rose.html
"A Rose for Emily" Resource Page from another teacher: http://www3.cerritos.edu/fquaas/resources/English102/faulkner.htm
Study questions for the story created by another teacher: http://www.ferrum.edu/thanlon/studyq/faulkner.htm

The Yellow Wallpaper

Full text of the story online (also available in PDF): http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper.html
Full text of the story *with original illustrations* from University of Virginia's e-text center: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GilYell.html
Full text of "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper": http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/whyyw.html
An audio play version of the story, and additional information from Scribbling Women: http://www.scribblingwomen.org/cgwallpaper.htm
A collection of papers about the story from Florida Gulf Coast University students: http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/gilman.htm
Annotated Bibliography entry from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database: http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/gilman87-des-.html

The Sheriff's Children

Full text of the story online from this site (which also includes other information on Chesnutt): http://www.berea.edu/faculty/browners/chesnutt/Works/Stories/sheriffinfo.html
The Chesnutt Literary Web, a collection of papers on Chesnutt's work, written by Rutgers students: http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~c350445/

Maus

Art Spiegelman's MAUS: Working-Through The Trauma of the Holocaust: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/holocaust/spiegelman.html
A lecture on Maus I and II: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/maus.htm
Study Questions from another course on Maus: http://www.english.uwosh.edu/henson/TBIS/maus1.html
A commentary in Mother Jones by Art Spielgelman: http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1997/09/spiegelman.html
A Hypertext essay on Maus: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/218/projects/mcgowan/maus.htm

Angels in America

HBO production of Angels in America: http://www.hbo.com/films/angelsinamerica/
New York Times review of the HBO Angels production (requires free NYT registration): http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=299769
Annotated Bibliography entry from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database: http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/kushner1050-des-.html
Article on a performance of the play (and related controversy at) Wabash College: http://www.iceandcoal.org/nfa/angels.html
Another controversy on a performance of the play at Catholic University: http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2002/02nd/02ndwil.htm
Article on Angels and "the culture wars" in academia available in PDF here: http://www.nea.org/he/heta99/f99p75.pdf

Spoon River Anthology

Full text online at: http://www.bartleby.com/84/index1.html
Hypertext version of the Anthology lets you move among the poems via links: http://www.antelope-ebooks.com/Spoon/spoon.html
Photos of gravestones of some of the real people referred to in the poems: http://www.outfitters.com/illinois/fulton/oakhill.html
Richard Buckner’s album The Hill is based on some poems from the anthology. Listen to samples here:http://richardbuckner.com/flash/index.html