MAJOR AUTHORS: CHARLES DICKENS | Spring 2008
INTERNET RESOURCES
I encourage you to use the internet resources below, as well as other sites on the web, to learn more about the topics covered in this class.
However, please keep in mind a few general principles about the use of internet resources for this or any other college course:
- Websites are not all created equal. You should approach every website with skepticism. Before you accept any information or give credence to any ideas that you find on the web, ask yourself why you should believe what you're reading. Remember that while it's not easy to get one's ideas into print, it's a cinch to get published on a website. The barriers to publication that tend to exclude viciousness and falsehood from print just don't exist on the web. When you arrive at a site, ask yourself these questions: Who maintains the site I'm visiting? Who authored the page I'm reading? What credentials does this person have to speak authoritatively on the subject at hand?
- When it comes to using the internet for papers, be especially cautious. Only some sites count as the equivalent of a scholarly source in print. If you have questions about the appropriateness of consulting a particular source, don't hesitate to ask us or consult a librarian.
- Whatever sources you consult when writing a paper must be appropriately acknowledged in the paper. Failure to provide appropriate acknowledgment of sources - whether electronic or print - constitutes plagiarism and will result in a failing grade on the assignment, a failing grade in the course, and a letter to the Dean of the College. It is plagiarism to quote another writer's words without appropriate acknowledgment, but it is also plagiarism to use another writer's ideas without such acknowledgment. For more on plagiarism, see The Fine Print.
Below are some links that you may find useful. If you come across additional links on your own, please let me know.
Links Related to Victorian Literature and History
Victorian Resources OnlineVictorian Web Sites
History of the Workhouse
Bolles Collection on the History of London
The William Blake Archive
The Victorian Web
The Rossetti Archive
The Victorian Women Writers Project
What's a Guinea? Money and Coinage in Victorian Britain
Photography by Lewis Carroll
Romanticism on the Net
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Intertexts (Texts to Relate to Dickens's)
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843)Thomas Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
Karl Marx, The Power of Money (from 1844 Manuscripts)
Video
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General Literary Links
Voice of the ShuttleYou can access the MLA Bibliography and a multitude of other helpful resources through your very own Geneseo library.
For help writing papers, you may want to turn to the Geneseo Online Writing Guide. You can get human help with your writing at the Geneseo Writing Learning Center.
If you come across any interesting sites not listed here, please let me know about them. Watch this page throughout the semester for additions posted as you or I discover them.