ENGL 203 Survey of British Literature
Dr. Jo Koster 228 Bancroft Hall kosterj@winthrop.edu 803-323-4557 http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj
Office hours TR 2-4 and gladly by appointment.
Starting places for online research in British Literature
Web support for our textbooks: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_damrosch_britlit_2/
Winthrop English Major's Online Handbook
The MLA International Bibliography (BEST source for finding research articles, HINT HINT): http://www2.winthrop.edu/dacus/resources/alldatabasesItoO.htm#M
The Oxford English Dictionary (BEST place to find out what a word meant in a particular writer's time): http://www2.winthrop.edu/dacus/resources/alldatabasesItoO.htm#OED
Norton Anthology of English Literature online: http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/ (a lot of neat stuff for a competing textbook)
Luminarium (online resources for Early British Literature): http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
The Voice of the Shuttle: http://vos.ucsb.edu/
The Victorian Web (Brown University): http://www.victorianweb.org/
http://www.mla.org/style_faq (MLA's website for FAQ's on documentation)
Literary terminology: try UNC-Pembroke's list (http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm) or Jack Lynch's glossary at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/. You can also try Bedford/St Martin's Glossary of Literary Terms at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm. Most of the terms on the "key terms" slides will be found in your period introductions and text headnotes, and in Dr K's online lectures, but you will frequently need to follow up with one of these sites.
Stay away from the Wikipedia for scholarly research in literature. A great deal of the information on its pages has been cut and pasted from other sites without documentation, which could lead you to an unintentional plagiarism situation. Be warned!
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