Table of Contents

Introduction

Faculty in Restoration and 18th-Century Studies at Western

Courses in the Restoration and 18th-Century at Western

Scholarly Principles for this Website

Copyright and Use of this Website

Introduction

This site has been constructed, and is administered by, Mark McDayter. I am Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada; my area of specialization is (it will come as no surprise to learn) Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, with a particular emphasis on the period up to the Hanoverian succession in 1714.

This site first appeared, in a rather different form, in February of 2002. It is important to note that the site is still very much "under construction": indeed, the process of revising and supplementing the resources and information found here will be an ongoing one.

While it is primarily designed as a resource tool for undergraduates enrolled in English 234E, "Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature" at UWO, it is hoped that this site will as well be of some use to students in other courses, or indeed to anyone else with an interest in the period.

All content on this site has, unless otherwise indicated, been authored by myself. I have endeavoured to include references to materials to which I have been indebted, in part, at least, in the hope that these resources may be of use to those seeking further information. I have, as well, benefited from the comments and suggestions of my colleagues at UWO, as well as from those of my students, and I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of these. Needless to say, however, all mistakes, ommissions, etc., here are my sole responsibility.

I would be delighted to accept any suggestions, comments, corrections, and criticisms relating to this website: the overall principle for content here is inclusive, and I am particularly interested in any suggestions for new materials. You may contact me at the following e-mail address:

mmcdayte@uwo.ca

Faculty in Restoration and 18th-Century Studies at Western

The Department of English at the University of Western Ontario boasts an accomplished complement of faculty specializing in the period 1660-1800; amongst those listed below will be found both researchers and teachers of note.

Recent work on the Restoration and eighteenth-century by current faculty members includes Alison Conway's Private Interests: Women, Portraiture and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 (Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, ca. 2001).

Alison Conway (Associate Professor; Ph.D California at Berkeley)

Mark McDayter (Assistant Professor; Ph.D Toronto)

Mary Helen McMurran (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. New York University)

Lisa M. Zeitz (Associate Professor; Ph.D Queen's)

 

As well, two faculty members teach courses in the Restoration and eighteenth-century out of King's College and Brescia University College, both affiliated with UWO:

Paul Jacob (King's College)

Monika Lee (Brescia University College)

For more information about faculty in the Department of English at Western, use one of these buttons:

Courses in the Restoration and 18th-Century at Western

The Department of English at Western offers a variety of courses in the literature and culture of the Restoration and eighteenth-century:

Undergraduate Courses

English 234E: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

This is a full-year, honours level course that introduces undergraduates to a wide variety of texts and contexts in the period. The actual syllabi for each course varies widely.

English 334E: Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

This course is offered as an alternative and equivalent to 234E; it too is a full-year, honours level course, but with a clearer focus upon a particular aspect of the literature of the period. The exact subject of English 334E will vary from year to year. This year, this course is taught by Professor Lisa Zeitz, and is entitled "Britain, 1660-1770: Constructing Nation and Empire."

Undergraduate Seminar Courses

No undergraduate seminar courses in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century are offered this year.

Graduate Courses

Graduate course offerings in the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth-century change yearly. Below is a sampling of some of the courses that have been offered in recent years.

The Atlantic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

The Debt to Pleasure: Sex, Lies, and Literature in the Libertine Restoration

Clarissa and Tom Jones in Context

Landscape, Nation, and Empire, 1660-1780

The Scriblerian Legacy

The Eighteenth-Century Novel

The Martial Art

The Poetry of Landscape, 1700-1780

Female Sexuality in the Public Sphere

Fictions of Sexuality: Readings in the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Novel

Scholarly Principles for this Website

In general, it is intended that this website include content of the highest scholarly content possible. Copyright restrictions, as well, mean that the use of materials employed or cited within this website must conform to standard scholarly practice; in general, I have tried to apply the same criteria and methodologies for such materials as would apply for a conventionally printed work. Works consulted are often cited directly within the site text. Materials consulted or cited are additionally generally referenced in one of three ways:

1) In a general list of references or bibliography, usually located at the foot of the relevant web page or section. This is most often employed when a given source was of general use by myself.

2) Directly, in a hypertext "footnote" employing standard MLA format for information that is integrated into the site, and can be accessed directly through a "hot link." This is most often employed when a particular point, idea, or fact from another source has been employed.

3) Directly, through a parenthetical note appearing at the conclusion of the citation or block quote.

4) Where appropriate or possible, through a "hot link" to an external website. This method is employed when a materials have been drawn from an electronic source that is available on the Web.

Edited primary source texts are not, according to current laws, generally covered by copyright if authorial copyright has expired; this means, in practice, that edited primary texts of the sort most likely to appear in this website are, in fact, in the public domain, and can be reproduced, even if the textual and editorial apparatus associated with such editions cannot. I have, on occasion, reproduced such edited primary texts, but feel personally uncomfortable about reproducing large blocks of such materials; I have, therefore, generally tried to conform my reproduction of such texts to the practices most usually applied in conventional scholarly work.

The reproduction of images introduces another issue: that of reproduction rights. As this website has no independent funding, it has not been possible to acquire the sorts of commercially available images (through such institutions, for example, as the National Portrait Gallery, London, Eng.) that I might otherwise like to employ. Images, then, are of three kinds:

1) Images reproduced electronically from 17th- and 18th-century books in my personal collection, or accessible to me at no charge courtesy of other private owners or institutions. Please note that reproductions have been made with a digital camera and copy stand: no books were injured during the production of this website!

2) Images drawn by myself, using a variety of graphics programmes. These, while often based upon existing maps, drawings, etc., are nonetheless "free-hand" rather than mechanical reproductions. Examples of this include the Map of London, ca. 1676, and the genealogy of the Tudor, Stuart, and Hanoverian dynasties, both available through the Historical and Literary Backgrounds page.

3) Reproductions of facsimiles of 17th- and 18th-century images from books that are themselves now in the public domain. I have not reproduced photographic reproductions from such books, as this might, again, entail obtaining reproduction rights from the owner of the reproduced work; rather, I have employed facsimiles that are themselves closely based upon original engravings, paintings, etc. I have not reproduced images that are not closely based upon 17th- or 18th-century originals.

It is my hope that I shall, eventually, be able to replace all images falling within the third category, above, with reproductions taken directly from period sources.

In all cases, the immediate source of images has been given with the reproduction of the image.

Above and beyond the sorts of criteria normally applied to academic work, it is intended that this site maintain a high level of authority and credibility as a website. Every effort has been made to meet or exceed the criteria suggested by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate in their Web page, run through the Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener University (Chester, Pennsylvania), and entitled Evaluating Web Resources. You can access this website through the following link:

http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/inform.htm

Copyright and Use of this Website

Copyright for this website rests with its editor and/or author(s), and with the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Students and visitors are welcome to employ and cite the materials to be found within this website, provided that proper and appropriate acknowledgment is made of their source. Please note that this includes materials cited from other copyrighted sources; in such cases, the original source should also be cited and acknowledged.

Primary source materials edited for this site, as for example any electronic texts to be found within this site, may be printed for distribution, and HTML versions may be copied, provided that proper acknowledgment is made, and that no charge is made for use of said texts.

You are, of course, welcome to "link" other sites to this website; as a courtesy, however, it is requested that you inform the current website administrator that this is being done. Among other things, this will help ensure that I can keep my own website links up-to-date.