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English 234E: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Introduction This website is designed, first and foremost, as an undergraduate resource for students enrolled in English 234E, "Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature." It contains a variety of different kinds of resources to enable students to produce better quality academic work, and to help them better or more fully comprehend the texts they are studying. This said, it must be noted that the website is intended to serve as an additional resource only: in all cases, the directions or information given by the individual instructors of sections of English 234E supersede any information provided here. This Website is not a prescriptive guideline for the teaching of English 234E; authority for all content and guidelines relating to that course is the jurisdiction of individual section instructors. Where a conflict seems to exist between information offered by this Website, and guidelines provided by an instructor, it is always the latter who possesses ultimate authority. It also needs to be emphasized that this site is not intended as a substitute for the kind of real research that undergraduate students are expected to perform: indeed, the Guidelines for Essays page is designed to aid students in performing their own literature searches, and in discovering relevant materials that may not be included in this site. Similarly, the Research Resources page provides bibliographical, contextual, and thematic material that is most useful as a starting point for further research. Students should not expect that the materials found herein will obviate the need for work of their own. Content within this website has been arranged in "levels" in order to facilitate handling of these materials. Generally speaking, the more "basic" or introductory materials are to be found in "shallow" levels, easily accessed in or through one of the 7 basic pages available through the home page. Additional content, generally more detailed and, in some cases, including electronic editions of primary source materials, is accessed through links found in these initial pages, to other "deep" pages, or external websites. As a rule, then, "deeper" searches of this site will yield more "scholarly" material than is to be found in the "shallow" levels. It remains to note one important characteristic of this website. This is very much an ongoing enterprise: it will always be, to some degree, "under construction," as new materials are added, and old resources are updated. The overall intent of this continuing process is to produce a site that becomes progressively more useful, comprehensive, and scholarly.
Site Map Section Schedules and Syllabi This page includes information specific to the administration and teaching of the various sections of English 234E offered on a yearly basis at The University of Western Ontario. Information is indexed by section number and instructor. Please note that the information given through this page is provided for convenience only, and may be superseded without notice here by oral or written directions from the instructor.
Guidelines for Essays This page offers the student advice, and a variety of resources, to aid in the writing of a university-standard essay. Content includes some direction for physical presentation of work, and guidelines for formulating a workable thesis and beginning the research process. An important component of this page is the section on plagiarism, which should be consulted by all students. This page includes the following subsections:
Research Resources This page is intended to provide some guidelines and resources for research in "conventional" academic media. It includes reasonably extensive, but not exhaustive, bibliographies on a variety of subjects and themes likely to be of use to those researching Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. Individual entries are, where possible, linked directly to the D. B. Weldon Library computer catalogue. The page includes the following subsections:
Web Resources This page provides links to, along with brief descriptions of, some of the more useful and credible scholarly resources available on the Web. It additionally includes some brief guidelines for evaluating the quality of websites. The page includes the following subsections:
Historical and Literary Backgrounds As currently constituted, this page is intended to provide historical and literary context for the study of Restoration and eighteenth-century texts. It currently links to an interactive map of London in the Restoration, a genealogy of the Tudor, Stuart and Hanoverian dynasties (with biographies of the monarchs, 1660-1820), and with an extensive literary and historical chronology of the period 1625-1800. The latter includes links to background materials and electronic texts. This site will be undergoing extensive and ongoing revision as new materials are integrated. This page includes the following subsections:
About this Site This page describes background information on the construction and maintenance of this website. It additionally provides information on the faculty and course offerings available at The University of Western Ontario in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies, and describes the scholarly principles employed in citing primary and secondary materials here. A final section deals with copyright and reproduction issues. This page includes the following subsections:
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Table of Contents
Introduction
This website is designed, first and foremost, as an undergraduate resource for students enrolled in English 234E, "Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature." It contains a variety of different kinds of resources to enable students to produce better quality academic work, and to help them better or more fully comprehend the texts they are studying.
This said, it must be noted that the website is intended to serve as an additional resource only: in all cases, the directions or information given by the individual instructors of sections of English 234E supersede any information provided here. This Website is not a prescriptive guideline for the teaching of English 234E; authority for all content and guidelines relating to that course is the jurisdiction of individual section instructors. Where a conflict seems to exist between information offered by this Website, and guidelines provided by an instructor, it is always the latter who possesses ultimate authority.
It also needs to be emphasized that this site is not intended as a substitute for the kind of real research that undergraduate students are expected to perform: indeed, the Guidelines for Essays page is designed to aid students in performing their own literature searches, and in discovering relevant materials that may not be included in this site. Similarly, the Research Resources page provides bibliographical, contextual, and thematic material that is most useful as a starting point for further research. Students should not expect that the materials found herein will obviate the need for work of their own.
Content within this website has been arranged in "levels" in order to facilitate handling of these materials. Generally speaking, the more "basic" or introductory materials are to be found in "shallow" levels, easily accessed in or through one of the 7 basic pages available through the home page. Additional content, generally more detailed and, in some cases, including electronic editions of primary source materials, is accessed through links found in these initial pages, to other "deep" pages, or external websites. As a rule, then, "deeper" searches of this site will yield more "scholarly" material than is to be found in the "shallow" levels.
It remains to note one important characteristic of this website. This is very much an ongoing enterprise: it will always be, to some degree, "under construction," as new materials are added, and old resources are updated. The overall intent of this continuing process is to produce a site that becomes progressively more useful, comprehensive, and scholarly.
Site Map
Section Schedules and Syllabi
This page includes information specific to the administration and teaching of the various sections of English 234E offered on a yearly basis at The University of Western Ontario. Information is indexed by section number and instructor. Please note that the information given through this page is provided for convenience only, and may be superseded without notice here by oral or written directions from the instructor.
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Guidelines for Essays
This page offers the student advice, and a variety of resources, to aid in the writing of a university-standard essay. Content includes some direction for physical presentation of work, and guidelines for formulating a workable thesis and beginning the research process. An important component of this page is the section on plagiarism, which should be consulted by all students.
This page includes the following subsections:
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Research Resources
This page is intended to provide some guidelines and resources for research in "conventional" academic media. It includes reasonably extensive, but not exhaustive, bibliographies on a variety of subjects and themes likely to be of use to those researching Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. Individual entries are, where possible, linked directly to the D. B. Weldon Library computer catalogue.
The page includes the following subsections:
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Web Resources
This page provides links to, along with brief descriptions of, some of the more useful and credible scholarly resources available on the Web. It additionally includes some brief guidelines for evaluating the quality of websites.
The page includes the following subsections:
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Historical and Literary Backgrounds
As currently constituted, this page is intended to provide historical and literary context for the study of Restoration and eighteenth-century texts. It currently links to an interactive map of London in the Restoration, a genealogy of the Tudor, Stuart and Hanoverian dynasties (with biographies of the monarchs, 1660-1820), and with an extensive literary and historical chronology of the period 1625-1800. The latter includes links to background materials and electronic texts.
This site will be undergoing extensive and ongoing revision as new materials are integrated.
This page includes the following subsections:
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About this Site
This page describes background information on the construction and maintenance of this website. It additionally provides information on the faculty and course offerings available at The University of Western Ontario in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies, and describes the scholarly principles employed in citing primary and secondary materials here. A final section deals with copyright and reproduction issues.
This page includes the following subsections:
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Last updated: August 24, 2005