English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->18th Century
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts

This website was created by Lee Jaffe and focuses mainly on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The subcategories are listed on the left side:

1. Gulliver’s Travels: The electronic version of the text.
2. Dictionary: Provides annotations for the material in the text.
3. Bibliography: Very detailed listing of various print sources.
4. Links: Additional online sources are provided as links.
5. Timeline: A chronology of events in the text, Swift’s life, and his times.
6. Quotations: Selection of quotes from the book, from letters of Swift, from Swift’s own mouth, and from the mouth of others commenting on Swift.
7. Firsts: Terms and concepts Swift invented which have come to be commonly used today.
8. Images: Visual illustrations from various editions of the book, and other related pictures.
9. Info: Details concerning this Internet project, FAQs, how to navigate the website, and future plans, etc.

The award-winning site was cited by various well-known webpages, such as BBC Education Web Guide and Voice of the Shuttle. Its extensive and comprehensive information helps anyone who is interested in Swift’s novel to understand and enjoy the text more deeply. It is well designed and meticulously organized, and its continuous updates make it a website that should be bookmarked and visited on a regular basis.

URL : http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/

Keyword(s) : Jonathan Swift , Gullivers Travels , 18c British novel , satire

English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->18th Century
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts

This Oroonoko Page is compiled and edited by Julie Choi, a professor of the department of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University. This page is a pretty good starting point to study Aphra Behn's Oroonoko. It offers annotated full text and a brief synopsis, and also includes ten sub categories: about Oroonoko, about Aphra Behn, about Sugar, about Slavery, about the Triangular Trade, Picture Gallery, Maps, Chronology, Related Sites, Related Texts. The pages cover a short introduction about Behn and her work, Behn's chronology, visual materials and short essays about related themes, which help students and scholars to comprehend the text. Besides, this site offers related links and related texts which are available on the Internet.

This site is a well-constructed site that contains significant and scholarly materials and aims deliberately at students and scholars who are interested in Aphra Behn and eighteenth century society.

URL : http://home.ewha.ac.kr/~julie/

Keyword(s) : Literature, 18th Century Novel, Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, Slavery, Sugar

English Literature->Historical Fiction
English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->18th Century
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English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->20th Century
English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->Contemporary

This website covers numerous titles of historical fictions inspired by ancient Greece, written in English from the 18th century to the present day. This online list compiles about 1200 items, maintained by Nick Lowe of the Department of Classics, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

URL : http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Classics/NJL/novels.html

Keyword(s) : Historical fiction, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Contemporary, Ancient Greece

English Literature->Historical Fiction
English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->18th Century
English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->19th Century

This online anthology of classics divides into two parts: 50 volumes of '5-Foot Shelf Books' and 20 volumes of 'Shelf of Fiction.' The former collection includes major literary figures, philosophers, thinkers as well as historical and religious documents, while the latter one contains modern novels, romances and short stories written in the late 18th and 19th century.

URL : http://www.bartleby.com/hc/

Keyword(s) : Historical fiction, Historical fiction, English, History and criticism, 18th century,  19th century, 20th century, Contemporary

English Literature->Historical Fiction
English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->18th Century
English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->19th Century

This website provides a digital version of 'A Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal', a short story written by Daniel Defoe, edited by Sir Walter Scott in 1840.

URL : http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/veal.html

Keyword(s) : Historical fiction, 18th century, 19th century, Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott