Dr. Stein's Webfest Extraordinaire
What You'll Find Here
This webpage is designed to provide both basic information and avenues for further exploration. Under the category of basic information, you'll find syllabi for your classes, paper topics, a guide to writing papers, etc. Under the second category you'll find a small gallery of art contemporary with the Romantic period, which I call Romantic Visions; a small gallery of examples of Romantic themes and ideas in today's popular culture (which, as you probably know, is a particular obsession of mine), which I call Romantic Incarnations, and a list of links to web sites concerned with 19th-century British literature, Science Fiction, and Children's Literature. There is also a page of various books which I highly recommend for you to read in your copious spare time (well, summer vacation maybe?). And in the shameless self-promotion department, you'll find a list of my publications. I hope you'll be both edified and entertained.
English 574T (The Development of the Byronic Hero)
Syllabus
Dr. Stein's Indispensable Guide to Writing English Papers
An Idiosyncratic and Highly Selective Guide to Books You Should Really Find Time to Read
Romantic Visions
William Beckford, Fonthill AbbeyWilliam Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
John Constable, Stratford Mill
Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above the Mists
Philip James de Loutherbourg, An Avalanche in the Alps
Joseph Mallard William Turner, Buttermere Lake
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Fishermen at Sea (The Cholmeley Sea Piece)
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Moonlight
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed
Joseph Mallard William Turner, The Slave-Ship
Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill
Joseph Wright, An Experiment With a
Bird
in an Air Pump
Romantic Incarnations
Achtung Emily (U2 Meets Percy Shelley)Some of my Favorite Byronic Heroines
Witchblade's Sara (Pez) Pezzini
Some Edifying and Entertaining Links
Live Journal Community: Nineteenth-Century
British Literature (19thc_Britlit)
Dark Side of the Net (lots of Goth stuff, Sandman stuff)
Le WebMuseum (lots of art, including 19th-century, in Famous Paintings section)
First Lines (test yourself on famous literary first lines)