Literature and Composition Module 2.9

Ivanhoe

Study Guide: Literature and Composition (Excellence in Literature, English 2)

Focus Text

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Honors: Kim by Rudyard Kipling

 Audiobook: http://amzn.to/2qIHWwu

EIL 2.9 Context Resource Links

These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.

Readings

http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensoftheUnitedKingdom/TheHanoverians/Victoria.aspx

http://wilde.astorialand.com/

This brief, satirical series of cartoons describes “How to Finish a Daughter.”

The Author’s Life

http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/biography/introduction.htm

http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/h/holland_v.htm

https://excellence-in-literature.com/de-profundis-by-oscar-wilde

http://www.biography.com/people/rudyard-kipling-9365581

Poetry

https://excellence-in-literature.com/on-the-massacre-of-the-christians-in-bulgaria-by-oscar-wilde

http://librivox.org/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol-by-oscar-wilde-jg

https://excellence-in-literature.com/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-by-lewis-carroll

 https://excellence-in-literature.com/the-jumblies-by-edward-lear

https://excellence-in-literature.com/if-poem-by-rudyard-kipling

Audio

http://amzn.to/2qOWRVm

http://librivox.org/the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde

https://excellence-in-literature.com/john-gielgud-and-edith-evans-perform-the-handbag-scene-from-wildes-importance-of-being-earnest

Video

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) with Michael Redgrave

https://excellence-in-literature.com/1952-film-the-importance-of-being-earnest-clip

Visual Arts

https://excellence-in-literature.com/victorian-art

Music

https://web.archive.org/web/20150527191822/math.boisestate.edu/GaS///////colins_site/index.html

Ralph Vaughan Williams symphonies 

http://www.lipscomb.edu/windbandhistory/RhodesWindBand_07_BritishBrassBand.htm

Historic Context

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/welcome.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/review/mconnections.htm

http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/victorianhome.html

http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/index.html

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