British Literature Module 4.7
Study Guide: British Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 4)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Focus Text: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Honors Texts
Oliver Twist or David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Module 4.7 Context 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.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/welcome.htm
http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/dickens/english/e_chd
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/greatexpect.html
http://charlesdickenspage.com/characters.html
The Author’s Life
G. K. Chesterton’s biography of Dickens
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Chesterton-A&C.html
http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html
http://tellingtrails.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/charles-dickens/
http://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
http://www.dickens.jp/genealogy/genealogy-e.html
http://spartacus-educational.com/PRdickens.htm
Poetry
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/topic_3/welcome.htm
Please see the study guide for notes and a list of assigned poems from the pages below.
E. B. Browning: https://excellence-in-literature.com/elizabeth-barrett-browning-poetry
R. Browning: https://excellence-in-literature.com/robert-browning-poetry
Audio
Great Expectations narrated by Simon Vance: http://amzn.to/2qdAiKh
http://librivox.org/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens/ (Amateur)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1905390
Music
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16595
Video
https://excellence-in-literature.com/great-expectations-1946-film
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/animation.shtml
https://shop.tcm.com/charles-dickens-london-works-charles-dickens-london-works/881482315994
Visual Arts
http://charlesdickenspage.com/illustrations.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/index.html
Historical Context
https://web.archive.org/web/20151023040618/http://www.thecompletevictorian.com/
http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html
Places to Go
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0128/p16s02-trgn.html
http://www.walksoflondon.co.uk/51/dickens-london-walk-the-w.shtml
http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/
Just for Fun
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Humour-3.html#GE
http://www.victorianlondon.org/indexplus.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/
Index of British Literature context link pages
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British Literature Texts (recommended editions)
British Lit study guide, and links to focus and honors texts (opens in a new tab at the author’s Everyday Education site)