Alok Yadav || Home page
Department of English / George Mason University
Office Robinson A457 / Office Hours: By appointment
Email ayadav@gmu.edu
(Spring 2015)
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Contents
Current Courses || Course Materials || MLA Style Guide
Historical Outline of 18th-c. British Lit. || Multicultural and World Literature Anthologies
Websites for Kids
---Aldous Huxley, "Words and Their Meanings" (1940)
My Book
Before the Empire of English:
Literature, Provinciality, and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Archived Course Materials
Jane Barker, Bosvil and Galesia || Jane Barker, "On the Difficulties of Religion"
Aphra Behn, The Fair Jilt || Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun
Eliza Haywood, The British Recluse || Eliza Haywood, Fantomina
Samuel Johnson, London ||
Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest
Jonathan Swift, "Description of a City Shower"
Goethe on World Literature
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---Italo Calvino, "Two Interviews on Science and Literature" (1968)
Resources for English Literary Studies
MLA Style Guide
(A guide to MLA style for essays, covering format for in-text citations and works cited lists: updated to reflect 2008 revisions to MLA style.)
Historical Outline for Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature
(A chronology of historical events and significant publications from 1642-1820, meant to provide a sense of context for students of the period.)
Multicultural and World Literature Anthologies
(A list of anthologies for those looking for a wider range of literature than that found in more traditional anthologies of British or American or Western literature.)
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Miscellaneous
Websites for Kids
(A list of engaging and educational websites suitable for kids in second or third grade, or older.)