ENGL 6265: American Literature Seminar (Links)

ENGL 6265: American Literature Seminar
Tom Shields
Fall 2002

LINKS

The following are some selected links to get the course started. Bring other links to class or send them to me via email ( ShieldsE@mail.ecu.edu )

General Resources

Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas ( http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/kislak/index/cultural.html )
Discoverers Web Homepage: Links and Information on Voyages of Discovery ( http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/index.html )
Reel American History ( http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/ejg/ejg-first.htm )

Smith and Pocahontas

Jamestown Rediscovery ( http://www.apva.org/jr.html )
Smith (1580-1631) (a links site to other pages) ( http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/smith.htm )
Virtual Jamestown ( http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/ )

Salem Witch Trials

Witch Trials ( http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/salem/ )
The Salem Witch Trials 1692: A Chronology of Events ( http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/ )
Salem--Online Witch Hunt Game (National Geographic)

St. Brendan

Robert Sanderson, ed. and trans., The Occitan Brendan (http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/university/brendan2/combined.html)
W. H. Grattan Flood and Otto Hartig, "St. Brendan," The Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02758c.htm)

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca (1542), Translated by Fanny Bandelier (1905) ( http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/cabeza.htm )
"Cabeza de Vaca (1991)," Reel American History (http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/pag2/pag2-title.html)

Daniel Boone

Julie K. Rose, Daniel Boone: Myth and Reality in American Consciousness (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Boone/smithhome.html )
"Today In History: June 7," American Memory (The Library of Congress) (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun07.html)
Theodore Roosevelt, "Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky," The National Center for Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org/BoonebyRoosevelt.html)
Daniel Boone TV Series (1964-1970) (http://dunsmore.crosswinds.net/danielboonetv.html)

Ebenezer Cooke and John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factors

Tammy Barrett, Ebenezer Cook(e) (ca. 1670 - ca. 1732) (http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/canam/cooke.htm)
James R. Elkins, "Ebenezer Cooke (1667-1732) Maryland," Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry (http://www.wvu.edu/%7Elawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/cooke.html)
- "Maryland Historical Chronology," Maryland State Archives (http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/chron.html)
John Barth: The Information Center (http://www.dave-edelman.com/barth/index.cfm)
- "The Postmodern," "Postmodernism," "Postmodernity": Approaches to Po-Mo (http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/technoculture/pomo.html)

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