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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Other Teaching Pack (Slides and Guide) - Alice in Wonderland Caroline Batten
Other Shakespeare & the plague Emma Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=082EH-78iEU
Other Phillis Wheatley Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley
Other A Play in Fragments by Maria Edgeworth - A Surviving Manuscript Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster
Other Prismatic Jane Eyre Matthew Reynolds https://prismaticjaneeyre.org/
Other Science and the Supernatural Melissa Dickson https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/
Other Dracula and Modern Life Emilie Taylor-Brown, Hosanna Krienke, Sarah Green https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/
Other On the Subject of Speed: Thomas Hardy Catherine Charlwood https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/
Other Edward Lear's Lines of Flight Matthew Bevis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ux7qcAFR-o
Other Paintings, Parrots and Poetry: The Life of Edward Lear Matthew Bevis https://youtu.be/I5BjGA2rAfo
Other Teaching materials by Lucy Freeland Lucy Freeland
Other thedimofdawn.com Students at The King’s School Canterbury https://thedimofdawn.com/
Other Visualisations of 'Exiles' by James Joyce Patrick Lockley https://www.flickr.com/photos/76886454@N02/sets/72157630624173658/
Other Modernists' Perception of the Past (wiki article) Greg LaLuna https://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/Modernists%27+Perception+of+the+Past
Other Imagism and Modernism and Beyond (wiki article) Greg LaLuna https://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/Imagism+and+Modernism+and+Beyond
Other Publication — is the Auction https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Publication_%E2%80%94_is_the_Auctio…
Other Slimescapes (article) Santanu Das https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/slimescapes/
Other Wilfred Owen: 'Futility' Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/wilfred-owen-futility.html
Other Mary Borden Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/mary-borden.html
Other Gilbert Frankau Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/gilbert-frankau.html
Other The Dying Kiss: Gender and Intimacy in the Trenches of World War I Santanu Das https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-dying-kiss-gender-and-inti…
Other Truth-telling versus literary allusion in David Jones’s ‘In Parenthesis’ (1937) Anna Johnson https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/truth-telling-versus-literary-al…
Other War Horse Poetry Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/war-horse-poetry.html
Other Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/ivor-gurney-isaac-rosenberg-wilfred.ht…
Other Combat Gnosticism and the Woman Poets of the First World War Tim Kendall https://war-poets.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/combat-gnosticism-and-woman-poet-of.ht…
Other First World War timeline (interactive) https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/timeline
Other The Cornhill magazine https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=OXV…
Other Walt Whitman's Editorial Work on the New York Aurora https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/editing/aurora.html
Other Whitman's Journalism https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/index.html
Other Bibliography of Whitman's poems first published in periodicals https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/bibliography/index.html
Other Editing Whitman's Poetry in Periodicals https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/technical_introduction/index.ht…
Other Introduction to Whitman's Poems in Periodicals https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/general_introduction/index.html
Other Leaves of Grass https://whitmanarchive.org/published/books/other/rhys.html
Other Poems by Walt Whitman https://whitmanarchive.org/published/books/other/rossetti.html
Other Leaves of Grass: six American editions https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/index.html
Other Commonwealth Cemeteries of World War I (visualisation) Patrick Lockley https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/commonwealth-cemeteries-of-…
Other Reading Culture in the Victorian Underworld Rosalind Crone https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other From old English to modern English Marisa Lohr https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/english-language/old-en…
Other The brave new world of modernism Peter Lawson https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/the-brave-new-world-modernism
Other Ever your affectionate Father, Charles Dickens https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ever-your-affectionate-father-charles-dicke…
Other Charles Dickens and his readers Mary Hammond https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Robert Louis Stevenson’s reading Shafquat Towheed https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other A famous novel and its readers: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) Rosalind Crone https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Jane Austen’s readers (essay) Katie Halsey https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Oscar Wilde reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNcIvIuybyQ
Other Seeing Joyce (article) https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/seeing-joyce
Other The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/
Other A Few Words about F. Scott Fitzgerald (article) https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-few-words-about-f-scott-fitzgerald
Other Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (course) Wai Chee Dimock https://oyc.yale.edu/american-studies/amst-246
Other Under a green sea – experiences of gas warfare (3D simulation) https://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/under-a-green-sea-experiences-…