LangLit WWW

A site dedicated to the study of Literature, Imperialism, Postcolonialism

This project aims to recognize and analyse the intellectual legacy of British and Irish authors in the European cultural tradition. It examines the ways in which selected British and Irish writers in various humanistic disciplines have been translated, published, reviewed and discussed in Europe over the last few centuries. The project is being published under the title 'The Athlone Critical Traditions: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe', an open-ended, multi-volume series published by Continuum. Publications are listed from 2003 to the present and deal with the reception of several authors, including: Laurence Sterne; James Joyce; Walter Pater; Ossian and James Macpherson; D. H. Lawence; Sir Walter Scott; Jane Austen; Coleridge; Charles Darwin; Shelley; Byron; H. G. Wells; Jonathan Swift; David Hume; Yeats; and Henry James

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This interactive timeline will allow you to explore the evolution of English language, from the 11th century to the present day. Scroll through decade by decade to investigate the many social, cultural and political strands from which our language has been woven

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has also produced an interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant quartos, with full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions.