LITERARY NONFICTION
English 5760

Fall 2008
Dr. Richard Nordquist

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WRITERLY ADVICE
-Advice From Writers
-Dr. Seuss on Writing
-E.B. White on Writing
-Mencken on Writing
-Oates on Writing
-Orwell's Rules
-Overcoming Writer's Block
-Thurber on Writing
-Vonnegut on Writing
-What Is Style?
-Woolf on Journals
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719) & Richard Steele (1672-1729)
The Joseph Addison Page
Joseph Addison Quotes
Joseph Addison, "Taste" in The Spectator (No. 409)
The Spectator

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Aphorisms
The Essays (Renascence Editions)
The Essays of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon: Life and Works
Novum Organum
"Of Deformity" *
"Of Marriage and the Single Life" *
"Of Studies" *
sirbacon.org (includes a "Baconian Slideshow")
The New Atlantis (Univ. of Virginia Library)

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Text and Image Archive

Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
"EarthSaint: Annie Dillard" (by Cheryl Lander)
"The Mysticism of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" (by Sandra Stahlman Elliott)

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
"My Escape from Slavery" *
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave


Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
biographical sketch
CASTLE RACKRENT: AN HIBERNIAN TALE TAKEN FROM FACTS, AND FROM THE MANNERS OF THE IRISH SQUIRES,
BEFORE THE YEAR 1782
(complete)
"Imprisonment in Castle Rackrent: A Gothic Convention Reflecting
Eighteenth Century Women's Reality,"
by K. D. Wixson

Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)
"The Brown Wasps"

William Hazlitt  (1778-1830)
Essays

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Boswell's Life of Johnson
The History of Rasselas,Prince of Abissinia
"London"
Prayers and Meditations
Samuel Johnson Page, by Jack Lynch
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
The Vanity of Human Wishes

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Charles Lamb Page
Charles Lamb Society
"The Old Familiar Faces"

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken, by Walter Lippman (11 Dec. 1926)
H. L. Mencken Quotes
Henry Louis Mencken
Quotes from H. L. Mencken

Michel de Montaigne
(1533-1592)
"On Cannibals"
"Of Thumbs"*

George Orwell (1903-1950)
Charles' Orwell Links
George Orwell
Political Writings of George Orwell

Plutarch (AD c.50-c.125)
Biography of Plutarch
Ploutarchos: Website of the International Plutarch Society

Seneca the Younger (c. BC 4-AD 65)
Links


Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
A Child's Garden of Verses
"Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions"* by RLS
Jekyll and Hyde Page
"On   Some Technical Elements of  Style in Literature" by RLS
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, a
  Memorial
,
by Alexander H. Japp
The Robert Louis Stevenson Club
The Robert Louis Stevenson Online Exhibit
The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island


Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Article on The Main Woods, by David Rothenberg
Back to Walden Pond Campfire Chat
Background behind Walden*
Biographical essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson*
A Brief Introduction to Thoreau*
Cape Cod
(1865)
"Civil Disobedience" (1849)
Concordances: Henry David Thoreau
The Electric Thoreau (links)
The Electronic Drummer
Frequently Asked Questions*
From the Journals of Henry David Thoreau
Heath Instructor's Guide for Teaching Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, by Donna Reinert
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
"Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions"* by RLS
Henry David Thoreau Pages
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Henry David Thoreau: Writer/Peacenik
Hotlist on Thoreau and Walden
Images of Thoreau
The Life and Times, by Harriet Hall Witherell
The Maine Woods (1864)
Mystery at Walden Pond, by Ken Reeves
New England Transcendentalism
On Walden
A Personal Introduction to Walden *
"A Plea for  Captain John Brown"
Poems by Thoreau
"Reflections on Walden"
Replica of Thoreau's Cabin
Selected Bibliography
Site of Thoreau's Cabin
"Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854)
"Thoreau as Botanist," by Ray Angelo
Thoreau the Buddhist, by Rick Fields
A Thoreau Checklist and Twenty Questions
The Thoreau Institute
The Thoreau Page
The Thoreau Reader
The Thoreau Society
Thoreau's Cape Cod: An Interactive Tour
Thoreau's Grave
Thoreau's Maine Woods
Thoreau's Pencils
Thoreau's Walden Pond (images)
Thoreau's Wild Fruits, a manuscript published fall 1999
The Transcendentalists
Virtual Tour: Thoreau, Walden, and the Environment
Walden * (complete text)
Walden * (complete text)
Walden * (complete text)
Walden and other works * (downloadable as PDF files)
The Walden List
The Walden Mailing List
Walden Pond Exhibit
Walden: A Reading Group/Discussion Guide *
The Walden Woods Project
What Thoreau Knew (Thoreau and the Simplicity Movement)
Wild Fruits (1999)
Writings from Concord (annotated bibliography)
Writings of Henry David Thoreau

E. B. White, (1899-1985)
"The Door" (short story)
E. B. White (includes bibliography)
"Once More to the Lake"
"The Rider and the Writer in 'The Ring of Time'"
Stuart Little (film, release date 10 December 1999)

Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
Bibliography
Interview with Tom Wolfe (audio and video)
Interview with Tom Wolfe (Steve Hammer, 1998)
Tom Wolfe (publisher's site)
Tom Wolfe, Zeitgeist Czar


English 5760 is taught by Dr. Richard Nordquist.
Armstrong Atlantic State University
Savannah, Georgia 31419
PHONE: 912 344 2613
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