Literary, Theoretical, and Historical Guides
Selected non-comprehensive world literature links for the 'Modern Period'
Index:
General histories
~16th-17th C.
~18th C.
~18th-19th C.
~19th C.
~20th C. to WWII
~Post-WWII
General Histories
Voice of the Shuttle: Humanities General Resources
Academic Humanities
Open Directory of World Literature
Selected Modern Writers: Introductions
Perspectives in American Literature
Encyclopedia of World History
History of Nations (US State Department)
African History Sourcebook
African Literature Resources
Western European Literary Resources (Non-English)
European History Sourcebook
East Asian History Sourcebook
Chinese Literature Overview
Chinese History Introduction
Indian Literature Overview
Indian History Sourcebook
Indian Literature Resources
Japanese Literature Overview
Japanese History Introduction
Colonial Latin American History
Contemporary Caribbean Literature
Native American History
United States History Documents
Middle Eastern/West Asian Literature
Arabic Literature Overview
Middle East Database
~16th-17th Century
Renaissance & Early 17th Century
17th Century Historical Overview
Baroque Web Ring
Baroque Living History
Ottoman Empire
Mughal Empire
Tokugawa Shogunate
Colonization of Latin America
Colonial North America
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
British Presence in India
~18th Century
Age of Enlightenment
Wikipedia: Age of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment: Background
Detailed Enlightenment History
Enlightenment Resources
Diderot's Encyclopedie (in translation)
18th Century Revolutions
French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
British East India Company
~18th-19th Century
North American Slave Rebellions
American Slave Narratives
British Anti-Slavery Movement
Napoleon Bonaparte
Romanticism: Background
Romanticism Chronology
Romanticism Links
Industrial Revolution
~19th Century
The Long 19th Century
American Civil War
Invention of Photography
Realism and Naturalism
Symbolism
19th Century Feminism
1848 Timeline
The Victorian Web
Victorian Women Writers Project
Liberalism
Nationalism
Orientalism
Eastern European Pogroms
Zionism
Palestinian Nationalism
Colonialism & Imperialism
~20th Century to WWII
Modernism Overview
Modernist Timeline
Modernist (and other) Art
20th Century Literature Chronology
World War I
Armenian Genocide
20th Century Revolutions
Russian Revolution
World War II
World War II Timeline
Holocaust Learning Guide
Holocaust Timeline
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
'Rape of Nanking'
20th Century Genocides
~Post-WWII
Open Directory of World Literature (mainly modern)
Historical Overview 1945-Present
Apartheid
Decolonization
Decolonization Timeline
US Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Cuban Revolution
Algerian War of Independence
Prague Spring
Paris 1968 student and worker rebellions
US-Vietnam War
Fall of the Berlin Wall
What is Postcolonial?
Postcolonial Web
Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonial Issues
"Ethnic Cleansing"
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Postmodernism
Postmodern Thought
Globalization Overview
Globalization in Philosophy
Globalization Theories, Debates, Glossary
CRITICAL THEORY
Everything Postmodern
Postmodern Thought
Klages' Introduction to Modern Critical Thought
What is Critical Theory?
Critical Theory and Marxism
Felluga's Introduction to Critical Theory
CyberArts Web
SELECTED AUTHORS & TEXTS
Jean Rhys Supplemental Materials
Arundhati Roy Study Guide
Midnight's Children Theatrical Production
Salman Rushdie
Achebe: "An Image of Africa"
Caryl Phillips' Response to Achebe
Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
Kipling: "The White Man's Burden" and a Response
Zwick: "The White Man's Burden" and Its Critics
Kipling: "Gunga Din"
Jamaica Kincaid biography
Swift: "A Modest Proposal"
Melville's Benito Cereno
On Olaudah Equiano
Kafka: "In the Penal Colony"
Kafka: "Before the Law"
Eshleman on Cesaire
Aphra Behn sites
Schjeldahl: The Graphic Novel Comes of Age
Gopnik: Voltaire and human rights
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