GBK 471--From Naturalism to Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century

• Henry Adams (1838-1918)

  The Education of Henry Adams (1918)

  1. American Studies Program at the University of Virginia [TOC, html]

• Joseph Conrad (aka. Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857-1924)

  Heart of Darkness (1902)

  1. The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
  2. E316K Masterworks of British Literature Class Page at the University of Texas [212K, html]
  3. The Litrix Reading Room [html]
  4. The Wiretap Internet Electronic Text Archive [txt]

• Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
  1. Glass Bead Game
  2. LucidCafe

  The Origin of Species (1858)

  1. The Eris Project
  2. An Online Literature Library [TOC, html]

• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
  1. The Emily Dickinson International Society
  2. PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
  3. http://www.planet.net/pkrisxle/emily/dickinson.html
  4. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/dickinson-bio.html
  5. LucidCafe

  Selected Poetry

  1. Celebration of Women Writers [html]
  2. Humanities Text Initiative (Series 1, 1891) [html]
  3. Humanities Text Initiative (Series 2, 1910) [html]
  4. Humanities Text Initiative (Series 3, 1914) [html]
  5. Project Bartleby [Index of Poems, html]
  6. Richard's Poetry Library
  7. University of Maryland's inforM System

• Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

  Madame Bovary (1857)

  The Litrix Reading Room [html]

• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
  1. Burying Freud: The Web Site
  2. The Freud Archives
  3. The Freud Web
  4. Glass Bead Game
  5. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  6. Lucid Cafe [html]
  7. http://austria-info.at/personen/freud/index.html

  Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

  The Outline of Psychoanalysis

  1. http://www2.msstate.edu/~dkl2/sfreud1.html [html]

  Beyond the Pleasure Principle

• Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
  1. http://odin.dep.no/ud/nornytt/ibsen.html

  A Doll House (1879)

  1. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~spires/Concord/doll.html [database]
  2. http://www.triton.cc.il.us/undergrad_ctr/files/dollshse.html [txt]

  Hedda Gabler (1890)

  Little Kyolf

• Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
  1. Björn's Guide to Philosophy
  2. Consulate General of Denmark in New York
  3. A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  4. The Realm of Existentialism
  5. Kierkegaard on the Internet
  6. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  Fear and Trembling (1843)

• Herman Melville (1819-1891)
  1. The Life and Works of Herman Melville

  Billy Budd (1888-1891)

  1. Bibliomania [TOC, html]
  2. The Eris Project
  3. PAL: Perspectives in American Literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
  1. Björn's Guide to Philosophy
  2. A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. Glass Bead Game
  4. An Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. The Nietzsche Page at USC
  6. The Realm of Existentialism
  7. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885)

  1. The Eris Project
  2. http://www.us.itd.umich.edu/~alexboko/zar/zar.html [TOC, html]

• Count Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910)
  1. Birukoff, Paul. Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood
  2. Tolstoy Library

  The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886)

  1. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library [TXT, 128k]

• Mark Twain (aka. Samuel Longhorn Clemens) (1835-1910)
  1. Ever The Twain Shall Meet
  2. Lucid Cafe [html]
  3. Mark Twain in His Times
  4. Mark Twain at The Mining Company

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

  1. Ever The Twain Shall Meet [TOC, html]
  2. The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia The Litrix Reading Room [html]

• Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
  1. The Poetry of Walt Whitman
  2. Walt Whitman Circle Home Page

  Leaves of Grass (1855)

  1. The Eris Project
  2. Project Bartleby [Index of Poems, html]

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