British Literature OER is a dynamic online anthology enriched with educational resources …
British Literature OER is a dynamic online anthology enriched with educational resources such as introductions and footnotes, tailored for educational settings. It allows users to download content in multiple formats, including PDF, Word, EPUB, and HTML. More than just a collection of public domain literature, this platform actively curates and continuously expands its offerings. It is regularly updated and reviewed to include new interpretations, scholarly research, and additions to the public domain.
Currently, the anthology focuses on literature from the Romantic Era, the Victorian Age, and the early twentieth century; however, works from earlier time periods will be added in the future.
***We're continually updating this OER, so please reach out if there is any content that you'd like to see added.***
This is it! We're going out with a singing, dancing look at …
This is it! We're going out with a singing, dancing look at the Broadway Book Musical. Oklahoma! On the Town! Annie Get Your Gun! Also, just Annie! Today you'll learn about the development of the Broadway Book Musical in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and get a sense of how the form developed through the Golden Age of Broadway.
We're going to Broadway, everybody, and it's not going to be that …
We're going to Broadway, everybody, and it's not going to be that fun. In fact, it's going to be a very serious experience with lots of powerful social commentary and indictments of life in America in the 1950s. So be prepared to look at the works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Lorraine Hansberry, and to look into the face of chronic illness, racism, and the crushing malaise of American middle class life. Woof.
Questioning is one of the most important critical thinking skills in education. …
Questioning is one of the most important critical thinking skills in education. This worksheet introduces a bronze-silver-gold question classification scheme. Bronze questions are factual, basic comprehension questions; silver questions require some inference and a bit more insight; gold questions are discussion questions that do not have one answer. The classification system is designed for the students to generate their own questions, rather than analyze ready-made questions.
Bronze doors, 1015, commissioned by Bishop Bernward for Saint Michael's, Hildesheim (Germany). …
Bronze doors, 1015, commissioned by Bishop Bernward for Saint Michael's, Hildesheim (Germany). A conversation with Dr. Nancy Ross and Jennifer Freeman. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Met curator Seán Hemingway on the purity of love in Bronze statue …
Met curator Seán Hemingway on the purity of love in Bronze statue of Eros sleeping from Greece’s Hellenistic Period, 3rd–2nd century B.C.E. The Hellenistic period introduced the accurate characterization of age. Young children enjoyed great favor, whether in mythological form, as baby Herakles or Eros, or in genre scenes, playing with each other or with pets. This Eros, god of love, has been brought down to earth and disarmed, a conception considerably different from that of the powerful, often cruel, and capricious being so often addressed in Archaic poetry. One of the few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity, this figure of a plump baby in relaxed pose conveys a sense of the immediacy and naturalistic detail that the medium of bronze made possible. He is clearly based on firsthand observation. The support on which the god rests is a modern addition, but the work originally would have had a separate base, most likely of stone. This statue is the finest example of its kind. Judging from the large number of extant replicas, the type was popular in Hellenistic and, especially, Roman times. In the Roman period, Sleeping Eros statues decorated villa gardens and fountains. Their function in the Hellenistic period is less clear. They may have been used as dedications within a sanctuary of Aphrodite or possibly may have been erected in a public park or private, even royal, garden.
Agnolo di Cosimo Bronzino, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, c. 1545, …
Agnolo di Cosimo Bronzino, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, c. 1545, oil on panel, 146.1 x 116.2 cm (National Gallery, London) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker.
Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with her son Giovanni, 1544-1545, oil …
Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with her son Giovanni, 1544-1545, oil on panel, 115 x 96 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Bronzino Portrait of a Young Man, oil on panel, 1530s (Metropolitan Museum …
Bronzino Portrait of a Young Man, oil on panel, 1530s (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Bronzino, Lodovico Capponi, Oil on panel, 1550-55 (Frick Collection) Speakers: David Drogin and Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual …
Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture on the subject of books and gives a case study of Henry Lawson, Australian author of Where the Billy Boils. This podcast is part of the Literature, Art and Oxford series from Oxford University.
Reading Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess," students will explore the use …
Reading Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess," students will explore the use of dramatic monologue as a poetic form, where the speaker often reveals far more than intended.
features Monroe Elementary, the school attended in 1950 by third grader Linda …
features Monroe Elementary, the school attended in 1950 by third grader Linda Brown. Because she was black, Brown was barred from attending a white school much closer to her home. The cases brought by father and others led to the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
This art history video discussion examines Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Dutch …
This art history video discussion examines Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Dutch Proverbs," 1559, oil on oak, 117 x 163 cm (Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).
This art history video discussion examines Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Tower …
This art history video discussion examines Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Tower of Babel," 1563, oil on panel, 114 x 155 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Brunelleschi & Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panels for the second set …
Brunelleschi & Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panels for the second set of bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery, 1401-2. Created by Beth Harris, Steven Zucker, and Smarthistory.
Brunelleschi, Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence, begun c. 1421 Speakers: Dr. Beth …
Brunelleschi, Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence, begun c. 1421 Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Filippo Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence, begun 1420s, completed 1460s Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dt. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
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