| Author
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Text |
Call Number |
Selections |
Pedagogical Uses |
| Camden, William
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Remaines of a greater worke, concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof,
their languages, names,surnams, empreses, wise speeches, poesies, and epitaphes
(London, 1605).
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942 C144
(available on Early English Books Online through WVU Library Catalogue)
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Pages 210-211: Sections on and speeches of Henry IV and Henry V
Pages 216-217: Section on Richard III (“…whose monstrous birth foreshewed
his monstrous proceedings…)
Pages 220-226: Section and speeches of Thomas More
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- historiography
- British Renaissance History
- Context for Shakespeare’s History plays, More’s
Utopia
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Fuller, Thomas
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The History of the Worthies of England
(London, 1662)
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920.042 F959h (available on Early English Books Online through WVU Library Catalogue)
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“To His Sacred Majesty”
“To The Reader”
Pages 1-2: the purpose of the book
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- Historiography
- Restoration Book Publication (dedication, audience, etc.)
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Moxon, Joseph
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A tutor to astronomy and geography Third Edition (London, 1674)
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522.7 M873 (available on Early English Books Online through WVU Library Catalogue)
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Page 4: “What a Globe is”
Page 5-6: “Of the Horizon”
Page 7-8: “Of the Equator”
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- 17th-century science
- 17th-century geography
- science writing
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Langbaine, Gerard
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The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets
(London, 1699)
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Z2014 .D7L23 1699 (available on Early English Books Online through WVU Library Catalogue)
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Pages 8-10: Aphra Behn
Pages 124-126: Thomas Shadwell
Pages 178-179: Mary Pix and Catherine Trotter
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- British literary culture
- canon formation
- literary biography
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The Legislative Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia ,
Vol. I (Facsimile edition)
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J87 .V59 v.1
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Pages 422-426: Legislative sessions on May 11 and 12, 1705;
Pages 506-507: Legislative sessions on December 2 and 4, 1710
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- American History
- Political Process (on the multiple times it takes to pass a bill)
- Early 18th-century American concerns (note comments on taxes, building
stocks, public privies; on freeing slaves, etc.
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Towell, Samuel
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A New Treatise of Husbandry, Gardening, and other Curious
Matters relating to Country Affairs (London, 1739)
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S492 .T7
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Pages 42-53: Of Meadow and Pasture Grounds
Pages 54-59: Of Hops
Pages 112-113: Of the Onion, Leek, etc.
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- 18th-century British agriculture
- 18th-century diet
- Food production
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Ritson, Joseph
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A Select Collection of English Songs in Three Volumes , Vol. II
(London, 1783)
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M1740 .R6 v.2
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Pages 1-2: Song I: The Honest Fellow
Pages 99-100: Song XVII: To Idleness
Pages 286-290: Ballad XVII: The Scotchman Outwitted by the Farmers Daughter
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- 18th-century British anthologies (form and function)
- Status of songs and ballads
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Jefferson, Thomas
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Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia (Baltimore, 1800)
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F230 .J4 1800b
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Pages 99-105: A description of the Indians established in Virginia
Pages 165-166: The present state of manufactures, commerce, interior and
exterior trade
Pages 3-8: The Address of Thomas Jefferson on his taking the Oath of Office
as President of the United States of America
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- 18th-century American History
- 18th-century American economics
- 18th-century representation of Native Americans
- Definitions of Presidency, Presidential identity/vision
- WVU has four editions of this text
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The Northern Traveller (New York, 1828)
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F 106 .N6 1828
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Pages 20-23: Description of West Point
Pages 72-73: Description of Niagara Falls (from the British side)
Pages 355-356: Description of Washington, D.C.
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- Early 19th Century American travel culture
- Inclusion and exclusion (in terms of where to visit, and where not to visit)
- Assessment of locations (and criteria to do so)
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1844
(Boston, 1843)
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AY 64. A5
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pages 335-338: Chronicle of Events for 1843
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- Ideologies of Importance, (note patterns of inclusion and exclusion)
- text includes multiple calendars (Christian, Jewish, Moslem); census of
slave by state; list of colleges and universities (and their cost - Harvard
tuition: $75 in 1843). A lot of data is in chart form, which provides
interesting information in addition to what may be gleaned from a transcription
exercise
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The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Vol. IV (London, 1895)
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AP 4 .Y4
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Pages 90-93: The beginning of a short story, “Wladislaw’s Advent,” by Menie Muriel
Dowie
Page 275: The beginning of “1880,” by Max Beerbohm
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- Late 19th Century popular British culture
- WVU Library has Katherine Lyon Mix’s
A Study In Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960) – call # PN 5130 Y4M5
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