Instructor: Carolyn Jacobson
Office: Bennett Hall 217
Office hours: Monday 12-1, Wednesday 3-4
Personal E-Mail: cjacobso@english.upenn.edu
Phone Number: 215-898-5223 (office)

Course Links

• The complete Syllabus for this course
• The Reading and Assignment Schedule

Useful 19th Century and Literature Links

• Online versions of our novels (great for searching)
• The Victoria Research Web
• The Victorian Web
• The Dickens Project
• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Victorian Web Sites
• Alan Liu's Victorian Voice of the Shuttle
• Jack Lynch's Literary Resources Pages
• The Bronte Sisters Web
• The Dickens Page
• The Jane Austen Information Page

Useful Writing and Research Links

• Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style
• Using the Web for Research
• The University of Pennsylvania Library's terrific Reference Shelf of its own, complete with Britannica Online, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and the Oxford English Dictionary.
• The Core Rules of Netiquette
• Plagiarism: Penn's Code of Academic Integrity prohibits "Plagiarism: using the ideas, data, or language of another without specific or proper acknowledgment. Example: copying another person's paper, article, or computer work and submitting it for an assignment, cloning someone else's ideas without attribution, failing to use quotation marks where appropriate, etc." Here's one helpful elaboration of this policy, and here is another.
• How to be Original by Michael Barsanti
• Barsanti's Writing a Thesis and On Structure