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=Welcome to a new kind of wiki: = =cross-institutional, student-authored, and all about Victorian poetry and its contexts! =

General Editor: Alison Chapman
You will be familiar with the most famous, and biggest, wiki of them all, Wikipedia, and might even have used it as a starting point for your academic assignments. There are, however, few student-created public resources devoted to Victorian Poetry and its contexts. This wiki is devoted to Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Contexts, authored by students across H.E. institutions across North American and England. Students design, create, and edit wiki posts in a collaborate environment, with the support and editorial help of their instructors.
 * Mission Statement: **

=**Student wiki writers, the following information is for you: **=

The wiki entries on the right side of this page give examples of kinds of entries on poets, poetics, and contexts, but they are by no means exclusive. Some of them are blank, waiting for a wiki author to adopt them; other entries have been moved over from a previous wiki assignment at UVic. Please consult with your instructor for guidance about your wiki topic. We encourage you to use the editing and comment functions of the website too.
 * What kind of wiki topic should I choose? **

(1) To create a one-stop resource for other Victorian poetry readers and students (undergraduate and graduate) on wide number of topics related to how your course intersects with the poetry, poetics and contexts of the period (2) To provide experience in a different kind of academic writing: not a discursive, analytical, interpretative essay, but an informative, fact-driven, explanatory, carefully sourced wiki entry that will be vetted by your instructor before posting to the wiki. Your wiki entry will be research-driven, and may be the basis of another research assignment (depending on your course guidelines), but will also be a stand-alone web publication. (3) To give you the opportunity of self-reflection, feedback and revision of your wiki entry in a collaborative, cross-institutional setting: your instructor (or a T.A.) vets and suggests edits for the wiki before it is posted, to ensure good quality and accuracy, and you can add discussion posts, comments and revisions to wiki entries (including your own).
 * The aim of this wiki is: **


 * House rules for the wiki: **
 * Please format entries according to the **MLA style **
 * **Student signatures **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 1.5;">: please sign wiki entries with the formula: student initials/course name/institution/semester (e.g. “A.B./Engl386/UVic/Fall2012”)
 * ** Images should be out of copyright: ** for example, try Wikimedia Common s
 * Resources must be scholarly and reputable

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Recommended Sources for wiki entries: =

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Internet =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth Century History// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//NINES // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//The Victorian Web // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//Victorian Poetry Network// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//The Victoria Research Web// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//For Better for Verse// (online poetry tutorial) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Yellow Nineties Online

//The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project// //Elizabeth Barrett Browning Archive// //Labouring-Class Writers Project// //Morris Online Edition// //The Poetess Archive// //Rosamund Marriott Watson// //The Rossetti Archive// //Victorian Women Writers Project//
 * Digital Resources on Specific Poets:**

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Encyclopaedias =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">James Eli Adams. //Encyclopedia of the Victorian Er//a. 4 vols. Grolier, 2004. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sally Mitchell. //Victorian Britain. An Encyclopedia//. Garland, 1998.

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Secondary Material in Print =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Abrams, //Glossary of Literary Terms//, any edition <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Alex Prominger and T. V. F. Brogan (eds.), //The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics// (any edition)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Reference Books: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Isobel Armstrong, //Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics// (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Joseph Bristow (ed.), //Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry// (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman and Antony H. Harrison (eds.), //A Companion to Victorian Poetry// (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Angela Leighton (ed.), //Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader// (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Francis O'Gorman (ed.), //The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Cultur//e ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Herbert Tucker (ed). //A Companion to Victorian Literature and Cultur//e. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Academic companions, readers, essay collections and monographs such as (but not limited to): **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Plus:** Articles in academic journals/e-journals

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The following instructors have designed course assignments around this wiki:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Alison Chapman (alisonc@uvic.ca): Victorian Culture and Thought [upper-level u/g (Fall 14)]; Victorian Poetry [upper-level u/g (Winter 2015, Fall 2012); Popular Victorian Poetry [graduate (Fall 2013)]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Caley Ehnes (cehnes@uvic.ca): Victorian Literature and Culture [upper-level u/g (Fall 12)]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (K.Hadjiafxendi@exeter.ac.uk) Women's Writing option [upper-level u/g (Fall 12)]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Andrea Rehn (arehn@whittier.edu): Victorian Poetry [upper-level u/g (Fall 12)]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Melissa Gregory (melissagregory0@gmail.com): Victorian Poetry [upper-level u/g (Spring13)]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Yisrael Levin (Levin@hws.edu): Victorian Poetry [Spring 13]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">If you are an instructor who would like to join our team, please contact Alison Chapman.

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