Cultural Studies: Helpful Links

On "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"

While I don't necessarily recommend blogs all the time, this one provides a good summary and overview. Together they will help:

http://educationcing.blogspot.com/2012/07/matthew-arnold-function-of-criticism-at.html

http://educationcing.blogspot.com/2012/07/critical-synopsis-of-matthew-arnold-s.html

General Victorian Time Period:

The Victorian Web

The Dictionary of Victorian London

Victoria Research Web

The British Library's History Timeline

An Online Dating Guide to Courting in the Victorian Era

On Sensation Fiction:

H.L. Manse's review from Quarterly Review

A copy of a Mudie's Circulating Library Catalogue, 1860

Copies of Victorian-Era Journals

Dickens' Household Words

The Spectator, a weekly newspaper

The first issue of Edinburgh Review

Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Poetry:

The Tate Gallery, London, exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite works.

Victorian Web's excellent overview of the Pre-Raphaelite School

Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (you might need to click on "see more poems")

full text of Robert Buchanan's "The Fleshy School of Poetry: D.G. Rossetti"

[as needed, I'll post here websites that will help you for your presentations, as well as links to articles. Check d2l as well, of course!]