Author

Text

Call Number

Selections

Pedagogical Uses

Camden, William

Remaines of a greater worke, concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their languages, names,surnams, empreses, wise speeches, poesies, and epitaphes
(London, 1605).

(available on Early English Books Online through Mountainlynx)

• historiography
• British Renaissance History
• Context for Shakespeare’s History plays, More’s Utopia

Fuller, Thomas

The History of the Worthies of England
(London, 1662)

920.042 F959h (available on Early English Books Online through Mountainlynx)

• Historiography
• Restoration Book Publication (dedication, audience, etc.)

Moxon, Joseph

A tutor to astronomy and geography Third Edition (London, 1674)

522.7 M873 (available on Early English Books Online through Mountainlynx)

• 17th-century science
• 17th-century geography
• science writing

Langbaine, Gerard

The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets
(London, 1699)

Z2014 .D7L23 1699 (available on Early English Books Online through Mountainlynx)

• British literary culture
• canon formation
• literary biography

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The Legislative Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia , Vol. I (Facsimile edition,

J87 .V59 v.1

Pages 422-426: Legislative sessions on May 11 and 12, 1705;

Pages 506-507: Legislative sessions on December 2 and 4, 1710

• 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.

Towell, Samuel

A New Treatise of Husbandry, Gardening, and other Curious Matters relating to Country Affairs (London, 1739)

S492 .T7

Pages 42-53: Of Meadow and Pasture Grounds

Pages 54-59: Of Hops

Pages 112-113: Of the Onion, Leek, etc.

• 18th-century British agriculture
• 18th-century diet
• Food production

Ritson, Joseph

A Select Collection of English Songs in Three Volumes , Vol. II (London, 1783)

M1740 .R6 v.2

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

• 18th-century British anthologies (form and function)
• Status of songs and ballads

Jefferson, Thomas

Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia (Baltimore, 1800)

975.5 J359n

Pages 99-105: A description of the Indians established in Virginia

• 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
• See Stewart Plein’s notes about the editions and the variations

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The Northern Traveller (New York, 1828)

F 106 .N6 1828

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.

• 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)

AY 64. A5

pages 335-338: Chronicle of Events for 1843

• 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)

AP 4 .Y4

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

• Late 19th Century popular British culture
• WVU Library has Katherine Lyon Mix’s A Study In Yellow: The YellowBook and Its Contributors
  (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960) – call # PN 5130 Y4M5