Norbert Schürer's Home Page

Welcome to my new and improved home page, where you can find out about

• my professional interests, including many eighteenth-century links and links concerning literature and history of all periods,
• links to Greenland,
• some personal interest items

Professional Interests

• Don Quixote (cf. the various pictures on this page!)
• the eighteenth-century British novel
• one of the articles I'm working on: "Amazons and Macaronis: Transsexualism in the Eighteenth Century"
• another article I've almost finished: "Just another Prison? English Representations of the Bastille before its Fall"
• For list of contemporary novels set in the eighteenth century, go to this link.
• already in print: my David Lodge. An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1995.

  

Eighteenth-Century Links

• The best link I've come across so far is Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature, which includes general resources, links to specific authors, course syllabi, and much more.
• The always reliable Eighteenth-Century Resources now includes an excellent search machine, as well as homepages of individuals working on the eighteenth century. The C-18 Project proposes to do something similar, but isn't up and running yet.
• The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies now has its own homepage, as does the Eighteenth-Century Discussion Group. The latter includes Links to Libraries with strong holdings in the eighteenth century. The group's--or, more precisely, Kevin Berland's--amazing bibliographies, including many back issues, can now be found on the Selected Readings Page. The homepage of GEMCS is currently mostly concerned with the annual conference. The catalog of the Library Company of Philadelphia is now available online as well. Lee Jaffe has set up the Eighteenth Century Ring, which will collect websites concerned with that period.
• Another awesome project is the Dictionary of Sensibility, an impressive collection of terms, their definitions by the seminar that constructed the dictionary, and many, many links to original texts. On the history of executions, visit the Tyburn Tree site.
• Eighteenth-century journals available on the web include a searchable site for the Internet Library of Early Journals as well as five issues of the London Gazette, one each from the years 1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, and 1692. There is also a site where the caricatures of George Cruishank can be visited.
• There is an interesting site, which is however still in its beginning stages, on the South Sea Bubble called The Bubble Project. Another (excellent) site devoted to a specific cultural event/artifact is concerned with Gulliver's Travels. There is also a site on the "Rape of the Lock". Jeffrey Merrick's home page includes bibliographies on homosexuality and suicide in early modern Europe.
• The homepage of a class on "Sentimentalism and Imperialism in American Literature and Culture to 1865" being taught this semester at Auburn includes a Bibliography of Online Resources on that subject. See also the Omohundro Institute site on the American Revolution. Recently at Stanford, John Bender, Timothy Lenoir, and Georgene Moldovan taught a class called "Bodyworks" on medicine, technology, and the body in the late 20th century.

English, Literature, and History Links in other periods

• Going back in time a bit, there is the Restoration Drama Homepage, which features individual authors, some background (with pictures), and links to other pages. A site covering this as well as other periods is the Early Modern England Source page.
• Going forward in time, students of Romanticism might want to check out the Romantic Circles, and Victorianists might be interested in the Victorian Web, and more specifically in the Victorian Women Writers Project.
• Arriving at the contemporary, there is a page with all the winner and shortlists of the Booker Prize from 1969 to 1996.
• Information on all areas of English can be found on Carnegie Mellon's English Server.
• Not quite as advanced (yet) is Web-Cite.
• The University of Manitoba provides a wonderful page with links to pages on a huge number of Canadian Writers, including such worthies as Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Barbara Gowdy, W.P. Kinsella, Paul Quarrington, and Rudy Wiebe.
• An excellent cite on history of all times, areas (in spite of the name), and subjects is American and British History Resources on the Internet.
• For those of you who (like myself) have an obsession with books, there is a list of international Selected Bookstores available online. Searchable used and rare book sites can also be found at this address, which includes a link to the search forms of Bibliofind. Of course, the best Internet bookseller of them all is Amazon Books.
• At this site, you can find out what's going on in London theaters (or rather theatres).

Greenland

One of my favorite places on this planet is Greenland. I've been spending some time finding sites related to Greenland on the Net. Here are some of my results:

INFORMATION

The most comprehensive site on Greenland seems to be the Greenland Guide, which includes most tourist information (Greenland Tourism, Greenlandair, Greenland Travel, Arctic Adventures, travel agents, youth hostels, etc.) as well as other information such as Greenlandic stamps and 'The Magic Kingdom of Santa Claus.' However, as an official tourist site, it needs to be taken with a grain of salt... The Greenland Homerule has an excellent page with links to ministries, parliament, press releases, a history of homerule, and others. Nuuk has its own page, which--although most of it is in Danish--is well worth a visit for some amazing pictures of the city. I never thought I'd actually advise anybody to make use of the CIA, but their page on Greenland has quite up-to-date statistics on people, government, the economy, etc.

OTHER COOL SITES

Greenland's first Internet magazine Atagu usually has one or two English essays per issue (the rest are in Danish, not Greenlandic). Robert Petersen has an excellent article on "Colonialism as Seen from a Former Colonized Area," i.e. Greenland. Alan Pickaver discusses Greenpeace's policy towards subsistence hunting, complete with Greenpeace documents, in "Greenpeace Damage Control: A Visit to Greenland." Finally, for all those who like to physically exert themselves, check out the Nuuk Marathon--a grand total of 30 finished this race in 1996, and by 1999 the number was up to 48.

On an more personal note:
Here are two lovely pictures of my beautiful nephew Hannes and his gorgeous sister Inken!

For afficionados of the 'Young German Film,' the Internet Movie Database has incredible amounts on information, searchable by almost every imaginable criterion.

The Musikschule Wilmersdorf now has its own home page, too.

Finally, for all those Fussball-addicts out there, here's a link to the latest results in the Bundesliga.