"The mass media are here, the mass media are there, the mass media are all around..."
We are surrounded and deeply plunged in the media world: we get all the information about
what is happening everywhere on earth from TV, radio and newspapers. But do you really know everything about them?

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (from Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift)
• J.Addison
  http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/addison.htm
  http://www.avsands.com/addison-av.htm
• The complete volumes of The Spectator and The Tatler
  http://harvest.rutgers.edu/projects/spectator/about.html
• A critical article about The Spectator
  http://www.history.upenn.edu/phr/spring97/ess4.html
• About D. Defoe
  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm
• The XVIIIth Century English Literature
  http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/18thcent.htm
• Fleet Street
  http://www.pbs.org/kqed/demonbarber/penny/newspaper.html
• The Victorian Web
  www.victorianweb.org
  Everything about the Victorian age, from writers to social history, philosophy, science, etc. by Prof.G.P. Landow, Brown Univ.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Web site for humanities research
  http://vos.ucsb.edu/
• Literary Resources on the Net
  An annotated bibliography of links by Prof. J.Lynch at Department of English, Newark Campus, Rutgers Univ.
• English Literature on the Web
  by Prof. Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan
  http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html
  http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/%7Ematsuoka/UK-authors.html

• 2003: G. Orwell Centenary
  A large collection of links to online texts, biographies, bibliographies, essays, summaries, etc.
  
• http://pages.citenet.net/users/charles/links.html
  http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/bio.htm
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/orwell/
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/orwell_george.shtml
• Nineteen Eighty-Four ( e-text)
  http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/
• More links
  http://www.webenglishteacher.com/orwell.html
• An interesting lesson plan about 1984
  http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/1984/

• Concise History of the British Newspaper Since 1620 (The British Library)
  http://www.bl.uk/collections/britnews.htm
• Links to the media world, in Italy and abroad
  http://www.ipse.com/
  http://www.onlinenewspapers.com
  http://www.newsdirectory.com/
  http://www.newspapers.com/
  http://www.zonalingue.com/edicola/inggiorn.html
• Online newspapers from around the world (The Internet Public Library)
  
• London National Newspapers on the Internet
  
• Sources for the History of the Press
  
• From Printed Page to Home Page (a lesson plan created by The New York Times)
  
• Journalism Resources
  
• Journalism and the Periodical Press
  A bibliography of printed publications covering the period 1650 - 1800
  
• Victorian periodicals: two bibliographies
  http://mh.cla.umn.edu/britper.html
  http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/periodicals.html