Online Resources for Language and Literature
American Literature
- The Academy of American Poets
- Useful site for American poetry that provides biographical sketches and many audio files of poets reciting their work.
- African American Women Writers of the 19thCentury
- Sponsored by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site provides access to digital versions of rare texts, including novels, poetry, and slave narratives.
- Key Sites on American Literature
- Good selection of links to various online resources in American literature. Sponsored by the United States Department of State.
- Modern American Poetry
- An online poetry journal with entries on over 160 American poets. Includes biographical information and some criticism. Maintained by the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
- Reference guide to over 300 American authors that includes useful secondary bibliographies. Maintained by Dr. Paul P. Reuben, Professor of English, CSU Stanislaus.
- Wright American Fiction Project
- This site from Indiana University provides numerous image files of rare nineteenth-century American books, complete with original typeface and images.
British Literature
- Eighteenth Century Resources
- A thorough directory of online resources for Eighteenth-Century Studies, including links to pages on William Blake, Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen. Includes some Romanticism resources. Maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University-Newark.
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
- Useful database from Georgetown University for all things medieval, including links to primary medieval texts, medieval recipes, and theological texts.
- Romantic Circles
- Published by the University of Maryland, this site includes many resources for the study of Romantic period of literature and culture. Includes hypertext editions of rare books and searchable indexes for numerous scholarly journals devoted to the nineteenth century.
- Romanticism on the Net
- An online, refereed, scholarly journal devoted to British Romanticism. Includes many articles on a host of Romantic topics including Wordsworth, the Shelleys, Charlotte Smith, and Felicia Hemans. Published only online.
- The Victorian Web
- Highly informative site for all aspects of Victorian culture. Includes full-text scholarly books, background on nineteenth-century gender matters, and information on Victorian science. Maintained by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University.
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- Valuable database for high-quality digital transcriptions of rare Victorian women's writing. Currently over 40 authors represented, including Dinah Craik, Ouida, and Olive Schreiner. Edited by Perry Willett, Indiana University.
Shakespeare
- Furness Shakespeare Library
- This innovative site reproduces (as images) numerous rare Renaissance texts. Also available is the English Renaissance in Context, an interactive, NEH-sponsored resource for exploring original Renaissance texts. Sponsored by the special library collections at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- Introductory page to Shakespeare that includes staging and costume information, links to bibliographies and criticism, and background on the authorship problem. Maintained by Terry A. Gray, Palomar College.
Spanish Language and Literature
- Best Spanish Web Sites
- This valuable page provides numerous links to web sites for students of all levels of Spanish instruction. Topics and tutorials on the following: grammar, verb conjugation, and vocabulary. Designed by Professor Emeritus Jim Becker, University of Northern Iowa.
Writing
- Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors
- A directory of various resources for writers, including links to sites on grammar and style. Maintained by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.
- UW-Madison Writing Center's Writer's Handbook
- A good guide from the University of Wisconsin on how to site sources. Includes instructions for MLA, APA, and Turabian.
Other Wonderful Literature Links
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- Informative online guide to children's literature. Includes information on award-winning books, links to many author's web sites, and resources for teachers. Maintained by librarian, David K. Brown.
- Edsitement: The Best of Humanities on the Web
- Sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site provides elementary and high school teachers resources for dynamic teaching. Includes lesson plans.
- EServer.Org: Accessible Writing
- Originally known as the English Server, this site has been in existence over a decade, providing English students and scholars a wide variety of resources such as material on eighteenth-century literature and culture, feminism, media studies, rhetoric, and theory. Maintained as a non-profit, member-run organization.
- Hyper-Concordance
- An easy-to-use online concordance to numerous American and British authors, created by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Japan.
- The Literary Encyclopedia
- A reliable online encyclopedia with scholarly entries on a variety of literary subjects. Good for biographical information of writers.
- Poetry Daily
- A new contemporary poem everyday from a recently-published literary journal. Numerous poets and forms of poetry represented. Includes a searchable archive.
- Voice of the Shuttle
- This extremely valuable site is an excellent place to begin web research in literature and the humanities. Its exhaustive directories include links for literary theory, cultural studies, and all periods of English and American literature. "Woven" by Alan Liu, English Department UC Santa Barbara.
