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Literature

 

Literature



Librarians' Index to the Internet

Search or browse preselected, annotated Literature sites.

 

Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Some great factual information on literature in an easy-to-use online encyclopedia, organized by period.


David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page
A wealth of information on Dickens is presented here, including biographical sketches, a map of Dickens’ London, and information on Dickens’ works and characters.


Encyclopedia Mythica

An online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legends, containing over 5700 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures, and more, from all over the world.


English Literature on the Web
Mitsuharu Mtasuoka, Associate Professor at Nagoya University in Japan, maintains this set of links to English literature information on the web, including e-texts.


Gale's Literary Index
Provides convenient author/title/ and custom searching  for the
 major Gale Literary publications.


The Literary Gothic
The Literary Gothic is a Web site for all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature prior to the mid-twentieth century. The goals of this site are to collect in one place all links pertaining to literary Gothicism, and to make available e-texts of important and overlooked early works of Gothic or supernatural interest.


Literary Movements in American Literature
Literary Movements in American Literature provides a brief overview, including definitions and links, of selected movements in American literature and culture. Examples of subdivisions are: Captivity Narratives, Domestic Fiction, Jeremiads, Local Color, Native American Literature, Realism, Romance and Novel, and Salem Witch Trials.


A Student’s History of American Literature
by Edward Simonds, Phd, this work covers the development of American literature since 1607, including sections on the major writers such as Poe, Thoreau, and Longfellow.


Timeline of Highlights in Poetry
A timeline of important events in the history of poetry from the early eighteenth century on.


University of Michigan Science Fiction and Fantasy web site

Includes an electronic library of selected full text resources, a symbolism dictionary, and related links.

 


The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research

 Organized by period and theme, this is a very comprehensive list of
 web links.


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Literary Criticism


A Celebration of Women Writers
Click on a time period, or browse last names or countries alphabetically, to find related links on a particular author. Some leads are better than others.



Early Modern Literary Studies

"A refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."


Gale's Literary Index

 Provides convenient author/title/ and custom searching  for the
 major Gale Literary publications.


The Gothic: Materials for Study

Short essays, excerpts from Gothic literature, and related bibliography on the theme of Literary Gothic.


An Index of Websites on Modernism
Organized, annotated links on particular authors, general resources on modernism, and electronic journals and discussion groups.


Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection

This site contains links to 3265 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works. Search by author’s last name, title of work, or time period.


The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

This searchable site provides links to scholarly journals and web sites on the theme of medieval studies.


Lit Links
This site provides a short biography and related web links on authors of poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and critical theory.


Literary Resources on the Net
A large compilation of links arranged by period and genre, maintained by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University.


Luminarium
Life, works, essays, quotes, and links for more information on authors from Middle English Literature (1350 to 1485), Renaissance Literature (1485 to 1603), and 17th Century Literature ( 1603-1660).


PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide

This site is divided into time periods, provides lists of works by a given author as well as selected bibliographical information for future research.


Romantic Circles

A searchable site providing peer-reviewed articles, lists of newly-published works in the field, compilations of scholarly resources, and more.


Romanticism on the Net
This is a peer-reviewed electronic journal including articles and book reviews on romantic literature.


Victorian Literature Overview

Information on literary techniques, a timeline of Victorian literature, information on individual authors, and more.


Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color

This site provides biographical information interwoven with critical information on African- and Native-American women writers. It also includes related web links.


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Electronic Texts



Access the Great Books
"Access the Great Books is a compilation of over 240 great authors and their works, with notable attention devoted to works of philosophy and science." Links are provided to sites which include study guides, biographical information on certain authors, and background information on certain works.


African American Women Writers of the 19thCentury
A full text database of 52 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader.


Bartleby.com
Includes the Oxford Book of English Verse, Yale Book of American Verse, reference works on quotations and usage, as well as selected works of fiction.


The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Full text of the complete works, as well as a discussion area, Bartlett’s familiar Shakespearean quotations, and a glossary.


 The English Server Fiction Collection

 Full text of certain novels, poetry, short fiction, and drama, as well 
 as selected criticism.


Great Books Index

A personal project inspired by the 1952 edition of the Great Books of the Western World, this site provides links to online editions of the better known works of literature and philosophy.


John Milton Reading Room
The Milton Reading Room offers most of Milton's major poetry in English. The texts include framed annotations that link to reference materials, such as sources of literary allusions and historical background, as well as gloss archaic words or uses.


The Online Books Page

From the University of Pennsylvania, this site provides links to online texts of over 10,000 online books, pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts, special exhibits, and more, founded in 1993 by John Mark Ockerbloom at Carnegie Mellon University.


Project Gutenberg

"Full text of classic books, generally published prior to 1923, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others."


University of Michigan’s Humanities Text Initiative

Full text and scanned images of works from several periods. Includes journals, books, the Koran, and several versions of the Bible.


University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center

Click on a language to browse or search the texts of 45, 000 humanities texts available in twelve languages, with more than 50,000 related images.


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Poetry


Bartleby.com

Includes the Oxford Book of English Verse, Yale Book of American Verse, reference works on quotations and usage, as well as selected works of fiction.


Gale Group Poet’s Corner

Information on the life and works of 30 poets, including Dante, Robert Frost, Yeats, Tennyson, Whitman, and more.


Poet's Corner
Full text of poems, pictures, bibliographies, links, and much more.

Timeline of Highlights in Poetry

A timeline of important events in the history of poetry from the early eighteenth century on.

 

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Teaching Literature

 

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student

A comprehensive list of links to web pages on specific authors, magazines, indices, books online, and writer’s resources. Developed by Michael Grove, an English teacher at West Linn-Wilsonville School District in Oregon.


Vandergrift’s Children’s Literature Page
Some thoughts and suggestions on teaching literature to children, with bibliographies.



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