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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.
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.
Includes an electronic library of selected full text resources, a symbolism dictionary, and related links.
Organized
by period and theme, this is a very comprehensive list of
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Celebration of Women Writers "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."
Provides
convenient author/title/ and custom searching for the
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
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
Literary
Resources on the Net
Luminarium
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
"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. 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.
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.
Information on the life and
works of 30 poets, including Dante, Robert Frost, Yeats, Tennyson, Whitman,
and more. Timeline of Highlights in Poetry A timeline of important events in the history of poetry from the early eighteenth century on.
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
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