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Subject-based Internet Resources
Language and Literature
Language
Dictionaries, etc.
Resources on Language
Literature
Reference Works
Drama
Myth, Legend, Folklore, Fairytales
Authors
- About.com Guide to Authors
on the WEB
- African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century NYPL Schomburg Digital Collection
- Anniina's
Toni Morrison Page includes info on the novels, biographies, bibliographies,
interviews & links
- Domestic Goddesses
covers women writers, beginning in the 19th century, who wrote "domestic fiction."
The editor, Kimberly A.Wells, has collected critical papers, written by professional
scholars (for the most part, graduate students but not limited to them).
- Dostoevsky Research Station created by Christiaan Stange, Czech Republic
- Henry James Scholar's Guide
to Web Sites Richard D. Hathaway, Prof of English, SUNY New Paltz
- International
James Joyce Foundation Dublin
- Leo Tolstoy links to writings, biographies
and images
- Mark Twain in his Times
- Mark Twain Resources
maintained by Jim Zwick on About.com
- Mississippi Writers
Page is a showcase for the many writers, both past and present, who have
called the Magnolia state home, including William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams,
John Grisham, Richard Wright, etc.
- Storytellers: Native American
Authors Online
- Victorian Women Writers
Project Indiana U.
- Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers
of Color (U.Minn)
- William
Faulkner on the Web created by John B. Padgett, U. Mississippi
- Women Romantic-Era
Writers Created and maintained by Adriana Craciun at the University of
Nottingham
Literary Periods or Genres/Literature of a Country
- Canadian Literature Archive
"is a repository for information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets,
playwrights, essayists, Canadian literary organizations, magazines, publications,
texts and library archives."
- Contemporary
Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English created by George P.
Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University
- French
Connection Howard University
- German Studies Web:
Literature Resources Dartmouth U.
- Introduction
to Franophone Literature of the Maghreb French North African literature
and culture site from Binghamton U. N.Y.
- Labyrinth:Resources for Medieval
Studies Georgetown U. organized by category, subcategory, and type of
material
- Literary Gothic "all things
concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic"
Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic
and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20."
- LiteraryHistory.com includes
web indexes to 19th
century English Lit and 20th
Century English & American Literature
- Literature
& Culture of the American 50's Dept. of English, U. Pennsylvania
- Luminarium "provides a starting
point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature" Maintained
by Anniina Jokinen. Includes anthologies of
Middle English Literature, Renaissance
Literature, and Early 17th
Century Literature (1603-1660).
- PAL: perspectives on American Literature Paul P. Reuben, Dept. of English, California State University, Stanislaus. "With over 400 author pages, this site has been recognized as a major presence in American literature on the internet."
- Postcolonial Studies. Deepika Bahri, English Dept. Emory University
- Post WWII American
Literature and Culture Database: Genres includes sections on bibliographies,
post modernism, science fiction, punk and hardcore, generation X, feminism,
queer, multiculturalism, and popular culture
- Project CROW (Course Resources
On the Web): American Literature
- Reading
Women Writers and African Literatures U. Western Australia
- Research
Guide for the Study of Francophone Literature Bobst Library, NYU.
- Science Fiction and Fantasy
Research Database "provides access to articles, books, news reports,
obituaries, motion picture reviews and other material about science fiction
and fantasy. Some coverage of horror, gothic and utopian literature is included.
Fiction, such as novels or short stories, is not indexed here. Book reviews
are not indexed."
- Victorian Web
created and maintained by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History,
Brown University. Includes source material, literature and links on all things
Victorian.
Poetry
Electronic Fulltext Collections
- Aesop's Fables online collection
includes fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen as well, and will includes
the Grimm's Fairytales in the near future.
- Aesopica.net: Aesop's fables online created by Laura Gibbs (Oklahoma University)
- AS@UVA Hypertexts
produced mainly by students in The University of Virginia American Studies
Program. Includes hypertexts of classic texts, lost texts and enhanced fulltexts
with some criticism.
- Bartleby.com Great Books Online includes
reference, verse, fiction and nonfiction
- Classics Collection University of Florida Library
- Digitized Humanities Collections-Literature
U. North Carolina
- Digital
Text Collections Berkeley Digital Library
- Electronic Literature Directory
created by the Electronic Literature Organization "to facilitate and
promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media"
- Electronic Literature
Foundation
- Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature Western European Studies Section (WESS) of ACRL
- The Free On-Line Library
provides access to books in many fields.
- Great Literature On-line dedicated
to adding free, HTML formatted e-texts and a links page for each author. They
typically add three or four new novels a week. Once a month, they add a new
author. Some authors now included: Jane Austen, Henry James, Walt Whitman,
Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, many more.
- Internet Classics Archive
MIT
- On-Line Books Page
12,000+ listings of books, definitive collections, and serials freely accessible
over the Internet
- Online Speech Bank
contains [417] active links to 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming)
versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates,
interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
- Perseus Project Digital collections
for the study of the Archaic and Classical Greek world and the Renaissance. Includes texts in English, Greek and Latin.
- Project Gutenberg
- Project Libellus a library of classical Latin (and Greek) texts with minimal redistribution restrictions
- Renascence Editions
is an effort to make available online works printed in English between the
years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799, including the works of Shakespeare
and Spenser.
- Wired for Books "brings literature
alive with audio, video, and old-fashioned text of modern and classic stories,
plays, poems, essays, and author interviews"
Organized Collections of Links
- American
Literature on the Web Japanese site in both English and Japanese. Very
extensive and well organized.
- Biography-Center aims to
index all the available biographies on the Web
- BUBL (Bulletin Board for Librariees)
literature resources links
- English
Literature St. Ambrose U. links to English, American & multi-cultural
literature; indexes, texts, authors, and writing & style guides
- English Literature
on the Web organized chronological guide to English & American literature
sites
- German Studies Web:
literature resources Dartmouth
- Literary Menagerie
U. Mississippi
- Literary Resources
on the Net Rutgers U. links to sites for English & American literature
- Literature & Languages Research
Institute of the Humanities, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Worldwide sites,
divided by language
- Literature from Many
Countries very comprehensive link list to literature from non-English
Western European countries at the WESS'
Collections of Western European Literature ACRL-Western European Studies
Section
- Online Literary Criticism Collection
Internet Public Library
- PreviewPort.com
"The work & lives of your favorite authors"
- TennesseeBob's
Famous French Links Bob Peckham Director, The Globe-Gate Project University
of Tennessee-Martin. "10,000 links"
- Voice of the Shuttle:
English Literature also include Minority
Literatures and Other
Literatures Written in English
- xrefer contains encyclopedias,
dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations and reference works covering a
wide range of subjects with a search engine to search one or all of them.
Writing Resources
Maintained by: Linda Coppola
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