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American & British Literature Resources
Literature Reference Resources

American LiteratureAdditional Information
In the webliographies below this icon represents CHOICE Outstanding Site while a star blue star indicates a CHOICE Highly Recommended site
The Academy of American Poets poets.org
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century   NYPL, Schomburg Center
American Authors a good resource for undergraduate non-majors
American Authors on the Web a good overall list
American Film Scripts Online   Alexander Street; access restricted to current UTPB students and faculty
American Verse Project  
The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C.: 1920s-1930s CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
The Carson McCullers Project information on McCullers is not available on the web to any great extent; this site is the best, but needs to be used with caution
Celebration of Women Writers University of Pennsylvania
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson  Choice Highly Recommended  University of Michigan
Contemporary American Poetry Archive an electronic archive designed to make [a selection of] out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.
Early Americas Digital Archive, 1492-c. 1802 CHOICE Outstanding site Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
The Edith Wharton Society  
Emily Dickinson Electronic Archive  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
Emily Dickinson International Society Provides links to other Dickinson web sites.
Emily Dickinson poems  
Emma Goldman Papers  
Emory Women Writers Resource Project primarily 17th-19th century
Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction  
Faulkner Resources Online  
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia a large collection of bibliographies and checklists--recommended reading lists, author indexes, critical works, Web sites--related to feminist science fiction and fantasy; a wealth of information on this specialized but popular topic
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial Celebration Web  
Hemingway Resource Page  
Jack London Collection  
Library of Southern Literature  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  U of North Carolina
The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  U. Pennsylvania
Melville from the Internet Public Library Literary Criticism section
Merrycoz.org: Works For Children & Adults, 1800-1872 The site offers transcriptions and images from a variety of 19th-century children's books and magazines; Dr. Pat Pflieger (English, Univ. of Pennsylvania) the sites author argues that children's books and magazines from this period are important because they are what 19th-century American citizens, voters, and politicians read in their most impressionable years. This site offers far more commentary and contextual information about these publications than the similar areas on Project Gutenberg or the International Children's Digital Library.
The Mississippi Writer's Page  CHOICE Outstanding 
 	Web Site  Eudora Welty, William Faulkner
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
Representative Poetry Online  
Storytellers: Native American Authors Online  
Toni Morrison  
Twentieth Century Poetry in English  
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Web Site
Victorian Women Writers Project Indiana University
The Walt Whitman Archive  
The Willa Cather Electronic Archive CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  one reviewer described it as a "splendid archive!"; the site is by far the most careful and complete guide to Cather; organized and sponsored by the University of Nebraska; the site covers all important aspects of Cather research
Women in Print:  CHOICE Highly Recommended Site  subtitled: Essays on the Print Culture of American women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  University of Wisconsin
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875   Indiana University; a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  10 plays by Zora Neale Hurston
Page Updated: 31 July 2009 Page Created: 2 April 2003
 
British LiteratureAdditional Information
Chaucer Geoffreychaucer.org: an annotated guide to online resources
Chaucer Metapage University of North Carolina; Larry D. Benson
Geoffrey Chaucer  Choice Outstanding Web Site The New Chaucer Society  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
18th Century Resources Rutgers; Jack Lynch
18th Century Studies E-Server
Bluestocking Archive 18th century
British Newspapers 1800-1900 CHOICE Highly Recommended Site  more than two million pages of 19th century newspapers
British Poetry 1780-1910 sub-titled: Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
The Bronte Sisters Web  
Camelot Project Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies and basic information
Canadian Literature Archive  
The Carlyle Letters Online  CHOICE Outstanding site  Duke and Edinburgh Universities
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts   blue star UCLA
Celebration of Women Writers  
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare MIT
Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti  star  The Complete Writings and Pictures
The Dickens Page  
The Dickens Project  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  UC-Southern California
Elizabeth Gaskell  
The English Renaissance in Context   University of Pennsylvania
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature National Library of Medicine exhibit
Gathering the Jewels=Casglu'r Tlysau: The Website for Welsh Cultural History blue star 
gender Inn   English & German language searchable database; may be slow
The Gothic: Materials for Study
related web sites include--
Internet Medieval Sourcebook  CHOICE Outstanding site 
Jane Austen Information Page  for her experiences in Bath see the online exhibt at the   Jane Austen Centre, Bath, England
JASNA: Jane Austen Society of North America  
John Keats: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Works  CHOICE Highly Recommended Site
The Life of Charlotte Bronte  by Elizabeth Gaskell
Literary Resources on the Net   Rutgers; Jack Lynch
Lord Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Works  CHOICE Highly Recommended Site
Luminariuim: Anthology of English Literature  CHOICE Highly Recommended Site  Middle English, Renaissance, 17th-century, and Restoration literature
Middle English Compendium   CHOICE Highly Recommended Site  Harvard
The Modern English Collection  University of Virgina Electronic Text Center
Morris, William  The William Morris Society; includes a set of related links
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet  CHOICE Highly Recommended Site
Open Source Shakespeare: An Experiment in Literary Techonology  CHOICE Highly Recommended Site  this site provides line numbers for all 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 of the longer poems; in addition its printer-friendly versions of texts really are printer-friendly.
OzLit@The University of Sydney more than 3000 Australian literary and historical texts; keyword search available
The Poetess Archive: Writing by Women in Britain & America, 1750-1900
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood  at Artchive.com
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic:  Contemporary Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, 1846-1900
Representative Poetry Online University of Toronto
Richard Polwhele -- The Unsex'd Female A Poem
Romantic Chronlogy Romantic Circles
Romantic Links, Electronic Texts & Home Pages University of Pennsylvania
Samuel JohnsonJack Lynch the creator of this page also maintains a number of well-reviewed 18th Century literature sites linked through his home page.
TEAMS Middle English Texts  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  part of the Camelot Project
Thomas Hardy on the Web The Hardy Association; Yale
Twentieth Century Poetry in English  
Victorian Studies on the Web ". . . an elegant and powerful web site for researchers on all aspects of British Victorian studies. . . . "
The Victorian Web  
The Victorian Women Writers Project  
Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain  
Wilke Collins  
The William Blake Archive  
Women Romantic-era Writers  
Yeats  
Page Updated: 31 July 2009 Page Created: 2 April 2003
 
Literature Reference ResourcesAdditional Information
Quotation pages in general preferred order
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation  Straightforward and esaily navigated.
Elements of Style by William Strunk
A Glossary of Literary Terms Guide to Grammar and Writing
A Guide for Writing Research Papers  based on MLA Documentation
A Guide to Library Research Duke
International Writing Centers Association  formerly the National Writing Centers Association
Online Resources for Writers  blue star Amherst College; help writing academic essays
The Modern Language Association Language Map [of the US]  CHOICE Highly Recommended Site  based on statistics from the 2000 US Census, the site has language and linguistics data in a well-organized format; the site provides color-coded maps of 33 language groups in the nation, by county and ZIP code, and allows comparisons of two language groups or two states.
On-line English Grammar From EduFind
Online Literary Criticism Collection Internet Public Library
Online Writing Lab at Purdue (OWL) CHOICE Outstanding site 
Poets & Writers Online: Resources for Creative Writers  
Representative Poetry On-Line  University of Toronto  Includes indexing by poet, date, title and keyword as well as a First-line Index of Poems
Researchpaper.com Several useful features including an idea generator, extensive collection of pathfinders. Esp. useful for undergraduates
Research 101  CHOICE Outstanding site  University of Washington
Resources from the Computer Writing, Rhetoric and Literature Lab University of Texas
RhymeZone from Lycos formerly A Semantic Rhyming Dictionary. Site editors state that the content remains the same; however the site now has many advertisements on it.
Sonnet Central  this site is an archive of English-language sonnets accessed through an alphabetical listing by author's name or period of English or US literature.
Tools for College Writing: Skills for the Writing Process focuses on freshman/sophomore levels.
Universal Usability: A Universal Design Approach to Web Usability  CHOICE Highly Recommended Site
The Writing Center  Colorado State University Writing Argumentative Essays
Writing Well for the Web Writing for the Web Dartmouth
Writing for the Web Jakob Nielson; useability emphasis
yourDictionary.com formerly Web of On-line Dictionaries; more than 260 languages
Zotero: The Next Generation Research Tool CHOICE Outstanding site FireFox extension to help collect, manage, and cite research; from George Mason University;
Page Updated: 4 January 2010 Page Created: 1 May 2001

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