General
Sources
Children's Literature
Internet
collections of literary works
Internet
collections of literary works by genre or time period
Specific authors and works
Online
Full Text Periodicals
Miscellaneous
sites
GENERAL SOURCES
Advanced Placement Digital Library-English APDL is a collection of
Internet resources that have been reviewed for their educational merit in an
AP* or Pre-AP*
American Rhetoric Site
dedicated to Public Communication of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank,
Movie Speeches, Audio Figures of Speech
Classic
Reader - Read, research and
annotate classic literature. NOTE: There is a lot of
advertisement on this page however, if the links in the top blue banner
are clicked it will direct you to actual full text literature at no cost.
Literary Resources on the Net
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Especially helpful with American and English literature.
Librarians
Index to the Internet -
Literature link
Literary Market Place - keyword search capabilities for publishers, literary agents,
trade services, and resources.
Literature
Awards - for children's books, fiction, nonfiction, biography,
autobiography, poetry, science fiction, horror, drama, mystery, fantasy, etc.
There are now over 200 Literature Awards listed on this site!
MIT Libraries Literature Resources
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Internet resources dealing primarily with
American and English literature.
Online Literary Criticism Collection
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search by author, work, or period to find links to
online criticism, biographical information, and links to web sites about specific authors
or works or literature.
Paris
Review - over 50 years of
literary wisdom rolled up in 300+ Writers-at-Work interviews, now
available online—free.
Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815 - 1930:
The Art of Books. Publishers' Bindings Online (PBO) is an Institute of Museum & Library Services
(IMLS)
National Leadership Grant-funded collaborative digital project that provides
virtual access to a collection of decorative book bindings from the 19th and
early 20th centuries. Developed by the libraries of The University of
Alabama and The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Voice
of the Shuttle - searchable site of
humanities web pages.
WordNet- is a large
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CHILDREN'S
LITERATURE
The
Surlalune Fairy Tale Page - A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore
studies featuring 26 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar
tales across cultures, and over 1,000 illustrations.
The
Surlalune Fairy Tale Illustration Gallery - On this site you will find over 1,000
illustrations of popular fairy tales by over 30 illustrators.
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INTERNET COLLECTIONS OF LITERARY WORKS
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - digital documents available for downloading in HTML and PDF
format in the areas of English and American literature, as well as, Western philosophy.
Documents can be searched individually or in groups.
The American Verse Project
(Pre 1920 American Poetry) - an electronic archive of
volumes of poetry from the University of Michigan.
British Poetry 1780-1910
(A hypertext archive of scholarly editions) from the
University of Virginia.
Classics at the Online Literature Library -
full-text works listed by author.
Electronic Texts
- Expansive lists of full-text sites.
The English Server from Carnegie Mellon University
- Here you will find humanities texts categorized by
broad topics.
An Index of Poets in
Representative Poetry Online - alphabetical
list of poets and full-text works.
The Online Books Page -
over 7,000 full-text books searchable by subject, author, and title.
Project Gutenberg -
Collection of over 1000 texts browsable by title or author.
Sonnet Central -
English language sonnets searchable by author name or period of literature.
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INTERNET COLLECTIONS BY GENRE OR TIME
PERIOD
18th Century
A Dictionary of Sensibility
Alabama
Alabama
Authors and Their Works 20th Century
Australian
OzLit
- guide and links to information on Australian
literature.
Children's
Literature
Learning About the Author and Illustrator Pages
Young Adult Literature
Children's
Literature Web Guide
"The
Story Place" - The Children's Digital Library
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stories and activities for children.
Classical and
Medieval Literature
The Internet Classics
Archive - Searchable collection of 440 classical
texts.
Project Perseus
- Digital library of resources for studying the ancient
world.
Old English Pages - Resources for the study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon England.
Medieval Resources -
Large list of Internet sites.
The Labyrinth -
Resources for Medieval studies.
Online
Medieval and Classical Library - collection of
works from Medieval and Classical civilization.
Medieval
(Old and Middle English) -
search Medieval
from Voice of the Shuttle web site.
TEAMS
Middle English Texts - Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle AgesEnvironment
and Literature
ASLE Online -
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Covers genres of literary
nonfiction, nature poetry, and environmental fiction.
Folktales
Legends - King
Author, Fairy Tales, Robin Hood, Ballads, and folktales from around the world.
Gothic
The Gothic: materials for study
Nordic
Project
Runeburg - Collection of electronic editions of Nordic literature.
Poetry
Poet's
Corner - contains over 5,000 poetic
works in Modern English. Includes a subject and title index.
Popular
Literature
Dime
Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - descriptions of Stanford University's
8,000-item Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection. Includes history
of the genre, other collection locations, and images of book covers.
Romantic
Romantics-
web links from Voice of the Shuttle web
site.
Southern
Library of Southern Literature-
includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published
before 1924.
Victorian
Victorian
Studies on the Web
Victorian
- web links from Voice of the Shuttle web site.
The Victorian Web
Women
Celebration of Women Writers
The Brown University Women
Writers Project - Women's writing in English before
1830.
Women's Resources on the
Internet - Biography and literature links are good
sources of information.
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SPECIFIC AUTHORS AND WORKS
Learning
About the Author and Illustrator Pages - lists of
several authors and WWW sites with information.
Austen, Jane
The Jane Austen Information Page
Beowulf
Electronic
Beowulf
Blake, William
The
William Blake Page - Biographical material, texts, and paintings.
Borges, Jorge Luis
The
Garden of Forking Paths - This Borges site includes biographical information.
Buck, Pearl S.
Pearl S. Buck -
biographical information, photographs, news of interest, and bibliographies.
Burns, Robert
Burns Country -
Poetry, discussion, links to other Burns sites.
Byron
Lord Byron Homepage -
works, chronology, bibliography, etc.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Geoffrey
Chaucer Website
New Chaucer Society
Crane, Stephen
Stephen Crane: Man, Myth, and
Legend - Biography, sound clips, issues in Cranes works,etc.
Dante, (Dante Alighieri)
Renaissance
Dante in Print - Chronology, images from original editions, etc.
Dante -
site includes the text, reading list, companion to The Divine
Comedy, excellent for help in understanding of the "Commedia."
Eco, Umberto
Porta
Ludovica - Biography, criticism, images, bibliography, etc.
Faulkner, William
William Faulkner on the Web
Fitzgerald, F.Scott
F. Scott
Fitzgerald Centenary
Hemingway, Ernest
The Papa Page - Biographical
material, bibliography, FAQ's, and related links.
Joyce, James
A Website Devoted
to the Writings of James Joyce - Articles, discussion groups, biographical, related
links.
London, Jack
Jack London Online Collection
Marquez, Gabriel Jose Garcia
Macondo -
biographical material, photos, paintings, bibliography, etc.
Poe, Edgar Allen
Qrisse's Edgar
Allen Poe Pages - bio, criticism, related links, plus the site is searchable.
Shakespeare, William
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The
Shakespeare Web
Shelley, Mary
Resources
for the Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Hail
Mary Shelley & Exercise Untried With Resources of the Mind
My
Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mary
Wollestonecraft Shelley Chronology and Resource Site
Twain, Mark
Mark Twain
Resources on the WWW
Ever the
Twain Shall Meet, Mark Twain on the Web
Mining Co. - Twain
Resources
Mark
Twain in Hartford - Photographs, newspaper accounts, bibliography, and much more.
Wharton, Edith
The Edith Wharton Society
Whitman, Walt
The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
Williams, Tennessee
Glass
Menagerie - bio facts, bibliography, character sketches, etc.
Wolfe, Thomas
The
Thomas Wolfe Web Site - Biography, photos, etc.
Wordsworth, William
Complete poetical works by William Wordsworth
For even
more authors, check out the links below!
Literary Links beyond the
MLA
British and Irish Authors on
the Web
American Authors on the Web
Native North American Authors
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ONLINE FULL TEXT PERIODICALS
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MISCELLANEOUS SITES
Explicator Index -
Fall 1970 to Summer 1990, volumes 29-48.
Literary Calendar -
an Almanac of Literary Information.
Spark
Notes - study guides on literature
and literary works
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