LITERATURE LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• ABE: Advanced Book Exchange, Out of Print Service.
• AFLIT: Reading Women Writers and African Literature.
• African American Women Writers: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.
• African Literature and Writers on the Internet: African Literature and Writers on the Internet--a directory of sites.
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a full-text indexed collection of classic American and English literature as well as Western philosophy in the public domain and written or translated into English.
• Alternate Universes: Travel guide to alternate universes-science fiction.
• American Authors: American authors by Donna M. Campbell of Gonzaga University with timelines and literary movements.
• American 50's: The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s.
• American Literature: Stanford University American Literature Resources.
• American Rhetoric: An Online database of over 5,000 speeches by by Michael E. Eidenmuller.
• American Verse Project: Poetry resources from The University of Michigan.
• American Writers: An online supplement to a C-SPAN program series discussing the influence of writers on the shaping of American history.
• Ancient Egypt in Fiction: A bibliography in progress ompiled & annotated by Noreen Doyle.
• Anglistik Guide: Anglistik Guide is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant Internet resources on Anglo-American language and literature.
• ANS: The American Name Society.
• APIS: APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world.
• Asian American Writers: A Selected List: Compiled by the librarians at the Harold Washington Library Center from the Literature and Language Division.
• BBC-Arts-Books: BBC site with interactive multimedia features.
• Bibliofind: Out of print book service.
• Bibliomania: Searchable full text works of 2,000 texts of literary works including classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry,dictionaries, research and religious texts.
• Bookbrowser: Reading lists and info for book lovers now owned by Barnes and Noble.
• Book Reviews: AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web.
• British Poetry 1780-1910: Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions from the Electronic Text Center Alderman Library, University of Virginia.
• Broadside: Covers nautical fiction set between 1740, the start of Commodore Anson's circumnavigation, and 1815, the year of the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.
• BWRP: The British Women Romantic Poets Project.
• Canlit: The Canadian Literature Archive.
• Center for Book Culture.org: The Center for Book Culture was founded in Chicago in 1980.
• CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive.
• Carson McCullers: The Carson McCullers Project.
• Celtic Art & Cultures: The Celtic Art and Cultures Web Site was created for use in the Art History course Celtic Art and Cultures (Art 111) at UNC in the Fall semester, 1998.
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture: The mission of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture is to investigate, document, interpret, and teach about the American South.
• The Cervantes Project: The Cervantes Project is composed of the Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO),the Cervantes Digital Library (CDL), and the Cervantes Digital Archive of Images (CDAI).
• Chaucer: Harvard University's Chaucer Page.
• Chaucer's Language: Chaucer's Pronunciation, Grammar and Vocabulary.
• The Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet Resources Relating to Books for Young Adults and Children.
• Classical Chinese Poetry: Classical Chinese poetry in Chinese, as well as English translations.
• Classics: Classical and Medieval History annotated websites from the Library of Congress.
• Classics Collections: A portal to information about "Classics" with 15 topical headings.
• Comxbib: The comics research bibliography.
• CPANDA: Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive at Princeton University.
• Crime Thru Time: Web site dedicated to Historical Mysteries.
• CSAB: The Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies.
• Dante: The Princeton Dante Project.
• DEA: Dickinson electronic archives, a website devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work.
• The Detective and the Toga: A site focused on detective fiction set in ancient Rome.
• The English Renaissance in Context: The English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) is a NEH-funded project designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions.
• EServer: Online digitized collection originated at Carnegie Mellon, now housed at Iowa State University.
• Eugene O'Neill: An electronic Eugene O'Neill archive.
• Fantasy: University of Michigan's Fantasy and Science Fiction Homepage.
• Fantastic Literature: Online full text, also links.
• FbG: The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft Collection: Manuscript and Pictorial Material, 1592-1754.
• Fictional Rome: Information about historical Novels set in Ancient Roman Times.
• Galactic Central: A source for author bibliographies, and magazine lists.
• Gathering the Jewels=Casglu'r Tlysau: Over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales.
• Globe Theatre: Guidebook to Shakespeare's Theatre.
• GLTBQ: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture.
• Hermann Hesse portal: Hermann Hesse portal provides a bibliography of works by and about Hesse.
• H-Net: An international consortium of scholars and teachers, maintains Internet networks with the objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
• HistFiction.net: Authors and books in historical fiction.
• Historical Fiction for Children: A bibliography compiled by Mary S. Moffat.
• The Historical Novel Society: The Historical Novel Society, founded in 1997, promotes all aspects of historical fiction.
• HTI: The Humanities Text Initiative, a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, has provided online access to full text resources since 1994.
• Humbul: The Humbul Humanities Hub.
• Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction from Duke University.
• Intute: Arts & Humanities: Online service providing you with access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.
• The Jack London Collection: The Jack London Online Collection at the Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center, Sonoma State University.
• Jewish Virtual Library: The Jewish Virtual Library is the most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia in the world, covering everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism. So far, more than 10,000 articles and 5,000 photographs and maps have been integrated into the site.
• Litcrit: The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works. Searchable by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
• Isaac Asimov Home Page: A comprehensive collection of resources pertaining to Isaac Asimov (1920-1992).
• Literary Index: Chris Flack's Literary Index.
• Literary Resources: Literary Resources on the Net by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.
• Literature for Children: Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950.
• Literature on the Age of Napoleon: Bibliographies on fiction, drama and poetry; Napoleonic filmography; history and criticism; electronic texts; cronology and other useful content.
• Litgothic: Resources on Gothic fiction and literary criticism.
• Litlinks: Provided by Bedford St. Martin's publishing.
• Locus: Online magazine, sci-fi news, reviews, and resources.
• Locus Index: The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998) by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento.
• Luminarium: A launchpad to resourses for Middle English Literature, Renaissance Literature, and 17th century literature created by Anniina Jokinen.
• Medieval and modern thought text project: The goal of this project is to digitize on an ongoing basis 25,000+ pages per year of printed reference works, source collections, and primary and secondary books in the broad area of medieval and modern thought.
• Merrycox: Works for children and adults, 1800-1872.
• Meta Chaucer: The Chaucer MetaPage.
• Mister Shakespeare: Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, an online guide.
• Modern English Collection: The Modern English Collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and 1llustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest from the University of Virginia Library.
• Modern Novels Set in the Middle Ages:Modern Novels Set in the Middle Ages from the medieval studies program at the University of Oregon.
• The Mod Word: The Modern Word, resources focused on contemporary writers.
• MTP: The Mark Twain Papers and Project.
• Mystery: Mystery and Detective Fiction Sites.
• NCS: The New Chaucer Society at Washington University.
• NDM: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.
• Olemiss: The Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers.
• OMACL: Online medieval and classical library from Berkeley.
• On-Line Books Page: Digital library hosted at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Other Women's Voices: Translations of women's writing before 1700.
• Ozlit: Australian literary resources and more.
• PAL: Perspectives in american Literature, a research and reference guide.
• The Paris Review: Welcome to the DNA of literature—over 50 years of literary wisdom rolled up in 300+ Writers at Work interviews, now available online—free.
• Playwriting: The Playwriting Seminars created by Richard Toscan of Virginia Commonwealth University.
• The Poetess Archive: The Poetess Archive Database now contains a bibliography of over 4,000 entries for works by and about writers working in and against the “poetess tradition,” the extraordinarily popular, but much criticized, flowery poetry written in Britain and America between 1750 and 1900.
• Poetry Portal: A gateway to poetry resources on the web.
• Poetry Society: The Poetry Society of America.
• Poets.org: The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.
• Poets & Writers: Online Magazine.
• Postcolonial Web: Postcolonial and postimperial literature project funded by the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore.
• Prehistoric Fiction: Steve Trussel's website with resources in the literary genre of prehistoric fiction.
• Projekt Historischer Roman: Project aims to record all historical novels that were published originally in german language between the end of the 18th century and 1945.
• Rapidcite: Citation generator in MLA, APA,or Chicago citation styles.
• RLS: The Robert Louis Stevenson website edited by Richard Dury at Università di Bergamo, Italy.
• Romantic Chronology: The Romantic Chronology, 17th through 19th century literature, with an archive of links.
• Romantic Circles: Romantic-period literature and culture.
• SCOTS: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech including about 400 texts from Scots to Scottish English assembled by the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
• SFFRD: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database with online access to over 55,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror compiled by Hal W. Hall.
• SFWA: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
• Shakespeare: Shakespeare's works online and searchable.
• Shakespearehigh: Your Shakespeare Classroom on the Internet and the new home of Surfing with the Bard.
• Shakespeare Photos: The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photos 1879-1982 collected by John Lesley Jorbin of Cleveland State University.
• Shakespeare Resource Center: You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare.
• Shakespeare's Works: Complete works, searchable.
• Sisters in Crime: An international organization of writers, readers, booksellers, librarians, agents, editors, reviewers and teachers interested in promoting the work of women mystery writers.
• Sonnets: Sonnet Central, an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links.
• Southlit: Library of southern literature.
• Sparknotes-Shakespeare: Shakespeare study guides.
• Storytellers: Storytellers, Native American Authors Online.
• TEAMS: The TEAMS Middle English Texts are published for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
• Texts in Context: Explore literary treasures, everyday ephemera, and the complex history of the English language, with unique texts from the British Library collection.
• Theatre of Tenessee Williams: The Theatre of Tenessee Williams; a virtual fact file.
• Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto: On this site you will find the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by William Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.
• 20th Century Poetry: Twentieth-century Poetry in English by Eiichi Hishikawa of Kobe University.
• Uchronia: Science fiction alternate history guide.
• VWWP: The Victorian Women Writers Project.
• Voice of the Shuttle: Links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet.
• WESS Etexts: Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature from ACRL's Western European Studies Section.
• What's the word?: First broadcast in April 1997, MLA's What's the Word? was developed to show how the study of language and literature enriches people's lives.
• WICS: The Web Concordances of six English authors with Software to make your own concordances
• Willa Cather E-archive: The Willa Cather Electronic Archive.
• William Blake: The William Blake Digital Text Project.
• Women Romantic-era Writers: Created and maintained by Adriana Craciun at the University of Nottingham.
• Women Writers Project: Brown University's research project devoted to early modern women's writing.
• Wright American Fiction: 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875 with over 2,800 volumes included.

Links last verified and updated 3/21/2007.

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