Literature Web Resources
Literary Texts
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century –
courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. American
Poetry Project: 19th Century Jane
Austen – full text of the novels, plus other resources.
Bartleby
Library – full-text of classic literature.
Beat
Page – covers the writers of the Beat Generation, including Kerouac,
Synder, Ginsberg, etc. Bibliomania
– full-text of fiction, nonfiction, plays, short stories and poetry. British
Women Romantic Poets Project – a collection of electronic texts
from UC-Davis of British women's poetry between 1789 and 1832.
Canadian
Poetry Archive – full-text and biographies of 19th and 20th
century Canadian poets. A
Celebration of Women Writers
Eighteenth
Century E-Texts – archive of important 18th century texts. Eighteenth
Century Studies – archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and
cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are
kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as
well), along with modern criticism. Electronic
Literature Foundation (ELF) – produces advanced electronic texts
to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature.
Emily
Dickinson on the WWW
Emory
Women Writers Resource Project – a collection of edited and
unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth
through the nineteenth century.
Great
Literature Online – full-text of classic literature. Nathaniel
Hawthorne – an excellent site, that has full-text of his
works as well as notes to help the reader and links to other
resources.
Internet
Public Library Online Texts Collection – searchable, full-text
literature (over 10,000 titles) Henry
James: Scholar's Guide to Web Sites – e-texts of the
writings, criticism and film reviews, plus journals and conference
calls. Literary
History Online – a guide to critical articles on 19th century
English literature, and 20th century English and American
literature. Includes full-text articles of literary criticism
and short biographies of authors. Memory
of the World – sponsored by UNESCO, this website offers
access to digitized collections from all over the world, including
works by Jack London, Jonathan Swift, Victorian women writers, and
narratives of the American South.
Middle
English Collection – includes texts famous and obscure,
including Morte d'Arthur, Everyman, Sir Gawain, some Chaucer,
miscellaneous poems and letters. Eugene O'Neill – includes
audio of five
productions and his own voice speaking words from "Long
Day's...", a short biography,
photographs and more. Renaissance
Dante In Print 1472-1629 – from the University of Notre Dame,
this includes an editorial history of Dante's poems and digitized
images of pages from the original books.
Renascence
Editions –
an online repository of works printed in English between
1477-1799. Includes the full-text. Representative
Poetry Online – a historical anthology, more than 1400 poems,
from more than 200 authors, searchable. Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet – a complete annotated
guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet,
including a timeline, a genealogy, a biography quiz, festivals, and
prefatory texts. The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare – full text of all the plays. Here's a
Concordance.
The
Internet Shakespeare Editions Shakespeare –
searchable index of collected works. Text
& Translations from the Perseus Project – includes full
text of the works of Christopher Marlowe, Julius Ceasar, and Greek
mythology. Victorian Women
Writers Project – digitized full-text of works by 19th
century British women writers. Walt Whitman
Collection – from the Library of Congress. Walt
Whitman Hypertext Archive Women
Writers of Early Canada
Women
Writers Project
Wright
American Fiction, 1851-1875 – as listed in Lyle Wright's
bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are
currently 1752 texts included (1602 unedited, 155 fully edited and
encoded) by 845 authors. Boolean, Proximity and Citation searchable
as well as by single keyword and one can browse by author or by
unique words found in the texts. Literary Web Indexes
AllLearn:
Literature – from Oxford, Stanford and Yale
Universities. American
Literature from Project CROW – part of the Course Resources
on the Web sponsored by the Associated Colleges of Illinois.
This site includes syllabi & assignments, author chronologies,
global resources, and other American Literature links. BUBL
Link: Catalogue of selected Internet resources in Literature and
Rhetoric – includes a nice set of links to general
literature resources and also foreign language literature, women
writers, poetry, etc. Crime
Culture – a new academic internet site that we
hope will have something to offer anyone teaching or studying crime
fiction, film and graphic art. Electronic
Archives for Teaching American Literature – lots of links to
electronic texts, syllabi, lesson plans, and more. ERIC
Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication E-Server
– a nice index to English topics and American Culture, too. The
Libyrinth – web guide to Modern writers, including Borges, Joyce and Pynchon. Literary
History.com – web guide for readers, students and teachers of
English literature. Includes a web index of 19th century English
literature. Literary
Resources on the Net – list of links to original texts and related literary material. Literature
in Electronic Format: the Traditional English and American Canon Luminarium – a
gold mine of resources for medieval, renaissance and 17th century
English literature. Medieval
Studies – draws connections between all areas of arts and
humanities during the medieval period. Mississippi
Writers Page – includes short biographies, list of works,
bibliography of criticism and internet links for Mississippi writers. Victorian
Web – contains text files on every aspect of
Victorian life: art and architecture, science and technology,
philosophy, political issues, labor, poverty, etc. And, of course,
literature. Voice
of the Shuttle – an excellent academically-oriented subject
guide. Wisdom – an
excellent literary search engine (and index).WWC Library Home Page