English Internet Resources

Danielle Clarke, Public Services Librarian, is the librarian liaison to the Education department.

Indexes and General Resources Electronic Literature Resources Poetry
Individual Author Sites English Literature to 1800 English Literature after 1800
Pre-20th Century American Literature 20th Century American Literature Multi-cultural Literature


INDEXES AND GENERAL RESOURCES

  • Biblomania, hypertext classics
  • A Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. The authors' goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing by providing "links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers and complete published books written by women.
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College. Complete electronic full-text of religious writings.
  • Columbia University: Bartleby Library Project Bartleby electronic media is a collection of full-text, carefully proofread works in the public domain, chosen for literary value.
  • The Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.  ETC has two purposes: "to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML texts and images and to build and maintain a user community adept at the creation and use of these materials.
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing All the answers to those troubling or forgotten rules about grammar and writing are here in various levels: sentence, paragraph or essay. Don't guess-find the rule here!
  • I Love Languages a comprehensive catalog of language-related Interernet resources. Over 1900 links are "hand-reviewed" to provide the best language links the Web can offer.
  • The Internet Public Library: The Reading Room This room contains bookshelves for browsing and searching for entertaining reading, and links to sites providing other full texts.
  • The On-Line Books Page, Carnegie Mellon  A directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. Contains: an index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet, pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts, and special exhibits.
  • On-Line English Grammar Includes an alphabetical subject index, English Grammar Clinic, and English Language practice pages.
  • Romantic Circles Devoted to the study for Romantic-period literature and culture.
  • University of Toronto English Library A large database of electronic text selected as potentially use to undergraduate students of English literature. Contains many novels and nonfiction prose. Links to poetry. No drama.

ELECTRONIC LITERATURE RESOURCES

  • Film Studies on the Internet: Film Studies on the Internet. Focuses on the scholarly aspects of film by providing links on film databases, journals and electronic magazines, feminism and women in film, film directors, history of film, international film, listservs and newsgroups' archives, and other film studies guides on the Internet.
  • INFOMINE, U.C. Riverside Library's list of on-line resources organizes subjects using Library of Congress subject headings
  • The Internet Movie Database: by an international organization whose stated objective is to provide useful and up-to-date movie information for free online, this site provides data on over 100,000 films.
  • Literary Resources on the Net :Maintained by Jack Lynch, this set of pais searchable and subdivided by period and nationality. .
  • Voice of the Shuttle, English Literature by Alan Liu at University of California, Santa Barbara, is very well organized by period and nationality, with cross listings for Minority Studies.
  • World Lecture Hall, a list of course material on the World-Wide Web.
  • Yahoo Home Arts Humanities Literature Directory style selection of over 30 literature-related sites, featuring such topics as comparative literature, genres, periods and movements, and banned books.
  • Yahoo! Reference: Libraries: University Libraries Directory style selection of over 40 libraries-related sites, featuring philatelic libraries, Native American libraries, and intellectual properties libraries.

POETRY

  • The Academy of American Poets Official home page for this organization features discussion forums, an index of all featured poets, awards and programs, calendar of events, poetry exhibits and special sites for multimedia effects.
  • CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry Archive CAPA is and electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. The books are stored as individual text-only files accessible via … the Internet.
  • Electronic Poetry Center serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics produced at the University of Buffalo as well as elsewhere on the Internet. Includes a wide range of resources centered on contemporary experimental and formally innovative poetries.
  • EPC List of Poetry Magazines Poetry magazines listed in two alphabetical lists: Electronic Mags or Print Mags
  • Favorite Poem Project Poet Laureate Robert Pinksky wants to know your favorite poem. This site gives an overview of the Project, the contributors, the poems, and how to get involved yourself.
  • Internet Poetry Archive The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying" the work of eight living poets, including Philip Levine, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz.
  • Kelly Writers House On the campus of UPenn, the Kelly Writers House is the setting for many conferences, performances, readings, and lectures.
  • Modern & Contemporary American Poetry As part of an award-winning course at Upenn, this site includes two worthwhile resources: Reference Material and General Poetry Resources and an Alphabetical Index of Materials and Links, which include poets, publishers, concepts, themes, and much more.
  • Modernism: American Salons Web Project Modernism: The Salons" is the website of a graduate seminar in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH during the fall semester of 1997. "'Salons' is a method of organizing discussion of and research about a movement that was disparate in its sources and locations.
  • PEN American Center is a membership association of prominent literary writers and editors. As a major voice of the literary community, the organization seeks to defend the freedom of expression wherever it may be threatened, and promot and encourage the recognition and reading of contemporary literature.
  • Poetic Conversations A list of poetry resources as well as the projects created by the members of a class in 1995. The second assignment documents poetic conversations between contemporary poets or between contemporary poets and their modernist predecessors, e.g. Frank O'Hara and William Carlos Williams.
  • Poetry Society of America The Society's home page includes a calendar of events, the PSA Journal, Poetry in Motion, poetry awards and resources.
  • UBEWEB, Visual, Concrete & Sound Poetry Read and listen to poetry from the list of poets on this site.
  • William Carlos William Review A journal on the poet from the University of Texas at Austin will reveal the first page before requiring subscription fees.

ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 1800

  • Anglophilia: Literature and Language, Namarie's list of sites for English Lit Lovers includes major sites related to the entire canon of English Literature
  • Bargona's Medieval Drama Home Page, Virginia Military Institute. Internet resources for medieval and early Renaissance Drama sites include: Adam de la Halle Bibliography, Le Jour Dou Jugement, and the York Cycle of Mystery Plays.
  • British and Irish Authors is a list arranged chronologically by date of birth created by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University.
  • The New Chaucer Society "This scholarly yet accessible site provides a wide array of useful materials for all academic audiences interested in Chaucer and late medievl literature and culture." (C. S. Cox, University of Pittsburgh, reviewer)
  • A Dictionary of Sensibility Offers a new approach towards understanding the language of 18th century sensibility. It provides an atmospheric view of the multiple connotations of the terms of that language.
  • Eighteenth-Century Studies This collection archives works of the eitheenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here…, along with modern criticism.
  • The Labyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies is a very complete site located at Georgetown University for Medieval Studies and links to texts in several languages, including Old English and Middle English.
  • Middle English Text Collection, University of Michigan

ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER 1800

  • Lost Poets of the Great War is a hypertext document and bibliography by Harry Rusche, Emory University, that features poets: Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger, Edward Thomas.
  • The Victorian Web click on Authors to select a specific person. Then choose an aspect of the author you wish to study.
  • The Victorian Women Writers Project, located at Indiana University

PRE-20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE

  • American Studies Web by David Phillips. Includes links to African American Studies, History, Archival Resources, Photography, Women's Studies, Native American Studies, Literature and many more History Studies by period.
  • Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures is sponsored by D.C. Heath Publishing Company and Georgetown University Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS), Randy Bass, coordinator.

20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE

  • Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935 by Jim Zwick, Syracuse University, is a rich resource for cultural studies, with writings by Americans Mark Twain, Howells, Moody, Masters, and the text of Kipling's "White Man's Burden" with editorial responses.
  • Literary Kicks Beat Generation Poets by Levi Asher. A personal project, unaffiliated with any academic or commercial entity. Devoted to authors such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady, Burroughs, Snyder, Ferlinghetti, Corso and McClure. Also links to beat generation web pages.
  • Twentieth-century Poetry in English A personal project with links to Auden, Crane, Eliot, Frost, Joyce, Lowell, Moore, Pound, Stevens, Williams, and Yeats as well as other poet and poetry-related links.

MULTI-CULTURAL LITERATURE

INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR SITES, arranged alphabetically by author's last name

This resource guide has been updated by Danielle Clarke, Public Services Librarian.  It was originally adapted by Tom Green, Associate Director of Libraries and Head of Public Services, from an essay entitled "Literature in Electronic Format: The Tradiitional English and American Canon," by Joanne E. Gates, Associate Professor in English, Jackson State University, published in the April 1997 issue of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, v. 34, no. 8, pp. 1279-1296.

The poetry sites and notes about those sites are based on article by Boyd R. Collins entitled "WebWatch" in Library journal, December 1996, pp. 31-32.

 


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