Literature
General Literature
Aesopica.net Translations of Aesop's Fables in English, Latin and Greek; includes illustrated editions
African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century "A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers;" this
full text database is searchable by keyword -- quote from website
Classics
Collection Page University of Florida's online classical literature collection
Electronic
Text Collections in Western European Literature "Lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages
other than English" -- quote from website
Ethnologue: Languages of
the World "An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages" -- quote from website
FreeBooknotes.com "A comprehensive guide to free book notes, free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides (like "cliff notes") for over 1600 books, plays, and poems" -- quote from website
Gale
Literary Index An index to Gale Publishing literature & literary criticism titles
Hyperizons:
Hypertext Fiction Collection of digital stories in which the reader chooses the path that the story will take
Index to Science
Fiction Anthologies and Collections, combined edition "A standard reference for locating stories that have appeared in English language
science fiction anthologies and collections of stories by one author" -- quote from website
Internet Public Library:
Literary Criticism "Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that
can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period" -- quote from website
Literary Gothic "Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, 'classic' Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20" -- quote from website
Literary Market Place "Directory of America and Canadian book publishing... [for] publishing professional[s], authors, industry watchers, or those seeking to gain entry into the world of publishing" -- quote from website
Literary Reference Center Search for literary criticism and author information in literary encyclopedias, reference works, literary journals, books and more (Library subscription database)
Literary
Resources on the Net Collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and
American literature, excluding most single electronic texts... limited to
collections of information useful to academics" -- quote from website
Luminarium Anthology of Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and 18th Century English literature
On-line Books
Page Links to full-text books and serials
Paris Review Fifty-plus years of in-depth interviews with authors; links to archived (free) and current (for purchase) issues
The Playwriting Seminars Practical advice for play writers with an emphasis toward theatrical viability
Poetry Portal "Directory of worldwide poetry online... carefully chosen to speed up your search for the best ezines, poetry sites, audio poetry, literary appreciation, criticism and reviews, poetry courses, workshops, conferences, book news, literary chit-chat and trade news, plus sources to improve your own writing and get it published" -- quote from website
Project Gutenberg
Contains about 20,000 full-text electronic books that can be downloaded free
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database: Indexes 60,000+ online resources related to the criticism and/or history of the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres
SparkNotes "Created by Harvard students for students everywhere and geared to what today's
students need to know, SparkNotes study guides are the perfect aid for studying
and writing papers" -- quote from website
American Literature
American
Authors Contains information about American authors and literary movements, a timeline and American literature links
American
Verse Project Full text "electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920" -- quote from website
Contemporary
American Poetry Archive "Electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to
readers, scholars, and researchers" -- quote from website
Library of Southern Literature "Includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924" -- quote from website
Pal:
perspectives in American Literature "With nearly 500 pages, including over 420 author pages, this is a major site in American literature... found useful by teachers and students around the world" -- quote from website
Poetry
Society of America Links to the Society's contests, events, publications and more; also "provides poets with a directory of over 200 poetry-related sites" -- quote from website
Storytellers:
Native American Authors Online Makes accessible "the writing of
modern Native American authors, particularly the poets... contains information on Native American
poets and novelists" -- quote from website
Wright
American Fiction "Collection of 19th century American fiction... currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors" quote from website
British Literature
British
Library's Shakespeare in Quarto Contains information about Shakespeare, including early texts, background, present-day impact and more
Blake
Digital Text Project Links to The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake and more
The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare "This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community
since 1993." -- quote from website
Contemporary Postcolonial
& Postimperial Literature in English "More than 14,000 documents... [contributed by] independent scholars, students, scholars, novelists, and poets from the
Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe" -- quote from website
The Dickens Project "Scholarly consortium devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens" -- quote from website
Dickinson Electronic
Archives "Devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings
directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by
her work" -- quote from website
Illustrated
Shakespeare "Collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share with a wider
audience meetings of book art and Shakespearean text, and suggests the variety
of responses of visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words" -- quote from website
John Keats:
A comprehensive study of his life and Work "Collection of resources dedicated to the life and work of the great Romantic poet, John Keats" -- quote from website
Middle
English texts "Make[s] available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in
the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in
student editions" -- quote from website
Mr. William Shakespeare
and the Internet Offers an "annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet... [and] present[s] new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere" -- quote from website
New Chaucer Society Links to Online Resources Provides organized access to websites related to Chaucer and Medieval studies and texts
Romantic Chronology
("Romantic" literature broadly defined) "Tracks a number of 'topics' important to the Romantic period or to contemporary research on the period... [which] thread together multiple persons, works, and events in the Chronology" -- quote from website
Romantic Circles
(Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, and their contemporaries) "Refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature
and culture" -- quote from website
Sonnet Central "An archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work" -- quote from website
Women's Literature
Victorian
Women Writers Project "Highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th
century... include[s]
anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books,
and volumes of poetry and verse drama" -- quote from website
Women
Romantic-era Writers Includes electronic texts, contemporary responses, annuals, anthologies, images, cultural resources, links and more
The
Zora Neale Hurston Plays "Present[s] a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author,
anthropologist, and folklorist" -- quote from website
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