African

African Literature and Writers on the Internet

Links to websites on African writing.

American

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site includes a "unique collection of diverse literature."

American Verse Project

This site is a electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Full text is available of each volume. This is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press.

Douglass: Archives of American Public Address

This site "is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents."

The Edith Wharton Society

The Edith Wharton Society offers Wharton scholars and other interested persons an opportunity to share in the study and appreciation of the life and works of this author. Through annual meetings, sessions, special conferences, and its journal, The Edith Wharton Review, the Society provides a forum for Wharton studies.

The English Server

This site contains published texts in the arts and humanities. Collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music. Also contains published journals.

The Jack London Collection

A collection of Jack London's writings, correspondence, photographs, research aids and critical essays. Includes five complete books and nearly thirty short stories. "The largest collection of London materials available on the Internet."

The Life and Works of Herman Melville

A publication dedicated to disseminating information about Herman Melville on the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Literary Resources on the Net

A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts. The site is limited to collections of information useful to academics. For instance, most poetry journals are excluded.

Online Literary Criticism Collection

This site provides links to more than 1,300 cirtical and biographical Web sites about US and British literary works from pre-1500 to the present.

WWW Resources for English and American Literature

Maintained by Indiana University, this site contains literary resources categorized by time periods.

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English

Chaucer: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources

This site provides primary texts, critical studies, graphics, audio readings, syllabi and related course materials, online discussion groups, and databases that relate to Chaucer.

Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English

This site offers geographical and historical background for each country and a wide variety of essays on each author.

Life in Elizabethan England

Arranged by topic (marriage, food, occupations), this website provides information on daily life in England from 1558 to 1603.

Literary Resources on the Net

A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts. The site is limited to collections of information useful to academics. For instance, most poetry journals are excluded.

Online Literary Criticism Collection

This site provides links to more than 1,300 cirtical and biographical Web sites about US and British literary works from pre-1500 to the present. Some citations refer to the full text of articles found in Project Muse.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

This page, maintained at MIT, is billed as "the Web's first edition of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare." A table arranges the works into Comedy, History, Tragedy and Poetry. The page also includes a Shakespeare discussion area, a chronological listing of the plays, Bartlett's Familiar Shakespeare Quotations, a searchable index (that works!), a glossary, and links to other Shakespeare websites.

The English Server

This site contains published texts in the arts and humanities. Collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music. Also contains published journals.

Middle English Compendium

"The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources."

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

This is mainly an annotated directory of and links to scholarly Internet resources.

Representative Poetry on-Line

More than 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Sonnet Central

This site is an archive of English-language sonnets accessed through an alphabetical listing by author's name or period of English or US literature.

The William Blake Archive

A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the Getty Grant Program, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, Sun Microsystems, and Inso Corporation. With additional support from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Women Writers Online

The textbase of the Women Writers Project at Brown University. Also includes the subset resource, Renaissance Women Online.

WWW Resources for English and American Literature

Maintained by Indiana University, this site contains literary resources categorized by time periods.

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Children's

Children's Literature Web Guide

Internet resources related to books for children and young adults from the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources at the University of Calgary.

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