English/Literature Web Resources

There is also an Author File in the library containing much information on literary topics.  The Author File is also integrated with information on the listed author in the Data Disk Collection and in the Literary Criticism Reference Books.  The authors listed are in folders in file cabinets along the back wall of the library.  There is also a listing available at the front desk and on the cabinets.  Click here for Author File Complete Listing.

Literary Web Resources, Indexes & Texts

• Internet Public Library Collections Page  Search for Reference, Authors, Criticism, Full texts, Etc.
• Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Collection
• The Gale Group Literary Index   Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names and more than 140,000 titles into one source.
• Contemporary Authors  Another wonderful Gale Group Database.  Check in the Library for Username and Password.
• American Conference For Irish Studies
• Robert Frost  (from MSN Encarta)
• Elizabeth Bishop  (from MSN Encarta)
• Emily Dickinson  (from MSN Encarta)
• Langston Hughes  (from MSN Encarta)
• Elizabeth Bishop  (from Georgetown University)
• Robert Frost  (from AOL members)
• Edgar Allen Poe  Full text entries on Internet Public Library (about two-thirds of the way down the linked page).

• Net Library  Provider of eBooks (good resource, you will have to register and log in).

• PAL  Perspectives in American Literature--A research and reference guide.

• Literary Resources on the Net  Rated as one of the top 5% of all net sites, this is a very intelligently organized, detailed list of links to original texts and related literary material.

• 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.

• Jane Austen  Full text of the novels, plus other resources

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet  Complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.  Also includes timeline, genealogy, biography quiz, festivals, prefatory texts, etc.
• The Internet Classics Archive  Searchable list of 441 works of Classical Lit. 
• The Internet Shakespeare Editions  The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet. It will contain a growing database of performance records, both from collections and archives of historical collections, and from current productions of participating companies, festivals, and Theater departments, as well as other aspects of scholarship in the field.

• British Literature  Cover topics by author (summary biographies), country, era/time (period literature overviews plus some articles), medium (poetry, drama, short story, novel, non-fiction, or visual arts), and genre/group (mystery/detective, economics, law, Lake Poets, Fabian Society, etc.).  Fully searchable with links to external sites.  Also, a list of important literary locales sorted by author, an archive of more than 150 British music [zipped] MIDI files that is divided by time period and composer, and full-size scans of some British newspapers originally published between 1683 and 1737 (the link to these are about halfway down on the main page).

• BUBL Link: Catalogue of selected Internet resources in Literature and Rhetoric  Links to general literature resources and also foreign language literature, women writers, poetry, etc.

• Electronic Archives for Teaching American Literature  Links to electronic texts, syllabi, lesson plans, and more.

• English Literature and Religion: a Bibliography  Regularly updated.

• ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
• Literature from Many Countries
• Literature in Electronic Format: the Traditional English and American Canon  Links from an essay published in Choice, April, 1997.
• Luminarium  Resources for medieval, renaissance and 17th century English literature.
• Medieval Studies  Draws connections between all areas of arts and humanities during the medieval period.
• Wisdom  Excellent literary search engine and index.

• Yahoo Index to literature

  Literary Texts

  For many more E-books & Texts go to this site's E-Books Page

• A Celebration of Women Writers
• American Poetry Project: 19th Century
• British Women Romantic Poets Project  Collection of electronic texts from UC-Davis of British women's poetry between 1789 and 1832. It includes a nice set of links to related web pages. The texts are in both SGML suitable for scholars and HTML for convenience.
• Documenting the American South
• Eighteenth Century Studies  Archive of important 18th century texts.
• Electronic Literature Foundation(ELF)  Produces advanced electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature. There are 42 texts at present with more to come. A nicely put together site which includes the Divine Comedy, Jane Austen' s novels, and Jules Verne's novels among many more.
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project  Collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. This site offers students a chance to edit texts themselves.
• English-Server's Poetry Anthology Online
• Middle English Collection  Includes texts famous and obscure, including Morte d'Arthur, Everyman, Sir Gawain, some Chaucer, miscellaneous poems and letters.
• Nanette Miller's Poetry Page  Collection of links to full-text poetry.
• Net Library  A provider of eBooks.  You will need to create an account with them, but it is free and quite painless.  They have many texts to choose from, chatrooms to discuss books and a number of other services.
• Representative Poetry Online  Historical anthology, more than 1400 poems, from more than 200 authors, searchable.

Multi-cultural Literature

• Chinese Art and Literature  Beautiful site, with calligraphy, painting, translated e-texts, poetry, museums. Includes a guided tour through Chinese painting.
• Culture and Literature of Africa
• Literature from Many Countries  From the Internet Public Library,  includes English translation on many.
• Native-American Authors  Database of bibliographies, biographies, texts, and links, searchable by author, title, or tribe.

Language and Linguistics

• Ask a Linguist  Post your questions here about grammar, language, linguistics, and have it answered, or view past questions and answers. The mixed bag of questions answered here include answers about language immersion, history of the English language, how to lose a French accent, and lots more.
• History of the English Language  Includes bibliography, e-texts of Anglo-Saxon documents, runic inscriptions, Old English and Middle English texts, American-English, and more.
• Linguistics and Language Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services  From the University of Houston Library.
• 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.

• Old English Pages  E-texts and translations, art, history, language resources.

  Writing, Grammar, and Style Guides

• APA Style for Web Documents  A much needed guide for how to cite web documents.
• Common Errors in English  Including about 300 common errors, things people tell you are errors that aren't, commonly misspelled words, etc.
• Elements of Style  From Project Bartleby, search the Strunk & White classic book on  grammar.
• Garbl's Writing Resources On Line  Guide to all the style guides, grammar guides, online grammar gurus, and more.
• Grammar and Style Guide
• Guidelines for Non-Sexist Language  How to avoid giving offense with language that demeans women.
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices  Contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices.
• Karla's Guide to Citation Manuals  Whatever style you need for citing web resources (and in some cases, complete style manuals for citing all kinds of sources)--MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian--you'll find the links on this page.
• MLA Online  Learn MLA style online from the Modern Language Association.
• On-Line English Grammar  From the Digital Education Network.
• Online Instructional Materials for English and Technical Writing
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant  Particularly good at helping students with the thought process behind a writing assignment.
• Phrase Finder  Unable to remember a common phrase or adage? Just type in a word, and it will find many that relate to that word.
• Poets and Writers Online  Resource for the professional writer, this is a directory of about 2,000 writers, a guide to professional resources and to online conferences and articles on writing.
• Professional Writers SuperSite  Info on finding agents, on publishers' guidelines, on manuscript consultants (the site is provided by one), on writing query letters and manuscript proposals, newsletters, mailing lists, and much more.
• Statistics Every Writer Should Know  Understand what is meant by 'mean'? 'median'? 'standard deviation'? 'Margin of error'? If not, be sure to check out this site.
• Tools for College Writing  From Joseph McNeilly of Cabrillo College, introduces beginning college students to the fundamentals of the writing process, features a built-in dictionary, text for each section is also available as a sound file to assist students who speak English as a second language and to help students who may have learning disabilities.
• UVic Writers' Guide  Guide to writing: paragraphing, word choice, evaluation of sources, and more; includes a glossary of literary and rhetorical terms.
• Writers Write  Guide for writers about places on the net that might publish your work, as well as a place to post their own home pages.
• Writing Center Home Page  Info on how to write research papers, literature reviews, scientific reports and lab reports, as well as info on documentation, grammar and style, and writing letters.
  

  Other Useful Sources

• The Calendar OF Henry James Correspondence  Identifies more than 10,400 James letters, published and unpublished, extant in more than 130 libraries, museums, archives, and private collections in the United States and abroad. It also includes a biographical list of the recipients of the letters.
• Concordances of Great Books  Ideal for anybody who's ever wanted to know all the ways a certain author has used, for instance, the words "love" or "liberty". Texts go from Plato through the (gulp) Starr Report, by way of Tennyson, Hume, Federalist Papers, etc.
• English Literature and Religion  Bibliographic database of writings by and about English figures of literary or spiritual importance, from the Middle Ages to the present century
• Evaluating Web sites: Criteria and Tools  There's a whole lot of junk on the internet; this guide gives you a series of questions to help you determine how worthwhile a web site is.
• Guide to Critical Reading of Literature  Professor John Lye's guide for his students.
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices and Glossary of Literary Terms  Useful when you don't know your assonance from your metonymy.
• Internet Movie Database  Biographies, film info, etc.
• Learning Strategies Database  The strategies information derives from a number of sources, including books, professional journals, and presentations from professional meetings.
• Literary Calendar  A "this day in history" for literary types--what writers were born or died on that day, and what other literary events occurred.
• Literary Locales  Scenes of Jane Austen country, Shakespeare's Stratford, James Herriott's Yorkshire, Thomas Gray's Stoke Poges, Wordsworth's Lake District, etc.
• National Council of Teachers of English-  Including "Teaching Ideas," "Conversations," a "public policy center," etc.
• New York Times Book Review  Text of past issues of NYTBR, also searchable, free with registration.
• Plagiarism.org  Allows automatic checking of student papers for plagiarism.
• Perspectives in American Literature  Research and Reference Guide by Paul Rueben of California State University, Stanislaus. This work is valuable as a quick and convenient reference to the major movements and various authors in American Literature. New authors and research and bibliographical information continue to be added regularly.
• Problem of Meaning in Literature  From Professor Lye.
• Syllabi for Early American History and Literature  From seventeen university instructors approaching course material, and the readings and links they have chosen.
• The Web Concordances  Literary concordances on the web for Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Blake & Manley Hopkins.

Help for Term Paper Writers

• Creative Thinking  Useful tips and resources.
• Guidelines for Getting the Most out of Non-Fiction Reading
• InfoZone  Links to guide you step by step through the research and writing process.
• Library of Congress Classification Outline
• Nueva Library Research  Guide to research on the net, shows how to refine search statements, use appropriate search engines to retrieve high quality material from the net, and cite those sources in MLA format.
• Research Paper Basics  A useful guide, and links to other guides, on how to select a topic, research it, handle grammatical and stylistic mechanics of writing it, citing sources, using quotes, etc.
• Students' Guide to Research on the WWW  From St. Louis University. Everything from choosing a topic, focusing it, etc., to searching for and evaluating sites.
• U-Study  These Web pages will guide you through the steps involved in researching and writing a paper: planning your research, searching library catalogs for materials, using both print and electronic resources, thinking critically about your research, requesting materials, requesting reference assistance, steps in writing your final paper and how to cite referenced works in your bibliography.

Links To Christopher's Favorite Authors

• Ayn Rand  Creator of many wonderful non-fiction philosophy books.  However, her primary literary achievement was writing two romantic fiction masterpieces:  The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.  Read them, there will be a test.
• Victor Hugo   French poet, novelist, and playwright, whose voluminous works provided the single greatest impetus to the romantic movement.  Works include Les Miserables, Notre-Dame de Paris, Ninety-Three, Hans Of Iceland, By Order Of The King. 
• Arthur C. Clarke  Creator of many Sci-Fi classics The Space Odyssey Series:  2001, 2010, 2061, 3001, the Rama Series and others.  Also, get this, in 1945 he published the technical paper Extra-terrestrial Relays laying down the principles of the satellite communication with satellites in geostationary orbits - a speculation realized 25 years later.  A masterful artist and a genius to boot.  
• William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)  Master of the Madcap Story with a Benevolent Surprise/Twist Ending.  Both Mark Twain and James Thurber had this skill but I prefer Porter because his work is ultimately more joyful, heroic, romantic and just plain Madcap Whirligig Fun.
• Douglas Adams  Quasi-legendary creator of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy among other strange literary and other assorted multimedia objects and devices.