Gateways to Literature Resources
American Literature:
General Resources
Includes American
Authors on the Web.
English Literature
on the Web
Period breakdown of English literature sites on the web.
eserver.org (University of Washington)
A cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since
1990; contains over thirty thousand works and special sections
including Cultural Studies and
Critical Theory.
gender
Inn
Searchable database providing access to over 6000 records pertaining
to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism, and gender studies
focusing on English and American literature.
HUMBUL
Humanities Hub
Dedicated to discovering, evaluating, and cataloging online resources in the humanities.
Literary Resources on
the Net
A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially
with English and American literature (excluding single electronic texts).
Modern British, Irish, and
American Drama: A Descriptive Chronology, 1865-1965
Authoritative chronology tracing the development of modern dramatic
literature and theory in Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States.
Native American Authors
Provides information on Native North American authors with
bibliographies of their published works, biographical information,
and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and
tribal websites.
Online Literary Criticism Guide
From the Internet Public Library. Includes the IPL Literary Criticism Collection, which can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature
(in English) (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Includes resources on English by period, e.g., Anglo-Saxon
& Medeival, Renaissance
& 17th Century, Restoration
& 18th Century, Romantics,
Victorian, Modern,
Contemporary, as well
as on American Literature
and Other Literatures in
English.
Individual Authors
Jane Austen Information
Page
Contains biographical and bibliographical information as well as
links to e-text versions of her six major novels and her minor writings.
Shakespeare--Online Resources
The Oxford Shakespeare and Bartlett's
Shakespearian Quotations from Bartleby.com, Complete
Works from MIT, and Shakespeare
from the RhymeZone.
Walt Whitman Archive
"An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make
Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently
accessible to scholars, students, and general readers."