Academy of the Holy Angels

 

English/Literature

                                 ENGLISH/LITERATURE

GRAMMAR SITES  

   (Other useful links:  Dictionaries;    Citation Guides;    Plagiarism)

  • The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. "With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style."

http://www.bartleby.com/64/

  • Armchair Grammarian. Compilation of the fundamental usage of English grammar and the underlying rules of punctuation.

http://community-2.webtv.net/solis-boo/Grammar1/

  • Common Errors in English.  By Paul Brians, Professor of English, Washington State University.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

  • Daily Grammar Lesson Archives. Contents: Parts of speech, parts of the sentence, and mechanics.

http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml

  • The Elements of Style. "Gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated."

http://www.bartleby.com/141/

  • The Grammar Index. Contents: Parts of speech, using grammar in sentences, grammar practice exercises, and links.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/grammar/main/index.htm

  • Guide to Grammar & Writing. Contents: Word & Sentence Level, Paragraph Level, Essay & Research Paper Level, Ask Grammar, Quizzes, Search Devices, Peripherals & PowerPoints.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

  • Online English Grammar.

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/

  • Self-Study Grammar Quizzes. Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help learn English as a
Second Language.

  • Vo'cab Vitamins. Provides an overview of important grammar and style concepts from
top authors and educators on the Net.
  • Web Grammar. Includes common mistakes, dictionaries & glossaries, general resources, grammar basics, grammar tips, homonyms, etc., idioms, a writing center, and writing resources.

http://www.webgrammar.com/

  • World Wide Words.  Covers the history of the English language and the development of new words, offering definitions and histories of words and phrases, book reviews, usage notes, and other information.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm

ESSAY WRITING SITES

  • Essays. Contents: The structure of an essay, common types of essays, argumentative, contrast/comparison, definition, descriptive, narrative, cause-effect, process essay, critical essays, and general essay links.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/main/essay.htm

  • Guide to Writing a Basic Essay.

http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/

  • Purdue University Online Writing Lab.  Offers online writing and research help; college approach.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/oldindex.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html

  • Purdue University Online Writing Lab. Writing a Thesis Statement.

  • Student Guide to Writing a Paper.

http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/kelly/paper.html

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

  • African American Writers: Online E-Texts.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm

  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. "Full-text indexed collection of classic American
and English literature" as well as selected Western philosophy "in the public domain."

  • American Verse Project. Electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.


http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

  • Athena: Authors & Texts. "Thousands of electronic texts, sorted by author's name."
  • Bibliomania. "Free online literature with more than 2000 classic texts."

http://www.bibliomania.com/

  • British Poetry, 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions. Romantic and Victorian poetry.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

  • British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832.  An electronic collection of texts from the University of California, Davis.

http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/index.htm

  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Classic Christian books in electronic format including scriptures, commentaries, sermons, and volumes from the first 800 years of the church..

http://www.ccel.org/index/classics.html

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's plays and poetry.

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

  • Directory of Electronic Text Centers. Posted by the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), Rutgers University Libraries.

http://tabula.rutgers.edu/ceth/etext_directory/volume.html#mark33

  • Early American Fiction Collection.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/pubindex.html

  • Early Americas Digital Archive. "The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) under the general editorship of Professor Ralph Bauer, at the University of Maryland at College Park. Intended as a long-term and inter-disciplinary project in progress committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies, it invites scholars from all disciplines to submit their editions of early American texts for publication on this site." 

http://mith2.umd.edu/eada/

http://directory.eliterature.org/

  • Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature. In languages other than English.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

  • The English Server Fiction Collection.  Offers works of and about fiction collected by the EServer Fiction members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain.

http://eserver.org/fiction/

  • Gateway to Early American Authors on the Web.

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/gateway/gateway.jsp.

  • The Harvard Classics - The Shelf of Fiction. "Together cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." Edited by Charles W. Eliot.

http://www.bartleby.com/hc/

  • Humanities Text Initiative.

http://www.hti.umich.edu/

  • The Internet Classics Archive. Contains 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

  • Labyrinth Library: Middle English Bookcase.

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html

  • Labyrinth Library: Old English Literature.

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html

  • Major Online Text Collections by Language.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/ets/offsite.language.html#english

  • Manybooks.net.  13,290 free eBooks available "for your PDA (or iPod)." PDF format. available. "Many of the etexts are from the November, 2003 Project Gutenberg DVD, which contains the entire Project Gutenberg archives except for the Human Genome Project and audio eBooks, due to size limitations, and the Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks, due to copyright. As of July 2004 most current PG texts are available here, usuallly within the week of release."

http://manybooks.net/

  • The Modern English Collection. "Contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest."

tp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html

  • The Online Books Page. "Facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet." Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. "Over 25,000 free books on the Web."

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

  • Oxford Text Archive. "The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora."

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

  • Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance (Full Text).  Includes works from 16 writers.

http://www.nku.edu/%7Ediesmanj/poetryindex.html 

  • Project Canterbury.

http://anglicanhistory.org/

  • Project Gutenberg Free e-Book Library. "Oldest producer of free e-Books on the Internet."

http://www.gutenberg.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

  • Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s. "The "Rebel Poets of the 1950s" have been grouped into four overlapping constellations: the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets."

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/index2.htm

  • Renascence Editions: an Online Repository of Works printed in English between the Years 1477 and 1799.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm

  • Romantic Circles Electronic Editions. Searchable archive of texts of the Romantic era.

http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/

  • Universal Library.  Proposes to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language, available to everyone over the Internet." "Within 10 years," the expectation is "that the collection will grow to 10 Million books.""

http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/

  • University of Virginia Library. Electronic Text Center. "Over 2,100 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more."

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/subjects/

  • Victorian Women Writers Project.

    http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html

  • Wright American Fiction. "This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors."

http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/

  • Writing Black . "Literature and History written by and on African Americans."

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit-black.html

  • WWW Virtual Library - American Indians: Index of Native American Book Resources on the Internet.

http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAbooks.html

LITERARY TERMS

  • Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms.  By Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/

  • Glossary of Literary Terms.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm

  • Glossary of Literary Terms.  By Thomson Gale.

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/glossary/

  • Literary Vocabulary.

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms.html

LITERARY CRITICISM SITES

  • American and English Language Internet Resources. From Southern Connecticut State University. Classified list of resources.

http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/litbib.html

  • American Authors on the Web.

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit-G.html

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

  • American Collection: Educators' Site. Includes  resources for use in the classroom as well as other items of interest to teachers.

http://ncteamericancollection.org/

  • American Literature Anthology Writers' Index. From the 16-17th centuries.

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/amlitchron_index.html

  • American Literature Pages.  "Includes information on American authors, literary movements, a timeline, and American literature sites."

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/

  • Cambridge History of American and British Literature. "Contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole."

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

  • Critical Reading: A Guide. By Professor John Lye.

http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html

  • Early American Literature, 1600-1900, Resources for K-12.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amlit.htm

  • EDSITEment. "The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MCI Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom." Includes lesson plans.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/

http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/rr/lit.html

  • English Literature on the Web.

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html

  • Eserver.org. 45 collections covering such topics as race, drama, multimedia, accessible publishing, and current social issues.    http://eserver.org/

    Gale's Literary Index.  Master index (does not include full text) to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references about 151,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 202,000 titles into one source.

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/dema60000

  • DISCOVERING COLLECTION: Provides reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
  • CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS:  Provides biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
  • SCRIBNERS WRITERS SERIES:   Includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 Scribner print series.
  • TWAYNE AUTHOR SERIES - TWAYNE WORLD,  ENGLISH, AND US AUTHORS:    Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
  • The Heath Anthology of American Literature. From the colonial period through the 1860s.

http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/lit_links.html

  • Humbul Humanities Hub. "Humbul's principal service is to develop its catalogue of evaluated online resources in the humanities." Includes links to English studies, other area studies, literary research, textual criticism, and other related topics.

  • Infomine. Enter desired term in Search Box. Suggestion:  "desired search term" and criticism.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

  • Inlibris. Includes "etexts, writers, agents, books, ezines, prizes, publishers, workshops, genres, dictionaries, bookstores, libraries, hypertexts and other literary and language- or book-related sites".

http://www.inlibris.com/s.pl

  • Internet Public Library--Literary Criticism. "IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period."

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Pathfinder located at: http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48496

  • Internet Public Library--Literary Criticism Guide.

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html

Links to over 1,000 critical and biographical Web sites on literary criticism dealing with American and British literature from pre-1500 to the twentieth century. Library http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.20.00/

  • Introductory Guide to Critical Theory.  

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/

  • The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory &Criticism.

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/

  • Links to Literary Criticism.

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/critics.htm

  • LitLinks. LitLinks are organized alphabetically by author within five genres: Drama, Fiction, Essays, Critical Theory, Poetry.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/

  • Literary Encyclopedia. Provides" profiles of the lives and works of literary authors whose works are valued in the English language, and other prominent figures such as philosophers and musicians whose lives and works are of interest to the literary reader."

http://www.litencyc.com/

http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4311

  • Literary History. "Seeks to collect critical or explanatory web writings about American and British literature."Specializes in critical articles and indexes only free articles."

http://www.literaryhistory.com/

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

  • Literary Resources, American. From Literary Resources on the Internet. 

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html

  • Literary Theory:  A guide to critical theory resources on the Internet. by Julie Roberson, Debora Richey, and Mona Kratzert. C&RL News, March 2002, Vol. 63 No. 3.

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2002/march/literarytheory.htm

  • Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database. "Annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in medical humanities, for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings."

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html

  • LiteratureClassics.com. "Part of the Classics Networks of websites." "The site features essays, electronic texts, links and resources for hundreds of literature authors, in a dynamic, interactive environment."  

 http://www.literatureclassics.com/

  • Literature--Literary Criticism/Summaries. Links to sites, with annotations.

http://www.chicousd.org/pvlib/english.htm#litcrit

  • Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet. Guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet.

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

  • Multnomah County Library: Literature and Authors.

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/lithc.html

  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 6th edition.

http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/

  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature--Norton Topics Online.  Offers twenty-eight topics- four per period (from the middle ages through the 20th century).

http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/

  • PAL: Perspectives on American Literature: a Research and Reference Guide--an Ongoing Project. "Research and reference tool, not a term paper factory."...particularly useful for those who have no or limited access to university libraries and databases"; by Paul P. Reuben, Department of English, California State University, Stanislaus. 

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTml

  • Pathfinder for Literary Criticism. Prepared by the Springfield Township High School Virtual Library.

http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/litpath.html

  • Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603).  Includes biographies, bibliographies, essays and articles, and other sources.

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

  • Victorian Web. "Literature, history, & culture in the age of Victoria."

http://www.victorianweb.org/

  • Voice of the Shuttle (VoS): Web Site for Humanities Research.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/

SHAKESPEARE AND HIS TIMES

Print resources: Dewey numbers: 822.3 ; 822.33

  • Absolute Shakespeare. Covers William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.

http://absoluteshakespeare.com/

  • Academic Info: William Shakespeare - Directory of Online Shakespeare Resources.

http://www.academicinfo.net/englitwill.html

  • All the World's a Stage: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music: 2. Shakespeare.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/shakesp.html
  • British Library. Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto.

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

Links:  http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/links.html

  • The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). VIII.   Shakespeare: Life and Plays.

http://www.bartleby.com/215/0800.html 

  • The Complete Literary Works of William Shakespeare.  Shakespeare's plays and poetry.

http://william-shakespeare.classic-literature.co.uk/

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's plays and poetry.

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html 

  • The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD).  "The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) is a reference work for English of the Renaissance period. It is designed to make accessible the English-language content of bilingual (English and other languages) and monolingual (English-only) dictionaries, glossaries, grammars, and encyclopedias published in England from 1500 to 1660."

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/english/emed/

  • Early Shakespeare: A Short Course.

http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/MBHomePage/ISShakespeare/ShortCourse.html

  • Electronic Shakespeare: Resources for Researchers. "Intended as a guide to Shakespeare Resources on the WWW." Prepared by Rosalind Tedford, Information Literacy Librarian at the ZSR Library, Wake Forest University.

http://www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/shakespeare/#Shakespeare%20in

  • Elizabeth I.

http://www.elizabethi.org/

  • English Renaissance in Context. "Project designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions.

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.cfm

  • Folger Shakespeare Library. "The Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, is a world-class research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. It is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art."

http://www.folger.edu/

  • Humbul Humanities Web: Shakespeare.

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/search/search.php?keyword=shakespeare&type=and

  • Illustrated Shakespeare Collection.

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Arts/subcollections/IllusShakeAbout.shtml

  • Infomine. Enter Shakespeare in Search Box.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

  • Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection:William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=sha-9

  • Internet Public Library -- Shakespeare Bookshelf.

http://www.ipl.org/div/shakespeare/shakespeare.html

  • Internet Resources for Shakespeare Studies. Contents: Gateways; Works; Criticism; Shakespeare in Performance; Shakespeare on film; Discussion Groups; Specialist Shakespeare Libraries;  Biography and Authorship; Illustrations; On-line editions of British Renaissance Drama; Miscellaneous Research Tools. Posted by the University of Birmingham.

http://www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/resources/

  • Internet Shakespeare Editions.

http://ise.uvic.ca/index.html

http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Shakespeare_Sites/Criticism.html

  • Internet Sites for Research on Elizabethan Times and Shakespeare's Life and Fame.  Page prepared by Ernestown Secondary School, Canada.

http://ernestownss.limestone.on.ca/shake.html

  • Literary Resources -- Renaissance.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7ejlynch/Lit/ren.html

  • Macbeth Resources. in: Shakespeare General Resources:
    Mr. Marc Hufnagl.

http://faculty.harker.org/march/Shakespeare/macbeth.htm

  • The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble.

http://web.mit.edu/ensemble/www/links.html

  • Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet. Guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet.

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/Shakespeare

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/criticism.htm

  • Perseus Digital Libary: English Renaissance.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Renaissance.html

  • RhymeZone Shakespeare. "...William Shakespeare wrote over 150,000 lines of poetry and prose. This is a search engine specifically for finding these lines."

http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/

  • Shakespeare and His Critics. Offers "access to a wide and increasing range of Shakespeare related documents."

http://shakespearean.org.uk/

  • Shakespeare Authorship Page. "Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare."

http://shakespeareauthorship.com/http://shakespeareauthorship.com/

  • Shakespeare General Resources: Mr. Marc Hufnagl.

http://faculty.harker.org/march/Shakespeare/index.htm

  • Shakespeare in Europe.  A project of the English Department at Basel University. Includes links to critical essays broken down by time period.

http://pages.unibas.ch/shine/home.html

  • Shakespeare Illustrated. "Explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another."

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html

  • Shakespeare in American Communities.

http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org/

  • Shakespeare Online.

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

  • Shakespeare Oxford Society. "The purpose of the Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare."

http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/

  • Shakespeare Resource Center.

http://www.bardweb.net/

  • Shakespeare Resource Center: Elizabethan England.

http://www.bardweb.net/england.html

  • Shakespeare Resources on the Web.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/ws_additional.htm

  • Shakespeare Searched.  "Shakespeare Search is a search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. We cluster search results by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what you're looking for. From something as simple as identifying the speaker of a particular quote to discovering underlying thematic elements across works, Shakespeare Searched has you covered. This website is not a replacement for a copy of the text. It provides no analysis or footnotes. It is meant to supplement a traditional reading of a work."

http://shakespeare.clusty.com/

  • Shakespearan Tragedy.

http://global.cscc.edu/engl/264/TragedyLex.htm

  • Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust.

http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/

  • Shakespeare's Globe."International resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work, and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of education and performance."

http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/

  • Shakespeare's Life and Times.  

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html   

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm

  • SHAKSPER: the Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference. Contents: "Launching Points; Life and Globe Related Sites; Associations and Institutes; Journals (Print and Electronic); Libraries; Informational (Research) Sites; Pedagogical Sites; Works, Editions, and Facsimiles."

http://www.shaksper.net/archives/files/internet.sites.html

  • Sites on Shakespeare and Renaissance.

http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/ShakSites1.html

  • Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603).  Includes biographies, bibliographies, essays and articles, and other sources.

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

  • Surfing with the Bard: SHakespeare Classroom Resource Center.

http://www.shakespearehigh.com/library/surfbard/

  • The Tragedy of MacBeth by William Shakespeare: Free Searchable Version.

http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/Shakespeare/MacBeth.asp

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance & 17th Century.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Shakespeare. Enter Shakespeare in Search Box [Search VOS].

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

  • Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Background Information & Teaching Ideas.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/shakespeare.html

  • William Shakespeare.  Provides text of 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse; over 1500 quotations from all of Shakespeare's plays and many poems; and other sources about Shakespeare.

http://www.bartleby.com/people/Shakespe.html

  • The Works of the Bard.

http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/

LITERATURE IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT

  • The 1890s Society."Embraces the entire artistic and literary scene of the most vibrant decade of Impressionism, Realism, Decadence, Symbolism, Naturalism, and of achievement in the arts, including theatre and book production."

http://www.1890s.com/

  • Digital Librarian: Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

http://www.digital-librarian.com/medieval.html

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary. "This F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary website was launched in 1996, the 100th anniversary of his birth.  The site is designed to increase awareness of a great American writer and to celebrate his writings, his life, and his relationship with other writers of the twentieth century.  The website draws extensively on books, photographs, and related materials in the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald at at the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina."

http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html

  • Jane Austen Information Page.

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

  • The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies.
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
  • Luminarium. Links to works by and about authors of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 17th century.

http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

  • Mark Twain in His Times.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html

  • Mark Twain's Mississippi River. Provides "a fully searchable and indexed digital library of Samuel Clemens' publications under the name of Mark Twain, placing special emphasis upon Twain's Mississippi novels and reminiscences (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi). These works will serve as lenses through which the public may explore additional text, image and sound materials, drawn from the participating libraries, describing the Mississippi Valley that Mark Twain remembered and imagined in writing his classic works of literature."

http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain/

http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/

  • Native American Authors: Internet Public Library.

http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/

  • The Online Medieval & Classical Library. "Collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization."

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ 

  • Romantic Circles.  "Refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature culture."

http://www.rc.umd.edu/

  • Victoria Research Web. "Dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain."

http://victorianresearch.org/

  • Victorian Times. "Digitisation project examining social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901).

http://www.victoriantimes.org

  • Victorian Web. "Literature, history, & culture in the age of Victoria."

http://www.victorianweb.org/

  • Victorian Web Sites: The Victorian Literary Studies Archive.

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2751

MARY SHELLEY AND FRANKENSTEIN

Print resources: Dewey number: 823.7

  • Electronic texts: Frankenstein

http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/SheFran.html

  • Frankenstein and Mary Shelley - English 101 Resources.

http://aquarius.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/courses/engl/101/frankenstein.html

  • Frankenstein Meets Multimedia: A Cultural History of Mary Shelley's Novel. By Robert Schwartz.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rschwart/RecSites.html#anchor175737

  • Frankenstein: Web Resources.

http://www.duluth.lib.mn.us/Programs/Frankenstein/WebSites.html

  • Humbul Humanities Web.   Enter Frankenstein in Search Box..

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/search/search.php?keyword=frankenstein&type=and

  • Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851).

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=she-28

  • The Literary Gothic: Mary Shelley page.

http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/mshelley.html

  • Mary Shelley: Lesson plans for Frankenstein. From Web English Teacher.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/shelley.html
  • Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives
    Internet Resources.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/CIH/WritingLives/WLMSlinks.html

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Chronology & Resource Site.

http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chronologies/mschronology/mws.html

  • My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/

  • National Library of Medicine: Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html

  • Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/english016/franken/franken.htm

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/english016/franken.html

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Frankenstein.    Enter Frankenstein in Search Box.

http://vos.ucsb.edu

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Mary Shelley.   Enter Mary Shelley in Search Box.

http://vos.ucsb.edu

POETRY

  • Academy of American Poets.  Essays on poetry, biographies of more than 450 poets, text of more than 1250 poems, and RealAudio of one hundred poems read by their authors or other poets.

http://www.poets.org/

National Poetry Month page: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41

  • American Verse Project. Electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

  • Bartleby.com: Verse. Free collection of verses.

http://www.bartleby.com/verse/

  • British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions.Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

  • Clickable Poems: an Electronic Hypertext Linking Poetry, History, & Culture.

http://www.clickablepoems.com/

  • Dickinson Electronic Archive.

http://www.emilydickinson.org/

  • Electronic Poetry Center.

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/

  • Glossary of Poetic Terms.

http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html

  • Poetry 180: a poem a day for American high schools. "Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year."

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

  • Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance (Full Text).  Includes works from 16 writers.

http://www.nku.edu/%7Ediesmanj/poetryindex.html 

  • The Poetry Archive. "The Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience."

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

  • Poetry Foundation. Contents: “Features”, “Dispatches”, Publishing", “Archive”, "Foundation", Poetry Magazine."  Searchable.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/

  • Poetry Society of America.  Includes an Atlas, which is a searchable database that provides a sampling of the hundreds of poems to have appeared in Poetry In Motion® around the US.

http://www.poetrysociety.org/motion/mapsite/mapflash.html

  • Poets.org. "The official website of Academy of American Poets, Poets.org offers hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, over 1,700 poems, and audio clips of one hundred poems."

http://www.poets.org/index.cfm

  • Representative Poetry Online."Includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912."

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Poetry. Enter poetry in Search Box.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

DRAMA

  • A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies. Maintained by Ken McCoy, Ph.D.

 http://www.stetson.edu/departments/csata/thr_guid.html

  • EServer: Drama Collection. "... Contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works... "

http://drama.eserver.org/

  • Justin's Drama & Theatre Links. "Categorised links to drama and theatre websites from all corners of the globe."

http://www.theatrelinks.com/

  • Theatre History on the Web. Links to sites throughout the world.

http://www.videoccasions-nw.com/history/jack.html

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Drama, Theater, & Performance Art Studies. Classified list of links.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=782

WOMEN IN LITERATURE

  • African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. "Digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920."

http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

  • A Celebration of Women Writers. Provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

  • British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832.  An electronic collection of texts from the University of California, Davis.

http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/index.htm

  • Contemporary Women Novelists: New Voices for the New Millennium: a Selected List. "Authors on this list have published their first novels since 2000 and show promise of continued good work." By Helene Androski (2005).

http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/contempnovelsnew.htm 

  • Emory Women Writers Resource Project. "Collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century."

http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/

  • Gender and Creative Writing: a Bibliography.  By Susan Hubbard and Gail Stygall (1997).

http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/gendrcr.htm

  • The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies: Women.

http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action=View&Category=Women

  • Selected Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance: a Resource Guide.Includes "primary and secondary works of 10 women of the Harlem Renaissance."

  http://www.nku.edu/%7Ediesmanj/guides/

  • Victorian Women Writers Project.

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html

http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html

WORLD LITERATURE

  • Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Covers Hispanic cultures.

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/index.shtml

  • Humbul Humanities Hub. "Humbul's principal service is to develop its catalogue of evaluated online resources in the humanities."

  • Internet Public Library--Literary Criticism. "IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period."

    http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

  • Major Online Text Collections by Language.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/ets/offsite.language.html#english