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Literature indexes and texts on the Web
The web is rich beyond price with literary treasures. How rich? Well, take a look at some of these sites:
Indexes and Meta-indices
English Literature from The Voice of the Shuttle, a fabulous web site for humanities research by Alan Liu
Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net, highlighted by his period pages in
Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth Century, Romantic, Victorian, Twentieth Century, and American literature. And more!
English language literature at the Research Institute for the Humanities, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Topics
- Two excellent resource pages in Japan:
Some LitLinks pages at various universities:
Litlinks:
annotated links to information about a work, its author, or period, in
the genres of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and critical theory. From
Bedford St. Martin's, a college publisher specializing in the humanities.
The English Server from Carnegie Mellon University and now based at the University of Washington,
has pages on Fiction, Eighteenth Century, Drama, Feminism, Gender and
Sexuality, Marx and Engels, New Poetry, Race, Philosophy, among other
challenging topics.
Texts, texts, and more texts
- English texts at the University of Virginia e-text library. Alphabetized and searchable. Comprised of:
- The Modern English Collection (AD 1500-present) with 1,585 titles including 6,699 manuscript and book illustrations, many of which are publicly accessible
- The Middle English Collection with 40 titles, most of which are publicly accessible
- Items from Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library include African-American resources, 18th and 19th Century Prose: Fiction and Non-Fiction
- British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive, includes
- The S. T. Coleridge Archive,
- Works by Lewis Carroll, Ann Batten Cristall, Alfred
Edward Housman, Richard Polwhele, Mary Robinson, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Germ, Volumes 1-4 1850
, a labor of love by Anniina Jokinen, it's a gorgeous site with wonderful texts (and some music) from the
- Bartleby.com, a huge
collection of great books online. Reference, verse, fiction, and
nonfiction, searchable by author, subject, title, or key words.
Athena: texts and documents, listed by authors, covering philosophy, literature, history, science, arts.
- The Internet Classics Archive,
with 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors,
including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites.
Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English
translation.
- The Edmund Spenser Home Page,
originally by Richard Bear, has most of Spenser's work including the
entire Faerie Queene. Also some works by Castiglione, Sidney, and
Wroth. With links to many Renaissance and other literary pages on the
web.
- Professor Bear now hosts the fabulous Renascence Editions, Works Printed in English, 1477-1799.
- Representative Poetry Online at the comprehensive University of Toronto English Library,
includes about 2,900 English poems by 400 poets from from Caedmon, in
the Old English period, to the verge of copyright in the twentieth
century. Indexed by poet, first line, title, keywords, and date, and
includes a glossary and all the best poetry criticism in prose and
verse from Puttenham to Pater.
- Classics at the Online Literature Library:
some works from 30 authors including E.R. Burroughs, 3 Brontes, Lewis
Carroll, Mary Shelley, L. Frank Baum, Bram Stoker, Leo Tolstoy, Mark
Twain, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells.
- William Blake: All the good Blake sites on the web, including much of his art and poetry.
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