Guide to Literary Research
World Wide
Web Links
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A list of World Wide Web sites that are relevant to literature is provided below. Also provided is a link to a list of Web search engines and directories that may be used to look for other relevant sites on the Web. Caution: The World Wide Web provides access to much useful information. However, users should carefully evaluate the quality of each Web resource consulted. Not all Web pages are objective, authoritative, or accurate.
ABC-Lit: An Index to Children's Literature Scholarship
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
American Transcendentalism Web
Anthology of Middle English Literature
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
Calls for Papers (Maintained by University of Penn. English Dept.)
A Celebration of Women Writers
Citing Sources: Guide to Library Research (Duke University)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Electronic Text
Center (University of Virginia)
An online archive of thousands of electronic texts from 1500 to the
present.
English Literature on the Web (compiled by Mitsuharu Matsuoka)
English Short Title Catalogue (provides bibliographic records for books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed in the British Isles and North America before 1801)
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
FictionFinder (prototype)
A Guide to Grammar and Writing
Internet Classics Archive
Provides the full text of numerous works of classical literature
Library of Southern Literature
Literary Criticism (Internet Public Library)
Literature Resources (compiled by MIT libraries)
Literature Webliography (compiled by LSU libraries)
Luminarium (Middle English, Renaissance, and 17th-century literature)
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
NoodleTools
Provides help with online research and includes an
interactive bibliography composer in MLA or APA style.
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
The Online Books Page
(searchable database of over 20,000 book titles freely
available via the Internet)
Online Literary Criticism (Internet Public Library)
The Online Medieval & Classical Library
Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
An Outline of American Literature (by Kathryn VanSpanckeren)
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
Poets.org (The Academy of American Poets)
Project Gutenberg (collection of electronic books)
Representative Poetry Online (University of Toronto)
Resources for Writing and Writing Instructors
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
Sources (help with citation styles and formats)
Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
The Victorian Women Writers Project
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities
Research
Literature (in English)
Literatures
Other Than English
Literary Theory
WESS Web (Western European Studies Section)
Wordorigins.org (origins of words and phrases)
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Writing Resources (Princeton University)
yourDictionary.com
: the global language resource
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this topic.
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Updated: 14 February 2008 by me