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Project Bartleby Archive, a project developed out of Columbia University, has complete texts of public domain literature, history, and reference works.

Project Gutenberg Online offers versions of classic and public-domain books.

The English Server offers over eighteen thousand on-line humanities texts (based at Carnegie Mellon).

Poetry

American Verse Project, from the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.  Offers an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry published prior to 1920.

The Academy of American Poets.  Contains photos, bios, and many poems in etext and RealAudio.

Drama

The English Server Drama Collection.   Contains a fairly extensive collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with drama.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. A scholarly, reliable full-text site hosted at MIT.

20th-Century

The Modern English Collection.  Part of the Electronic Text Center maintained by the University of Virginia Library.

Ethnic/Regional

African-American Women Writers of the 19th-Century.  An extensive collection of online texts maintained by the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library.

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online offers works by and about Native American authors.

Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920.  "Documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works."  Includes complete texts of works by such 19th century Southern authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Charles Chesnutt and others in electronic format; also offers covers/title pages/frontispieces of many original editions.

Classical and Medieval

The Internet Classics Archive.  This archive has "441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors," including Plato, Aristotle, and Sophocles.

The Online Medieval and Classical Library.  This library at Berkeley's Sunsite offers plenty of links to resources and e-texts.

Resources

General

The Voice of the Shuttle.  An outstanding collection of online resources for the humanities "woven" by Alan Liu of  the University of California, Santa Barbara.  This is the place to start online for most literature research projects.  The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research: English Literature main page includes a vast number of resources for the study of works written in English taught in departments of English and American literature. Includes breakdowns by genre, literary period, cultural context, region, ethnicity, nationality, etc.

Literary Resources on the Net offers a wealth of online resources for most specialties. Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature, a site maintained by Paul P. Reuben, contains brief bios, links, bibliographies, and study questions regarding major American writers.

American Literature on the Web.  An incredibly comprehensive guide to American Literature on the Web maintained by Akihito Ishikawa of the Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages.

Poetry

The Academy of American Poets.  This wonderful website contains photos, bios, and many poems in etext and RealAudio.

Poetry.com.  A good general site with worldwide links.

Drama

The WWW Virtual Library: Theater and Drama.  Extensive site listing links to resources on drama from over 40 countries.

Theater Connections.  A site from the University of North Carolina with links to many sites regarding different facets of drama.

Theater Links.  A good general site with plenty of links from the University of Haifa.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet.  A scholarly, complete, annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet.

Cultural Studies

The American Studies Crossroads Project from Georgetown University is worth a visit for its numerous helpful links and on-site resources.

American Memory Project (Library of Congress).   Archival resources for exploring many aspects of American history and
culture.

Writing Black.   Links to e-texts and other resources on African-American literature from the American Studies Department at Keele University (UK).

Native Web.  Extensive collection of resources on the literature and culture of indigenous peoples worldwide.

Latin American Network Information Center.   Links to online resources for the study of Central American, South American, and Caribbean culture.

Classical and Medieval

The Perseus Project.  This site from Tufts University focuses on the ancient Greeks.

The Online Medieval and Classical Library.  This library at Berkeley's Sunsite offers plenty of links to resources and etexts.

The Labyrinth.   This site contains resources for medieval studies from Georgetown University

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Presented by Fordham University, this site offers a library of texts and translations detailing all aspects of medieval life.

Teaching Resources

Syllabi and Other Course Materials for Literature.  Collected by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.

The Electronic Archives contains essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.

The World Lecture Hall contains links to pages worldwide created by faculty who are using the Web to deliver class materials.

Digital Classroom, from the National Archives and Records Administration, provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.

 

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