LitLinks
LitLinks
Electronic Texts
General
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.