| This is a list of links to websites that provide critical resources for literature: such as those related to Feminist Studies, Gender / Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Marxian Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Genre Studies, etc. Also includes a section for General Literary Studies as well as a list of the major Indexes and Databases of Literary Criticism. |
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American Folklore |
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Contains American folktales categorized by: title, region, famous characters, themes, etc. There are even simplified versions of folktales appropriate for ESL learners. Pay special attention to the section marked Teachers and Students which has great links to other sites giving specialized information regarding the academic study of folklore. It is a useful site for courses in American literature, Afro-American literature, dialects of American English, or popular culture. |
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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable |
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Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases and Allusions from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable which has over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies and trace the origins of expressions |
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The EServer |
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Formerly called the Carnegie Mellon English Server, EServer is now administered at the University of Iowa, and has a large collection of electronic publications on cultural studies, film studies, popular culture and Marxist literary studies. It also has links to other public access electronic publications' sites in these and related fields such as critical theory, history, technology and everyday life. |
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Fabula |
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A portal for research in literatures. Site is both in French and English. |
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The Invisible Library |
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A collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound. Browse their catalogue by (real) author or (real) title, showing references to fictional works or authors, as well as other interesting lists. |
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Literary Resources on the Net |
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A comprehensive, searchable site maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University-Newark. It includes listings of major literary resource websites categorized by periods and areas of interest along with links to other general literary resource websites. |
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The Nobel Prize Winners |
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A listing of Nobel writers from 1901 to present. Has links to websites on individual authors. |
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature Website |
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This site is designed to supplement the American Literature anthology, and provides students and teachers with searchable issues and topics, along with time lines and historical background for each of the periods in their series (Am. Lit. up to 1820; 1820-1865; 1865-1914; 1914-1945; Am. Lit. since 1945). |
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Spark Notes on Literature |
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Contains downloadable study guides on classic and contemporary literary works, prepared by Harvard students, listed by title or by author. Each study guide contains a plot overview, list of characters, analysis of major characters, themes, motifs and symbols as well as chapter summaries. Also has: Important Quotations Explained, Key Facts, Study Questions & Essay Topics, Quiz, and Suggestions for Further Reading. |
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The Voice of the Shuttle |
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A comprehensive humanities website and database developed and administered at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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Humbul Humanities Hub (UK)
A clearinghouse for Humanities Websites designed for the UK higher education system. |
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British Library Public Catalogue |
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The British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC) provides access to the main British Library catalogues, describing over ten million items available either in our Reading Rooms or for remote supply as photocopies or loans. BLPC is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The British Library is one of the great libraries of the world. The site is excellent for building up bibliography and locating things you will want to order through interlibrary loan. |
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Dissertations Abstracts Index (UMI Diss Ab) |
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An electronic index of most Ph.D. dissertations in the Humanities and many Master's Thesis. Provides a long abstract as well as 40 Preview pages. Efficient ordering on-line service, although Dissertations may also be requested through Inter Library Loan in Main floor, Reference Room, Lazaro Library (sometimes requiring a shipping fee).
This link provides visitor access but for access to the complete index, connect through computers in the UPR Libraries and Seminar Rooms, including the English Department's Richardson Seminar Room. Also, you may want to check out the index of UPR's Master's Theses and Dissertations. |
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HAPI - Hispanic American Periodical Index |
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Contains articles and works on Hispanic America and the Caribbean. Most sources available in the Caribbean Regional Library at the UPR's Lazaro Library and many complete texts now available on-line. This link requires a user password, or access it in the UPR Libraries and Seminar Rooms, including the English Department's Richardson Seminar Room. |
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The Library of Congress |
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Searchable catalogue, as well as special collections, and News and Events listings. Open access. |
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MLA Bibliography Index |
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The most comprehensive bibliographic index for literary and language studies. Has many articles available on-line. This links takes you to The Infotrac Database, through which the MLA is accessed, which requires a login and password for off-campus access (available to graduate students who have a UPR email account - see Computer Services).
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Colonial / Post-colonial Websites |
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Lists 44 websites related to colonial / postcolonial studies. |
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Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English |
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The major web resource for Postcolonial Studies, a project funded by the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. Has listings by region/country and authors as well as modules on major topics: gender, history, religion, and diasporas. |
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Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonialism |
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A journal publsihed by Routledge, edited by Robert Young of Oxford University. This is the publisher's webpage and so just gives subscription information. Articles are indexed in MLA and may be accessed through Lazaro. |
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Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy |
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A journal published by Routledge, edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Michael Dutton, Leela Gandhi and Sanjay Seth. This is the publisher's webpage and so just gives subscription information. Articles are indexed in MLA and may be accessed through Lazaro. |
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The Postcolonial Forum |
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Published by The Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at The University of Kent. It includes articles and reviews that focus on colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial discourse. |
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Jouvert: a Journal of Postcolonial Studies |
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A journal available on-line, published by the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC. |
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The Postcolonial Studies Website |
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Has listings of authors and theorists. Maintained by Deepika Bahri at the English Department at Emory University. |
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Post-Colonial Feminist Theory and Film |
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The Postcolonial Web |
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Created and administered by John Landow, formerly at Brown University. |
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Ireland: Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory |
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Postcolonial Theory at SUNY - Albany |
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Introductory page on Postcolonial Literature of the Caribbean. Includes a list of important works in the field. |
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Nations and Narration Course at Illinois State University |
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UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource |
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Introductory Guide to Critical Theory |
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Written and designed by Dino Felluga. |
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Theory Org |
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Prof. David Gauntlett's award-winning website on media and identities |
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Critical Race Theory Links |
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Critical Race Theory Resources |
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Race & History |
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Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday |
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Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice |
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The Marxist Approach in the UK |
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A good introductory page with links to other sites on the development of Marxist literary criticism in the UK. |
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Post Modern Culture (PMC) |
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An electronic scholarly journal publishing interdisciplinary works on contemporary culture. Current issue is available free on-line back issues and tools available through Project Muse in UPR Lazaro Library. |
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Cinetext |
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A bilingual internet forum for film and philosophy located at the University of Vienna (Austria) addressing students, researchers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in the thoughtful exploration of cinema, film, and television. |
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Images |
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A non-commercial Web site created for everyone who enjoys movies and popular culture. Images is published quarterly. |
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La butaca |
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Film e-journal from Spain |
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Media/Culture Journal |
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A peer-reviewed journal of Media and Culture produced in association with the Media & Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Queensland. |
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The Internet Movie Database |
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Voice of the Shuttle: Links for Cultural Studies |
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Domestic Goddess a.k.a. "Scribbling Mobs of Women" |
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A moderated E-journal, devoted to women writers, beginning in the 19th century, who wrote domestic fiction. |
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Feminist.com |
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A grassroots, interactive community by, for and about women. Their aim is to facilitate information-sharing among women and encourage mobilization around political issues. |
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An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and Queer culture. |
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n.paradoxa |
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The only international feminist art journal exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices. Browse the issues and read articles on-line. |
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Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power |
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An Ars-Rhetorica journal of feminist studies. Sponsored by the Centre for Rhetorics and Hermeneutics and the New Testament Project. |
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Queer Theory Links |
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Queer Theory |
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A commercial site with many links to web resources as well as products related to Queer Studies. |
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The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) |
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Founded in 1987, The Feminist Majority is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. |
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The Women Writers Project at Brown University |
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This site aims to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. They support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. Requires a login for access to digital archives. |
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General Websites on Literary Works |
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A Celebration of Women Writers |
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A comprehensive listing of works by women writers from 3000 B.C. up to 20th (and no doubt 21st) Century. Browse by Author, Century, Country or Ethnicity. Includes links to Special Collections on specific women writers. |
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The Libyrinth |
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A listing with links to information on many contemporary writers with a main collection of papers on: Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Thomas Pynchon. |
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Modern American Poetry |
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An on-line journal Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000), edited by Cary Nelson. |
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Poetry Archives |
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A commercial site with a searchable database of 3,000 entries, listings by poems and authors, and a discussion forum. The "Random Poem" feature is worth a visit |
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Websites which profide access to primary texts on-line |
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Project Gutenberg |
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"Fine Literature Re-Published" is this site's motto . The oldest provider of free internet books (eTexts or eBooks). Has a searchable database of zipped and unzipped texts that are in the public domain (not copyright protected). Complete texts may be downloaded quickly and then viewed and manipulated with a word processing program. Most Western classics are here, and makes quoting or searching works easy. |
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Hypertexts at U of Virginia |
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This site has links to downloadable hypertexts available in their collection of American studies texts, listed by author. Also has links to other hypertext projects in the University of Virginia. |
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Electronic Text Center at the U of Virginia Library |
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This is an electronic archive of tens of thousands of electronic texts and images. It features The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799, Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection, and Ebooks for the Microsoft Reader and the Palm Pilot . |
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The On-Line Books Page |
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A site maintained by University of Pennsylvania that lists 20,000 free books on the Web. It has listings by author, title, subject or serials, as well as being searchable. Also includes News, Archives and Features pertaining to on-line books and websites. |
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Bartleby.com |
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A commercial archive of downloadable texts that is maintained by Columbia University. Also has many free texts that are downloadable, as well as links to other free texts. Features The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction , Selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD, which is a listing of the 50 volume Harvard Classics, along with related criticism and notes. Rather cumbersome compared to other electronic text sites, since the texts are not downloadable en toto , but must viewed chapter by chapter. |
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Making of America |
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A commercial digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction maintained by the University of Michigan. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Has recently added 149 volumes focusing on New York City. The site has no listings as such, only a search engine, so you must enter in an author, work or subject. Files are images of texts that must be viewed on-line page by page. No downloadable text file available, but reprints can be ordered on-line. |
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Questia |
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Questia is a super on-line library with over 47,000 books and 375,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. All books and articles are available in their entirety, and you can search every page. Questia facilitates writing by creating footnotes and bibliographies automatically. It also allows you to organize your work with the highlighter and project folders. It provides on-line books that you can download for free. |
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| This is a listing of websites that pertain to particular literary / historical periods - which will be cross-referenced so that some sites may appear on more than one section - as well as being cross-listed under Authors or Works. Currently the periods covered are: Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Victorian Studies.
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Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
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Early Modern Culture: an electronic seminar |
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Contains four works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers--some junior, some senior--working on similar topics. Is an active website where visitors can post comments on readings and papers. |
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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index |
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Indexes scholarship on women, sexuality, and gender, in over 250 journals; 450-1500 |
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The Labyrinth |
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Resources for Medieval Studies sponsored by Georgetown University. Can browse by categories or search based on categories, keywords and/or material type. |
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The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth-Century books in the Douglas Huntly Gordon Collection |
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A project of the University of Virginia Special Collections and French Departments. |
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DScriptorium |
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Digital images of medieval manuscripts |
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Literary Resources - Old English |
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Jack Lynch's Medieval pages now located at Rutgers - Newark. |
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Old English Pages |
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History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents |
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WWW Medieval Resources |
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A site with many useful links to resources on the web for medieval studies, including list servers and discussion groups. Compiled by Dan Mosser. Most links work, although the site hasn't been updated in a couple of years. |
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Victorian Studies on the Web |
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A source of information on every important publication on every field of Victorian Studies. |
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Victorian Web |
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Created and administered by John Landow. |
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British Women's Novels: A Reading List, 1775-1818 |
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By the site's admission, not always absolutely accurate, but it includes some valuable information and links to pages on women writers often left out of the pages by other people. Worth exploring. |
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Gender, Family, Household: Seventeenth-Century Norms and Controversies |
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One of Norton's pages which presents materials designed to supplement the Norton Anthology of English Literature. From this site you can go to other equally interesting pages on history, cultural issues, etc. |
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Jack Lynch's Restoration and Eighteenth Century Page |
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Prof. Lynch has one of the best sites for research in the Restoration and the eighteenth century. It provides a very large number of links to other sites and valuable information of its own. Highly recommended. |
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The Gothic Literature Page |
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A bit uneven, but has some very good things in it. Includes plot summaries of fairly obscure works, and some links to etexts of unusual gothics. |
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The Spectator Project |
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This site is being built up and will include all the texts from the Spectator, a valuable resource in reading eighteenth-century texts since Addison and Steele commented on most everything that went on during their time, including literature, the theater, social and polical matters, etc. Well worth looking into, and extremely valuable for cultural studies approaches to the novels. |
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Domestic Goddess a.k.a. "scribbling mobs of women" |
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A moderated E-journal, devoted to women writers, beginning in the 19th century, who wrote domestic fiction. |
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Baraka, Amiri (African American poet, aka LeRoi Jones) |
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Burney D'Arblay, Frances |
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Frances Burney D'Arblay |
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Bibliography of the author Fanny Burney from the site on women authors at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Defoe, Daniel |
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Daniel Defoe |
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Spartacus education site from the UK which links to various other sites and documents relative to Defoe's life. |
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Dickens, Charles |
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The project (which originated at the University of California in 1981), promotes the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts |
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A selection of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, and philosopher, for searching and browsing.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Society |
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Promotes Fitzgerald studies by offering a variety of materials to assist in the study and appreciation of Fitzgerald, his work, and his times.
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Fielding, Henry |
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Faulkner, William |
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William Faulkner on the Web |
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An evolving guide to the life and works of William Faulkner, by all accounts one of America's greatest writers. Edited by John B. Padgett a graduate instructor of English and Ph.D. candidate at University of Mississippi in Oxford.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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Le Guin, Ursula K. |
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Poe, Edgar Allan |
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Ramsay Lennox, Charlotte |
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Shakespeare, William |
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Mr. Shakespeare on the Internet |
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The most comprehensive site on Shakespeare with Works, criticism, Biography, Links and other useful info for students on the Bard. |
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Sterne, Laurence |
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Tennyson, Alfred |
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Tennyson |
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Thoreau, Henry D. |
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The Thoreau Reader |
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Extensive site devoted to the writings, philosophy, and life of Henry David Thoreau. Features accurate texts of his complete works, writings for publication, journal, correspondence, and other uncollected papers.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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J.R.R. Tolkien Society |
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This organization has a very good site which includes a biography, bibliography and reviews, not only of J.R.R. but also of Christopher Tolkien, his son, literary executor, and editor. |
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