Overview of English Resources on the WWW
Literary Resources on the Net(by Jack Lynch @ Univ of Pennsylvania)
Guide to English Resources by Time, Place, Genre, Etc.
Voice of the Shuttle - University of California-Santa Barbara
(An exhaustive guide to English resources on the WWW,
organized by topic):
Romantic Circles
(Devoted to the study of Byron, The Shelleys, Keats and
Their Contemporaries and Historical Contexts)
Dictionaries, Thesauri
Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus at Thesaurus.com
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Dictionary of English Usage:
Writer's Web Topic Index & Search Engine
Grammar, Writing & Style Manuals
Basic Grammar
A Grammar Glossary - Grammar Terms, A-Z.
Other Grammar Guides:
HyperGrammar(Univ of Ottawa)
On-Line English Grammar(Edunet International)
Writing a Paper
- Guide to writing the basic essay - ( An essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. You may be writing an essay to argue for a particular point of view or to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. Either way, your essay will have the same basic format).
- Writing a Research Paper
Classic Works of Composition:
Elements of Style(by William Strunk, Jr.)
Documentation Style
MLA Style-Guide for Research Papers
MLA-Style Citation of Electronic Sources(Univ of South Florida)
Timelines in Literature
Literature in Great Britain: 1700 to the 1918
British Art & the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830(UC Berkeley)
A 19th Century British Timeline(Virginia Tech)
Literature - Full Texts Online
Index to Full-Text Literature Online
Index of Online Books
Carnegie Mellon University - The English Server
Fiction(novels and short fiction, classics and new writers)
Poetry(original and classic verse, literary and poetic theory)
Drama(a collection of plays, modern works and classics)
Eighteenth Century(a site for eighteenth century cultural studies)
University of Virginia - Electronic Text Center
British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive
Other Full-Text Sites
Victorian Women Writers Project - Indiana University
FullTextofVariousAuthors
William Shakespeare - Complete Works
American Studies
American Verse Project - University
of Michigan
Hypertexts @ University of Virginia
Literary Theory
Contemporary Literary Theory(Brock Univ)
ECLAT - Essential Comparative Literature & Theory(Univ of Penn)
Online Journals
Project Muse - A collection of over 30 online journals by Johns Hopkins University. The following are of particular interest to English:
- Diacritics - "...an exceptional and influential forum for scholars writing on the problems of literary criticism."
- ELH: English Literary History - "...superior studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature."
- The Henry James Review - "...brings together the best contemporary scholarly, critical, and theoretical work on a major American writer."
- MFS: Modern Fiction Studies - "...quality articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary literature. Devoted to criticism and scholarship of fiction of the twentieth century..."
- Modernism / Modernity - "Concentrating on the period extending roughly from 1860 to the present... encourages an interdisciplinary approach linking music, architecture, the visual arts, literature, and social and intellectual history."
- New Literary History - "...focuses on theory and interpretation - the reasons for literary change, the definitions of periods, and the evolution of styles, conventions, and genres."
- The Yale Journal of Criticism - "...publishes works of interest to readers in the humanities, irrespective of field or period, including scholarly articles, original art, review essays, polemical interventions, and conference and symposium papers."
Keats-Shelley Journal - "...Contains articles on John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, and their circles--as well as news and notes, book reviews, and a current bibliography."
For a listing of online journals:
Journals and Newspapers(Carnegie Mellon Univ - English Server)
Bibliographies
Use First Search to access the Modern Language Association Bibliography, the main research tool for English Literature:
Miscellaneous Bibliographies:
American Culture & Literature(Georgetown Univ)
Perspectives in American Literature (California State Univ)
Home Pages for Various Writers
Highlights of author pages maintained by university sites:
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Jane
Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Willa Cather
Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
T.S. Eliot
William Faulkner
Seamus Heaney
Walker Percy
John Steinbeck
Samual Johnson
Other Interesting English Links
BookBrowser - A collection of fiction reading lists for avid fiction readers.
Literature Prizes:
The BookWire Index of Book Awards
Online Book Stores:
Amazon.Com - The Largest Online Bookstore - New Books
Powell's Books - New & Used Books
English Departments - USA & Worldwide
English Department Home Pages Worldwide(New York Univ)