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Online Resources in English and Film (Full List)
NOTE: This webpage is an expansion of the former External Links & Gateways section, and will be continually updated as new online resources are brought to our attention. Please email us if you have comments or suggestions.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Authoritative reference work on English and American literature from the Middle Ages to present day.
Columbia University Libraries Guide to Special Collections: Extensive resource guide to archival databases and online finding aids at national and international archives around the world.
Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States Good reference tool for checking copyright terms on publication types. The chart began as an expanded version of Lolly Gasaway's copyright chart, but with the primary focus on unpublished works. The current incarnation includes an updated section on unpublished works, which reflects copyright status as of 1 January 2004.
The English Server Carnegie Mellon University's links to resources in the humanities. Covers topics such as drama, film, various literary genres, software, philosophy, and even recipes.
Inter-Play Inter-Play provides easy access to the locations of plays printed in collections, anthologies and periodicals.
Literary Resources on the Net Jack Lynch's searchable collection of links to resources in the field of literature. Covers the literature from classical times to the present and includes literature in other languages.
Directory of American Poetry Books Maintained by the organization Poets House, the Directory of American Poetry Books is a free, fully-searchable online database featuring over 20,000 poetry titles published between 1990 and 2008. The site is free and open to the public.
Voice of the Shuttle: A premier web portal for online resources and reference works in the humanities.
WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Literature and Culture Websites Maintained by the Association of College and Research Libraries, this metasite provides links to numerous online texts, bibliographies, electronic literary magazines, and multi-disciplinary resources covering the intersection of Women's Studies and Literary Studies.
The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub is primarily useful for its searchable and browsable Anglo-Norman dictionary but also includes a number of articles on Anglo-Norman topics.
Anthology of Chancery English: Collection of Old English works in full text. Maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
Dictionary of Old English: Online dictionary of Old English maintained by the University of Toronto.
The Chaucer Metapage Audio Files This website is dedicated to helping students improve speaking the Middle English found in the works of Chaucer. Links include various audio readings of Chaucer's works, a pronunciation guide, and audio readings of similar works.
Danteworlds is a multimedia literary guide created at the University of Texas that explores the three realms of the afterlife as chronicled in the Divine Comedy.
Labyrinth: Sources for Medieval Studies: Comprehensive web portal from Georgetown University featuring full texts of medieval works.
Luminarium: An Anthology of English Literature: Extensive resource on British works and authors in the medieval age, Renaissance, seventeenth century, and Restoration.
William Shakespere's Small Latine & Lesse Greeke Maintained by the University of Illinois Press, this site provides access to the contents of T.W. Baldwin's William Shakespere's Small Latine & Lesse Greeke, originally published in 1944 by the University of Illinois Press, and available on the Web as the first time as a fully searchable, open-access electronic archive.
Historical Outline of Restoration and 18th-century British Literature: Online resource maintained by Alok Yadav at George Mason University.
William Blake Archive: The premier and comprehensive digital archive on William Blake's life and work. A collaboration between the Library of Congress, Carolina Digital Library, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and University of Virginia.
Victorian Research Web: Extensive resource on British Victorian studies maintained by the founder and manager of the Victorian Studies discussion list.
Curran Index: Additions to and Corrections of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals: Supplement to the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.
Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature: Resource on Irish literature with bibliographical indexes of authors' works, transcribed full-text primary documents, critical essays, and historical background information.
Byron Society Collection Produced by the Byron Society of America, this website includes a catalogue of the Collection of the Byron Society at the University of Delaware. Also provides a list of Byron websites.
Romantic Circles Romantic Circles offers a variety of scholarly resources on the study of Romantic-period literature and culture, including refereed editions of primary texts, pedagogical resources for different education levels, and reviews of major scholarship in the field.
The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive: Digital collection of historical information, transcribed primary texts, and critical works on Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the University of Virginia.
FWEET is a playful and unique search engine of over 79,000 "elucidating" notes on Joyce's Finnegan's Wake geared toward scholars.
Literary Resources: 20th-century British, Irish and Commonwealth: An index of online resources for British, Irish, and Commonwealth writers, maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University.
Crossroads Hypertexts: Excellent resource from the University of Virginia American Studies department featuring the full texts of major American literary works, mostly ranging from the late 18th century through the early 20th century.
Literary History: Comprehensive bibliographic index of literary criticism and analytical works on American authors from the 18th-century through today. Also features indexes of critical works on Filipino-American writers, African-American writers, and postcolonial writings.
American Literature Timeline and Authors: Extensive resource on American literary works and authors maintained by Professor Donna Campbell at Washington State University. Primarily covers from 1690 to 1920.
Common-Place: journal of the American Antiquarian Society.
Early American Women Writers: Online resource on female writers and artists of early America, with images, biographical profiles, primary source letters, and bibliographical index of critical works. Maintained by Sharon Harris and Emily Dolan at the University of Connecticut.
Early Americas Digital Archive: Resource on early American literature and primary historical sources. Maintained by the University of Maryland's Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities.
Perspectives in American Literature: Early American Literature to 1700 and Puritanism: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Perspectives in American Literature: Early American Literature 1700-1800: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Society of Early Americanists resource page: A resource website for students and teachers maintained by the Society of Early Americanists. Features critical essays, index of electronic resources, films, and full-text excerpts.
Cornell University Making of America collection: A digital library of primary sources in American social history from antebellum through Reconstruction.
Documenting the American South: An extensive online resource from the University of North Carolina Libraries featuring full texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.
NINES: Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online: Peer-reviewed website and publishing model with digitized primary sources and critical analyses.
Perspectives in American Literature: Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Romanticism: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Perspectives in American Literature: Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Trancendentalism: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Perspectives in American Literature: Late Nineteenth Century and Realism: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Perspectives in American Literature: Late Nineteenth Century, 1890-1910 Naturalism: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Modern American Poetry (MAPS) A comprehensive resource site on American poetry from the English department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Based on the Anthology of Modern American Poetry from Oxford University Press, MAPS offers a collection of resource webguides for a number of American poets. The webguides feature information such as historical background, analyses of the poets' works, relevant illustrations, book reviews, and excerpts of poems.
Museum of American Poetics: a multimedia and literary collaboration between students, scholars, and poets that features reference information and criticism on American and world poetry.
Perspectives in American Literature: Early Twentieth Century: Modernism: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Perspectives in American Literature: American Drama: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Perspectives in American Literature: Harlem Renaissance: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
Perspectives in American Literature: Late Twentieth Century and Postmodernism: Extensive web resource maintained by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus. Features numerous profiles of American authors with historical background, full text excerpts of works, bibliographic index of works and criticism, and related sites.
British Fiction 1800-1829: Searchable database of thousands of British works and reviews from the Romantic period. Last updated 2004.
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici A register of written sources used by authors in Anglo-Saxon England. The database contains records analysing the source-relationships of about 1143 texts and identifying the use of over 1000 sources. It also shows which texts were known in Anglo-Saxon England, how well texts and authors were known, and in what ways they were used. Last updated 2004.
Language of the Land: Journey into Literary America: an exhibition website from the Library of Congress on literature and geography. Last updated 2006.
University of Michigan Making of America Collection: Digital resource on American social history and literature from antebellum through Reconstruction. Last updated 2007.
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875: Consists of electronic texts of over 1,700 novels and other works of fiction published between 1851-1875. Searchable by author, title, keyword, publisher and publication date. Last updated 2005. This collection is also available as part of the Chadwick-Healey Early American Fiction 1789-1875 database, which is available through Online Research Resources.
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