Metasites
(sites covering a range of topics)
Academic Info: American Literature
Metasite containing links to various American Literature sources, some
annotated.
http://www.academicinfo.net/amlitmeta.html
The IPL Online Collection
Contains over 7,500 titles and 4,745 critical and biographical websites
about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title,
Dewey Subject Classification, or by nationality and literary period. A
few of sample pages:
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit
http://www.ipl.org/ref/native/
http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
Literary Resources on the Net
A searchable collection of annotated links to sites on the Internet
pertaining to literature, excluding most single electronic texts.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Literature and Composition Resources
Primary and secondary resources including: biographical and bibliographical
information, analytical articles, reference works, instructional materials,
electronic texts, databases, archives, literary history, journals, magazines,
and newspapers, among numerous other categories.
http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/engl/gartner/Litcomp.htm
20th Century English-Language Authors
Contains selected Web sites that cover English-language authors who
are currently prominent or who flourished sometime in the 20th century.
Focuses primarily on biographical and bibliographic information, with
some information on literary criticism.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/resdec99.html
Voice of the Shuttle
Catalogs and links to electronic resources across in the humanities
and related social sciences, with separate sections for English Literature
(includes American), Literary Theory, and Women's Studies. Fully searchable
from UC Santa Barbara.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
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Authors
and Texts
American Authors on the Web
Comprehensive directory of American authors, arranged chronologically
by authors' dates.
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
American Literature on the Web
Maintained by Akihito Ishikawa, Department of English at Nagasaki
University of Foreign Studies, Japan. A collection of links to sites on
the Internet emphasizing American literature in its social, cultural contexts.
Includes homepages and documents on over 300 authors and electronic texts
of their works.
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/
American Literature Writer’s Index
Writers' Index arranged by individual author, offers links to various
sites from 16th-20th centuries.
http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/amlitchron_index.html
American Verse Project
Specializes in pre-1920 American poetry. Includes many lesser-known
poets. Advanced searching capabilities allow you to find elusive words
or passages in individual poems or in the entire database.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/
C-SPAN's American Writers
Companion to TV series: includes transcripts, links, and background
information.
http://www.americanwriters.org/
Electronic Poetry Center
A website devoted to contemporary experimental and innovative poetry.
Produced by the University of Buffalo. The entire website is searchable
by keyword. Includes audio files. Also includes a page of Links
to Other Sites with Literary Audio.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
Twentieth-century Poetry in English
Site features 20th Century Poets: a comprehensive meta-index to Internet
resources on the 20th century poets, short biographies, bibliographies
and Internet.
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm
Voices From the Gaps
Project focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in the
United States and Canada. Indexed author pages, an online discussion,
and related sites on the World Wide Web that pertain to the study of women
writers of color. Maintained by Dept. of English and the Program in American
Studies at the University of Minnesota.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
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Individual
Authors
There is a vast amount of individual author web pages available
on the Internet. An excellent guide to these sites is, The Undergraduate’s
Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites, Bracken and Hinman,
Ref Z1225 B67 2001, is an excellent place to start for American literature,
as are the metasites listed above.
Here are just a few representative websites.
Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm
Mark Twain
Dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and newspaper
articles, hundreds of graphic images, and many different kinds of interactive
exhibits.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
William Blake Archive
Fully searchable and scalable electronic editions, extensive bibliographies,
and links.
http://www.blakearchive.org/
William Faulkner, American Writer, 1897-1962
A comprehensive collection of texts and resources.
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Comprehensive annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available
on the Internet.
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
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Text Collections
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection of some 52 published
works by 19th-century black women writers. A full text database of these
19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable.
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Search in multiple English and American literary texts; can be downloaded
in PDF format.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
American Literature Online Full-text
Extensive full-text online books in American Literature. Site maintained
by University of Pennsylvania. Searchable by author, title, and subject.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?PS
Bibliomania: The Network Library
English and American fiction and poetry, all in HTML format.
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Electronic Text Center
Electronic Text Center is an immense collection of full-text works
from hundreds of authors in various genres of American Literature, a few
sample pages:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/pubbrowse
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/sites/aframdocs.html
Hyperizons : Hypertext Fiction
High quality hypertext fiction and criticism. Comprehensive in coverage
of original works and related theory and criticism. http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
Oxford Text Archive
Contains a searchable database and the possibility of searching
through each text.
Not all texts listed are currently available.
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
Project Gutenberg
Earliest Internet collection of texts. Currently contains 1,400+ texts
in ASCII format, mostly in English.
http://www.promo.net/pg/
University of Maryland, fiction
Collection of fiction (primarily English and American) listed from
A-Z by author.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/
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Criticism
and Cultural Perspectives
A Glossary of Literary Terms
Offers a wide range of literary terms concise definitions and illustrative
examples.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
"definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical
devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness,
clarity and enjoyment of your writing."
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
The Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection at Stanford University Library.
Site offers thousands of cataloged graphic images of illustrated covers
to issues of the dime novels and story papers that were immensely popular
in America from the mid-nineteenth century to its close.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html
Literary History
Literaryhistory.com is a guide to critical articles on literature for
readers, students, scholars, writers, and teachers.
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/20CAmericanandBritish.htm
Literary Movements in American Literature
Contains brief essays on movements and important concepts in American
literature. Each page also contains links to a bibliography of secondary
sources for further reading and links to outside sites.
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/aufram.html
Literary Resources -- Renaissance
Many links to resources on Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ren.html
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
Subject guide and instructional resource is a compendium of sources,
definitions, and key topics for use in connection with undergraduate courses
in American Literature. Emphasis is on the major perspectives or literary
movements in American literature.
http://www.csustan.edu/English/reuben/home.htm
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Organizations,
Awards, Directories, and Other Resources
The Academy of American Poets
Home page for the organization.
http://www.poets.org/
Creative Writing Programs
A directory to creative writing programs at colleges and universities
and information on creative writing.
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/cwp.htm
Literature Awards
Literature Awards for children's books, fiction, nonfiction, biography,
autobiography, poetry, science fiction, horror, drama, mystery, fantasy,
etc.
http://www.literature-awards.com/
A Literary Index
A review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources
of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature. Also contains
links to sites of American Literature programs of study. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/English/flackcj/LitIndex.html
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