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Literature

18th Century (4)
American (130)
Bibliography & History of the Book (8)
Classical & Biblical (11)
Ethnicities & Nationalities (2)
Full Text Sources Online (12)
Medieval (10)
Miscellaneous (10)
Renaissance & 17th Century (11)
Romanticism (4)
Shakespeare (5)
Theatre & Drama (6)
Theory (4)
Victorian (7)
Women's Lit & Feminism (7)

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	Classical & Biblical
	An Analytic Bibliography of On-line Neo-Latin Titles - http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/index.htm A bibliography of over 14,500 Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later.
	The Bible Gateway - http://bible.gospelcom.net/ Search the Bible in ten languages (English, German, Swedish, Latin, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Tagalog, Norwegian) and multiple versions.
	Classics at Oxford - http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html Classical languages and literature, and ancient history.
	Christian Classics Ethereal Library - http://www.ccel.org/ A large on-line library of classic Christian books for download or browsing.
	Classics Collections Page - http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/classics/ A comprehensive list of links maintained by the University of Florida libraries.
	Early Church Fathers - http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ A large collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church.
	The Internet Classics Archive - http://classics.mit.edu 441 works of classical literature by 59 authors.
	Literature Resources - http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/classical.html MIT Libraries' Classical & Medieval literature links.
	Online Medieval and Classical Library - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ A Berkeley's SunSite resource.
	The Perseus Project - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ A comprehensive, searchable classical culture site, featuring online texts and images.

	Medieval
	Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350 - 1485) - http://www.luminarium.org/medlit Primary texts, author biographies, and articles on Middle English literature. This site also includes links for further study.
	Comitatus - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/cmrs/Publications/Pub_default.htm A journal of Medieval and Renaissance studies.
	Early Modern Literary Studies - http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html A refereed journal with full-text criticisms available for free on the Web. Use the Search EMLS link near the bottom of the first page to find articles on your particular work or author.
	Digital Dante - http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/ Columbia University's Institute for Learning site on Dante that includes Dante's work, essays on his work, bibliography, images, news and more.
	The Electronic Beowulf - http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/English/Beowulf Digital images of the Beowulf Manuscript, a comprehensive glossarial index, and a new edition and transcript, both with search facilities.
	Internet Medieval Sourcebook - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html A large database divided into three categories: an index of selected and excerpted texts, full-text sources, and a section devoted to the Saints Lives.
	The Labyrinth: Manuscripts - http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/ Histories, bibliographies, and digital images of manuscripts from the Middle Ages. You can also scroll to the bottom of the page to find more resources by category or type.
	Literature Resources - http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/classical.html MIT Libraries' Classical & Medieval literature links.
	The Middle English Collection - http://etext.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html A large library of Middle English works made available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.
	Online Medieval and Classical Library - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ "A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization."

	Renaissance & 17th Century
	Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Bookmarks - http://www.crrs.ca/library/webresources/webresources.htm A large list of reputable Web resources grouped by category. It includes databases, author pages, and full-text sources.
	Comitatus - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmrs/publications/comitatus/comitatu.htm A journal of Medieval and Renaissance studies.
	Early Modern Literary Studies - http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html A refereed journal with full-text criticisms available for free on the Web. Use the Search EMLS link near the bottom of the first page to find articles on your particular work or author.
	Index of the Literature of the English Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century - http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/engrenai.htm A bibliography of works with links to web sites by author.
	Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) - http://www.luminarium.org/renlit This site provides author bios, bibliographies, essays, and links to additional sources about approximately 30 of the most notable figures of the period.
	Luminarium: Early 17th Century English Literature (1603-1660) - http://www.luminarium.org/renlit This site provides author bios, bibliographies, essays, and links to additional sources about over 30 of the most notable figures of the period.
	Outline of the Literature of the Renaissance - http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/renaissa.htm A companion site to the Index of the Literature of the English Renaissance (linked above), this site indexes authors from Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
	Renaissance Electronic Texts - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/ret.html "A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works."
	English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660) - http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit Biographies and the works of John Donne, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury, Robert Herrick, Lady Mary Wroth, Henry Vaughan, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace and Sir John Suckling.
	Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project - http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salem/ The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, this site collects primary source materials from one of American history's most sensationalized and misunderstood episodes, includes scanned copies of contemporary books.

	18th Century
	18th Century E-Texts - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html A searchable catalog of 18th century texts available on the Web.
	Early Modern Literary Studies - http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html A refereed journal with full-text criticisms available for free on the Web. Use the Search EMLS link near the bottom of the first page to find articles on your particular work or author.
	Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature Index - http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/18thcent.htm A list of important authors with links to bibliography with full text where available and biographies on the Web.
	Restoration & 18th Century Literature - http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2738 A directory of links to 18th Century resources maintained by representatives from the University of California Santa Barbara's English Department.

	Shakespeare
	Complete Works of William Shakespeare - http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html An award-winning site offering a chronological/alphabetical listing of the plays in the categories of comedy, history, tragedy, and poetry, with a searchable concordance and with selected words linked to their definitions.
	Early Modern Literary Studies - http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html A refereed journal with full-text criticisms available for free on the Web. Use the Search EMLS link near the bottom of the first page to find articles on your particular work or author.
	Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/bestsites.htm An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet.
	Open Source Shakespeare - http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org Full-text access to the plays, sonnets, and poems. This site also includes advanced searching, a concordance, character lists, and statistics about the texts.
	Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Shakespeare Homepage - http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/bestsites.htm Essays including an outline of Shakespeare's life, Shakespeare's school experience, Shakespeare's authorship, plot summaries of his plays, and study materials. From this page you can also access the library which includes a searchable database of all the performances and performers from the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1879.
	Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now (Encyclopedia Britannica) - http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html An information rich Web site with essays on Shakespeare's life, his work, and his contemporaries. It also includes study guides and a bibliography of works which can be viewed by date written, title, type, characters, or settings.

	Ethnicities & Nationalities
	Literatures Other Than English - http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719 The Voice of the Shuttle's extensive directory on world literature and related resources organized by country.
	University of Virginia ETexts: African American - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html Links to full text works by African Americans. Some texts may be restricted to University users only.
	Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/ An instructional site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.

	Romantic
	Romantic Chronology - http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/ A searchable chronology/time-line of the Romantic period.
	Romantic Circles - http://www.rc.umd.edu/ A Web site devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
	Romantic Links, Electronic Texts, and Homepages - http://icr.byu.edu/ A lengthy directory of resources devoted to Romantic-period literature and culture maintained by the International Conference on Romanticism.
	Romanticism on the Net - http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/ Romanticism on the Net is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to British Romantic studies. You can search the articles database or view articles by issue. This site also includes an excellent directory of other Romanticism Web sites.

	Victorian
	English Literature, Victorian Period - http://www.academicinfo.us/englitvictorian.html From the Academic Info directory.
	Literary Resources: Victorian British - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html Part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.
	Literature of the Victorian Period - http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/victoria.htm Part of Dr. Roger Blackwell Bailey's British Literature Index.
	Victorian Studies on the Web - http://www.victoriandatabase.com/ Information on every important publication from 1945 to 1999 on every area of Victorian Studies.
	Victorian Web Sites - http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html A large collection of links to Victorian sites maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka.
	The Victorian Web - Authors - http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/vn/vicauth.html Features pages on about forty authors, including their biographies, chronologies, lists of works, and an introductory or other relevant essay.
	Victorian Women Writers Project - http://www.indiana.edu./~letrs/vwwp Transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using SGML. Works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, poetry and verse drama.

	Women's Literature & Feminism
	A Celebration of Women Writers - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ Recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history.
	Distinguished Women of Past and Present - http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/ Biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways, including writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.
	Literary Women of the West Bank - http://home.sprynet.com/~ditallop/homepage.htm On-line magazine on early Modernism, especially women in Paris, 1900-1940.
	Victorian Women's Writer's Project - http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
	Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/ An instructional site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.
	Women Come to the Front - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html A Library of Congress exhibition on women journalists, photographers, and broadcasters during World War II.
	WSSLinks: Literature and Culture - http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html A large directory of reputable sites maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

	Bibliography & History of the Book
	Alabama Center for the Book - http://www.alabamabookcenter.org/index.html The Alabama affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. This Web site provides information about events, programs, and resources.
	Bibliographical Society of America - http://www.bibsocamer.org/ The Society's papers and an extensive list of Web links.
	Bibliography and History of the Book - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/biblio.html Part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.
	Manuscripts, Books,and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World - http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/ Traces the development of the printed book and features photos of early manuscript examples.
	Resources for the History of Books and Printing - http://www.english.upenn.edu/~traister/hbp.html Extensive links compiled by Daniel Traister at the University of Pennsylvania.
	SHARP Web - http://www.sharpweb.org/ Abstracts, papers, and conferences, as well as extensive related links from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing.
	Writing Materials & The History of Books and Printing: Some Related Links - http://members.tripod.com/dante_6/paleo.htm A collection of Web sites on the history of paleography, the book and the printing press.

	Full Text Sources Online
	Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet - http://www.infomotions.com/alex/ A collection of 600 works of American and English literature as well as Western philosohy.
	Christian Classics Ethereal Library - http://www.ccel.org/ A large on-line library of classic Christian books for download or browsing, many available in a variety of formats including pdf, Microsoft or Adobe e-book reader, HTML, and zipped for easy downloading.
	Early American Fiction - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf A collection of American fiction from 1789-1875.
	The Electronic Text Center - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html A fabulous directory of free electronic texts that you can browse by language. It includes poems, novels, magazines, newspapers (historic), plays, religious works, and reference books. Made available by the University of Virginia Library.
	Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html German, Italian, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and others.
	Hypertexts - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html A collection of American literature, including poems and novels.
	The Middle English Collection - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html A subset of the UVA Electronic Text Center. You can browse the collection by author, or use the keyword search at the top of the page.
	The Modern English Collection - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html A collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present.
	Page by Page Books - http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/ Hundreds of classic books, from Aesop to H. G. Wells and everything in between, all in convenient page-by-page format.
	Project Bartleby Archive - http://www.bartleby.com/ A large collection of verse, fiction, encyclopedias, quotation dictionaries, and other reference works. Many reference works are available in later editions in print, so be aware of possible updates to information provided in older editions.
	Project Gutenburg - http://www.promo.net/pg/ The oldest producer of free electronic books most from pre-1923.

	Miscellaneous
	Cambridge History of English and American Literature - http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ All eighteen volumes of this distinguished scholarly encyclopedia assembled from 1907 to 1921.
	Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/frameset.html Browse the dictionary by alphabet.
	Dictionary of Symbolism - http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html Browse alphabetically or search the index.
	The Literary Encyclopedia and the Literary Dictionary - http://www.litencyc.com/ Edited by Robert Clark and other professors of English at various universities..
	Online Literary Criticism Collection - http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.20.00/ From the Internet Public Library, this site provides links to over 2400 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
	Online Poetry Classroom - http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/ Provides both professional development for high school Language Arts teachers and a virtual teaching community enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online, including innovative, classroom-tested curricula.
	Representative Poetry Online - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html Poetry edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present, including over 2,000 poems by 310 poets.

	Theatre & Drama
	Applied & Interactive Theater Guide - http://www.tonisant.com/aitg/ A resource for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes, and for those whose theatre styles incorporate other than traditional presentation styles.
	A Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies - http://www2.stetson.edu/csata/thr_guid.html Maintained by Ken McCoy of Stetson University, this site lists Internet resources divided into five major sections: those McCoy finds most helpful, Web resources by topic (actors and acting, stagecraft, etc.),other ways to connect (discussion lists, for example), and other guides.
	Dramatists Play Service, Inc. - http://www.dramatists.com/ Publishing new plays since 1936, the Dramatists Play Service offers a handy directory for identifying and purchasing specific plays.
	Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms - http://www.theatrecrafts.com/glossary/glossary.shtml A 1500+ word and growing catalog of theatre terms that can be searched or browsed by keyword or category. This glossary is maintained in the UK, but U.S. terms are included and some terms are equivalent.
	Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama - http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland An extensive collection of resources including history, literature, language, and culture of the Irish.
	WWW Virtual Library of Theatre and Drama - http://www.vl-theatre.com A gateway to resources in more than fifty countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages.

	Theory
	ECLAT! - http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/ Essential Comparative Literature and Literary Theory site from the University of Pennsylvania.
	The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism - http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/ On-line version of the extensive print guide to theory and criticism.
	Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website - http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/ A project at the University of Texas including commentary on the works of the Frankfurt School of thought.
	Literary Theory Page - http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718 The Voice of the Shuttle comprehensive directory of resources on Theory from the Classical period to modern day.