LITERATURE SITES
ON
THE INTERNET
Below are a selection
of Internet sites related to literary studies. They all contain links to a large
variety of fiction and poetry, literary history and theory,research tools, and
bibliographies.
The Voice
of the Shuttle, created by Alan Liu at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, is the best site to begin an Internet search for humanities materials.
The Literary Pages contain
excellent links to ninteenth
-century and twentieth-
century American literature as well as links to sites devoted to literary theory,
genre studies,
and gender studies.
The page offering links to major libraries
and museums is especially useful.
- For those doing work
in the eithteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Romantic
Chronology
(created by Alan Liu and Laura Mandell, Dept. of English, Miami U., Ohio)
by will be especially useful. Although it focuses on the years from 1785 to
1837, the Chronology begins in the seventeenth century and continues on through
the mid-nineteenth century.
- More
Literary Links.
The University of Pennsylvania English Department has another valuable collection
of links to literary texts, research materials, history and theory, and references
to individual authors. This also site has a literary search engine,
- The
English Server.
The Carnegie-Mellon University collection of online sites devoted to English
language and literature. You will find a good selection of fiction and poetry
here.
- Electronic
Texts.
The University of Virginia's collection of links to sites related to English
language and literature.
- The
Bartleby Library.
Columbia University's collection of online fiction and poetry.
- Here are two Internet
sites devoted to writing resources, one from the University
of Pennsylavnia
and another from the University
of Missouri.
- American
Literature.
A site devoted to American writers.
A number of history sites
on the internet can be very useful in literaty study. Below are two of them:
a timeline of American history and the University Kansas very complete list
of links to historical materials.
