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.

• The American History Timeline.
• U.S. Timeline, 1865-1899
• The University of Kansas list of Historical Sources on the Internet.