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Schauerman Library Web Guides - Literature
These are just a few of the literary criticism sites available on the web. Use these as a starting point for your own research. Also use search tools to search under individual author names and literary movements. NOTE: Sites do get moved and outdated from time to time.
The ECC Library also subscribes to the GaleNet literary database.
For books on general criticism or for individual authors you will be looking at the P range of shelves in the reference and circulating areas.
General Literature
American Authors on the Web. From Japan, tons of information on individual authors. http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
American Writers http://www.americanwriters.org/
Arts & Letters Daily http://www.aldaily.com/
Banned Books Online http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
British & Irish Authors on the Web. From Mr. Matsuoka at the University of Nagoya. http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html
British Poetry 1780 - 1910 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
BUBL subject - Literature. http://link.bubl.ac.uk/literature/
A Celebration of Women Writers. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Children's Literature Web Guide. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Contemporary Literature Authors. Index of international contemporary authors. (Note other literature sites/topics in the side menu) http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/authors/
Contemporary Writers (Britain & Commonwealth) http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors
Encyclopedia Mythica. Mythology Folklore and Legend. http://www.pantheon.org/
English Renaissance in Context http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/
Eye on Books. Author Interviews & links to their homepages. http://www.eyeonbooks.com/
The Fantastic in Art & Fiction. http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/
"From the Author" Powell's Books. Interviews & Essays http://www.powells.com/fromtheauthor
Gale Literary Index. Use as a supplement to our Gale Database subscription. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex
The Germ: The Romantics, the Pre-Raphaelites and the Bloomsbury Movements. http://www.walrus.com/~gibralto/acorn/germ/
Great Writers and Poets http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html
Heath Anthology of American Literature. A superior resource following a basic timeline and linking to individual authors and movements. http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/lit_links.html
Indiana University Libraries: English and American Literature http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/pwillett/english-www.html#Eng10
Internet Public Library. Online Literary Criticism Collection. Browse by authors last name, book title, or Literary period in British and American Literature. Useful Pathfinder too! http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. A long list of links to individual authors, eras, movements, and terms. http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/g-index.html
Key Internet Sites on American Literature. http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/amlitweb.htm
Links to Literature. http://www.linkstoliterature.com/
Links to Places Literary. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/favelink.htm
Literary Encyclopedia & Literary Dictionary. http://www.litencyc.com/
Literature for Children. http://susdl.fcla.edu/juv/
LitLinks. LitLinks are organized alphabetically by author within five genres. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks
Literary Resources on the Web. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit
Luminarium. Featuring literature from the Medieval, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century periods in a fabulously artistic site. http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Norton Websource to American Literature. Superior site. The site is searchable and divided into sections like Authors, Topics, Literary periods. http://www.wnorton.com/naal/
Outline of American Literature: by Kathryn VanSpanckeren. Another superior resource. http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm
PAL: Perspectives on American Literature http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
Penguin Classics. Featuring essays, academic commentary, interviews and discussions. Try the literary quizzes & lots of fun. http://www.penguinclassics.com/
Poets & Poetry http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/2
Poets and Writers Online. Go to "Literary Links". ECC subscribes to the paper copy. http://www.pw.org/
Post-Colonial and Post-Imperial literature in English. http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/index.html
Salon Magazine. Interviews with authors, reviews, etc. from their Books Section. http://www.salonmagazine.com/archives/index.html
Sonnet Central. http://www.sonnets.org/
Victorian Web. http://www.victorianweb.org/
Voice of the Shuttle - Choose Literature or Literary Theory. http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Voices from the Gaps - Women Writers of Color. An ambitious project - the site does not contain too many names as yet, but new names are being added all the time and you will find the most important names represented. Each article has a nice set of "related links" to get to more sites featuring that author. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/index.htm
Individual Authors/Poets : A Selection.
Bradbury, Ray. http://www.raybradbury.com/
Bronte. The Bronte Sisters. http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/cfalk/bronte1e.htm
The Bronte Parsonage Museum. http://www.bronte.info/
Cisneros, Sandra. Cisneros http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=766
The Authorized Sandra Cisneros Website. http://www.sandracisneros.com/home.html
Coleridge. S. T. Coleridge Homepage. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html
Conrad, Joseph. Joseph Conrad Society UK. http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/conrad/
Dickens. Charles Dickens Page. http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
Dickens. http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
Eliot. T.S. Eliot Hypertext Project. http://members.chello.nl/~a.vanarum8/EliotProject/
Faulkner. William Faulkner on the Web. http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
Hardy. Thomas Hardy Resource Library. http://pages.ripco.net/~mws/hardy.html
Hemingway, Ernest. Life & Works of Ernest Hemingway. http://www.hemingway.org/life/
James, Henry. The Henry James Scholars Guide to Web Sites. http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/
Joyce, James. The Brazen Head. http://www.themodernworld.com/joyce/
James Joyce Center. http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/home/
Kafka. Constructing Franz Kafka. http://www.pitt.edu/~kafka/intro.html
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Maxine Hong Kingston. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/kingston.htm
Lorca. Frederico Garcia Lorca: Poet, Artist, Martyr. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9820/lorca.html
Melville, Herman. Life and works of http://www.melville.org/
Poe, Edgar Alan. Work of Edgar Alan Poe. http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/poe.html
Poe Webliography. http://newark.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/poesites.html
Rowling, J.K. http://www.jkrowling.org/
Shakespeare, William. Complete Works. http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Mr. William Shakespeare on the Internet. http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Sites on Shakespeare & the Renaissance. http://www.uvic.ca/shakepeare/Annex/ShakSites1.html
Spenser. Edmund Spenser Homepage. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm
Stein. World of Gertrude Stein. http://www.ellensplace.net/gstein1.html
Steinbeck, John. Center for Steinbeck Studies. http://www2.sjsu.edu/steinbeck
Steinbeck: the California Novels. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/
Twain. Mark Twain in his Times. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
Walker. Alice Walker WWW Links. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/walker.htm
Whitman. The Whitman Project/Whitman Hypertext Archive. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman/
Wright, Richard. Richard Wright. http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wriht_richard/
Yeats, William Butler. W.B. Yeats. http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/
Literary Terms and Theory
Critical Concepts. http://www.ksu.edu/english/baker/english251/cc.htm#terms
Glossary of Literary Criticism. http://www.sil.org/~radneyr/humanities/litcrit/gloss.htm
Glossary of Literary Terms. http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples. http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html
Humanities Handbook. http://www.aug.edu/langlitcom/humanitiesHBK/handbook_htm/
Literary Encyclopedia & Literary Dictionary http://www.litencyc.com/
Literary Terms. http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/
Writing & Composition
OWL (Online Writing Laboratory) Purdue U. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Principles of Composition http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/composition.htm
Full Text Online Libraries
Athena: Authors & Texts. http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/authors.html
Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/
Bibliomania Short Stories and More... http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/frameset.html
Classic Reader. Read, Search, and annotate great literature. http://www.classicreader.com/
The Literature Network. Full-text books & author biographies. http://www.online-literature.com/
Online Books Page. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Short Stories at East of the Web. http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
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