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General Web Sources for Literary Study

AboveStream.com - Content Directory / Authors-Writers (international) index to online interviews (Streaming Video Sharing Center; New York, NY; 2000)
URL: http://www.abovestream.com/ [last accessed August 2002]

About.com / Homework Help / Literature (About, Inc. 2002)
URL: http://about.com/homework/ [last accessed August 2002]

...About Classic Literature Page (Esther Lombardi)
URL: http://englishlit.about.com/  [last accessed August 2002]
Resources for study of canonical (esp. English-American) literature including:
American Literature: http://englishlit.about.com/cs/americanlit/
British Literature: http://englishlit.about.com/cs/britishliterature1/
Centuries in Literature: http://englishlit.about.com/cs/centuriesinlit/
Drama & Theater: http://englishlit.about.com/cs/dramatheater/index.htm
Literary Theory & Criticism: http://englishlit.about.com/cs/literarytheory/
 Mythology: http://englishlit.about.com/cs/mythology/ 
Shakespeare (Amanda Mahillard): http://shakespeare.about.com/mbody.htm

...About Contemporary Literature Page (Amy Strong)
URL: http://contemporarylit.about.com/ [last accessed August 2002]
Resources for study of contemporary literature, including:
African American Authors: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/africanamerican/
American Literature: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/americanlit/
Authors: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/authors/
Book Reviews: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/reviews/
British & Irish Literature: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/britishirishlit/
Contemporary Drama: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/contemporarydrama/
Interviews with Contemporary Authors:  http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/interviews/ 
Latino/Latina Literature: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/latinolatina/
Literary Theory & Criticism: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/literarytheory/
Mysteries & Thrillers: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/mysterythriller/index.htm 
Native American Authors: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/nativeamerican/
Women Writers: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/womenwriters/
World Literature in English: http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/worldlit/

...About History (The HistoryNet at About.com)
URL: http://history.about.com/ [last accessed August 2002]

...About Poetry (Bob Holman & Margery Snyder)
URL: http://poetry.about.com/ [last accessed August 2002]
Resources for studying poetry, authors & literary periods, old and new, in English and translation.
Subject Index: http://poetry.about.com/mlibrary.htm [last accessed August 2002]

Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources (Seattle, WA) 1998-2002.
URL: http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html
...Humanities Gateway: http://www.academicinfo.net/subhum.html
...Classical Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/classics.html
...Comparative Literature: http://www.academicinfo.net/complit.html
...Drama: http://www.academicinfo.net/drama.html
...English Literature: http://www.academicinfo.net/englit.html
...English Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/englang.html
.......English as a Second or Foreign Language: http://www.academicinfo.net/esl.html
...Film & TV Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/film.html
...Foreign Language Study: http://www.academicinfo.net/lang.html
...History: http://www.academicinfo.net/hist.html
...Linguistics: http://www.academicinfo.net/ling.html
...Music History & Studies: http://www.academicinfo.net/music.html
...Philosophy: http://www.academicinfo.net/phil.html
...Religion: http://www.academicinfo.net/religindex.html

African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture, 2000.
Featured online exhibits--on Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, & the WPA--represent a wonderful sampler from Library of Congress collections & publication The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture,  "[c]overing the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere."
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html [last accessed August 2002]

African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History  (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School) includes transcripts of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech, My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth dictated by Sojourner Truth and edited by Olive Gilbert, The Souls of Black Folk by
W.E.B. Du Bois, and Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T.
Washington.
URL: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/treatise/african_americans.htm

An American Literature Survey Site (Daniel Anderson & his students, Univ. of Texas) URL: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html [last accessed August 2002]
An American Reader: War, American Stories, Poetry & Songs, & The South
URL: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/reader/index.html [last accessed August 2002]

American Memory Project
"This rich collection of primary source material from the Library of Congress incorporates documents, audio, video, maps, and photographs into forty online exhibitions. Here you'll find information on everything from the Civil War to vaudeville to folk music to the Great Depression. This is an unbelievable resource for secondary level literature and social studies classes." [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: American Literature, 2002.]
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/

Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents.  Dr. Isabel Schon, California State University - San Marcos.
"Dr. Isabel Schon, Director of the [Barahona] Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents, presents information about recommended books in Spanish that are published around the world. The selection criteria for the books was based on their quality of art and writing, presentation of material, and appeal to the intended audience. Also included is a weekly update for recently published books. All information on this site is provided in both English and Spanish."  [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: World Literature, 2002.]
URL: http://www.csusm.edu/cgi-bin/portal/www.book.book_home?lang=SP
Home Page: http://www.csusm.edu/csb/ 
Search Page: http://www.csusm.edu/cgi-bin/portal/www.book.book_home?lang=SP 
Introduction: http://www.csusm.edu/csb/intro_eng.html 

Bibliomania: Free Online Literature & Study Guides (Bibliomania.com Ltd., Oxford, England).  Online library of  "thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free."  You must register to access study guides (written by "final year and postgraduate literature students from the top UK and American universities") and teacher resources discussion groups.  Bibliomania's web site is a framed environment and a bit confusing, but quite useful once you figure out how to navigate.
Root URL: http://www.bibliomania.com/
Frame: http://www.bibliomania.com/bibliomania-static/index.html  
Fiction List: http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/
Frame: http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html 

The Booklist Center (Dr. David Wilson Taylor).
Extensive booklists of "award-winning books complete from the first year of the award to the present," such as Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for Fiction, 1994-2002; All-Time Children's Best-Selling Books in the U.S. to 1996; Pulitzer Prize for Biography/ Autobiography, 1917-2002.
URL:  http://home.attbi.com/~dwtaylor1/index.htm

Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch.  Bob Fisher, 1996-2000.
This site [formerly <http://showgate.com/medea/bulfinch/>] provides complete texts of Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne, with links to explanatory notes, a biography of Bulfinch, a list of cited poets and poetry, and recommended editions of books.
New URL:  http://www.bulfinch.org/  [accessed August 2002]

A Celebration of Women Writers (Ed. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, 1994-2002)
New sponsor: Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
Root URL:  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ [last accessed Aug. 2002]
WWW Bibliographies: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wr-bibl.html
"The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing."  The site includes author biographies and "on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works."  
This web site has been developed in collaboration with the On-Line Books Page (Ed. John Mark Ockerbloom, 1993-2002):  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
According to Mary Mark Ockerbloom's "Digital Projects Across the Commonwealth," Pennsylvania Library Association Centennial Conference, 2001; Celebration of Women Writers' database contains 10,347 women authors & 5,320 pages about women authors.
Presentation: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_PALA/pala-01.html

Centre for Asian and African Literatures, AHRB: Arts & Humanities Research Board  (SOAS: School of Oriental and African Studies &  University of London), 2002.
This center aims to become "a world-class locus for comparative research on the literatures of Asia and Africa," and promotes interaction among Asian and African scholars.  Among the featured research projects and their workshops are Translations and Translation Theories East and West, Genre Ideologies and Narrative Transformation, and Gender and Literature in Cross-Cultural Contexts.  
URL:  http://www.soas.ac.uk/literatures/ 

Classical Mythology Directory (Dr. Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Department of Greek, Hebrew, and Roman Classics, Temple University), 2002
This site, intended for students in Dr. Mitchell-Boyask's classical mythology courses, offers glossaries, study guides, syllabi, paintings and sculptures, & links to related sites for studying classical mythology and the ancient world.
URL: http://www.temple.edu/classics/mythdirectory.html

COCC Library Online Catalog (Central Oregon Community College) - Searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, & more.
URL: http://libcatalog.cocc.edu/
COCC Library's collection includes these useful biographical and critical reference works:

COCC Library Online Databases (access restricted to Central Oregon Community College students, staff, community) include Gale's Literature Resource Center, an excellent resource for literary studies; as well as EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe & many more.
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/library/databases.html
Pathway: Humanities / Gale's Literature Resource Center

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online.  Columbia Univ. Press.
Probably the largest database of online poetry in existence: over 30,000 complete poems, 300,000 poem citations, extensive glossary of terms, and poets' biographies. Complete access requires paying a fee, but free trial account gains users temporary access.  A free link to 180 poems useful for introducing students to contemporary poetry. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgwop/index.html

EDSITEMENT: The Best of Humanities on the Web
 National Endowment for the Humanities, National Trust for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, and WorldCom Foundation; 2002. Juried "online educational resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities," recommended for teachers, students & parents.
URL: http://edsitement.neh.gov/ [last accessed August 2002]
Art & Culture | Literature & Language Arts | Foreign Language | History & Social Studies

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (James Campbell, WESSWEB - Western European Specialists Section, Association of College & Research Libraries):
URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

ENGL 2F55 Modern Fiction (Prof. John Lye, Dept. of English, Brock Univ.), 2002
URL: http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/
Prof. Lye offers useful online handouts to support his course, including:

English 311/511: American Literature II, 1820-1890 (Donna M. Campbell, Associate Professor of English, Gonzaga Univ., 2002).  Attractive and valuable web site, including syllabus, online discussions & reports, plus pages devoted to Authors, Literary Periods, Timelines, bibliographies and annotated web resources. Root URL: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/
American Authors: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/aufram.html
American Literature Sites: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/sites.htm
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events: Pre-1620 to 1920: click and learn much about era events and contexts for literary study
URL: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/timefram.html
Literary Movements: valuable mini-essays and resources
URL:  http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/litfram.html

The English Server: now EServer.org: Accessible Writing (ed. Geoffrey Sauer, 2002), based at Univ. of Washington, offers extensive arts, humanities, literature, & writing resources for students and faculty.
URL: http://eserver.org/ [last accessed August 2002]
EServer.org includes the following webs:

The Electronic Labyrinth (Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar, EServer.org), 1993-2000, "is a study of the implications of hypertext for creative writers looking to move beyond traditional notions of linearity."
URL: http://eserver.org/elab/

The English Server Drama Collection (ed. Geoffrey Sauer, 1998).
Classic & contemporary plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. URL: http://eserver.org/drama/ 

The English Server Fiction Collection (ed. Martha Cheng and Geoffrey Sauer): works of and about fiction, including e-texts, literary criticism, & links. URL: http://eserver.org/fiction/ 

EServer Film & Television - articles on film, TV, & media
URL: http://eserver.org/filmtv/

EServer Poetry Collection - original & classic verse, literary & poetic theory. URL: http://eserver.org/poetry/

Feminism & Women's Studies - selected resources
URL: http://eserver.org/feminism/

Fact, Fiction & the New World
"Discover the role of books in the making of America. This site is in English and Spanish and has over 100 images of explorers, writers, and printers. Topics include the exchange of languages between Europeans and the people they encountered as explorers and missionaries voyaged to the Americas. You can also see where Columbus made annotations in his books! Navigation through the site can be through an outline or the gallery of images. After reading through the site, try the interactive quiz Cabeza De Vaca's American Journey."  [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: American Literature, 2002.]
URL: http://www.humanities-interactive.org/newworld/fact_fict/

Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries (CENL: Conference of European National Librarians, 2002) presents information on the services, online exhibitions, and collections of 41 European national libraries of the 39 CENL member countries, accessible in English, French, and German.  The search engine is maintained by the British Library.
Root URL: http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/
Treasures from Europe's National Libraries is a current Gabriel online exhibition offering some stunning artefacts from CENL collections: rare and precious books, illuminated manuscripts, bookbindings, drawings, prints and decorated papers.
URL: http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/treasures/entree.html
 Bibliotheca Universalis aims to make accessible "major works of worldwide cultural and scientific heritage, comprising text, images and sound . . . ."
URL: http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/bibliotheca-universalis/en/bibliotheca_universalis_accueil.htm

Gale Literary Resource Center (see COCC Library Databases entry above). Per Cat Finney, COCC Faculty Librarian, "This database replaces the printed versions of Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literature and provides biographical and critical information for literary figures."  It includes:

+ more than 285,000 full-text journal articles from more than 133 literary journals
+ 38,000 critical essays
+ 4329 work overviews, plot summaries and explications
+ more than 5000 links to authoritative websites
+ more than 122,000 author biographies
+ access to Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature online.

Genre* Studies: Fiction (Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR): abstracts of periodical articles, bibliography, links to COCC Library Catalog & Periodical Databases:
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/genre.htm

Glossaries, Concordances, Quotations.  American Literature on the Web (Akihito Ishikawa).
Extensive Links to online glossaries of literary terms.
URL: http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/general/references.htm

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (Ross Scaife, Kentucky Classics, Univ. of Kentucky)
URL: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html [last accessed August 2002]

A Glossary of Literary & Rhetorical Terms  (Developed by students in Introduction to Literary Studies, Douglass H. Thomson, Associate Professor of English, Department of Literature and Philosophy, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA )
URL: http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/dougt/terms.htm [last accessed August 2002]

The Great Books, presented by The Electronic Literature Foundation [ELF]  offers "advanced electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature around the world. Our goal is to provide free access to a variety of texts from world literature available in several languages and/or editions, with forums for communication regarding these works, for all types of readers " (Scott Gettman & Cindi Bartlett, for chaosCafe).  
URL: http://elf.chaoscafe.com/

Great Drama Links.  Drama Teacher's Resource Room, Thornton Consulting & Training Services, no date.
"...[S]ome wonderful resources for your classroom or production work"
URL: http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi/page5.html
Drama Teacher's Resource Room:  "This award winning Web site is dedicated to grade 4-12 drama teachers and includes a variety of resources: lesson plans, backstage activities/archives, production ideas, support, other drama links, and educator seminar information."  [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: Drama & Performance, 2002.]
URL: http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi/

History and Development of Prose Style: A Reader (John F. Tinkler, Towson State Univ., Maryland), a "collection of short excerpts from the history of fictional and non-fictional prose," from Old English to 20th Century Prose, developed as a teaching resource for a graduate course.
URL: http://www.towson.edu/~tinkler/prose/prose1.html

inforM Reading Room: Fiction (Univ. of Maryland) E-texts indexed by author
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/

Information Resources for Hum 299 [Student Perspectives on World & Multicultural Writers]: Writing for the World Wide Web
Cat Finney (Faculty Librarian, Central Oregon Community College), 2000
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/finney/hum299lib.htm

Internet Library of Early Journals--an eLib (Electronic Libraries Programme) project of the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Oxford, 2002 & ongoing) aims to digitalize substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and so far includes Annual Register, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and The Builder [as of Aug. 2002].
URL: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

Internet School Library Media Center: ISLMC (Inez Ramsey, James Madison Univ.)
URL: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html
Children's Book Awards & Other Literary Prizes - annotated links include Adult Literary Award sites.  URL: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/awards.htm
Young Adult Literature: Middle and Secondary English Language Arts, offers many  literature & multicultural resources useful to college students and teachers.
URL: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/yalit.htm 

Internet Movie Database - IMDb.com, 2002. 
An increasingly valuable searchable database of cross-referenced information on U.S. and foreign film and television, film adaptations of literature, awards, and reviews (especially links to external reviews).
URL: http://www.imdb.com/

Internet Public Library - IPL (Univ. of Michigan School of Information, Regents of the University of Michigan, 2002), offers extensive teaching & learning resources.
URL: http://www.ipl.org/ [last accessed August 2002]
...Subject Collections / Arts & Humanities
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum00.00.00/
...Subject Collections / Arts & Humanities / Literature
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.00.00/
IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection, 2001: "critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period" - includes full text articles.
URL: http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies.  Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart, Georgetown Univ., 1994-2000.
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
New Labyrinth (2001): http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/ 

Legends: HISTORY · LITERATURE · FOLKLORE · FICTION · THE ARTS (Paula Katherine Marmor, ed.) 2002.
This site explores the "history, literature, and lore" of legends from King Arthur and Shakespeare's stories, to Zorro, through "Guided access to primary source material and up-to-date scholarship; Personal essays and extended reviews; Historical surveys and thoughtful commentary; Romance, adventure, and panach."
URL:  http://www.legends.dm.net/ [last accessed August 2002]

Literary Calendar Reference Portal  [Site copyright © 2002 by LitCal.]
This site has moved and appears to be building a database of articles.  Formerly ed. by P. Timothy Ervin (Yasuda Women's Univ., Hiroshima, Japan), this almanac of literary information features literary events that occurred on particular days in history; one can click on a particular date to view a chronological list of entries on writers, literary works, literary movements, with links to related sites.
URL: http://english.yasuda-u.ac.jp/lc/ [last accessed August 2002]

Literary Locales (English Dept., San Jose State Univ.)
"More than 450 picture links to the places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors."  
URL: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/places.htm [last accessed August 2002]
 ...See New York Times review:  "Literary Site Offers More Than Words," by Judith H. Dobrzynski (25 June 1998).
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/06/circuits/articles/25lite.html

Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers Univ.-Newark) 
English and American literature, focused on information useful to academics and excluding most single electronic texts.  
URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ [last accessed August 2002]
...American Literary Resources
URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
...Feminism & Women's Literature:
URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/women.html
...Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literary Resources
URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/20th.html
...Victorian British Literary Resources
URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html

Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?  Annenberg/CPB Learner.org, 1997-2002.
This web "journey through a classic short story, 'A Jury of Her Peers,' by Susan Glaspell," explores the short story's literary elements and structure.
URL: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/
..."A Jury of Her Peers" E-text: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/story/fulltext.html
...About Glaspell & her story: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/notread/author.html
...From "Constructing Plot," follow links to instruction on point of view, setting, character, and theme: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/read/plot1.html
...Related Resources: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/story/resource.html
...Literary Theory & Glaspell: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/story/resource2.html  

Literature and Life: The Givens Collection
"Created by KTCA, Twin Cities Public Television, this site explores the Givens Collection, a unique assemblage of African-American literature celebrating the people, ideas and eras that these works represent. Read excerpts from writers from the days of slavery, the Black Renaissance and through to today. Also included are online study guides for teachers and RealVideo clips."  [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: American Literature, 2002.]
URL: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/litandlife/

Literature, Arts & Medicine Database (New York University School of Medicine), 2002.
This database "is an annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in MEDICAL HUMANITIES, for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings."  Searchable by key word or annotator.
URL: http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html [last accessed August 2002]
Offerings include:
...Art in Literature: http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/artinlit.html 
 ...Literature Authors: http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/authors.html 
...Meet the Authors (links): http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/meettheauthors.html
...Annotated Works with Online Texts:
 http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/poems.html  
...Film Annotations: http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/filmtitles.html 

Litlinks (Bedford/St. Martins, 1998-2001):  LitLinks are organized alphabetically by author within five genres: Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Critical Theory, Essays
URL: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/
...Literary Periods: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/periods/index.htm
...The English Reference Room: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/english_research/
...Reading Fiction: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/readfict.htm 

Litpage: Resources for Readers, Writers, Students, and Teachers of Literature (Robert C. Evans, Auburn University, Montgomery)
URL: http://members.aol.com/litpage/litpage.html

LITWEB: An Online Companion to the Norton Introduction to Literature. (Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonweath University, 2001.) Site offers in-depth workshops, glossary of literary terms, advice for writing about literature, and literature forum for students & teachers.
URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/

Masterpiece Theater Online: ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater, PBS Online
Since 1971, PBS has broadcast U.K. and world "masterpieces of performance, masterpieces of literature, masterpieces of the art of dramatic storytelling"; and in 2000 added the American Collection, "superb productions of America's own literary classics."  The companion website is searchable and offers timelines, archives, essays, images, teacher resources, and more, especially on works broadcast in recent years.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/
....ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater's American Collection
"This NCTE-sponsored companion site to Masterpiece Theater's American Collection television series provides background information and teaching resources for high school literature teachers and students. James Agee, Langston Hughes, Henry Adams, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Esmerelda Santiago are the featured authors on the site. For each author, you will find biographical essays, recommended links, online texts, lesson plans, and more." [Review by PBS Teacher Resource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: American Literature, 2002.]
URL: http://ncteamericancollection.org/

The Moonlit Road, 2002
"Ghost stories haunt the moonlit backroads of the American South. Their roots in Southern culture and folklore are deep. Each month, The Moonlit Road brings you these ghost stories and other strange Southern folktales, told by the region's best storytellers."
URL: http://www.themoonlitroad.com/index.html
URL: http://www.themoonlitroad.com/welcome001.asp
Feature Stories like "All God's Chillun Had Wings," a Georgia Coast story from  Veronica Bryd, is a classic slave tale of deliverance (can be read or heard using RealPlayer), plus background information on the Sea Islands and Gullah culture.
URL: http://www.themoonlitroad.com/godschillun/intro_godschillun.asp 

The Multicultural U. S. Fiction Web (Richard Pearce, Eng 256: Multicultural U.S. Fiction since 1950, Wheaton College), including explanations of culture and reading narrative, presents U.S. Fiction by American Indian, African American, Latina/o, Asian, and women writers
URL: http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/MultiC_Web/home.html

Native American Authors (Internet Public Library, University of Michigan School
of Information): biographies, bibliographies, & links
URL: http://www.ipl.org/ref/native/

Native American Literature (Univ. of Southern California libraries):
URL: http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/indian_lit.html

Native American Texts
"The University of Virginia provides this digital archive of more than 150 texts by and about American Indians. The texts are organized by author, also searchable by keyword." [Review by PBS Teacher Resource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: American Literature, 2002.]
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Native-American.html

The 1900 House (PBS Online, WNET)
"This series chronicles three months in the life of the Bowler family as they live in a charming late-Victorian terraced house on Elliscombe Road in Greenwich, England, dressing in period clothing and living exactly as a family in 1900 would have lived. Travel back in time to everyday, middle-class life in Victorian-era London with this companion site to the documentary about the Bowler's experience as a 1900 family. Take a virtual tour of the residence, with details on the beliefs, practices, technologies and lifestyles from a century ago, look behind the scenes at the making of the documentary series, view video diaries from members of the Bowler family and clips from the programs, and more."
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/1900house/

Nobel Foundation (Official Website):
URL: http://www.nobel.se/
...Nobel Prize in Literature: http://www.nobel.se/literature/ 

Norton Poets Online (W. W. Norton & Co., 2001)
URL: http://www.nortonpoets.com/

Norton Online Archive [NOA] & Norton Topics Online (W. W. Norton & Co., 2001), web companions to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Seventh Edition.
NOA offers E-texts & audio readings, organized by literary period.
URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/NOA/
Norton Topics Online offers annotated texts, contexts, & links, plus Explorations to stimulate thinking & writing.
URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/

Norton Websource to American Literature
Online Companion to The Norton Anthology of American Literature (5th ed), features author resources, literary periods, & more topics.  Ed. Bruce Michelson (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/
...Authors: http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/frame/auth.htm
...Topics: http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/frame/topics.htm 
...Instructor Resources: http://www.wwnorton.com/forums/college/NAALinstruct/instructor.htm 
...Multimedia Assignment Bank to accompany the Norton Anthologies of American and African-American Literature (Charles Hannon, Michigan State Univ., for W. W. Norton & Co.) URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naaal/mab/

Ozlit @ VicNet Australian Books & Writers (Eds. Peter and Mareya Schmidt, 2001) offers "500 pages of Australian Literary information as well as more than 1100 entries in our Fully Searchable Books & Writers Database in which you can search for either Authors, or Book Titles...," with references also for "writers others than Australia," news page, diary of literary events, commentary, and literary e-zine."
URL: http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/index.html
....extensive WWW Literary Links: http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/chapt4.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide; 
Paul P. Reuben Website (Paul P. Reuben, Calif. State Univ. - Stanislaus), 2002.
A searchable online American literature survey with brief period & author introductions, bibliographies, study questions, links, and useful appendices.
URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html

PBS Online [Public Broadcasting System], 1995-2002.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/
...Search: http://www.pbs.org/search/
...PBS Arts & Culture (programming & related web resources on art, drama, film, literature, photography, & more): http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/arts/
...PBS History: http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/
...PBS TeacherSource: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ 
...PBS TeacherSource Arts & Literature: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm 

Perseus Digital Library.  Gregory Crane, Editor in Chief; Dept. of Classics, Tufts University, 2002.
"This rich site, produced by members of Tufts University's Classics Department, provides visitors with a wealth of information about the classical Western world. The site includes an atlas, encyclopedia, introductory essays to ancient Greek and Roman life, English-to-Greek and English-to-Latin dictionaries, classic texts, and images of art and archaeology." [Review by PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature: Archived Recommendations: World Literature, 2002.]
URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Plagiarism. Sharon Stoerger, MLS, MBA.  Adapted from document originally created for Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 30 Sep. 2002.
Extensive annotated list of links to resources for instructors and students, including plagiarism detection tools.
URL: http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism

Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitally Re-Published. (Originator: Michael Hart, Univ. of Illinois.)  Since 1971, Project Guttenberg has put more than 10,000 titles in the public domain into electronic format (E-texts), searchable by author, title, language, and subject. 
Project Gutenberg seems to have moved once again - as of Aug. 2002, it is sponsored by SAILOR: Maryland's Online Public Information Network.
URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/  
However, last time I checked (Aug. 2002), it is also available here:
 Project Gutenberg at PROMO.NET, 1971-2002.
URL: http://www.gutenberg.net/
and here: Official & Original Project Gutenberg Web Site & Home Page:
URL: http://promo.net/pg/

Public Domain HTI Modern English Collection (HTI - Humanities Text Initiative, Univ. of Michigan)  Public domain E-texts available.
Index: http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/pd-modeng/bibl.html

Resources for Studying and Writing about the American Short Story (ENLT 213: Major American Authors: The American Short Story, Ms. Lisa Spiro, Univ. of Virginia, no date)
URL: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~lms4w/enltres.htm [last accessed Aug. 2002]
ENLT 213 Home page: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~lms4w/enlt213.htm

SAC LitWeb - San Antonio College LitWeb (Roger Blackwell Bailey, Dept. of English, San Antonio College, 1999-2002): Links & bibliographies, chronologies, author profiles, outlines.
URL: http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/litindex.htm
Topics include:

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online (Karen M. Strom, 1997-2002)
URL: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/

VoS: Voice of the Shuttle - Web Site for Humanities Research  (Alan Liu, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara)
URL: http://vos.ucsb.edu/ [last accessed August 2002]
General Humanities Studies: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2712
Alan Liu's venerable collection of electronic resources for studies in the humanities includes:

Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (Univ. of Minnesota), 2002.
"[A]n instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color." Meet the Writers by Name, Birthplace, Racial/Ethnic Background, or Significant Dates--biographies, photos, bibliographies, essays, & links.
URL:  http://voices.cla.umn.edu

Women Writers Project (Brown Univ.) devoted to early modern (i.e. pre-Victorian) women's writing and electronic text encoding
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/wwp_home.html

Writing about (& Reading) Literature

A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students - IPL Teen Space (Kathryn L. Schwartz, Internet Public Library, Univ. of Michigan School of Information) 2002.
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/

Academic Writing: Using Literary Quotations.  Writer's Handbook, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center, 2001.
URL: http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/QuoLiterature.html
Academic Writing - Index: http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/AcademicWriting.html
Good WIC source that offers useful online handouts on many types of writing!!
...Academic Writing: Quoting and Paraphrasing [general advice]
URL: http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/QuotingSources.html

Avoiding Plagiarism (Murphy Library, Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
URL: http://perth.uwlax.edu/MurphyLibrary/plagiarism.html

Avoiding Plagiarism (OWL: Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab, 1995-2002).
URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html

Copyright & Intellectual Property; Avoiding Plagiarism & Citing Sources, Humanities Links, Humanities Instructional Resources, Central Oregon Community College, 2002.
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Links/humanities.htm

Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story? (Annenberg/CPB Projects Exhibits Collection):  An interactive journey through a classic short story, "A Jury of Her Peers," by Susan Glaspell, through which you can "explore the story's literary elements," read "about the structure of story and take part in [related] activities":
URL: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/

LITWEB: An Online Companion to the Norton Introduction to Literature. (Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonweath University, 2001.) Site offers in-depth workshops, glossary of literary terms, advice for writing about literature, and literature forum for students & teachers.
URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/
...Writing about Literature: http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/write.htm
...Glossary of Literary Terms: http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/glossary_a.htm

Reading Fiction, Litlinks Fiction (Bedford/St. Martins, 1998-1999)
Useful questions on the generic elements of fiction (e.g. point of view, character, plot, setting, tone, theme, context)
URL: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/readfict.htm

Reading Narrative - The Multicultural U.S. Fiction Web (Richard Pearce, Eng 256: Multicultural U.S. Fiction since 1950, Wheaton College):  Very useful online handouts, with discussion questions, on narrative, narrators, plot, point of view, and more!
URL: http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/MultiC_Web/Reading_Narrative/reading_narrative.html
...see also Prof. Pearce's online explanation of culture

Research & Documentation Online.  Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister, Bedford-St. Martin's, 2002.  Finding Sources, Documenting Sources, & Example Papers demonstrating academic documentation styles in Humanities | Social Sciences | History | Science.
URL: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
 A Writer's Online Resources.  Diana Hacker, Bedford-St. Martin's, 2002.
URL: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resources.htm

UWC: Undergraduate Writing Center.  Division of Rhetoric and Composition, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin.
Root URL: http://uwc-server.fac.utexas.edu/
Handouts for Students: http://uwc-server.fac.utexas.edu/pages/students/handouts.html

Writing about Literature (LITWEB: An Online Companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature. W. W. Norton & Co., 2001.
URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/write.htm

Writing About Literature: Fiction & Film
(Greg Lyons & Cora Agatucci, Central Oregon Community College):
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Assignments/writing_about_literature.htm

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