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As there are a plethora of literature-related web sites out there, we have selected for inclusion on this page a list of "Librarian Approved" sites useful for research purposes. If you are aware of any that we have overlooked, please send in your suggestions via the Ask-A-Librarian email form.
Genres
- The Literary Gothic
The beginning source for all things Gothic, both historically and more recently. This site, though not peer-reviewed or specifically academic, provides a vast amount of information on authors, titles, web resources, and how to begin research on Gothic literature.
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library
A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Search by author, title, genre, or language. Documents are available in HTML format, no pdf's, but still an amazing collection of full texts.
- Feminae: Medieval women and Gender Index
Includes journal and essay indexing (no articles, but citations) for all things medieval regarding women and gender studies. Housed by Haverford College's Margaret Schaus.
- Library of Southern Literature (UNC)
Includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924. Originally based on Dr. Robert Bain's bibliography of the hundred most important southern literary works and continues to expand under the guidance of scholarly advisors. Browse the collection alphabeticaly, by subject, or the original bibliography by Dr. Bain. Various collections are listed on the left hand menu.
- Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature (Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century, and Restoration)
Includes Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century, and Restoration literatures, all well organized and cross-referenced through links. Individual authors have biographical information, chronologies and bibliographies of their works, essays and articles about them, as well as additional sources deemed appropriate by site editors. Excellent resource.
- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature-a research and reference guide
Originally published as a book, this site offers the same material organized into sections. Ten chapters represent the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-two appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies.
- TEAMS Middle English Texts
An amazing collection of Middle English texts, this site offers free full text for personal use. The only method of searching the texts is alphbetically by first title word. Despite the somewhat limited method of searching, this is an excellent free source for Middle english texts and footnotes.
Authors
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Incorporates an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet as well as presenting unique Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet. Divided into sections such as Works, Life & Times, Theatre, Criticism, Renaissance, Sources, Best Sites, Other Sites, and Searching.
- English Renaissance in Context UPenn's Furness Shakespeare Library (digitized texts through Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image--sceti)
An excellent collection of digitized texts and works by famous authors from the Renaissance. Browse by author or subject.
- Princeton's Dante Project
Collection of Dante's works online. Choose to search for those texts in Italian or English. View lectures given on topics relating to Dante. View multimedia resources.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (by Harvard U)
Provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages.
- Mark Twain Project Online (Univ. of California)
Provides authoritative texts, documents, and historical research in the forms of letters, writings, images, and biographies by and about the American author Mark Twain. "Its ultimate purpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote."
- Women Romantic-Era Writers
Includes resources on women authors from the Romantic era in terms of their electronic texts, contemporary responses to them, archive of electronic texts, and cultural and visual resources, along with suggested relevant web sites.
General Humanities resources
- Intute: arts & humanities
This site provides an amazing collection of web resources available on a variety of topics. Offers an easy-to-use and powerful tool for discovering the best Internet resources for education and research in Creative Arts and Humanities. Some of the resources focus on the UK, as that is where it's based, but a good number relate to America and topics studied here.
- Greek Mythology Link
Provides a plethora of information relating to Greek mythology from charts, maps, and biographies of figures, to images and topics for searching. Also available are dictionaries for quick information on a particular place, figure, etc. The Groups section describes particular common traits among characters in mythology, such as the Amazons or Argonauts.
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Created by Lana Wilson, Reference Librarian
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