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American and English Literature Internet Resources
litbib.html
This subject guide
created at Southern Connecticut State University serves as a good starting point
for research in English and American literature. The first link on the site
is to electronic text archives followed by general literature sites that contain
a wealth of literary sites from academic institutions and elsewhere. The emphasis
is on American and English literature. Each of these categories lists general
sites followed by sites that are devoted to specific genres. Shakespeare has
a separate link. In addition to general information on authors, there are links
to the following authors: Jane Austen, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, S. T. Coleridge, Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson,
Nancy Drew, The T.S. Eliot, Faulkner, Scott F. Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Sherlock Holmes, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, C.S. Lewis, Langston Hughes, H.P.
Lovecraft, Herman Melville, Edmund Spenser, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Tennyson, Mark Twain, H.G.Wells, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf,
and W.B. Yeats.
American Studies
Web
http://lamp.georgetown.edu/asw/
This is the American
Studies Virtual Library from Georgetown University. It contains finding aids,
directories, and resources for American Studies. Provides access to online libraries,
primary texts, and special collections pertaining to American Studies. The following
links are especially useful: Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies
(an on-line bibliographic essay by T.V. Reed of Washington State University),
American Studies Web (a subject and topic based directory of links to topics
in American culture), Archive of Primary Texts from the University of Virginia
(which includes Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence, among
other titles), Index to articles published in the American Quarterly from 1975-1995,
Essays about American Studies from the ASA archive, and abstracts of American
Studies Dissertations from 1986 to the present.
Bibliography
for the History of English Studies
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/rraley/research/englstud.html
This page was authored
by Rita Raley in 1995 while she was a graduate student in the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Although the title suggests it is merely a bibliography,
some of the essays are available in full text. There are primary documents on
site by Thomas B. Macaulay; John Henry Newman; Adam Sedgwick; Hutcheson Macaulay
Posnett; Mary Wollstonecraft; Raymond Williams; Gayatri Spivak; Gauri Viswanathan;
D.J. Palmer; Chris Baldick; Franklin Court; Brian Massumi; Avital Ronell; and
others.
A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
This site promotes
awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing throughout history.
It provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical
information about women writers and complete published books written by women.
Also contains online editions of older, rare, and out-of-copyright works covering
the following categories: children's books (poetry and prose), fiction (poetry,
prose, and plays), and non-fiction (diaries, letters, autobiographies, biographies,
memoirs, travel, and social issues.
Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
http://eserver.org/theory/
This site lists
books on cultural studies and critical theory under the following categories:
American studies, critical legal studies, critical theory, cultural studies,
disciplinary studies, literary studies, Marxist studies, media studies, postcolonial,
postmodern studies, poststructuralism, queer studies, race studies, and women's
studies. It is possible to browse works by title or by author under any of these
categories. Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology,
gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in
order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices. The works listed
in this bibliography help to introduce the issues and concerns raised by the
field.
English Literature
on the Web
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html
Contains links
to general sites on British and Commonwealth Literature; links to British and
Irish authors by time period; electronic text resources; Anglo-Saxon and medieval
links; links to Renaissance, Restoration, Romanticism and Victorian literature;
twentieth century literature; links to general sites on American Literature
and American authors and their works.
Feminist Literary Criticism
and Theory
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/lit.html
The page includes
information on difference literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical
issues, politics and literature, and literary theory. The section on literary
theory contains a bibliography on feminist literary theory. The page also contains
information on selective individual feminists and highlights biographical information,
major themes, their specific contribution to feminist theory, and a bibliography
of books, articles secondary sources and internet sites.
A
Guide to Literary Research based on the MLA
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
This guide for
writing papers based on the Modern Language Association documentation, was prepared
by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks, Jr. Library, Capital Community
College, Hartford, Connecticut. The bottom of the page also has a link to the
College's APA Style guide. In addition to these style guides there is also a
link to grammar and writing.
Literary and
Cultural Theory
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/www/theory.asp
In addition to general
literary theory sites, there are links to theorists such as Bakhtin, Freud,
Marx, Foucalt, Husserl. Additional links are available to theory journals like
Applied Semiotics, Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, Enculturalism, Journal of the
History of Ideas, Poetics Today and Postmodern Culture, and cyberspace theory.
Literary
History
http://www.literaryhistory.com/
Serves as a useful
guide for readers, students and teachers of English literature. Keeps readers
informed of the most innovative criticism on the web. There is a selective list
of links to the best articles on Romantic and Victorian literature, and a web
index of Post-modern literature. This site is published and edited by a former
indexer and abstracter of H.W. Wilson Company, Jane Pridmore, who also teaches
Composition and Literature at Boston University. This site is committed to promoting
the use of the internet for scholarly research in literary studies.
Literary Resources
- Theory
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/theory.html
Part of the "Literary
Resources" collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, this page
includes links to ECLAT (Essential Comparative Literature and Theory) site from
University of Pennsylvania; the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism;
Literary Theory Project from Rice University; Modern Literary Theory site from
University of Texas at Austin which contains information on twentieth century
literary theory such as formalism, structuralism, feminism, and psychoanalysis;
the Society for Critical Exchange; the Popular Culture website from Manchester
Institute; UC Irvine's Wellek Library Lecture Bibliographies of works by and
about major theorists; Who's Who in Theory from Southern Oregon State University;
the Cultural Theory page from the English Server at CMU; various links to philosophy,
postmodern thought, and cultural studies; a guide to the theory of literary
genres form the University of Cologne; information on specific critical theory
journals and individual theorists like Bakhtin, Passagenwerk, Maurice Blanchot,
Harold Bloom, Helene Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari, Paul de Man, Michel Foucalt,
Freud, Husserl. I.A. Richards, and Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Lyotard.
Literature
Resources - MIT Libraries
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/Literature/index1.html
Contains and extensive
collection of internet links by literary period and genre. The periods covered
are classic and medieval, sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, American,
Canadian, Australian drama, poetry, women and literature sites. Also contains
links to databases and e-journals, literary works in full text, literary meta
sites which are web sites that offer broad coverage of literature resources,
reference works, specific authors and their works, and other miscellaneous sites
including listservs, electronic text centers, bibliographies, literary prizes,
and scholarly societies.
On Literary Reading
http://www.stthomasu.ca/~hunt/litread.htm
This bibliography
prepared by Russ Hunt of St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada, lists
journal articles and chapters from books on the topic of literary reading. The
bibliography contains seventeen citations and many of the articles and book
chapters listed are available in full text.
Online Literary Criticism Collection
- Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Contains evaluative
or explanatory writings about works of literature. The collection includes many
international authors but the sites are primarily in the English language. British
authors include authors of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh origin, and writers
of the British colonies such as India. The website can be browsed for information
on authors and their works by author, by title, or by nationality and literary
period. The categories of information include American literature, British literature,
Canadian literature, French literature, Italian literature, Spanish literature,
German literature, Lain literature, Russian literature, Japanese literature,
Greek literature, Chinese literature, Polish literature, Scandinavian literature,
literature of South East Asia, Middle East literature, Caribbean, African, Australian,
New Zealandic, and Indian Literature.
Studies of Interest
to English and American Literature Librarians
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dcoffey/studies.htm
This is a bibliography
of citations appearing in Biblio-Notes: Issued by the English and American Literature
Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries, (ALA) and to
those appearing in other sources. Citations to studies on the MLA International
Bibliography have been excluded, because these can be found at (URL:http://www.wam.umd.edu/~vansant/mlaibdg/bibliography.html).
Citations having multiple subjects have multiple listings. This bibliography
was conceived by Scott Stebelman and is now maintained by Dan Coffey and the
Literatures in English section of ACRL. It is an extensive bibliography that
contains citations to books, book chapters, journal articles, dissertations
and newsletters in the following categories: Graduate Education in English,
College English Studies and English Departments, Literary Research Tools, Research
and Information Seeking Behaviors of Humanities Scholars, Databases Searching
in Literature (online and CD), Cataloging and Indexing, Collection Development
and Assessment, User Education, Canon Formation in Literary Studies, Preservation,
Impact of Technology on Humanities Research, Teaching and Production, Composition
Studies, and Special Collections such as rare books and manuscripts.
Voice
of the Shuttle Literary Theory Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu//browse.asp?id=2718
This is a thorough
bibliography boasting an exhaustive list of literary theory, literary criticism,
and cultural theory links. The bibliography starts off with general theory resources
and then categorizes them by literary time frame and genre ranging from the
classics to the contemporary. The General section has a link to FrontList Books,
an "online bookstore offering scholarly and literary titles to readers with
decidedly theoretical interests; emphasis on recently published and soon to
be published titles from over 175 publishers in literary, feminist, queer, and
postcolonial theory; cinema, literary, gender, women's studies, Asian, Latin
American, and cultural studies; fiction, philosophy, anthropology, history,
and poetry; allows browsing by category and includes brief description of books".
Other useful information in this category is a timeline of literary theories
in the United States and links to materials from some academic institutions
on contemporary literary theory. Plato and Aristotle enjoy extensive links in
the Classics section. Kant is the focus of the Enlightenment and Romantic category
while Nietzsche and Kierkegaard are featured in the nineteenth century. An extensive
suite of pages is devoted to surrealism, existentialism, futurism, new criticism,
phenomenology, structuralism in the twentieth century with several links to
proponents of those theories. The contemporary theory section highlights cultural
studies, cyberculture, feminist theory, film theory, media theory, Marxist critique,
deconstruction, postcolonial studies, postindustrial business theory, reader
response theory and technology theory.
Yahoo
- Literature
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Criticism_and_Theory/
Yahoo's site on
literary criticism and theory contains the following categories: books (a wide
array of links that list books on literary theory and criticism), hypertext
theory (links to web resources on the developments of hypertext theory and practice
in literature), journals (a listing of print and online journals that encourage
publication of articles dealing with literary theory/cultural studies), papers
and projects (submitted by individuals and by students at various institutions),
postcolonialism (links to postcolonial studies at institutions, journals that
publish articles on postcolonialism, and an overview of postcolonial and postimperial
literature), reader response theory (web sites that are devoted to research
on literary reading, reader criticism and pedagogical theory), theorists and
critics (containing numerous links dealing with literary criticism as well as
an alphabetical listing of links to literary and cultural theorists and critics),
and, finally, web directories that link to meta sites on literary criticism.
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