Literature Web Sites
The Academy of American Poets is an excellent site to help
you gain a greater appreciation for poetry, as it offers a Listening Booth feature that allows you
to hear poets read their works.
Access the Great Books site at is a compilation of over 240 authors
and their works, as well as biographical information.
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, located at , is an
online collection of public domain documents from American and English literature, as well as
Western philosophy.
Bibliomania () offers over 2000 literary works online as well as
research and resources for literary criticism.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
This site is considered the most important work of
literary history and criticism ever published on writings in the English language. It contains over
303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays
to history, theology and political writing.
A Celebration of Women Writers Created by
professors at the University of Pennsylvania, this site provides a comprehensive listing of links
to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published
books written by women.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is located at , which includes all of Shakespeare’s plays and poetry on-
line, and the site Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, located at
, offers numerous resources, including on-line criticism, a
Shakespeare timeline, biographical information, and links to Shakespeare festivals.
Digital Librarian’s Literature site, , perhaps
the best and most comprehensive electronic bibliographic resource for links to literature and
criticism, has an enormous number of excellent links to sites dealing with a vast array of
literature, including individual authors, specific periods of literature, and very specialized types
of literature (for example, environmentalist literature, Victorian women writers, or literature of
the American West).
English Server (Eserver) , formerly at Carnegie Mellon, but now based at
the Iowa State University, offers over 30,000 works online and is an excellent resource for
literary criticism.
The Internet Classics Archive has over 400 online works
of classical literature.
The Internet Public Library—Literary Criticism at
contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by
author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Literary Resources -- Feminism and Women's Literature
This site, created by a professor at
Rutgers University, is a collection of links to sites on women's literature, feminist criticism, and
gender studies.
Literary Resources on the Net is an excellent collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing
especially with English and American literature .
National Women’s History Project While
not an actual site on literature, this site provides information and educational materials and
programs relating to women’s history, and thus is an excellent resource for historical, social and
political research necessary for understanding the literary works of women writers.
Page by Page Books offers hundreds of classic books
online.
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide at
contains 372 American
author web pages that include historical and bibliographical information.
Project Gutenberg is also a great site for accessing on-line literary
texts.
Romantic Circles Published by the University of Maryland, this
refereed scholarly web site is devoted to the study of Romantic-period culture and literature. Its
Scholarly Resources section provides chronologies on the major Romantic writers, as well as
other useful resources and links.
Victorian Women Writers Project
includes highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.
The works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and
volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Voices From the Gaps is an instructional Web site maintained by
the University of Minnesota that focuses on the lives and works of North American women
writers of color.
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