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English Librarian: William Baker
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Web Resources
Specific Periods/genres
- A Century of Creativity: The MacDowell Colony Exhibition
- A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
- African American Women Writers of the 19th century
- This site makes available several dozen works, each text scrupulously reprinted with no posthumous editing, each preface intact, from 30 hitherto inaccessible volumes of 19th century African American women's literature. This site is well organized, providing search tools that allow the reader to search by title, author, and genre.
- American Popular Literature Collection
- American Verse Project
- This site provides electronic versions of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. Users can read volumes on the Web and download them. So far 85 volumes have been transcribed, ranging from Emerson and Jones Very to Sandburg and H.D. The opening page of the site offers a variety of choices: a simple search feature for words and phrases; a Boolean search for combinations of two or three words in a line or paragraph; proximity searches; a browsing feature and more.
- Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
- The authors profiled in this elegant and detailed resource are Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Thomas Malory, and William Langland. Texts and excerpts provided include Le Morte DArthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Book of Margery Kempe, Vox Clamantis and Confessio Amantis, Everyman, the York and Wakefield cycles of plays, and selected lyrics (including the text of two editions of the Harley lyrics). Essays and related articles are linked to each writer, with some lyrics, such as the famous, Western Wind when wilt thou blow, provide with sound files.
- Authors: The Portrait Photograph File of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
- Bibliography of Welsh Literature in English Translation
- British Fiction 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation & Reception
- British Newspapers, 1800- 1900
- Camelot Project (University of Rochester)
- A database of Arthurian texts, images, basic information and bibliographies. Searching is provided by characters, symbols, sites, authors and artists.
- CAPA: the Contemporary American Poetry Archive
- An electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography
- In Welsh and English.
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
- Stanford University's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection (originally the property of P.J. Moran, an Oakland postal inspector and dime novel enthusiast) includes long runs of the major dime novel series (Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, Beadle's New York Dime Library, etc.) and equally strong holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger and Saturday Night. Both genres flourished from the middle to the close of the 19th century in America and England (where the novels were known as "penny dreadfuls"). The "Guided Tour" section of the page introduces the processes of printing involved in the creation of these works, elements of a typical dime novel cover, and gives a detailed overview of the eight thousand items in the Stanford collection. A time line is provided, placing the various series of dime novels in a broader historical context.
- Early Stuart Libels
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project
- The works in this small collection of previously unedited 17th century texts by little-known writers focuses on various aspects of women's lives: intellectual freedom, religious inquiry, and women's standings in royal families. Anyone who wishes to find out more about unrenowned women writers or the process of editing a text will find this site worthwhile.
- Internet Poetry Archive Homepage
- Irish Writers Online
- Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
- Luminarium
- Medieval Imaginations: Literature and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages
- Middle English Compendium
- Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online
- Ohio Center for the Book
- Omniglot: Writing Systems and Languages of the World
- Oxford Text Archive Homepage
- Peace Corps Worldwide
- Poetry Magazines
- RaVON: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
- Romantic Chronology
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection
- Stanford Medieval and Modern Thought Text Project
- TEAMS Middle English Texts
- Coordinated by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions. Thirty-eight titles are available in full-text format.
- The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
- Alan Filreis (Univ. of Penn) maintains this list of articles and materials on literature, politics, sociology, and the arts for a course on American literature and culture of the 1950s. The opening screen presents a table of contents of the site (authors and major subjects) in alphabetical order, making the list quick to use. This site is interdisciplinary and will be useful to students and scholars in many areas.
- The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
- This collection contains sixty-five titles by Geoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, John Gower, Robert Henryson, Layamon and the Paston family, as well as several anonymous texts.
- The Mississippi Writers Page
- Each page on this exemplary site has a sidebar menu with quick links to useful features: Book News, News & Events, Literary Landmarks, Browse Writers, etc. The Browse Writers page has an alphabetical listing of the almost 300 authors who are or will be included on this site. Each author page has illustrations, a bibliography, and links to relevant items elsewhere on the Internet. This site is for those interested in southern or regional literature.
- The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library
- The Paris Review
- The Word on the Street: Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland
- Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
- Victorian Studies Bibliography
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. Genres represented will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Users should consult both the list of works available and those being encoded to ascertain the status of a particular author's work.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
- Women Writers: The Reception of Their Works
- Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
Specific Authors
- Albert Johannsen Collection (Dime Novels)
- Angus Wilson (1913-1991)
- British novelist and essayist.
- Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
- Bibliomania, The Network Library
- Blake Digital Text Project
- Byron Society Collection
- Caxton's Chaucer
- Corson Collection
- Dariana
- Dedicated to the diffusion of Nicaraguan poetry, this site features that nations best-known poet, Ruben Dario (1867-1916), with a complete chronology of his life and work (including samples of each genre in which he created). Additional sections offer an outline of all major Nicaraguan writers, a "theatrical panorama" of the evolution of their various schools of literature, and a lengthy list of web sites related to both Nicaraguan and Central American literature in general.
- Dickinson Electronic Archives
- Digital Wordworth
- DreiserWebSource
- [RealOne Player]
- Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979)
- British author and illustrator.
- Edward R. LeBlanc Collection (Dime Novels)
- E-texts
- Includes The Letters of Sir Walter Scott and Tales of a Grandfather plus links to e-texts readily available for free from the Internet
- From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell's James Joyce Collection
- geoffreychaucer.org: an annotated guide to online resources
- Students, teachers, and scholars of Chaucer will find a broad array of useful electronic and print resources, including primary texts, critical studies, graphics, audio readings, syllabi and related course materials online discussion groups, and databases. Thematically organized and succinctly annotated to assist users in determining the relevance and quality of items, the site includes easily navigated areas such as background, bibliography, language, outlines, etc.
- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- English Romantic Poet.
- Graham Greene (1904-1991)
- British novelist.
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Hemingway Archives
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Hermann Hesse Portal
- Horatio Alger, Jr (1832-1899)*
- Alger is the all-time, best-selling American boy's series writer. RBSC is also the repository for the Horatio Alger Society. Northern Illinois University Libraries Alger collection is the most comprehensive collection of Alger materials in the world.
- In Search of Shakespeare
- International Brecht Society
- James Hanley
- (1901-1985)* British novelist. A collection of manuscripts (some unpublished) and most editions of the books by James Hanley (1901-1985). The collection is indexed with a finding list in the Rare Books & Special Collections Department. There is also an inventory available as a .pdf file.
- Jane Austen Centre
- Jane Austen Info Page
- This site contains e-text versions (both annotated and plain text) of Austen's six novels, minor works, and letters, and less-serious writings about Austen (e.g., "the Jane Austen top ten song list"). Users can conduct keyword searches of HTML text, including searches of her six novels -- review the occurrence of a particular word in the text, a list of places in the text, or a list of its characters, including genealogical charts.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
- Anglican bishop and theologian.
- John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
- American novelist.
- Jonathan Swift: Journal to Stella
- Jorge Luis Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths
- Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters
- Lewis Carroll Homepage
- Mark Twain Project
- Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collection
- Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks, 1850s - 1860s
- Ray Bradbury
- Recent Scott-Related Publications
- This website is an "annotated bibliography of Scott-related publications that have appeared since January 2000. It covers significant new editions of Scott's work, criticicism and biography (both books and articles), translations, and scores of musical works inspired by Scott."
- Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- Scottish poet.
- Rossetti Hypermedia Archive
- Scott Biographical Information
- Scott Works (includes novels, narrative poems, prose work plus synopses, compositional and publishing histories, and initial reaction to his works by the public and critics)
- Shakespeare Quarto Texts to Go Online (News Release 3/26/2008)
- Shakespeare Quartos Archive
- Shakespeare Web
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: His Life, All His Works and More
- Sir Walter Scott Digital Archives
- This website serves as a portal to the Sir Walter Scott archives from the Edinburgh University Libraries. Among the individual webpage available are:
- Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature
- The Bronte Sisters-Cecilia Falk
- The Carlyle Letters Online
- The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
- The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- This site offers a chronological/alphabetical listing of the plays in the Moby categories of comedy/history/tragedy (plus poetry). A searchable concordance makes possible swift location of terms, e.g., "question," by play, act, scene.
- The Dickens Project
- Based at the University of California, the Dickens Project is "a scholarly consortium dedicated to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times and works of Charles Dickens." Researchers will find the lengthy list of other Dickensian electronic resources of particular value.
- The Edith Wharton Society
- This site was designed to serve the scholarly membership of the society, but it offers well-organized features useful to others interested in this important American writer and her works. The list of primary sources links to a large and growing number of e-texts, and the bibliography of secondary sources, confined to recent publications (1992 and after) is dense in layout.
- The International Virginia Woolf Society Web Page
- The Jack London Online Collection
- The Oscar Wilde Collection
- The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- The Zora Neal Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection.
- Tolkien Society
- Vincent Starrett
- Walt Whitman
- Willard Motley (1909-1965)
- African-American novelist from Chicago. A finding aid for his papers, held here at NIU, is available.
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- British poet and illustrator.
- William Blake Archive
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- British poet.
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