OC Library: Literature Web Sites

Web Sites: LITERATURE

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General Literature Resources	British Literature
Ancient Literature	Other Literatures
American Literature

GENERAL:

4Literature: Read any one of thousands of classic books free at this site. The archives include the works of Shakespeare, religious and historical documents, children's fairy tales, Greek and Roman classics, and books by famous American authors of the 19th century.
Author Webliography: This directory is an index of indexes. It contains pointers to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers. Most of these authors are "literary." Not many authors from genres such as science fiction or romance are included.
Banned Books Online: A special exhibit of books that have been the object of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here range from Ulysses to the Bible to Little Red Riding Hood.
Bartleby.com: Bartleby.com publishes literary, nonfiction, and reference works free of charge, including titles such as: Gray's Anatomy, The Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Oxford Book of English Verse.
Book Browser: A collection of fiction reading lists. Helps avid fiction readers find books and authors. Lists arranged by genre, location, series, etc.
Bookwire: Searching BookWire is the quickest way to find reviews, bestseller lists, and author events.
A Celebration of Women Writers: Contains extensive search capabilities that allow users to find online editions of rare and out-of-print books. Also provides links to a wide variety of sites and resources related to women's writing.
Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
Digital Book Index: Digital Book Index provides access to more than 74,000 titles available online. It gathers both commercial and non-commercial eBooks from more than 1800 publishers and private publishing organizations.
Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia): An online archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts.
Emory Women Writers Resource Project: The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century.
EServer.org: The EServer (founded in 1990 as the English Server) attempts to provide an alternative publication venue for quality e-books in the arts and humanities (currently 30189 of them). It offers 42 collections of e-books on such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, 18th century literary criticism, internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, gender studies and current political and social issues. In addition to written works, it publishes hypertext, audio and even video recordings.; Links to literary resources on the Net.
Internet Poetry Archive: Selected online poems from a number of contemporary poets.
Literary Resources on the Net: A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding single electronic texts. It is limited to collections of information useful to academics.
Project Gutenberg: A volunteer effort to release public domain electronic text editions of out of copyright works. Project Gutenberg targets: classic literature, reference materials, and popular tie-in releases of works coinciding with holidays, celebrations, centenaries, and television programs.
Pulitzer Prize Board: Contains the works and profiles of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music.
Voice of the Shuttle: Includes links to research in many different literary categories.

Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory Page: Includes links to research in literary theory in the following categories: General Theory Resources, Classical, Enlightenment & Romantic, Nineteenth Century, Early to Mid 20th Century, and Contemporary.

ANCIENT LITERATURE:

Internet Classics Archive: An award-winning, searchable collection of classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary.
LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World: Includes a photogazetteer of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments, a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions, and the complete texts of Vitruvius, Frontius, Vellius Paterculus, Suetonius, and more.
Perseus Project: An evolving digital library on ancient Greece And Rome.

AMERICAN LITERATURE:

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century: Archives of writing by African American women.
American Verse Project: Searchable poetry archive of 19th century American poetry.
Electronic Texts and Interactive Platforms in American Literature: Includes links to Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner.
Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures: Essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.
Willa Cather: This site offers a biography, photos, primary and secondary bibliographies, links to texts online, reviews, and more about Willa Cather.

BRITISH LITERATURE:

Austen (Jane) Information Page: Extensive collection of Internet resources on the life and work of Jane Austen. Includes full text of her novels, biographies, bibliographies and essays.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete electronic hypertext collection of all Shakespeare's plays and poems, as well as an index and glossary. Also includes links to other Shakespeare resources on the Internet.
Dickens Project: A scholarly consortium devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times and work of Charles Dickens. A treasure of resources for the teacher, scholar, and reader.
Internet Classics Archive: An award-winning, searchable collection of classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary.
Middle English Literature Collection: Although publicly accessible, the vast majority of the images and a number of the texts are copyrighted to the University of Virginia library. Please follow their "Conditions of Use" policy.
The Milton-L Home Page: Devoted to the life, times and literature of John Milton.
Victorian Web: Victorian Literature Overview: Timeline, authors, concept of literary canon, literary techniques, genres and modes, and literary convergences during the Victorian era.
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. The works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Web Concordances of Romantic Poetry: Provides an online concordance to the works of Shelley, Keats, and others.

OTHER LITERATURES:

Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Literatures: Links to research concerning Afro-American, Asian-American, Chicano/Latino, Jewish, Native-American, and Pacific literature, as well as literature written by other minority groups.
Voice of the Shuttle: Other Literatures Written in English: Links to research about literature written in English from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Ireland, Scotland, South Asia, and Wales.

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