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Internet Resources

American Literature

Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Online American Literature Resources: Volume I
http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/lit_links.html

Online American Literature Resources: Volume II
http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/lit_links2.html

Outline of American Literature
http://www.america.gov/publications/books/outline-of-american-literature.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html

Associations & Organizations

American Literature Association
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/

Authors & Publishers
http://www.authorsandpublishers.org/index.html

Electronic Literature Oraganization
http://www.eliterature.org/

Great Books Foundation
http://www.greatbooks.org/

Modern Language Association
http://www.mla.org/

Northeast Modern Language Association
http://www.nemla.org/

South Atlantic Modern Language Association
http://samla.gsu.edu/

British Literature

Gothic Literature Page
http://www.zittaw.com/gothicliterature.htm

Guide to 19th Century English Literature on the Internet
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Outline.htm

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
http://www.the-orb.net/

Romantic Chronology
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/

Romantic Circles
http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/

Spectator Project
http://meta.montclair.edu/spectator/

Victoria Research Web
http://victorianresearch.org/

Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/

Criticism and Theory

Literary and Cultural Theory - Classics At Oxford
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/resources/www/theory.asp

Online Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Yahoo! Literature - Criticism and Theory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Criticism_and_Theory/

Electronic Journals

RENAISSANCE forum: Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies
http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/

Romanticism On the Net
http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/

Electronic Texts

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com

CARRIE: An Electronic Library
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/

Classic Bookshelf
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/

Electronic Text Center Collections
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html

EServer: Accessible Online Publishing
http://eserver.org/

Hypertext
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html

On-Line Books Page: Book Listings
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/lists.html

Online Literature Library
http://www.literature.org/authors/index.html

Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg/

WESSWEB: Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

Fairy Tales, Folklore, & Mythology

Age of Fable, Or Beauties of Mythology
http://www.bartleby.com/bulfinch/

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
http://www.bartleby.com/81/

Digital Librarian: Mythology
http://www.digital-librarian.com/mythology.html

Fairy Tales: Reading & Research
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48473

Folk and Fairy Tales: Web Site Links
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folklinks.html

Folklore, Myth and Legend
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html

Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
http://www.bartleby.com/196/

USM Libraries: de Grummond Collection - Fairy Tales and Folktales
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/re-usmfairytale.shtml

Yahoo! Mythology and Folklore
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Mythology_and_Folklore/

Internet Directories

Anglistik Guide
http://www.anglistikguide.de/

Digital Librarian: Literature
http://www.digital-librarian.com/literature.html

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

WISDOM: Knowledge & Literature Search
http://thinkers.net/

Yahoo! Literature
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/

Miscellany

Literary Traveler
http://www.literarytraveler.com/

Mississippi & Southern

Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html

Mississippi Writers Page
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/siteinfo.html

Poetry

Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm

American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

Bartleby.com: Verse
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/

Bibliomania: Poetry
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/frameset.html

British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

Contemporary American Poetry Archive
http://capa.conncoll.edu/

Electronic Poetry Center
http://epc.buffalo.edu/

Knopf Publishing Group: Poetry Center
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/poetry/

Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/

Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250?1900
http://www.bartleby.com/101/

Poetry Archives@eMule.com
http://www.emule.com/poetry/

Poetry Daily
http://www.poems.com/

Poetry Society of America
http://www.poetrysociety.org/

Poets & Writers Online
http://www.pw.org/

Poets' Corner
http://www.silentwords.com/

Representative Poetry On-line
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/

Sonnets Central
http://www.sonnets.org/

Twentieth-century Poetry in English
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm

Reference Sources

Bartleby.com: Reference
http://bartleby.com/reference/

Glossary of Literary Terms
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

USM Libraries Online Resources - Reference
http://www.lib.usm.edu/subject_guides/subject_input2.php?type=reference

Shakespeare

Online Shakespeare: Critical Material
http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/ll/Shakespeare.htm

The Shakespeare Research Guide
http://www.winthrop.edu/dacus/researchguides/shakespearerg.html

Yahoo's Shakespeare Gateway
http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/humanities/literature/authors/playwrights/shakespeare__william__1564_1616_/

Teaching

EDSITE: Literature and Language Arts
http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subjectArea=4

Teaching the American Literatures: Electronic Archives
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/

The Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/

USM

USM Department of English
http://www.usm.edu/english/

Women Writers

19th Century American Women Writers Web
http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/home.htm

19th-Century Women's Poetry
http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/elibe/poetry.htm

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html

British Women Playwrights around 1800
http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
http://old.lib.ucdavis.edu/BWRP/

Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Domestic Goddesses: AKA Scribbling Women
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/

Emory Women Writers Resource Project
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html

Reading women writers and African literature
http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/FEMEChomeEN.html

Scribbling Women
http://www.scribblingwomen.org/

Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

Women Romantic-era writers
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/ac/wrew.htm

Women Writers: A Literary Magazine for and by women writers
http://www.womenwriters.net/

World Literature

Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/

Writing

Advice on Academic Writing
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html

Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
http://www.grammarbook.com/

Creative Writing
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48459

John Hewitt's Writer's Resource Center
http://www.poewar.com/

Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Statistics Every Writer Should Know
http://nilesonline.com/stats/

Writers' BBS
http://www.writersbbs.com/members/

Writers' Guidelines Directory
http://www.writerswrite.com/guidelines/

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