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General Literature Links (across
periods and
literatures)
Voice of the
Shuttle. Most comprehensive directory
of web resource on the humanities (and literature in particular)
on the web.
Click on “literature” and find links to
a huge array of webpages, including various sites for
specific literary periods and authors
and works as subcategories within periods.
Literary
Resources on the Net. Another excellent web directory
of literary resources, divided up into periods.
Less overwhelming
than
the Voice of the Shutle.
Oxford
Reference Online (access limited to Earlham
students and employees). Contains the complete texts
of over 100
Oxford University
Press dictionaries
and reference titles; this link brings you directly
to literature reference sources.
A
Celebration of Women Writers. Links to women authors in all fields from
the 14th century to
the present.
Information varies
from author
to author, but many include biographies, bibliographies,
criticism, portraits, and online versions of
their works.
Emory
Women Writers Resource Project. Texts by
women writing in English from the 17th century
through
the 19th century.
The Project is a
pedagogical tool, designed to offer students
in various disciplines the opportunity to edit
their
own texts.
Black
Cultural Studies Web Site. Directory
of information and links on ethnicity, race, gender,
and the African
diaspora, with bibliographical
information, essays, and interviews on cultural
workers working in such areas as Black literary
criticism,
Black popular
culture,
Critical
Race Theory and film theory, etc.
Storytellers:
Native American Authors Online. Links to resources on contemporary
Native American
authors.
The
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Professional organization
site,
with great resources
and links on all general
aspects of literature of environment and
much on environmental studies.
English
Online Resources. A library of complete works from the
University of Virginia
Electronic
Text Center.
The
Modern English
Collection
includes some 2000 titles subdivided
into areas such as "African
American," "Native American," and "Women
Writers." The
Middle English Collection includes 40
titles.
Internet
Public Library. Links to more
than 2500 critical and biographical
web sites
about US
and British literary
works
from pre-1500 to the
present. Each links is required to
contain criticism either previously published
in a scholarly journal
or written
by faculty or advanced
graduate students.
Bartleby
Verse:
American & English Poetry 1250–1920.
Poetry searchable by keyword or browsable
by author, title, or first line.
Oxford
English Dictionary (access limited
to Earlham students and employees).
Current, online
version
of famous dictionary.
Glossary
of Literary Terms.
MLA
style guide (see others in
General Reference section of
Earlham library).
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