American, British and Irish Literature Sites
A Literary History of the American West
Important 1986 publication (now out of print) of the Western American Literature Association. Full text.
American Authors
Biographical and critical material on about 100 American authors as well as a timeline of U.S. political and literary history, and background information.
American Literature on the Web
A comprehensive site that divides American literature into five periods, each with extensive links to individual writers as well as related resources in music, the visual arts and social history.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Classic (originally published 1907-1921). Available in its entirety at this site.
Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
An introduction to contemporary postcolonial authors. The site is organized by country and offers geographical and historical background for each country, including a variety of essays on each author.
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
A site containing information on Stanford University's holdings of some 8000 Dime Novel items and Story Paper collection. Provides background material on the history of dime novels, penny dreadfuls, and story papers. Full-text of nine novels is also provided.
Library of Southern Literature
A bibliography of one hundred of the most significant literary texts of the South published up to 1920. Full text of novels, memoirs, slave narratives, and volumes of poetry and non-fiction.
Includes literary links to many different periods and additional categories such as 'Theory'. Also includes a search engine!
The Literary Gothic
An extensive site for gothic literature from the 18th century to the present. Includes authors links.
LitLinks
Developed by Bedford/St. Martin's publishers, a collection of annotated links to resources in poetry, drama, essay, fiction and critical theory.
Online Literary Criticism
From the Internet Public Library, 2,400 critical and biographical sites on authors and their works.
Outline of American Literature
Brief entries on periods, movements and authors. Arranged by period.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
From California Sate University, Stanislaus; "chapters" arranged by period.
The Modern Word
A literary, high-quality site that focuses on 20th and 21st century authors, American and English.
Voices from the Gaps
Focuses on women writers of color. From the University of Minnesota Department of English.
Voice of the Shuttle
An index of the world's online literary resources (maintained by Alan Liu of UC Santa Barbara).
Wright American Fiction
2800+ novels and other works of fiction published between 1851 and 1875, containing scanned images of original volumes. This is a joint project of a number of Big Ten University libraries hosted at Indiana University.
The Literary Gothic
An extensive site for gothic literature from the 18th century to the present. Includes authors links.
LitLinks
Developed by Bedford/St. Martin's publishers, a collection of annotated links to resources in poetry, drama, essay, fiction and critical theory.
Norton Anthology of English Literature
A web companion to NEAL, it explores English Literature and culture using Norton Topics Online.
Online Literary Criticism
From the Internet Public Library, 2,400 critical and biographical sites on authors and their works.
The Modern Word
A literary, high-quality site that focuses on 20th and 21st century authors, American and English.
Shakespeare and the Internet
From Terry Gray at Palomar College, an outstanding site which brings together critical, biographical and bibliographical resources on Shakespeare.
The Victorian Web
Literature, History, and Culture in the Victorian Age (from Brown University)
Victorian Women Writers Project
"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the later 19th century. . . . the works will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them."
Voice of the Shuttle
An index of the world's online literary resources (maintained by Alan Liu of UC Santa Barbara).
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
This project, developed at University College Cork, is intended to bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet.
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
A well organized collection of links concerning Irish literature, history and culture.
Irish Resources in the Humanities
A collaborative project of University College, Dublin and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. The site offers brief descriptions of about 275 links organized by broad categories (including journals, literature, and theaters).
