Portals and Megasites
These are huge collections of links. You'll still need to search the site for your specific topic.
Voice of the Shuttle
Intute: English Literature
Literary Resources on the Net
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
A Celebration of Women Writers
American Literature Sites
American Literature Links
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Literary Movements
Literary Resources: American
Outline of American Literature
Virtual Learning Resources Center
Collection of PBS sites: A list of links to many of PBS' literature-based sites. Most have biographies, essays, video and links to primary sources.
PBS Drama: A similar list of dramatic links
Modern American Poetry: Biographic and criticism on, well, modern American poets.
PennSound: Audio recordings/criticism of modern poets
Poets.org: Site from the American Academy of Poets. Contains bibliography, primary sources and more.
Criticism
Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
Literary History.com: Open access articles on literary criticism
Literary Criticism: Extensive collection of online articles from the Internet Public Library
Classic Criticism/British Lit: Collection of links to the classic critics--Pope, Dryden, Coleridge, etc.
American Literature
General
History of American Literature
American Passages: Complete class in American Lit online with texts, videos and study guides. You'll need to register to see the videos (but it's free).
Norton Anthology of American Lit: Online resources covering American lit from Native Americans through the present. With links to video, images and more.
Colonial/Age of Reason
Puritans: PBS site exploring Puritans' views on their role in America
Fire and Ice: Puritan and reformed writings
Puritans and Hornbooks
Anne Bradstreet: In Reference to Her Children: Critical essay
Edward Taylor: Study Guide
Edward Taylor: Lecture Notes
William Bradford: Study Guide
Archiving Early America: Great site, with links to documents, images, video and general information
Salem Witch Trials Background info, with images and primary sources
A Puritan Maiden's Diary
Religion in Early America General Background
Mary Rowlandson/Captivity Narratives: background and primary sources
American Writers: 16th/17th: Collection of sites covering major authors
American Lit 1700-1800: Collection of sites related to various authors and aspects of early American lit.
American Writers: 18th Century
Mr Jefferson and the Trials of Phyllis Wheatley: Excellent lecture about the poet from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Ben Franklin: PBS site, with links to primary documents.
Thomas Jefferson: Collection of primary documents from PBS
Romantics/Transcendentalists
The Romantic Period: Background info
American Transcendentalism Web: Portal of links to major writers
American Transcendentalism: Background info
Frederick Douglass Papers
Walt Whitman: PBS site
Knowing Poe
Nevermore: Exhibit of primary source documents (on Poe, natch!) from Cornell
Revising Himself: Walt Whitman LOC exhibit
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Biography and criticism
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: Amazing collection of archival material and criticism
Dickinson Electronic Archives: A collection of critical material, both text and audio
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Realists and Regionalists
Rise of Realism Background info
Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America Looks at Twain, Steinbeck and other authors strongly associated with a particular region
Mark Twain
Mark Twain in his Times
Mark Twain Takes on Art
Mark Twain Papers: Great archive of Twain's letters, photographs, drawings, etc.
Henry James: Collection of web sites relating to the author
Narrative Gaps in Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence: online article
Edith Wharton: Biography with links to online critical essays
Willa Cather: Biography with links to online critical essays
Willa Cather
Willa Cather Archive: Wonderful collection of letters, digitized texts and more.
Cather's Song of the Lark
Willa Cather Archive: Online collection of letters, criticism, e-texts and more
Kate Chopin: Same as above
Kate Chopin PBS site with links to sources
Sarah Orne Jewett
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Theodore Dreiser
Dreiser on the Web: Collection of sites from the Theodore Dreiser Society
Hart Crane: Collection of podcats from UPENN
Robert Frost: Online audio of two Frost poetry readings
Robert Frost: Biography and criticism of many of Frost's poems, from University of Illinois
Robert Frost Lectures: Collection of many of Frost's lectures at Breadloaf--some text, some audio
Modernism
Modernism and Experimenting
Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock: Audio analysis of T.S. Eliot's poem
Journey of the Magi: Text and criticism
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Collection of criticism, audio recordings, biography and more
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Virtual Hemingway: Collection of links from the Hemingway Society
Hemingway Retrospective
Dorothy Parker
Eugene O'Neill
Katherine Anne Porter
Arthur Miller
Faulkner 101: I can't believe I'm putting up an Oprah site, but there's some great information here, including video lectures from professors
Teaching Faulkner: Collection of articles
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams Annual Review: Online Journal (9 issues)
Mississippi Writer's Page: From Ole Miss. Studies of Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams and more
Steinbeck, East of Eden
Langston Hughes: Collection of sites
Langston Hughes: A Voice for All People
Harlem Renaissance Web Guide: Collection of sites from LOC
Richard Wright
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams: Reading and commentaries on many of his poems (audio)
British Lit
Norton Anthology of British Lit Online: Wow. Amazing what you can find online! Text, background and some analysis of major and minor British writers
Anglo-Saxon
Resources for the Study of Beowulf
Beowulf Study Guide From Georgetown
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain and the Green Knight: Collection of links
Resources for Old English Literature
Arthur: Reality and Romance Collection of links
Morte D'Arthur: Background with great explanation of Courtly Love Tradition
Medieval
Middle English Literature: Luminarium site
Chaucer Metapage: Extensive collection of websites
The Ellesmere Chaucer: Image collections from the Ellesmere manuscript
Geoffrey Chaucer: Site from Harvard
eChaucer: Great collection of sites. Be sure to check out the gallery for some stunning images.
The World of Chaucer Wonderful information and images, covering all things Chaucerian
Wife of Bath: Collection of links
Pardoner's Tale and the Unredeemed Dead: Online article
Shakespeare
(He kind of deserves a category all to himself, yes?)
Folger Shakespeare Library
In Search of Shakespeare: PBS site with information and links to images, videos, etc.
Shakespeare Online: Collection of criticism, full text of sonnets, background information and more.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: Great collection on line resources, criticism, etc. relating to the Bard
Shakespeare Resource Center: Another collection of Bard-related links
Shakespeare in Quarto: Full-text images of the British Library's 93 volumes of the 21 plays in print before the theatres were closed in 1642.
Guide to Shakespeare: Encyclopedia Britannica's site with background, explanations of each of the plays, essays, and a look at life in Elizabethan England
Internet Shakespeare Editions: Fully annotated editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems, with multimedia look at the life and times.
The Shakespeare Mystery: PBS site exploring whether Shakespeare was Shakespeare, or someone else pretending to be Shakespeare....
Renaissance:
Elizabethan Authors: Online texts, resources and critical essays of key Renaissance authors.
Early 17th Century: Luminarium site exploring Renaissance authors
16th Century Renaissance: Luminarium site
Bacon Essays: Links to online versions
Francis Bacon: Entry from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Marlowe's texts online: E-versions of Marlowe's works from Perseus
Marlowe's Faustus: Background and analysis from Dartmouth
Renaissance Attitudes Towards Faustus as Magician
Roundheads and Cavaliers
John Donne, Ben Jonson and 17th Century Poets: Study guide
John Donne Sermons: Searchable archive
Extensive Collection of Critical Essays on Donne
Milton Home Page: Great collection of links to online texts, criticism and background materials
Lecture on Paradise Lost
Satan as Hero in PL: Collection of quotations from British Romantic poets regarding Satan's character in Paradise Lost
Andrew Marvell: Links to poems, some analysis
Marvell's To His Coy Mistress Analysis
Restoration/Enlightenment:
Restoration Comedy: Background info from Duke
18th Century Lit: Luminarium site
Gulliver's Travels: Resources for studying the novel, with links and images
Jonathan Swift: Collection of links from, of all places the Victorian Web (!!??)
The Just and Lively: Literary Criticism of John Dryden: Google Books, criticism
Alexander Pope: Background info
Pope's Sources and Influence: Essay
Samuel Johnson and the Dictionary: Exhibit from Stanford
Jane Austen's World: Collection of links relating to her life, her work, her world and criticism
Jane Austen, study guide
The Complete Jane Austen: PBS companion site
Republic of Pemberley: Extensive site on all things Jane
Jane Austen's Hampshire: Online exhibit
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