LibGuides: English Literature: Recommended websites

English literature websites

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
A searchable online collection of 925 Irish literary and historical texts in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English .
LiteraryHistory.com
Includes a Google custom search to quickly find information
Perseus Digital Library
The Perseus Project is a digital library project of Tufts University, which is located in Medford and Somerville, near Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The project assembles digital collections of humanities resources.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English)
The mission of VoS is to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

poets.org From the Academy of American Poets, a curated collection of over 7,000 poems, over 2,500 poet biographies, as well as essays about poetry, and some of the most important books, anthologies, and textbooks about the art form ever written.
Dickinson Electronic Archive A creative and critical collaboratory for reading Dickinson's material bodies and for featuring new critical and theoretical work about Emily Dickinson's writings, biography, reception, and influence. The Dickinson Electronic Archives is a scholarly resource showcasing the possibility of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and exploring the potential of the digital environment to reveal new interpretive material, cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts.
Walt Whitman Archive Published by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature This research guide is more of an online encyclopedia, with introductory notes on the major movements in American literature, and extensive bibliographies. Because it was created by an English professor and deliberately intended for college students in American literature courses, it also includes helpful study questions and research guidance.
American Literature and Culture Resources Contains links to major American literature internet resources with a focus on the nineteenth century and women's studies.
Voice of the Shuttle: American literature The mission of VoS is to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.
EWWRP: Women's Genre Fiction Project The project encompasses both British and American fiction written from 1860 to 1920. By December 2005, this website will include approximately three hundred digital texts.
MAPS: Modern American Poetry Provides information about poems ranging from historical background to analyses of the poems themselves. The site is designed to help all readers of modern poetry.
Willa Cather Archive The Willa Cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely-accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings. The site provides digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship free to the public as well as creating a large amount of unique, born-digital scholarly content.

Canadian literature internet resources A list of Canadian literaure online resources maintained by the National Library of Canada.
Library and Archives Canada - Literature Canada's national collection of books, historical documents, government records, photos, films, maps, music. The Literature section includes the Canadian Poetry Archive; History of the Book in Canada; Literary Archives and several virtual exhibitions.
Canadian Literature Centre The Canadian Literature Centre / Centre de littérature canadienne was established at the University of Alberta in 2006. As the western hub of the Canadian literary community, it brings together researchers, authors, publishers, collectors and the reading public to promote the strength and diversity of Canada’s written culture, and promotes research of Canadian literature, in both English and French, of all genres, languages, and regions.
Canadian Poetry online Canadian Poetry is a collection of poetry from published contemporary and 19th century Canadian poets. Contemporary poets have selected their poetry and provided biographies.
Canadian Literature Archive The Canadian Literature Archive has been online since October 4, 1994 and is a repository for information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, Canadian literary organizations, magazines, publications, texts and library archives. It is a project of the English Department of the University of Manitoba.
A Celebration of Women Writers (Canada) A database compiled by the University of Pennsylvania of both historical and contemporary Canadian women writers. The site includes biographies, relevant links, and some textual access.

Eighteen-century resources — literature Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, this site covers significant and reliable Internet resources focusing on the eighteenth century — roughly from Milton to Keats. This site is aimed especially at scholars and students.
Voice of the Shuttle: Restoration & Eighteenth Century The mission of VoS is to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

Literary vocabulary An alphabetical glossary of literary terms and their definitions, maintained by Dr. Kip Wheeler
Glossary of Literary & Rhetorical Terms - Jack Lynch
Glossary of Literary Gothic terms Maintained by Douglass H. Thomson of the Department of Literature and Philosophy of Georgia Southern University

Voice of the Shuttle: Literary theory The mission of VoS is to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

NetSERF's Medieval Glossary: Literature
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Voice of the Shuttle: Arthurian studies The mission of VoS is to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to resources in medieval studies. The Labyrinth’s easy-to-use links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne’s thread through the maze of information on the Web.
Chaucer Bibliography Online A database of books, articles and other forms of scholarship about Chaucer published from 1975 to the present.

The Victorian Web One of the oldest academic and scholarly websites, containing 88,000 documents and growing. Contains primary and secondary texts (including scholarly book reviews) in British Victorian economics, literature, philosophy, political and social history, science, technology, and visual arts.
Victorian Women Writers Project Concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century, this collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more.
Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian The mission of VoS is to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.
Romanticism & Victorianism on the Net Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) is an international, open access journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature
LiteraryHistory.com: 19th-century literary criticism (English, Irish, Scottish, and American) LiteraryHistory.com is an internet library of literary scholarship
Discovering literature: Romantics and Victorians
From the British Library.

Renaissance Electronic Texts A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period.
About Shakespeare A site containing an authoritative text of the complete poetry and plays of Shakespeare, information about Shakespeare's life and the Globe Theatre, contemporary images, bibliographies, and film adaptations.
Open Source Shakespeare Includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century, a concordance, keyword and character search capabilty.
The Early Modern Colloquium: Early Modern web resources From the University of Michigan, a growing list of web sites of particular use and interest to Early Modern scholars. Scroll down to "General Resources" to find an accessible list

Romantic Circles: A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture Romantic Circles Scholarly Resources is a collection of online research tools approved by the General Editors of the site, intended for the study of the Romantics, their contemporaries, and their cultural contexts.
Keats-Shelley Journal Published annually by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. It contains articles on John Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, and their circles of mutual influence and context–as well as news and notes, book reviews, and a current bibliography.
Romanticism & Victorianism on the Net Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) is an international, open access journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature
Discovering literature: Romantics and Victorians
From the British Library.

Voice of the Shuttle: Modern British Authors, Works, Projects
Voice of the Shuttle: Modern (British & American)
LiteraryHistory.com: Twentieth-century literature LiteraryHistory.com is an internet library of literary scholarship
James Joyce checklist Searchable database of citations and links to publications relevant to Joyce in any language and in any medium, from the early twentieth century to the present.