Literature and Language
Bartleby
Provides access to many important reference sources, including the Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, English usage sources, quotation collections, the Bible (Authorized Version), Shakespeare, and Gray's Anatomy. Providing electronic access to older classics and some copyrighted titles, Bartleby arranges English and American nonfiction, fiction, and verse (19th through early 20th centuries) into "anthologies" and "specific volumes." Online Books Page includes more than 12,000 titles, pointing the searcher to other online text sites, making its texts searchable by author, title, and subject.
Electronic
Text Center (University of Virginia)
“The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 70,000
on- and off-line humanities texts in many languages (including online
Chinese and Japanese literature) and hundreds of thousands of related
images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page
images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)… Whenever
legally possible, we provide public access to our browseable and searchable
texts, and have thousands available in this form, including the following
highlights: African American, including Letters from Liberia; Native American;
American Civil War; including the letters and diaries in the Valley of
the Shadow, alongside the Booker and Nettleton collections; Thomas Jefferson;
William Shakespeare; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Women Writers; Young Readers.”
[http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/etext/index.html]
Humanities
Text Initiative
A group of collections covering all aspects of life. Making of America
is one of the collections. Most major religious books can be found in
this collection. Also in the collection is the Digital General Collection
which consist of over 26000 books digitized for preservation issues at
the University of Michigan.
[http://www.hti.umich.edu/]
Online
Books Page
A listing of over 20,000 book free online. Books can be access by title,
author and subject (Library of Congress call number).
[http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/]
Project
Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers more that 16,000 free online books. Books can
be searched by title and author.
[http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page]
Representative
Poetry Online
This site provides a brief biography and a list of titles that can be
viewed. A Glossary of poetic terms, Timeline and Calendar of births and
deaths are also provided. Poems can be found by keyword searching. A Concordance
search is also available to search out all use of a word in a poem.
[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/]
American Literature:
American
Literature on the Web
A collection of links to author’s websites and electronic texts.
The site is searchable by time periods, and genres. Links for music and
visual arts and social context of the era is also given.
[http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/index.htm]
Making
of America
“Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources
in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000
journal articles with 19th century imprints.”
[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/]
Transcendentalists
This site brings to together original material on the Transcendentalists:
Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and others. Biographies, criticisms, and selected
full text of transcendental works are also provided.
[http://www.transcendentalists.com/]
British Literature:
Beowulf
in Hypertext
Presents Beowulf in both Old English and Modern English. Also includes
an in-depth examination of the epic poem and its historical context as
well as related documents and links.
[http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/]
British
and Irish Authors on the Web
This site provides links to author’s sites. It is searchable from
time period.
[http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html]
Labyrinth
Library: Old English
Provides full text Old English manuscript such as Beowulf and Judith,
the Junius Manuscript, and Vercelli Book. Other works are also provided.
[http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html]
Labyrinth
Library:Middle English Bookcase
Provides full text access to Middle English texts such as Canterbury Tales
and The Vision of Piers Plowman.
[http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/me/me.html]
Luminarium:
Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century Literature
This site offers a listing of authors writing in Medieval, Renaissance,
and 17th Century. Each author has a link to a biography, list of works,
essays and articles, and additional research.
[http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm]
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
"This site attempts two things:
1) To be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources
available on Internet. The navigation menu at left appears on each major
page. Use it to access the resources indexed here. The "Other"
Sites page is a definite exception to the term "scholarly."
Our newest feature is a listing of Shakespeare Festivals.
2) To present new Shakespeare
material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet, such as A Shakespeare
Timeline, which gives the key events of Shakespeare's life and work along
with related documentary evidence. There are several supporting pages
to the timeline: A Shakespeare genealogy. A chart showing the relevant
family relationships and dates. A Shakespeare Timeline Summary Chart,
showing the events of Shakespeare's life in outline along with important
contemporary events and publications. A Shakespeare Biography Quiz. If
you are brave enough, you may take the quiz before reading the timeline.
The Shakespeare Canon. Rowe's Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William
Shakespear, prefaced to his 1709 edition of the Works. Charles and Mary
Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare. The Prefatory materials from the First
Folio."
[http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/]
SHAKSPER:
The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference
"SHAKSPER, the international electronic conference for Shakespearean
researchers, instructors, students, and those who share their academic
interests and concerns. SHAKSPER is a moderated mailing list edited by
Hardy M. Cook." Includes scholarly papers concerning all aspects
of the study of Shakespeare.
[http://www.shaksper.net/]
The
Geoffrey Chaucer Webpage (Harvard University)
Presents Chaucer's works in annotated Middle English, as well as biographical
and related historical information. Also includes a self-paced tutorial,
"Teach Yourself to Read Chaucer's Middle English."
[http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/]
Victorian
Web
The Victorian Web is divided into the following sections Social History,
Political History, Gender Matters, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Technology,
Genre and Technique, Authors, Visual Arts, Theater and Popular Entertainment,
Victorian Web Books, Victorian Web Text, Bibliography, Economic Contexts,
Periodicals, Before Victoria, and WWW Resources.
[http://www.victorianweb.org/]
Women
Romantic-Era Writers
Electronic text and criticism of Romantic-era women writers. An alphabetic
list of writers is given. It is not searchable.
[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/ac/wrew.htm]
Children's Literature:
Children's
Literature Web Guide
"The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together
and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books
for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find
through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and
commercial enterprises involved in the book world."
[http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html]
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators: Literature & Language Arts
This site, created by Kathy Schrock, District Technology Department Head
for the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District on Cape Cod, MA, features
links to many sites of interest to those teaching children's literature.
Poetry to mythology, mysteries to picture books-this site links to it
all.
[http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html]
Linguistics:
History
of English Phonemes
This site traces the development of Present Day English through Old English,
Middle English, Early Modern English. This site covers sound and spelling
changes.
[http://alpha.furman.edu/~wrogers/phonemes/]
Lexicon
of Linguistics
Contains definitions of terms used in linguistics. The site is searchable
and browseable.
[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/]
The
Evolution of Present Day English
Discusses the changes in the English Language from its earliest form to
the present. It is searchable by period and by topic.
[http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/hel/helmod/chaunge.html]