Literature Research Guide

• Reference Sources
• Books
• Periodical Articles
• Web Sites

• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC) REF PA3001.C56
• Contemporary Literary Criticism REF PN80.C6
• Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC) REF PN86.L53 1984
• Contemporary Authors REF PN451.C6
• Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) REF PN451.D5
• Something About the Author (SATA) REF PN451.S6
• European writers REF PN501 .E9
• Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) REF PN761.N5
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) REF PN771.T85
• Poetry Criticism (PC) REF PN1010.P499
• Critical survey of short fiction REF PN3321 .C7
• Short Story Criticism (SSC) REF PN3373.S56
• Latin American writers REF PQ7081.A1 L37
• British Writers REF PR85.B688
• Shakespearean Criticism (SC) REF PR2965.S5
• American Writers REF PS129.A55
• American women writers REF PS147 .A4

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature Index to monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world on English or American literature. 1920 to the present.

• JSTOR Full-text database of scholarly publications on a range of subjects, including literature journals such as American Literature, ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in the Renaissance, and others.
• Literature Online Full-text literary reference and criticism resources, including biographies, author bibliographies, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), essays from New Essays on the American Novel, and full-text articles from 103 literature journals.
• MLA Comprehensive index to critical literary and language scholarship. Indexes literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 6,500 journals and serials published world wide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. 1963 to the present.
• Oxford English Dictionary Full-text scholarly dictionary containing more than half a million authoritative definitions and 2.4 million quotations, illustrating the evolution of the English language.

• Project Muse Full-text database of scholarly publications on a range of subjects, including literature journals such as American Literary History, The Chaucer Review , The Emily Dickinson Journal , New Literary History, and others.

Site containing links and information about American poetry, including online "exhibits" of poetry, tip sheets on readings and displays, a resource guide listing publishers, literary organizations, distributors, etc., and moderated forums for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and general readers.

A unique collection of diverse literature (essays, fiction, journals, etc). It also provides search tools to allow searches by author, title, and genre.

Searchable access to the annotated bibliographies of Dante scholarship published annually in Dante Studies (from 1953). Also includes access to an Italian Dante Bibliography for the years 1988-1990.

Transcripts of interviews with former slaves, conducted by WPA writers in the late 1930s.

Electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920. Project of the Humanities Text Initiative, the University of Michigan, and the Univeristy of Michigan Press. Searchable and browseable database.

Repository of the on-line versions of many classic texts, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammar and style handbooks, plus anthologies of literature and collections of texts by indiviual poets, dramatists, novelists and essayists. All texts are fully searchable.

Searchable, full-text versions of the Bible, including the Revised Standard Version, the King James Version, and Jerome's (Latin) Vulgate. Search by chapter and verse, by keyword, or by partial keyword. Hosted by Brown University.

Scholarly archive of e-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act). Unversity of California at Davis project. Texts are drawn from UC--Davis Library's Kohler Collection of British Poetry, housed in the Department of Special Collections.

Online version of the classic text, fully searchable.  Provides links to external sites on mythology like Perseus and Mythology in Western Art.

Online version of the eighteen volume 1907-1921 text, fully searchable. Contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages. Provided by Bartleby.com

Huge list of women writers with links to available web sites, bibliographies, e-texts, etc.

Moby Shakespeare edition of Shakespeare's works, searchable and downloadable.

Chronological/alphabetical listing of the complete texts of Shakespeare's works (from the Moby Shakespeare). Users can click to find definitions of words, locate terms with a searchable concordance, or look at links to other Shakespeare sites. A discussion area allows users to post questions or read answers to previously posted questions.

Concordances to around 200 books (primarily from the Great Books series).  Includes some strange texts such as the Starr Report and the testimony of Clinton and Lewinsky.

Primary texts including images of book covers, title pages, frontispieces, and illustrations. Part of the Documenting the American South Project, created by the University of North Carolina.

Links to course materials, a searchable bibliography, online articles, book reviews, databases, and images.

Collection of links to literary theory sites and resources on the web. University of Pennsylvania site.

Guide to literary resources on the eighteenth-century novel, including links to online sources, journals, bibliographies, and criticism.

Archive containing teaching aids including essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.

Archive of images and text from the surviving manuscript and ancillary materials.

An online archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts (some of which are publicly available). Hosted by the University of Virginia and including English, German, French, Japanese, and Latin texts.

Archive of biographical information, excerpts from primary resources, and images detailing the women's suffrage movement in Britain. Developed by Spartacus International, a teacher's cooperative that publishes low-cost educational materials.

Educational tool offering graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to edit texts. The site offers a collection of completed or edited texts as well as a collection of unedited texts, an introduction to editing, a bibliography of useful resources, and suggestions for assignments.

University of South Carolina site containing information on Fitzgerald plus links to other resources. Includes a large bibliography of works by and about Fitzgerald.

Full-text electronic collection of international folktales created by D.L. Ashliman professor of Germanic languages and literature at the University of Pittsburgh.

Site from Harvard University which includes critical articles, translations and glossed versions of sources relevant to Chaucer as well as graphics and general information about the Middle Ages.

Extensive online lab for grammar and rhetoric exercises, created by Capital Community College in Connecticut. Includes a number of tutorials and interactive quizzes. .

Bibliography of scholarship on Latin American studies published by the Library of Congress. An annual, the Handbook alternates coverage of the humanities and the social sciences each year. All volumes since 1935 (including future volumes in draft stage) are online and available for searching.

Full-text of the following 18th and 19th century journals, provided by Leeds, Manchester and Oxford: Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750), The Annual Register (1758-1778), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-1777), Notes and Queries (1849-1869), The Builder (1843-1852), and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863).

A network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies. Hosted at Georgetown University. Site includes links to databases, services, electronic texts, bibliographies, etc. on other servers around the world.

Very thorough set of pointers to resources on English and American literature on the Internet, arranged by period and subject. Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.

List of articles and materials on literature, politics, sociology, and the arts. Includes some visual material such as photographs and posters from the Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam era. Maintained by Alan Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania.

A calendar that allows the reader to click on any month and view a chronological list of literary works, literary moments, and writers.

Full-text of 24 19th century American periodicals in digital format. Includes such titles as Scribner's Magazine, Littell's Living Age, Putnam's Monthly and others. Provided by Cornell University. Also included are over 100 digitized, 19th century monographs. The University of Michigan has its own edition of Making of America, with different titles.

Searchable, downloadable ASCII versions of the works of Marx and Engels.

An ongoing project to collect and make available all existing data about all professional Christian women in Europe between 500 and 1500 C.E. Both textual and material sources, primary and secondary, are included although the database is primarily comprised of unpublished archival evidence.

Films available for free viewing over the internet. Requires RealPlayer. Films available are in the public domain.

Links to novels, essays, poetry, etc. written by Native Americans. Maintained by NativeWeb (Syracuse University).

Internet Public Library's site with links to web sites on American and British authors and literary works.

Collection of electronic texts from classical and medieval civilization. Keyword search or browse by title, author, genre, or language.

Collection of online references to medieval studies, including textbooks, bibliographies, images, literature, etc.

Information for poets, including a calendar of events, membership information, links to poetry resources, poetry awards information, and a link to the Poetry Society of America Journal.

A multimedia introduction to Dante's work, including the Italian texts, English translations, audio files of the Commedia being read in Italian, illustrations of his works, and a number of links.

Columbia University's collection of e-texts.

Large collection of e-texts, searchable by author and title.

Useful information about the entire history of the Pulitzer Prize award. Divided into four sections, this web site includes a section on the most recent award-winners, an archive, and history and resources sections. Includes information on the Pulitzer board members, plus a timeline of past winners and photographs and news stories on recent winners. Sponsored by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Large collection of handouts for students and writing instructors on a number of grammatical and rhetorical topics. Includes power point presentations and interactive web tutorials.

Notre Dame site offering information about and scanned images of nine incunable editions of Dante and a nearly complete series of 16th century imprints.

Small poetry database generated from various print versions of Representative Poetry, published between 1912 and 1967 by Toronto's Department of English.

Reference information, full-text articles, primary materials, etc. covering the period 1660-1851 and including information not only about the Romantic period, but also about the Victorian and Restoration periods.

Website providing access to resources on Byron, the Shelleys, Keats and other Romantic writers with information on and links to electronic publications, cnferences, electronic editions of the writers' works, scholarly resources, chronologies, etc. Edited by academics in the field, including Shelley scholar Donald Reiman.

A student friendly site that provides a variety of information about Shakespeare and his plays.

Archive of primary resources written by British women of the 19th century. Includes novels, poetry, drama, letters, etc. Maintained by Indiana University.

Digital repository of resources relating to World War I poetry, including war poems and manuscripts of Wilfred Owen and publications of the War which include the complete run of Hydra, the journal of the patients at the Craglockhart War Hospital, plus other propaganda pamphlets, forces' newspapers, postcards, etc.] The site also offers online seminars intended to be used for online instruction on this topic.

Large database of web sites relating to the humanities, including lists of sites on literature and literary theory.

Links to literary texts in Western European lanaguages other than English. Available through the University of Virginia's collection of e-texts.

Collection of texts and images by and about William Blake (still in development).

Created by Adriana Craciun (Univ. of Nottingham), this site includes a variety of US, British, Canadian, and European links to texts and Web sites devoted to individual writers and issues. Craciun divides the resources into six sections: Electronic Texts by Women Writers; Annuals, Anthologies and Gift Books; Contemporary Responses to Women Writers; Electronic Text Archives; Cultural and Visual Resources; and Related Web Sites.

Gateway to Web resources in support of women's studies. A continuing project of the ACRL Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee, the site is particularly distinctive for its breadth of coverage and its organization into 14 topical pages: General Sites, Archives, Art and Film, Culture (including Literature), Education, Health, History, International, Lesbian Sites, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Science and Technology, and Theology.