Resources for Literary Studies

VCCS Litonline Introduction to Literature
English 112 (English Composition II)

Resources for Literary Studies

These gateway sites will lead you to more specific resources for research and for additional understanding of literature. Please let us know if you have other resources to recommend: VCCS Litonline Resources.

General

Classics Archive - http://classics.mit.edu/

Bartleby Library: Great Books Online - http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

Project Gutenberg: Free Books Online - http://www.promo.net/pg/

Currents in Electronic Literacy: An Electronic Journal for Computer Writing, Rhetoric and Literature - http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents

English Server at Iowa State University - http://eserver.org/

Literature, Arts, and Medicine - http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html

Literary Resources on the Net by Jack Lynch of Rutgers - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Jack Lynch's Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms - http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/

Literature Resource Listings UVA - http://www.virginia.edu/cla/englit.htm

Literature Resources - Global Campus - http://www.csulb.edu/gc/libarts/lit/index.html

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism - http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

VIVA Virtual Library of Virginia Collections - http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/collect/collect.html requires authentication for many of the sites, including the Oxford English Dictionary, essential for close study of individual words. Ask your professor about authentication procedures.

Voice of the Shuttle Humanities Sites - http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Literary Links by Mitsuharu Matsuoka from Nagoya University, Japan - http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/

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American

American Literature University of Texas - http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/reader/index.html

Literary Resources—American - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html

American Studies Web - http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/

The Academy of American Poets - http://www.poets.org/

Electronic Archives for Teaching American Literatures - http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/tamlit-home.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide from Paul P. Reuben, Department of English, California State University Stanislaus - http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML

American Authors on the Web by Mitsuharu Matsuoka from Nagoya University, Japan - http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html#Authors

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International

The Electronic Poetry Center at University of Buffalo - http://www.epc.buffalo.edu/

Old English Pages by Cathy Ball from Georgetown - http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/old_english.html

Labyrinth Links to Middle English Literature - http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action=View&Category=English,%20Middle

Caribbean and Other Post-Colonial Writers - http://www.postcolonialweb.org/index.html

Ovid, Metamorphoses: the Analytical Onomasticon Project - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/onomasticon-sampler/

Luminarium's Pages on Medieval, Renaissance and 16th Century Literature - http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

University of Pennsylvania Romantic Writers Links Page by Michael Gamer -http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Romantic/

The Victorian Web: George Landow's EXHAUSTIVE Site on Victorian Writers and Culture - http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/victov.html

World Literature Program-Creighton University - http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/worldlit/

A Celebration of Women Writers - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

VCCS Litonline Resources for Literary Studies http://vccslitonline.cc.va.us/vcresorc.htm | developed by D. Reiss | modified 01/02/03 by D. Reiss | modified 1/02/04 by Michael Weiser under a VCCS grant

VCCS Litonline Introduction to Literature English 112 (English Composition II)