BRITISH LITERATURE   

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General Resources
Before the 18th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th and 21st Century
E-texts

General Resources

British Literature and Anglophile Resources - very basic information about authors, genres, and eras, in most cases it useful only for overview, but there are some very good and thorough discussions tucked in here as well.  Use the index in the left frame for quick access.
http://britishliterature.com

The Humbul Gateway , International Resources for the Humanities
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/

The Period Pages Project - discussion of four literary periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration, and Victorian
http://www.cs.uwindsor.ca/units/english/PPP/index.htm

Voice of the Shuttle, English Literature Home Page - links to pages for each period
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Before the 18th Century

The Canterbury Tales Project
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/ctp/index.html

Creation of the Corpus Christi Dramae
http://www.cs.uwindsor.ca/units/english/PPP/Medieval/corpus.htm

Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rashoaf/dccw.html

The Decameron Web
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml

The Electronic Beowulf   
http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/BL/kportico.html

Elizabethean Sonneteers - short overview with e-texts of several period sonnets organized by author
http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/eliz.htm

English Renaissance Drama - each month a new play is discussed plus the continuing content on Ben Jonson and links
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1366/

Essays and Articles in Early Seventeenth Century English Literature - useful links site oganized by author with links to scholarly and student pieces
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/seveness.htm

Essays and Articles on Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature - an exceptionally useful links site organized by author with links to scholarly and student pieces
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/essays.htm

Everyman - text, essays, and links
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/everyman.htm

Fourteenth Century History - outline covers Chaucer
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hanly/chaucer/coursematerials/14thcent.html

From Byzantium to the French Revolution - a series of student-made web pages on different events and periods
http://www.omnibusol.com/medieval.html

Labyrinth - invaluable Medieval Studies collection out of Gerogetown, an academic site with on medieval culture, history, art and literature arranged by topic and by culture
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Miracle Plays and Mysteries
http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/10348a.htm

ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - a comprehensive academic site with its own web pages on medieval culture, history, art and literature and extensive specialized and general links 
http://orb.rhodes.edu/

Restoration Drama Home Page (1660-1700)
http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~smorgan/publick/resthome.html

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - essays and additional recourses
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gawain.htm

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature - terrific and attractive site with biographies of key literary and cultural figures, essays, and outher resources
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

World of the London Theater, 1660-1800
http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~craddock/lonthe1.html

18th Century

Brown University Women Writer’s Project - authors before 1830
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

Dictionary of Sensibility - online index with short essays for various terms of the Romantic period, with e-text examples of use
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enec981/dictionary/

Eighteenth Century Studies  
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/18th/

Literary Gothic Page
http://www.siue.edu/~jvoller/general.html

Romantic Circles   
http://www.rc.umd.edu/

Romantic Chronology
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/

Romantic Links, Home Pages, and Electronic Texts  
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Romantic/index.html

Romanticism on the Net    
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/

The Victorian Web - splendid resource on culture, history, and literature
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html

World of the London Theater, 1660-1800
http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~craddock/lonthe1.html

19th Century

Books in Chains
http://www.uc.edu/~RETTBESR/Links.html

Brown University Women Writer’s Project - authors before 1830
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

Literary Gothic Page
http://www.siue.edu/~jvoller/general.html

Nineteenth Century Literature - journal articles
http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu/scan/ncl-e/

Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html

Victorian Women Writers Project - texts and bibliography and links to other resources    
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

20th and 21st Century

Bohemian Ink, Guide to Coffee, Angst, and Experimentalism   
http://www.serve.com/Critter/Authors/index.htm#authors

Books in Chains
http://www.uc.edu/~RETTBESR/Links.html

Bookwire - Author book tour and awards information, links to Publishers Weekly, the Boston Book Review and the Hungry Mind Review, and a newsletter for book industry insiders.   
http://www.bookwire.com/

Modern Fiction Studies - online scholarly journal  
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/mfs/

Modernism Timeline, 1890-1940
http://faculty.washington.edu/eckman/

Booklist - online version of the American Library Association publication. Book reviews categorizes them by "What's New," youth, adult, audiovisual stuff, reference materials, articles, and bibliographies.
http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html

E-Texts

Alex - a catalog of books and other literary works on the Internet, and currently includes almost 1800 entries; site comes out of NCSU, has browse and search options   
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alex/alex-index.html

Bartleby Library - online texts
http://www.bartleby.com/

Bibliomania, The Network Library - online library with fiction, nonfiction, and reference books  
http://www.bibliomania.com/

Electronic Text Library - out of the University of Virginia; many texts limited to UVa users.  There are lots of texts available to all users, too.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

English Server at Carnegie Mellon - Over 18,000 texts, one of the most widely accessed  
http://eng.hss.cmu.edu/

Master Works of Western Civilization
http://www.eskimo.com/~masonw/cgi-bin/mason.cgi?MasterWorks

Middle English Works- texts with search tools and bibliography  
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/mideng/

Online Books Page: Free online texts of over 2000 books.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL

Project Gutenburg - texts on line
http://promo.net/pg/

Public Domain Modern English Text- with a search tool and bibliography  
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/pd-modeng/