English and Humanities Resources

For links to available Internet resources, click on any of the following subjects:

• General Humanities
• General Literature
• Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• 18th Century Literature
• 19th Century Literature
• 20th Century Literature
• American Literature
• Library Information
• Women Writers and Issues
• Online Writing and Research Assistance
• Computers and the Humanities
• Textual Critical Resources

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General Humanities

• The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Job Listings!
• Association of American University Presses
• Humanist Discussion Group
• Institute of Historical Research --University of London
• Modern Humanities Research Association --Information about MHRA and Modern Language Review.
• MLA -- Modern Language Association of America
• NEH -- National Endowment for the Humanities
• NEMLA -- Northeast Modern Language Association
• University of Pennsylvania Calls For Papers
• Historical Manuscripts Commission
• SAMLA -- South Atlantic Modern Language Association
• SHARP -- The Society for the History or Authorship, Reading and Publishing
• University of Delaware Library's English and American Literature Resources

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General Literature

• 100 English Home Pages
• Anthologies and Miscellanies -- 18th, 19th, and 20th century poetry collections
• Carnegie Mellon English Server
• English Departments On-line
• English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
• Literary Mailing Lists -- U-Penn's gopher with information on various literature mailing lists
• Links for Poetry E-texts
• NYBooks: The Reader's Website
• Society for Literature and Science
• University of Pennsylvania English Server
• The Voice of the Shuttle -- Humanities Research

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Medieval and Renaissance Literature

• Anthology of Medieval English Literature (1350-1485)
• ARTFL Project: Multi-lingual Bibles -- Search and browse several bibles, including the Latin Vulgate
• Classical & Medieval Studies Page by James J. O'Donnell
• Early Modern Literary Studies -- A Journal of Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Literature
• Electronic Beowulf
• Exemplaria -- A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
• Labyrinth -- a Medieval Studies site from Georgetown University
• Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVA
• Online Chaucer Bibliography -- telnet application needed
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
• The Online Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan. -- From the Medieval Institute and The Department of Art, Art History and Design, University of Notre Dame
• Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
• Project Aldus --An electronic archive for source and secondary materials related to the study of the English Renaissance/Early Modern Period.
• Renaissance Electronic Texts
• Renaissance Texts Research Centre
• Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
• The Warburg Institute
• Western Michigan University's Medieval Institute
• WWW Medieval Resources

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18th Century Literature

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• A Dictionary of Sensibility
• Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net
• Eighteenth Century Studies
• Gulliver's Travels
• David Hume Homepage
• Internet Library of Early Journals -- Will eventually contain searchable, digitized pages from Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

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19th Century Literature

• The William Blake Archive at the University of Virginia
• The William Blake Home Page
• British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early 19th Century
• British Poetry 1780-1910
• The Robert Browning Hypermedia Archive
• Lewis Carroll Home Page
• Wilkie Collins Page
• Dickens Project
• Philadelphia Dickens Fellowship
• The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
• The Thomas Hardy Society of North America
• Internet Library of Early Journals -- Contains searchable, digitized pages from Notes and Queries and Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine
• Keats-Shelly Journal Home Page
• Making of American (MOA) Project
• William Morris Home Page
• Nineteenth Century Art Website
• Nineteenth Century Literature
• Nineteenth Century Studies an interdisciplinary journal
• Northeast Victorian Studies Association
• The Pre-Raphaelites Home Page
• Romantic Circles -- Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and their contemporaries
• Romanticism On the Net
• The Romantics Chronology
• The Rossetti Archive
• The Arthur Symons Pages -- includes a list of 1890's links
• Victoria Research Web
• The Victorian Canon -- contains several e-texts and course syllabi
• Victorian Poetry Home Page
• Victorian Sensationalism Online
• The Victorian Web
• Victorian Web Sites --Nagoya University
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• Mary Wollstonecraft Web Page
• William Wordsworth --Complete Poetical Works (Hypertext)

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20th Century Literature

• An Index of Web Sites on Modernism -- at Brown University
• Modern Fiction Studies -- online editions available through Project Muse
• Omphalos --Pages dedicated to modern and postmodern authors (e.g. Joyce, Eco, Marquez, Pynchon)
• 20th Century Poetry in English

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American Literature

• 19th Century Scientific American Online --Issues from 1845 available online as well as indices for the fourteen volumes thereafter.
• American Authors on the Web
• The American Revolution --Created by H-Net
• American Studies Web
• American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia
• Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
  Godey's Lady's Book Online --January and November 1850 issues available.
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
• Penny Magazine Online --Issues from July-August 1835 available.
• Thomas Pynchon Home Page
  SAA -- The Society of American Archivists
• Sentimentalism and Imperialism in American Literature to 1865 --Auburn U. graduate course, with many American Literature online resources.
• SiteScene -- A Biweekley Review of New Electronic Resources in American Studies
• Amy Tan
• Alice Walker
• Western Literature Association
• Walt Whitman Hypertext Archives
• 1997 USIA Winter Institute

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Library Information

• University of Delaware Library
• English and American Resources at Morris Library --University of Delaware Library
• Archives and Manuscript Collections on the Internet --Maintained by Columbia University
• British Library Online Public Access Catalogue -- available Monday through Saturday, 4am-midnight GMT
• COPAC --An on-line catalogue of university libraries in the UK
• Cornell University --The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
• Directory of North American Research Libraries
• Duke University Special Collections
• Library of Congress Home Page
• LIBWEB --An extensive list of WWW library servers
• National Library of New Zealand
• NUCMC --The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
• UNC -Chapel Hill Manuscripts Department
• University of Texas at Austin -- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
• Virtual Library of Virginia

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Women Writers and Issues

• Brown Women Writers Project
• Celebration of Women Writers --Carnegie Mellon University
• Civil War Women
• Gender Inn -- Women's and Gender Studies Database (link to English version)
• The National Centuer for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women
• The William B. Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1920 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Women and Performance -- A Journal of Feminist Theory
• Women in the Humanities
• Women's Studies Resources at Duke University

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Online Writing and Research Assistance

• Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC)
• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources
• Online Writery -- Missouri University Writing Center
• OWL -- Purdue University Writing Lab
• Rensselear Writing Center
• Research Tools Page by Jack Lynch
  RHETNET: A Cyberjournal for Rhetoric and Writing
  University of Michigan OWL

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Computers and the Humanities

• ACW -- The Alliance for Computers and Writing
• Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
• Computing in the Humanties Working Papers --Essays and articles pertaining to computer related research.
• Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities
• Hyperizons --Hypertext Fiction Index
• Oxford Text Archive --North American ftp mirror site
• University of Toronto -- Centre for Computing in the Humanities

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Textual Critical Resources

• Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, ltd -- Chapel Hill bookseller includes a searchable index of inventory
• Bibliocity -- online searching and ordering of rare and collectable books.
• Bibliofind -- An online marketplace for old, used, and rare books.
• The Bibliographic Society of America
• BISG Guide to Book Publishers' Archives
• Booknet --a page dedicated to antiquarian books and booksellers
• Bookshelf --The WWW page for the Bibliophile Mailing List
• Boston Book Company --Searchable database
• Cremer and Beereboom Book Page --Links for all things book-related.
• ExLibris Archives --Rare books and special collections newsgroup
• Guide to the Book Arts and Book History on the WWW
• History of the Book at Oxford
• Maggs Brothers Catalogues
• MARAC --The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
• Oak Knoll Books --A publisher specializing on book arts and histories of the book and the book trade.
• Powell's Books -- online ordering from this amazing Portland bookstore.
• The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
• Studies in Bibliography
• TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship -- Reviews
• Text-retrieval, concording, and analysis software list