Literary Resources
General Resources
The On-Line Books Page
This site is a storehouse of on-line books and other documents which includes more than 1800 English works in various formats. A list of on-line publishers and retailers is available. It also includes a list of banned books and links to other book repositories.
Project Bartleby
This site includes texts and reference works. It is one of the largest collections of on-line literature currently available on the net.
Argus Clearinghouse
This site lists literary resources for American literature, children's literature, rare books, world literature, old English writer's resources and other useful information.
Literary Resources on the Net
This site isn't pretty but it is thorough. It provides information useful to academics, and can be searched by period or genre.
A Literary Index
This site provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students and lovers of literature.
World Wide Web Resources -- English and American Literature
This site is a great site with all sorts of useful links from the standard literary sites to the origin and evolution of fairy tales, European medieval drama and numerous sites related to writing.
General Literary Resources
This site from the University of Northern Colorado has a nice array of links which have been well researched in order to select the best links in each subject area.
English Network Resources
This site provides a comprehensive, updated index including electronic journals, listservs, online books, linguistics pages and much more.
CLNet Diversity Page
This site offers links to resources on African-American, Asian-American, Latino, Native-American, Multicultural, Women's, and Gay and Lesbian studies.
Book Wire
This site allows you to find up-to-date reviews, bestseller lists, author events, and links to publishers, booksellers, and libraries.
New York Times Books
This site provides access to the latest reviews, live readings, bestsellers, interviews, forums, and the first chapters from the NY Times book review.
Book Lovers - Fine Books
This site offers resources on authors, online texts, periodicals, publishers and booksellers of new and antiquarian books.
Ploughshares
This is a literary journal published three times a year. Back issues are available.
Library of Congress
This will take you to the library.
Great Writers
This site identifies prize-winning authors and offers links to individual author homepages.
Book Lovers
This site provides links to writers, libraries, publishers and booksellers (including rare and collectible books).
The Literary Web
A hypermedia guide to literary resources available on the world wide web, this site offers links to authors, book clubs, reviews, awards, genres, journals, and writing resources.
American Literature
General American Literature
This page refers to special American literature projects and on-line resources.
World Wide Web Resources - English and American Literature
A www subject catalogue, this site contains information on various topics in English and American literature, including particular authors, genres, periods, etc.
Teaching the American LiteraturesThe Electronic Archives contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.
The Electronic Archives for Teaching American Literatures
This site contains essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources related to the American Studies Program at Georgetown University.
The Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction
This site contains electronic texts of early American fiction.
American Literature: Electronic Texts
This site has works of numerous eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century American writers arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the author. Also included are works on black history and literature.
American Studies Web
The American Studies home page from Georgetown University has information on curriculum, communities, teaching and learning.
Literary Resources -- American
This site is one of the sub-categories of Jack Lynch's extensive compilation of Literary Resources on the Net.
American Literature Online
This site features a chronological index of links to author pages and general references.
The Victoria Web
This site contains links and information on everything from literature to politics during the Victorian era.
Genres
This page includes a list of sites focused on particular genres, such as fiction, poetry, drama, and essay.
Drama
Theatre Central-Literature and Playwright Resources
This site contains links to theater-related pages from all over the world. You can access information on professional companies, scholastic groups, and on-line magazines as well as plays and playwrights.
American Drama
This is an online connection to a journal of scholarly studies of dramatic literature from the earliest to the most recent playwrites.
Poetry
The American Poetry Full-Text Database
This site contains the complete poetical works of over 200 American poets form the seventeenth century to the beginnings of modernism. Original introductions and accompanying texts are also include.
The HTI American Verse Project
This site is an electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
The Internet Poetry Archive
This site from the University of North Carolina, contains selected poems from a number of contemporary poets.
Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
This site contains excellent links to other literary sites.
Nonfiction
Yahoo: Nonfiction Literature
This is an index of links to nonfiction collections published on the web, mostly American authors.
Fiction
The English Server Fiction Collection
This site will lead you to collections and links to short fiction, novels, magazines, criticism, etc.
Authors
This page includes a list of sites on particular authors, as well as general resources for finding information on authors not listed.
Emily Dickinson
The Emily Dickinson International Society from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has created a forum for scholarship on Dickinson and her relation to the tradition of American poetry and women's literature.
Edgar Allan Poe
It is not particularly scholarly, but this site offers some critical analysis of his works.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain in Cyberspace is an annotated list of some outstanding Mark Twain-related sites and other resources.
Walt Whitman
This page gives an overview of his life and work, including a map locator for his birth place and a large selection of his writings.
If the author you are looking for was not listed, try one of these links to lists of multiple authors, including, but not restricted to, Americans.
Penn Library--Literature/Individual Authors
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Literature/Authors
Ethnic American Literature
This page includes links to African American, Asian-American, Latino/a and Native American literary resources.
African-American Literature
This page includes links to African-American literary and cultural sites.
Writing Black
This site contains links to texts written by or about African Americans. It can also lead you to other libraries and indexes.
African American Literature
This site is part of the Ethnic Studies Project at the University of Southern California, and includes links to history, criticism, journals, dissertations and other references.
Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania
This site contains the center's lectures and seminars plus some related links.
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN
This site offers virtual tours and links to ther sites concerned with civil and human rights.
Black Film Center and Archive at Indiana University
This is a well-maintained web site on African American films.
Asian-American Literature
This page includes links to Asian-American literature and support for Asian-American literature and support for Asian-American writers.
The Asian-American Writers Workshop
This site facilitates the creation, publication, dissemination and examination of Asian-American literature.
Friendly Neighborhood Asian-American Literary Endeavors
This site offers links and information on journals and other arts.
South Asian American Literature
This site is somewhat limited, but contains some nice contemporary South Asian resources.
Teaching Asian-American Literature
This site is an essay concerning the teaching of Asian-American literature, written by Amy Ling of the University of Wisconsin.
Vietnamese Literature
This site offers links to Vietnames literary works in both English and Vietnamese.
Hispanic-American Literature
This page includes links to resources devoted to Hispanic and Latino/Latina literature.
Latino/Latina Literature
This site has links to essays, book reviews and other resources on latin literature.
The Latino Literature Web Page
A web page in which latino/a literature is discussed, reviewed and analyzed, this site includes information on ancient as well as modern cultures and writers.
Latino/Latina Literature and Literature of the Americas
This site from the University of Northern Colorado is an outstanding resource for both Latino and Native American literature.
Comedia
This site serves as a home base and bulletin board for discussions on Comedia, Spanish classical theatre.
Yahoo: Chicano/Latino Literature
This page provides an index of links to Latino authors and their works in both Spanish and English.
Native American Literature
This page includes sites concerning native American literature, folklore and culture.
Native American Authors
This index of Native North American authors includes bibliographies, biographies and links to interviews, online texts and tribal web sites. You can browse the database by author's name, book title or by tribe.
Raven's Tsa-La-Gi Page
This site features topics of interest to Native Americans, especially those of Cherokee ancestry. It includes information on Native American languages, literature and culture.
The Native Web Home Page
This site provides links to Native American literature, newsletters, journals, organizations, bibliographies and historic materials.
Latina/Latino Literature and Literature of the Americas
This site from the University of Northern Colorado is an outstanding resource for both Latino and Native American literature.