English Literature

The beginning source for all things Gothic, both historically and more recently. This site, though not peer-reviewed or specifically academic, provides a vast amount of information on authors, titles, web resources, and how to begin research on Gothic literature.

A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Search by author, title, genre, or language. Documents are available in HTML format, no pdf's, but still an amazing collection of full texts.

Includes journal and essay indexing (no articles, but citations) for all things medieval regarding women and gender studies. Housed by Haverford College's Margaret Schaus.

Includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924. Originally based on Dr. Robert Bain's bibliography of the hundred most important southern literary works and continues to expand under the guidance of scholarly advisers. Browse the collection alphabetically, by subject, or the original bibliography by Dr. Bain. Various collections are listed on the left hand menu.

Includes Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century, and Restoration literatures, all well organized and cross-referenced through links. Individual authors have biographical information, chronologies and bibliographies of their works, essays and articles about them, as well as additional sources deemed appropriate by site editors. Excellent resource.

Originally published as a book, this site offers the same material organized into sections. Ten chapters represent the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-two appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies.

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment website deals with literature that considers the relationship between human beings and the natural world. It covers the genres of literary nonfiction, nature poetry, and environmental fiction, including ecofeminism. It includes full-text Electronic Archives, with five topical divisions: ecocriticism, bibliography, a library of environmental writing, related syllabi, and assorted documents, news bulletins, and essays.

An amazing collection of Middle English texts, this site offers free full text for personal use. The only method of searching the texts is alphabetically by first title word. Despite the somewhat limited method of searching, this is an excellent free source for Middle English texts and footnotes.

Provides a plethora of information relating to Greek mythology from charts, maps, and biographies of figures, to images and topics for searching. Also available are dictionaries for quick information on a particular place, figure, etc. The Groups section describes particular common traits among characters in mythology, such as the Amazons or Argonauts.

Maintained by Rutger's Jack Lynch, this compiles excellent web sources focusing on English and American literature.

Voice of the Shuttle stands as one of the most useful portals, searchable by subject, this section focuses on scholarly English literature sites.

Contains 1584 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period. Maintained by the Internet Public Library.

Compendium of web search tools and gateways on the Net, UCB indexes both general literature and subject specific tools, i.e., Chaucer Metapage.

An extremely large collection of pointers to material on English literature. Organized by period and by author. Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka at Nagoya University, Japan. No search engine but includes an alphabetical index.

Browsable by resource type, time period, heading or peruse a list of general resources for the study of English. Compiled by subject specialists in the UK, the intended audience is "lecturers, researchers and students within UK higher and further education," yet American students can find extremely useful free web resources here, as well.

Provides full-text searching for primary sources (over 10,000 digital books and 2,000 journals) in American history, highlighting these subjects: education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.