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- Academic Search Complete - via EBSCOhost - multidisciplinary index for scholarly journals and magazines with over 5,500 full-text periodicals
- Literature Resource Center via InfoTrac/Gale - provides in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors and access to " biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline"
- MagillOnLiterature via EBSCOhost - excellent online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in literature
- OMNI File Fulltext Mega Edition - via WilsonWeb - a multi-subject database
- 20th Century Poetry in English - website of The Academy of American Poets for finding essays on poetry, biographies of more than 450 poets, and text of more than 1400 poems
- American Authors - provides biographical and critical material on about 100 American authors including a timeline of U.S. political and literary history
- Bartleby.com -Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse that provides access to full text poetry, fiction, and essays
- Celebration of Women Writers - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/: "promotes awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing" and contributions of women writers throughout histor
- Eighteenth Century Studies - This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.
- English Server - unique website, for both faculty and students, where 281 writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their work publishes 31812 documents in a range of humanities topics including essays, fiction, journals, theory, drama and poetry in its collections
- Internet Classics Archive - a searchable archive of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors that is maintained by Daniel C. Stevenson (MIT) and that includes mainly Greek and Roman texts (in English translation), but also some Chinese and Persian works
- Internet Poetry Archive - makes selected poems from a number of contemporary poets available over a worldwide computer network
- Literary Resources on the Net - a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature
- Luminarium- excellent information on writers and authors of medieval, Renaissance, and 17th English Literature
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet
- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - an online version of the volume by Paul P. Reuben that provides carefully organized collection of resources covering over 300 years of American literature.
- Romantic Chronology - useful site for information on the Romantic period in English Literature
- Women and Gender Studies - provides access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies
- Modern Language Association
of America ( MLA) - an organization of scholars, teachers, researchers,
librarians, and others interested in the modern languages and literature.
This site provides information about the organization; about the MLA
Style of citation; job information; publications, reports, and other
documents;and other resources
- PEN American Center - a membership association of prominent literary writers and editors
that seeks "to promote a culture of reading, and to defend free
expression. "
Specialized Web Search Engines
Academic search engines for quality information:
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English - provides a broad coverage of literature resources. It includes its own search engine and is maintained by Alan Liu and a development team at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Subject-specific search engines excellent for hard-to-find information:
- Literary Resources on the Net - a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature
- Online Literary Criticism Collection - contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works
- Google's Directory - provides links to many sites specializing in literature.