English: Literature Links

African Literature

• African Literature and Writers on the Internet
• African Literature Association: Related Links
• African Writers: Voices of Change
• Postcolonial Literature in Africa: An Overview
• Reading Women Writers and African Literature

African-American Literature

• African-American Literature
• Classic African-American Literature
• Themed Reviews -- African-American Literature

American Literature (General)

• American Authors on the Web
• American Literature Anthology
• American Literature on the Web
• American Literature Sites
• American Literature Web Resources
• American Memory (from the Library of Congress)
• American Verse Project
• C-SPAN American Writers: A Journey Through History
• Hypertexts: "We DO American Studies"
• Library of Southern Literature
• Literary Resources -- American
• Paris Review: DNA of Literature
• Women in print: essays on the print culture of American women from the 19th and 20th centuries

American Literature to 1900

• American Literature to 1900
• Early American Literature 1600-1900

American Literature 1901-

• ALA Internet Resources: Twentieth-Century Authors
• American Writers and Their Works -- 20th Century
• Twentieth Century: Internet Collections by Period from MIT

Appalachian Literature

• Appalachian Resources Page
• AppLit
• Nature and the Environment in Appalachian Literature
• West Virginia Authors

Asian-American Literature

• Asian-American Literature: History, Classroom Use, Bibliography & WWW Links
• Asian American Literature & Writers

Chinese Literature

• Chinese Literature
• Chinese Literature Classics
• Chinese Text Initiative (University of Virginia)

Classic Literature

Dante

• The Princeton Dante Project
• The World of Dante

Greek Drama

• Greek Drama
• Greek Drama and Culture
• Greek Drama: History of Drama

Homer

• Homer Home Page (Georgia Perimeter College)
• Homer's Illiad and Odyssey

Mythology

• Bulfinch's Mythology: the age of fable or stories of gods and heroes
• Eygptian Mythology
• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
• Germanic Mythology
• Mythology Links: Gods, Goddesses, Greek, Roman
• Norse Mythology

Virgil

• Aeneid Outline
• Maps from Virgil.Org
• Virgil Study Guide

English Literature to 1799

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature
• Middle English Compendium
• TEAMS Middle English Texts

Chaucer

• A Basic Chaucer Glossary
• Chaucer Metapage
• Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400)
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• The New Chaucer Society

Milton

• The John Milton Reading Room
• Paradise Lost Study Guide

Shakespeare

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Resource Center
• Shakespeare Resources
• Stratford-upon-Avon: William Shakespeare

Spenser

• The Edmund Spenser Homepage
• The Faerie Queen

English Literature 1800 -

• English Literature on the Web: 19th Century (Romantics and Victorians)
• A Guide to 19th Century English on the Internet

Hispanic Literature

• Nobel Prize Laureates in Hispanic Literature

Irish Literature

• Irish Literary Sources and Resources
• Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
• Irish Playography
• Irish Theatre Online

Japanese Literature

• Japanese Literature
• Japanese Literature: Resource Page

Native American Literature

• American Indian Resource Directory
• Index of Native American Book Resources
• NativeWeb Resources: Literature

Genres of Literature

Drama

• DramaWeb
• Elements of Literature: Drama

Fiction

• Elements of Literature: Fiction
• FictionWeb
• Novel Guide
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database

Fiction (Short)

• eServer Fiction: Short Fiction
• Twenty Great American Short Stories

Film

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• All Movie Guide
• American Film Institute
• American Society of Cinematographers
• Box Office Magazine
• Deseret News
• Dove Foundation
• FilmCritic.Com
• The Greatest Films
• Hollywood Film Festival
• indieWIRE.com
• Internet Movie Database
• Motion Picture Association of America
• Movie Review Query Engine
• Screen Actors Guild
• ScreenIt: Entertainment Reviews for Parents
• ShadowCulture's Mr. Cranky
• Vancouver Film School

Literary Analysis and Criticism

• Booknotes
• Booklist
• Booktalk
• Literary Analysis
• New York Times Book Review
• Readerville
• USA Today's Bookstore
• Washington Post Chapter One

Non-Fiction

• George Mason's Nonfiction Universe
• Literary Nonfiction Links: Authors

Poetry

• Bartleby Verse Collection
• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• Online Poetry Classroom
• Poetry Daily
• PoetryWeb
• Romantic Circles

English Organizations

• Association of Departments of English
• College English Association
• College Language Association
• Modern Language Association
• National Writing Project
• Sigma Tau Delta
• West Virginia English Language Arts Council

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