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Internet for English
An online tutorial for students of literature who would like to use the
internet effectively in research.
Alex
A database of electronic texts across the internet, with a simple but
effective search engine.
Bartleby
Publishes the classics of
literature, non-fiction, and reference on the Internet
British Fiction 1800-1829
Allows users to examine bibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction
written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of
contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library
catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists). Early
reviews of Jane Austen’s novels and Byron’s comments on Shelley’s
Frankenstein are among the useful texts available.
CELT: corpus of electronic texts from
University College Cork
"The online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in
literature, history and politics". The texts can be searched, read
on-screen, downloaded for later use, or printed out
Internet Poetry Archive
Selections from the works of Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine,
Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Richard Wilbur.
Intute: Humanities
Directory of online humanities resources, including
sections on English and Classical literature
Google Book Search
Luminarium
Anthology of English literature, with separate sites for the middle ages,
Renaissance, seventeenth century and eighteenth century. Includes author
biographies, texts, critical essays and illustrations.
Middle English Compendium
Offers easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle
English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English
Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on
the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as
well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.
Oxford Text Archive
Useful source for e-texts. Many of the works listed are restricted access
only; however, there is an impressive collection of free texts, including
Oedipus Rex, The Jew of Malta and The Faerie Queene.
Project Gutenberg
Victorian Web
Provides a
comprehensive general overview of nineteenth century British history and
literature.
Women's Novels,
1600-1830
Full-text transcriptions of novels by women up to the Victorian period.
Women's
Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
Women's Writing Online
A portal to a rich international range of websites devoted to women’s
writing.
The William
Blake Archive
A site dedicated to Blake’s writing and art.
GeoffreyChaucer.org
An annotated guide to online resources relating to
Chaucer, including some links to sites that provide full text.
First World War Digital Poetry
Archive
An online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video
for teaching, learning, and research.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Resources related to the life of the eighteenth-century Irish playwright and
politician.
Dante’s Inferno
discussed
Podcast from the BBC's In our time
Quentin Skinner’s introduction to Machiavelli
Machiavelli and the
Italian city-states
Podcast from the BBC's In our time
John
Milton: Paradise Lost
This link will bring you to a Milton hub, containing book-by-book podcasts
of Paradise Lost AND links to podcasts of a series of lectures on Milton by
some of the most eminent Milton scholars working today.
John Milton: the
Milton-L home page
A gathering of Milton podcasts, including the lectures above; but also
readings of some of the shorter poems, and a 24-lecture series on Milton
from Yale.
Centre for Editing
Lives and Letters
Rosanna Cox’s Milton podcasts at the Lives and Letters website include a
walking tour of Milton’s Cambridge, and another of Elizabethan London.
Milton's Poetry and
Politics
Podcast from the BBC's In our time
Shakespeare's Life
Podcast from the BBC's In our time
Understanding
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Video on YouTube of Stanley Wells, Jonathan Bate and Paul Edmonds in
discussion.
British Comparative Literature Association
National Centre for Research in Children's Literature
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