20080211

general list of internet resources for literary study

This is a selective list of useful guides of a general nature for amateurs, students and scholars:

Encyclopedias

The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary provides biographies, text profiles and topic essays in a series of user-friendly indexed databases. Links to other useful resources can be found at the foot of each entry. This site is constantly expanding. Its homepage is at: http://www.litencyc.com and the index of completed profiles is at http://www.litencyc.com/contents/contents.html

Electronic Texts

Project Gutenberg -- an almost unbelievable resource, supreme justification of net logic, that provides access to tens of thousands of online texts http://www.promo.net/pg/
A Guide to Historical Texts: http://www.scholiast.org/history/index.html
University of Virginia Electronic Text Centre: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts links to over one hundred authors, from Aristotle to Saki, with an in-built concordance: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
The Online Books Page at Pennsylvania University includes many non-literary works: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Guides to Humanities Internet Resources

Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle at University of California, Santa Barbara is the earliest and probably largest list of links: http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
HUMBUL the Humanities Hub -- an indexed and annotated datbabase that provides an efficient way of finding websites of interest in the humanities. http://www.humbul.ac.uk
Michael Hall's List of Resources for Humanities Scholarship: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/scholarly.html
The WESSWEB Guide to European Studies at the University of Virginia: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/

Guides to Literary Internet Resources

Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net at Rutgers University is the oldest, richest, and much the best place to start: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Malaspina Great Books at Malaspina College, British Columbia, Canada, has some interesting biographies and author-related links: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/fivestar.htm
American and English Literature Internet Resources: Winnie Shyam keeps an excellent annotated and categorised list at the Buley Library, Southern Connecticut State University: http://www.library.southernct.edu/litbib.html#engen
University-English: this site comprises a series of indexed databases that enable searches for literary and scholarly associations, university departments, scholarly journals and publishers, conferences, summer schools and other events, and teaching positions in higher education. Database-driven and carefully indexed, it enables the user rapidly to select from large amounts of information: http://www.university-english.com

Guides to History Internet Resources

Historical Maps - an index prepared at the University of Texas: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html

Libraries

The Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/
The British Library Catalogue: http://blpc.bl.uk/
The British Library Homepage: http://bl.uk
LibDex - The Library Index - A List of Libraries around the world: http://www.libdex.com/
HERO - Higher Education in the UK - Guide to Resources - provides lists of libraries, booksellers, bookshops and much more: http://www.hero.ac.uk/reference_resources/resources413.cfm?menu=true

Guides to Philosophy Internet Resources

Peter Suber's Guide to Philosophy on the Internet: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm

Publishers

The Association of American Academic Presses: http://aaupnet.org/ has an online list of presses at http://aaup.uchicago.edu/
Museophile at the South Bank University also has a useful list of publishers at http://archive.museophile.sbu.ac.uk/publishers/
Try also the University-English publishers' database at http://www.university-english.com

Style Guides

The English Style Book, appended to The Literary Encyclopedia, provides succinct information on matters as various as punctuation, correctional marks and the layout of documents: http://www.LitEncyc.com/StyleBook/TheEnglishStyleBook.htm
Page updated: March 2004
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)