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to Literature
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English
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Century, 19th Century,
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(see 20th Century)
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Romanticism,
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American
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Century Anglo-American
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Criticism/Theory
Mass
Communication
E-texts
Discussion
and Associations
Searching
the World Wide Web
Evaluating internet research resources with documentation
from Purdue's Writing Center.
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Grammer
Common
Errors in English
A nice list of common mistakes by Paul Brians (Washinman).
English
Club's Guide to Grammar
This site makes finding grammatical terms and peasy.
Guide
to Grammar and Style
Jack Lynch (Rutgers-Newark) has created a concise guide
which will answer most of your questions.
Punctuation
Made Simple
Nice Guide by Gary Olson (South Florida), Profetion.
Right
Words
Simple advice from some New Zealand professional editors
on punctuation, grammar terms.
Webgrammar
Judy Vorfeld, professional editor, has created this grammar
and writing toolkit.
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Composition
(for resources concerning the publishing industry, and marketing
your writing, see the Mass Communication)
Elements
of Style
William Strunk's classic reference for hers.
Forest
of Rhetoric
Brigham Young writing professor Gideon Burton's guide to rhetorical
terms and usage based on classical and Renaissance dels.
OWL
- Online Writing Center
Purdue's online help center for writers...the handout sectpful.
The
Slot
Writing peeves by Washington Post Copy alsh.
Writing
Resources from Dictionary.Com
Nice collection of resources for writers.
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Documentation
Citing
Electronic Sources
Excellent guides to APA and hypertext research papers from
the University of South Dakota.
MLA
Guidelines
A guide from Capital Community College, Hartford, CT, based
on MLA documentation.
Research
and Documentation by Discipline
Barbara Hacker's guide to research and documentation styles
by academic discipline.
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Dictionaries
American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
2000 edition.
Dictionary.com
General word and reference resource.
Merriam-Webster
Dictionary/Thesaurus
Featured as yourDictionary's English language premier resources.
yourDictionary.com
The global language portal of record; a web of online dictionaries
of many world languages.
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General References
Cambridge History
of English and American Literature
Authoritative general reference and bibliography for the
field.
Rhetorical/Literary
Terms
A dictionary of literary and rhetorical terms, jointly created
by professors at Southern California and Kentucky.
Reference
Shelf from The English Server
Quick answers for all kinds of questions.
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Gateways to Literature
/ Meta-sites
Local gateways: English Resources at Duke,
NC
State, UNC-Chapel
Hill
(Available to NCCU students and staff with valid id)
The English Server
Unique hybrid of 226 English professors sythesizing scholarly
communication and collecting online resources in 42 categories.
Some dead links but a lot of useful material.
Infomine
UC-Riverside Library's attempt to organize the Web based upon
LC subject divisions. This link will take you to the "humanities"
subject categories. Within each subject heading listing, there
is a link for related terms in the subject thesaurus of search
terms.
Jack Lynch's English Resources
This Rutgers professor has created a great site with many helpful
links by category.
Voice
of the Shuttle
Great resource for humanities research, especially for Literature
in English, from UC-Santa Barbara.
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Medieval
The
Camelot Project
The University or Rochester's archive of Arthurian texts
digitized.
Labyrinth
Georgetown University's great online guide for medievalists. ORB:Online Reference
Book for Medieval Studies
A Medievalist's online resource with articles reviewed by at
least two scholars.
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Renaissance
Centre for
Reformation and Renaissance Studies
University of Toronto resource of criticism and texts.
Luminarium
Anniina Jokinen's site very strong for Renaissance, and 17th-century
English literature texts and criticism.
Milton-L
Home Page
University of Richmond's archive of the Miltonists' internet
discussion group, with photographs, texts, criticism.
The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Maintained by Jeremy Hylton at MIT, with hyperlinks to each
scene and fully searchable by word and phrase. This site includes
links to a well-organized list of internet resources on the bard.
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18th Century
Centre
of Attention: the Fop
An essay in Early Modern Literary Studies on a character
type of the period.
Eighteenth
Century Fashion
Costume resources online for hairstyles, stitches, and history.
Eighteenth
Century Studies
This is from the E-server, archives works from the perspectives
of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises
and poems of the period are kept here. Maintained by Geoffrey
Sauer at Carnegie Mellon.
Jack Lynch's Resources
The resources from his gateway for literary studies; he's an 18th
Century specialist so this section is particularly strong.
Restoration
Day
Words in the day of an 18th century Englishman, compliments of
W. W. Norton Co.
William
Blake Archive
University of Virginia's site for pleasure, study, research.
Many of the illuminations fully digitized and well organized.
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19th Century Romantic Circles
A University of Maryland resource for the study of second generation
Romantics.
Romantic
Chronology
Interesting visual organization of literary events from California-Santa
Barbara.
Victorian
Web
Thorough resource of Victorian literature, history and society
by Brown professor George Landow, with many little known authors
included.
Women
of the Romantic Period
A great hypertextual experience from Texas-Austin, recovers
many excluded female voices from the British Romantic tradition.
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American
Perspectives
in American Literature (PAL)
Comprehensive research and reference guide by professor at
CSU-Stanislaus, organized by period and author.
Romanticism
Transcendentalists
Jone Johnson Lewis's great site on Emerson, Thoreau and their
time.
Mark
Twain in his Times
From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia,
with texts, criticism, photographs.
Virtual
Victoria
Sarah Smith's fun collection of all things Victorian and
Edwardian in America.
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African-American
The
Circle African-American Brotherhood
Check out the Visual and Literary Links. "Zillions of
African American links" by a community organization in Upstate
NY. Many dead links but still helpful.
Schomburg
Center
The New York Public Library's Research Center for Black Culture.
Do not miss the digital collections of 19th century women's literataphs.
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Native American
Native American Authors
From the Internet Public Library, a valuable starting point with
biographies, bibliographies, and photographs.
Native American
Literature Online
A resource for indigenous peoples around the globe.
Storytellers
Native American authors online. Though less comprehensive than
the Internet Public Library site, this site is more useful if
your author is listed.
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Woman's Studies
Feminist
Literary Criticism and Theory
This page includes information on different literary genres,
specific historical periods, pedagogical issues and literary theory
from Virginia Tech.
Women Writers Project
Brown University's virtual clearing house for criticism and
texts.
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20th Century Anglo-American Literature
Fitzgerald
Centenary
Collection sponsored by the Special Collections Library and English
Department at the University of South Carolina.
Hyperizons
Site dedicated to hypertext fiction and background to the genre,
criticism and theory.
Post
World War II Database
Includes information about rock, punk, Generation X, etc., sponsored
by UC-Berkeley.
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Multi -Cultural/Post-Colonial
Postcolonial
Studies
Created by Deepika Bahri, Emory Univeristy, to assist students
with definitions of key concepts and issues, with links to other
related sites.
Sawnet
Books by and about South Asian Women, with
summaries and reviews, maintained by the University of Maryland.
Some links are dead, but the bibliography is valuable.
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Linguistics
Ethnologue
Standard dictionary of languages and cultures of the world.
Language
and Linguistics Resources
Collected by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Linguistic
Links
From the Linguistics Department at the University of Rochester.
Virtual
Library Linguistics Resources
A collection of resources for students and professional linguists
at Eastern Michigan University.
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Literary Criticism/Theory
Critical
Theorists
Links to texts of theorists (U. Denver).
Literary
Criticism and Theory
Good site from the University of Cambridge, with a great mini-guide
for Structuralism.
Online Literary Criticism
Collection
From the Internet Public Library, an archive of practical criticism
on a broad range of writers from scholarly journals.
Undergraduate
Introduction to Critical Theory
Purdue Professor Dino Felluga's toolkit for new historicism,
cultural materialism, feminism, and psychoanalysis.
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Mass Communication
Journalism
Resources
Compiled by journalism professor at U. Iowa.
Mass
Media
Mick Underwood's site on news values with well-organized glossary
of terms.
Media
Ethics Resource File
From the Poynter Institute, with special information concerning
reporting the attacks on September 11.
Radio
and Television History Sites
(University of North Texas)
UCLA
Center for Cyberspace Law and Policy
An online forum for the online community to share ideas and
explore new directions.
Valley
of the Shadow Project
Useful newspaper extracts from two communities during 1861-1865,
one North and one South.
World Intellectual
Property Organization
Promotes the use and protection of works of the human spirit.
Writers
Write
Great resource for writers about the industry, including
various markets such as business, medical, and technical writing.
Writing
Now
Power packed advice for writers from seasoned writers, with
other resources concerning the publishing industry.
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American
Verse Project
University of Michigan's digitization of pre-1920's American
texts.
Bartleby.com
The great online publisher of classic poetry and reference
texts easily navigable with hyperlinked tables of content.
Making
of America
University of Michigan's digitization project of documents
from 19th century America's social history.
The
Modern English Collection
The University of Virginia's heterogenous collection of
fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts
and illustrations from 1500 to the present.
On-Line
Books
University of Pennsylvania collection of 15,000+ books digitized,
but not hyperlinked.
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Communication and organizations in the community of English literature
scholarship.
Literary
Listservs
University of Pennsylvania's index of online discussion groups
for English.
Associations Academy of American
Poets
Supports American poets at all stages of their careers and
fosters the appreciation of contemporary poetry.
Modern
Language Association of America (MLA)
The professional organization for scholars in English.
University
of Waterloo Directory of Scholarly Societies
A great index of scholarly societies around the world.
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