Literature 

General 

Banned Books http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/bannedbooks/bannedbooks.html

Taken from the catalog of a 1955 University of Kansas library "exhibition of books which have survived Fire, the Sword and the Censors"  this site presents images and descriptions of books that have caused controversy throughout history. Divided into sections by country, many of the titles date back to the 17th and 18th centuries.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature      http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

The Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare     http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

De Grummond Children's Literature Collectionhttp://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/

A collection of children's literature that focuses on historical and contemporary American and British literature. The searchable archives contain "the original manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1200 authors and illustrators, as well as over 70,000 published books dating from 1530 to the present".

In Search of Shakespeare     http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/ 

Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) four-part series "exploring the life of the world's greatest and most famous writer." Developed in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library, these classroom resources were designed around six thematic strands: Shakespeare's Language, Shakespeare on Film, Performance, Primary Sources, Teaching Shakespeare to Elementary Students, and Teaching Shakespeare with Technology.

Literary Crtiicism  http://ipl.org/div/litcrit/

The ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Literary Resources on the Net     http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynchLibrary 

This set of pages is a collection of links maintained by a Rutgers associate professor of English. These are sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet      http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/  

An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet.  Includes links to full-text works, including various editions; study guides; Elizabethan theater; literary and historical criticism; Renaissance studies; and educational resources. 

Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition       http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael

Features "annotated texts and contexts grouped by topic, over 1000 illustrations, ... hundreds of annotated links to related sites and The Norton Online Archive, a searchable electronic library of over 150 literary texts and downloadable audio files. Searchable or browsable by time period from the Middle Ages through the 20th century.

Research Guide       http://guides.library.fullerton.edu/english/

A one-stop guide for beginning your research in English! This is an exceptionally useful guide created by Stacy Russo from the Pollak Library, California State University, Fullerton. 

Romantics: English Literature by Periodhttp://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750#id1175 

Covers general and teaching resources, criticism and critics, journals, conferences, and sites archiving 20th-century works that are directly related to Romanticism. 

Shakespeare's Sonnets       http://shakespeare.about.com/

Sonnet Study Guides

Voice of the shuttle  http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Humanities- focused   directory of links to relevant web resources.This page is a gateway,which points to other pages on all areas of literature and literary theory.From the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

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Literary Criticism

Booktalks Quick and Simple       http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/

This is a useful page for students and includes: Author's index; title index; state award nominees; subject index; booktalking tips; interest level and new listings.

Classical and Medieval Literature Sites       http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/literature/classical.html

A comprehensive collection of links to classics and medieval subject guides, mega-sites, texts, dictionaries and more. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries.

Electronic Literature Directory        http://directory.eliterature.org/

This website provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements.

IPL Literary Criticism Collection       http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. The collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be. The sites are selected with some thought to their overall usefulness. From The Internet Public Library.

Literature Network!       http://www.online-literature.com

This page is searchable online with literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. They currently have over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotations database has over 8500 quotes.

Vandergrift's Special Interest Page       http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/**

This excellent resource includes: censorship, children's literature and its history, studies of Snow White and David Wisniewski's Golem , gender and culture in picture books, young adult literature, and feminist studies. Also covered are: bibliographies, learning, research, and writing resources. Maintained at Rutgers University by Professor Kay Vandergrift who specializes in Youth Services.

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