Links Literary

Links to places literary...

On this page:

• Local Literary Links
• Britain & Europe
• Poetry
• Write this way
• A Gaggle of Authors
• Texts & Works
• E-text collections
• Literary Calendars
• English Departments
• Higher Education
• Humanities Computing
• Libraries
• Literary periods
• Look it up!
• Research and study skills
• Resources & links
• Periodicals; Electronic publishing
• Publishers, bookshops
• Theory of Cybertext
• National Links
• Search Engines

Local literary links

• The Web Concordances - world's first interactive concordances on the web
• Concordance: software for concordancing and text analysis - makes concordances and Web Concordances. Gain better insight into e-texts.
• English. The journal of literary criticism, published by The English Association
• The University Library, Dundee
• St. Andrews University Library
• Association for Scottish Literary Studies
• Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• William Topaz McGonagall-Poet and Tragedian
• National Library of Scotland

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Britain and Europe

• Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
• Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies at the Institute of English Studies, University of London
• English Subject Centre
• Intute: English Studies
• The Higher Education Academy
• Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London
• All the UK Higher Education Library Catalogues (OPACs)
• ABELL: The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
• Modern Humanities Research Association
• Stella (Software for teaching English - Glasgow)
• BUBL LINK: 800 Literature and rhetoric

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Poetry

• Twentieth-century Poetry in English - from Japan
• British Poetry 1780-1910 at Virginia - a hypertext archive of scholarly editions
• The Poetry Society

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Write this way... maybe

• The English Style Book: A Guide to the Writing of Scholarly English by Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
• Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style
• Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style. - advice, mostly good, on writing style
• Common Errors in English
• Online Writing Lab Handouts, from Purdue

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A gaggle of authors

• Margaret Atwood Reference Site
• Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
• Charles Dickens
• Edmund Spenser Home Page
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Thomas Hardy Association
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page
• Great Writers and Poets
• The Brazen Head: A James Joyce Public House
• James Joyce portal
• Ulysses, by James Joyce
• IQ Infinity: The Unknown James Joyce
• John Milton: The Milton-L Home Page
• Lewis Carroll and the Alice Books:
  • LEWIS CARROLL Home Page
  • LEWIS CARROLL Graphics Page
  • Alice's Adventures Underground - Carroll's original version, four chapters only, with his own illustrations as opposed to Tenniel's
• Renascence Editions - Spenser, Sidney, others
• Shakespeare:
  • Search the Collected Works of Shakespeare
  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
  • Shakespeare Authorship
  • shakespeare.com home
  • The Place 2 Be: Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Electronic Texts of Shakespeare
  • Materials for the Construction of Shakespeare's Morals: The Stoic Legacy to the Renaissance
  • Shakespeare Illustrated
  • Introduction to the Enfolded Text of Hamlet
  • Richard III Society, American Branch
  • The Elizabethan Theatre - useful lecture by Dr Hilda Spear
  • Shake-speares Sonnets (1609)
  • Internet Shakespeare Editions - project to develop scholarly e-texts
  • Shakespeare's Globe Center (USA) Research Archive
  • Shakespeare's Globe
  • World Shakespeare Bibliography
• Sherlock Holmes
• T. S. Eliot
• The Brontë Sisters (Cecilia Falk)
• The Philip Larkin Society
• Pre-Raphaelites:
  • The Pre-Raphaelites - plenty of the pictures
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Critic
  • Lady of Shalott (Holman Hunt)
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• William Blake Archive
• W. H. Auden
• William Butler Yeats
• William Morris Society
• The Wilkie Collins Website

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On individual texts & works

• Beowulf on Steorarume [Beowulf in Cyberspace] online text, translations, glossary, and other resources for the Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf"
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• The King James Bible Page

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Collections of e-text

• The On-line Books Page
• Project Bartleby - exemplary, scholarly e-texts
• Renaissance Electronic Texts (RET) Main Page
• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
• Banned Books On-line
• Classics at the Online Literature Library
• Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts
• Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
• Project Gutenberg
• Oxford Text Archive
• The ETEXT Archives - eclectic

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Calendars & tools

• Literary Calendar Reference Portal
• Ian's English Calendar
• The Calendar Zone
• Rosetta Calendar - calendar conversions

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English Departments

• VoS - Voice of the Shuttle - list of English Depts - and much else
• English Departments on the Web
• English Department Homepages Worldwide - over 300 listed

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Higher Education

• jobs.ac.uk - Jobs and Studentships in the Academic Community
• Arts and Humanities Research Council - Homepage
• Times Higher Education
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Academe Today
• University and College Union
• Scottish Funding Council (SFC)
• Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2001
• Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008

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Humanities computing

• Intute
• CTI Textual Studies (archived)
• Concordance: software for concordancing and text analysis - makes concordances and Web Concordances. Gain better insight into e-texts.
• Computer Assisted Text Analysis - A History
• TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
• Humanist Discussion Group - the electronic discussion group on humanities computing
• Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
• TACTweb Demonstration Server
• The Natural Language Software Registry Homepage

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Libraries

• The University Library, Dundee
• St. Andrews University Library
• British Library
• National Library of Scotland
• COPAC academic and national library catalogue - search many major library catalogues at once
• All the UK Higher Education Library Catalogues (OPACs)
• Libweb - Library WWW Servers - library servers via the Web. Over 1400 in 60 countries.
• Library of Congress

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Literary Periods

• The Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies - the best starting-point for mediaevalists?
• Medieval Drama Links: a personal selection by Sydney Higgins
• Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
• Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) - covering more than 20 authors
• English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660) - Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, et al.
• The Literary Gothic
• Hidden London
• Romantic Circles - Byron, the Shelleys, Keats
• 19th Century British Authors - a fine link collection
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• The Victorian Web
• Victoria Research Web
• Victorian Sensationalism Online: Electronic Resources
• Twentieth-century Poetry in English - from Japan

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Look it up!

• Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form
• OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder - half a million words from 76 dictionaries
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Aaron Fuegi's Collected Quotations
• The Encyclopedia Mythica
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Quotations Page

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Research and study skills

• Internet for English - teach-yourself tutorial on Internet information skills
• Critical Reading: a Guide - elementary intro to lit crit
• The Problem of Meaning in Literature - more material for 1st year students
• How to write an essay , from Birmingham
• Aardvark's English Forum - designed for EFL, but useful for anyone
• Directory of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Currently in Progress

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Resources, Link collections

• The Literary Encyclopaedia
• Intute Humanities Hub
• VoS - Voice of the Shuttle
• BUBL LINK: 800 Literature and rhetoric
• Digital Librarian: Literature - a librarian's choice of the best of the Web (including us,ahem...)
• English Internet Resources
• Gateways and Links - a good link collection from New York U. Mediaeval a speciality.
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web - textual criticism, palaeography, etc.
• Literary Resources on the Net - by Jack Lynch - extensive collection
• Literature Webliography - good collection of links
• Modern Humanities Research Association
• Yahoo! UK & Ireland - Arts>Humanities>Literature

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Periodicals; Electronic Publishing

• English. The journal of literary criticism, published by The English Association
• Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
• JEP (Journal of Elec Publishing)
• Oxford Journals: Journals Home Pages: Essays in Criticism
• Oxford Journals: Journals Home Pages: Notes and Queries
• Cambridge University Press Journals Subject Index
• Papers on Language & Literature Home Page
• Internet Library of Early Journals
• Scholarly Societies Project
• Cahiers Élisabéthains
• Early Modern Literary Studies
• ELH Home Page
• English Studies
• The Review of English Studies
• The Cambridge Quarterly
• Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
• Project MUSE - Sample Issues of the Journals Online
• Postmodern Culture
• Victorian Poetry

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Publishers & bookshops

• Amazon.co.uk
• The Arden Shakespeare on the Internet
• Blackwell's Bookshops
• Cambridge University Press
• ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
• Edinburgh University Press
• Faber
• John Smith & Son Bookshops, Scotland
• Oxford University Press
• Penguin Books
• Waterstone's Bookstore
• UK Literary Magazines

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Theory of Cybertext

• E. R. Beardsley: Digital Gutenberg (13 pages)
• Radiant Textuality

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Useful national links

• UK Sensitive Map - Universities
• HERO - university, college and research opportunities in the UK

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Web search engines

• Google
• Google Groups - search Usenet (internet discussion group) archives
• Alta Vista - was the best once upon a time
• WhoWhere? PeopleSearch - good at finding people
• MetaCrawler Searching - searches several other search engines for you
• Yahoo!
• Yahoo! UK & Ireland
• AOL Search

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Page originally compiled by R.J.C. Watt. Links checked 28/02/08 by RESL.