Department of English

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Sites on the Web of special (mainly literary) interest

(I welcome corrections, reports of out-dated links, suggestions for additions, etc. Send e-mail to Seamus Cooney)

Note: Site addresses change from time to time. I have had to remove some single-author sites that looked interesting but no longer work, but remember that a search using one of the web search engines (for example, AltaVista or iFind!, will turn up amazing numbers of relevant web pages.

Try out a new search method for finding "online scholarship in literary and cultural studies" at Web-Cite.

Texts and General Literary Resources

• New Additions[1]

• Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799
• Hypertexts at the University of Virginia
• The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Quiller-Couch
• Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia -- tens of thousands of texts in twelve languages, plus images to go with them.
• The On-line Books page from Carnegie-Mellon
• The American Verse Project at the University of Michigan.
• Documenting the American South, to 1920

Humanities home page a richly comprehensive list of links entitled "The Voice of the Shuttle." This is the place to begin your search for literary pages.

Literary Research Tools on the Net, a helpful page maintained by Jack Lynch, now teaching at Rutgers, with links to more specialized pages.

Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet.

The English section of Pitsco Resources with many good links.

The Poetry section of Michael Hancher's home page, with good links to everything from Garrison Keillor to copyright law.

The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) at Rutgers.

The Computer Writing and Research Lab page: lots of links to courses in progress, sample discussions, etc.

A Texas page Poetic Conversations page -- a sample of the links at the preceding URL.

Labyrinth: a medieval studies page

British Poetry 1780-1910, a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions at North Carolina .

The Modern English Collection, a huge collection of downloadable texts from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, from Bussy d'Ambois to W. E. B. DuBois, maintained at the University of Virginia. This is one site which -- unless you have a superfast moderm -- might best be accessed using LYNX from the $ prompt on the Vax.

LitKicks, an amateur site devoted to the Beat Generation poets and novelists.

Women Writers in English 1330-1830 -- The Women Writers Project at Brown University.

Of general interest as a resource for texts of poems, there's a large scholarly anthology of Representative Poetry from the University of Toronto.

An Electronic Space for Poetry, Prose, and Poetics is at RIF/T magzine plus a series of on-line chapbooks.

Euphorbis Arts Publications , with contributions by Creeley, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, etc.

WMU's own Third Coast magazine and annual literary conference.

Electrifying the Renaissance

The Bluestocking Archive

The Victorian Canon

Romantic Chronology

Women of the Romantic Period

Romantic Circles . See also Steven Jones's essay The Romantic Circles Project and Emergent Forms of Scholarly Production on the Web.

The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles.

Literary Locales: Picture links to the places that figure in the lives and writing of famous authors -- a fine resource from San Jose State University.

Single Authors or Texts

• The Electronic Beowulf -- high resolution images of the original unique manuscript.
• Electronic Chaucer -- database archive composed of images of manuscripts, art, maps and photographs related to the study of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
• The Shakespeare Web.
• Jane Austen
• Although this is a Melville site, it links you to many other literary sites, including Twain and Poe.
• And don't neglect our own Sweet Singer of Michigan, Julia A. Moore of blessed memory.
• Ezra Pound Home Page where you can find poets and critics like Jerome Rothenberg and Marjorie Perloff discussing Pound.
• D. H. Lawrence home page with a link to
• A very well designed and maintained James Joyce page with links to his works (including audio clips of Joyce reading) and to other Joyce pages.
• A not-quite-scholarly (because no full source references) Samuel Johnson site, with hundreds of bon mots, epigrams, put-downs, and wise pithy remarks worth savoring.

Miscellaneous

• The MLA Home Page
• Bookwire -- a good place to begin a search for reviews of recent books.
• Book Search resources:
  • Bibliofind
  • Advanced Book Exchange
  • Interloc
    and for new in-print books:
  • Amazon
  • Barnes & Noble
  • a net "bot" that searches many booksellers to find the lowest prices
• EPISTROPHY: Jazz in 20th Century Literature, a site maintained at the Department of English at the University of Windsor.
• A Directory of Scholarly Lists, also known as scholarly conferences or LISTSERVS (and not always that scholarly, either).
• The Surrealism Server at Washington University, Saint Louis.
• Internet Movie Database, the Mississippi State University echo of Cardiff University's searchable database, to which one can submit queries about credits, filmographies, etc.
• Umberto Eco on Casablance.
• Elements of Style   by William Strunk, perhaps the most famous style manual in English.
• The University of Michigan Digital Library with useful reference tools.
• The Library of Congress Home Page.
• The New Issues Press Poetry Series, published at W.M.U.

Fun Stuff

• Car Talk -- Tom and Ray Magliazzi.
• The New York Times Some of the news that's fit to print.
• The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home Page -- winners of the awards for the worst opening sentence of a novel.

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[1] Thanks to my colleague Mark Richardson for this groups of new listings.

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Last updated: April 9, 1999.
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