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Guide to Research in ENGLISH LOCATING ARTICLES Literature Resource Center Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age, culture, and literary discipline. It includes access to Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Encyclopedia of Literature and the MLA International Bibliography. Literature Online: the home of literature and criticism Literature Online is a collection of 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose; biographies; full-text literary journals and other criticism Literature Online: Chadwyck-Healy Collections http://collections.chadwyck.com/ This resource provides access to nineteen full-text collections of English language prose, poetry, and drama ranging from the medieval period to the twentieth century. It includes texts by major writers from Sylvia Plath and Harriet Beecher Stowe to Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde, as well as many minor and genre writers. MLA International Bibliography MLA provides citations on world literature in all languages from journals, books and papers. It also includes a Literary-Historical Timeline and a Guide to Conducting Literary Research JSTOR journal list http://www.jstor.org/search/AdvancedSearch (Link to advanced search) JSTOR provides the full text of scholarly journals from volume one, number one. Scroll down to select your subject area. Project Muse Project MUSE provides full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. REFERENCE SOURCES Oxford English Dictionary The OED is the foremost guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words. It utilizes 2.5 million quotations to trace the evolving usage of words from their first recorded use to the present. Oxford Reference Online Search the Oxford University Press Companion to Literature series, which includes African American, Classical, and Irish Literature, as well as specialized dictionaries for Shakespeare, literary terms, and writers. (from Reference Database - link directly to Literature) Twayne's Author Series Twayne's features detailed discussions of an author's life and works. It also includes research ideas and customized searching. INTERNET RESOURCES [Authors] Absolute Shakespeare http://absoluteshakespeare.com/ This site includes Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, biography, and most famous lines. You will also find a list of Shakespearean films, information about the Globe Theater, and other Bard facts. Austen.com http://www.austen.com This site includes all of Austen's novels, various resources on her life and work, and links to many other Austen sites. Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html This extensive site features Hawthorne's works, biography, and Hawthorne criticism. Online Literary Criticism Collection Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ Use the Internet Public Library to search for literary criticism by author or title. The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore http://www.eapoe.org/ Visit this site for critical essays, biography, bibliographic information, and links to other sites. Storytellers: Native American Authors Online http://www.searchestate.com/getArchivedCopy.aspx?k=Authors &ih=0&strip=0&ibh=1&d=40147867464 Storytellers includes bibliographies, biographical information, and links to resources such as interviews and tribal websites. The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ This comprehensive resource is dedicated to Whitman's work and influence. It includes a bibliography, criticism, and teaching materials. [Writing] Guide to Grammar and Writing http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ A practical guide to English grammar and writing skills. The Playwriting Seminars http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/artweb/playwriting/seminar.html This site provides practical guidance for writing plays for the theater. Writing.org http://www.writing.org/index.html Writing.org provides practical advice and guidance for aspiring writers [Drama] E-Server Drama Collection http://drama.eserver.org/ The collection includes plays from ancient Greece to the present, screenplays, criticism, journals, and links to other theatre sites. The editors accept submissions for review and publication. [Poetry] Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/ This site is a source for English language poetry, listings of current poetry events, and support for educators. American Verse Project http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/ This full-text archive of pre-1920 American poetry is located at the University of Michigan. Representative Poetry Online http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/indexpoet.html This Univ. of Toronto site lists the works of hundreds of poets in alphabetical order. [Time Periods] Anglo-Saxon England http://the-orb.net/encyclop/early/pre1000/asindex.html This is a portal to sites concerned with the literature and culture of the mid-fifth century to the mid-eleventh century. Romantic Circles http://www.rc.umd.edu/ Romantic Circles is devoted to the study of the literature and culture of the Romantic period. Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/ This site serves as a guide to English Renaissance literature and includes relevant links. The Victorian Women Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ This is a collection of digital texts of Victorian women writers with links to related societies and projects. [Primary Sources and Reference Works] Bartleby.com http://www.bartelby.com Bartleby provides encyclopedias, dictionaries, books of quotations, and full texts works of fiction and non-fiction including Shakespeare's complete works. Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Search the index of over ten thousand E-Books that are available free on the web, everything from reference works to the Bible. Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/ This collection of 2,887 volumes includes works by famous writers such as Stowe, Twain, Harte, Hawthorne, and Melville, as well as many little known writers whose works are not readily available. METASITES / WEB GATEWAYS Literary Resources on the Net http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ A comprehensive collection of links to literary resources from all periods and genres, including electronic texts. Categories include Classical and Biblical, Ethnicities and Nationalities, and Women's Literature and Feminism. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The Modern Language Association http://www.mla.org/ The MLA is oldest, largest, and best known of the organizations that promote the study and teaching of language and literature. It conducts a wide range of programs and publishes The MLA Handbook and The MLA International Bibliography. Writers Guild of America http://www.wga.org/ This site is a wide-ranging source of information from the labor union that represents the writers who write for television, movies, documentaries, and the news. |
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