LITERATURE AND WRITING
Books
On-Line(http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/lists.html)
On-Line Books Page formerly based at Carnegie Mellon University is
now hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library. The site lists more
than 12,000 English works searchable by author, title, or subject.
Banned
Books On-Line (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html/)
Presented by the makers of the On-Line Books Page, this page not only
gives you the stories behind the hundreds of books which have been banned
over the years, but also lets you decide for yourself by offering the full-text
of the books online. You're sure to surprised by some of the titles included.
A Celebration of Women
Writers (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/)
Search for famous and obscure women writers by author name, century,
or country. Entries include biographies, lists of works and analysis, and
in some cases, the works themselves.
Dictionary
of Symbolism (http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/)
Why is Faith's ribbon pink in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"? Well,
this site will offer more than a few suggestions. Brought to you by the
good people at the University of Michigan, the site is organized alphabetically.
Electronic Texts and Publishing
Resources (http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/etext)
This site, a resource of the Library of Congress, offers links to the
thousands of full-text books available online. More importantly, there
are also links to resources on publishers and publishing within the electronic
arena.
The Elements of Style(http://www.bartleby.com/index.html)
The full text of William Strunk’s classic work.
The English Server (http://eserver.org/)
A cooperative which has published over 1800 humanities texts on the
web. And it isn't just literature. Also includes links to topics such as
cultural theory and gender and sexuality.
Guide to Grammar
and Writing (http://cctc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm)
Before you hand that paper in, stop here! These well-organized site
was sure to helps you corrected many grammatical errors.
Internet Classics Archive (http://classics.mit.edu/)
Links to 440 hard to find Greek and Roman classics, in full text.
Inter-Play (http://www.portals.org/interplay/)
An index to plays published in anthologies, collections and periodicals
from the late 19th century to the present.
MLA-Style
Citations of Electronic Sources (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/reference/citing-er.html)
How do I list a web page on my Works Cited? Here's your answer. Clear
examples from Columbia University. Standards have not been established
for citing electronic resources but there are various attempts at guidelines
for including these materials in your footnotes and bibliographies.
The Mysterious Home Page (http://www.webfic.com/mysthome/)
Updated weekly, this site is a must for the true mystery fan. Links
to specific authors and characters, themes in mystery fiction, awards,
seminars, magazines, even films and TV interpretations.
Online Literary Criticism
Collection (http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/)
The Internet Public Library does it again! At last there's a place
to find literary criticism on the Web. Browse for critical articles by
author's last name, the work's title, or the century of its origin. At
the moment, the site focuses on British and American works.
Science Fiction Resource
Guide (http://sflovers.rutgers.edu/Web/SFRG/)
Here it is, sci-fi fans, your web universe. Links to biographies of
authors, artists, bibliographies, publishers, fan mags, fan clubs, role-playing
games, writer's resources...everything you need to live long and prosper.
Shakespeare
(http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html)
MIT brings us the full text of Shakespeare's plays, searchable by keyword.
Baker Street Connection:
A Sherlock Holmes Collection (http://www.citsoft.com/holmes.html)
The Baker Street Connection provides a collection of Sherlock Holmes-related
material, including the complete canon of 56 stories and four novels written
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1925.
William Shakespeare
and the Internet (http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/)
Includes a biography, summaries of the plays, even full text criticism.