Other Internet Sites Related To English Studies
from Jacksonville State University's English Department
For a list of Web sites devoted to specific authors of the canon, click on: Choice File and then on List of Authors, Alphabetical
Index of this page: Click on one of the sub-headings and jump down to that section of the list.
- Sites of General Interest for English Students
- Sites for Authors in American Lit (EH 201)
- Sites Related to American Lit (EH 202)
- Sites Related to English Lit (EH 203)
- Sites Related to English Lit (EH 204)
- Sites Related to World Lit (EH 231 and EH 232)
- EH 403, EH 404: Shakespeare Sites on the Web
- Sites Related to Teaching of Composition (EH 408/408G)
- Sites Related to Women's Lit (EH 420/ 420G)
- Hypertext Information Sites
- Special Topics of Interest
Sites of General Interest for English Students
- There are two ways to access MLA Style guide for World Wide Web Sources. Either go to the MLA main page and follow the menu bars to MLA style. From there, you will find some good tips in the "FAQ" page, and these will lead you to the document, "How do I document sources from the World Wide Web in my works-cited list?" Or, if you prefer to access this part of MLA Style without working inside the organization's frame, use this direct address for the no-frames version of the MLA electronic sources documation page.
- More assistance with MLA documentation.
- The Bedford Introduction to Literature, the on-line site for the EH102 anthology editied by Michael Meyer.
- A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples, by Ross Scaife. On Line at the University of Kentucky Classics Department.
- Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY. See the bottom and give credit to Robert G. Shubinski, 1996-2002. [Updated link]
- Language and Lit area of BUBL, a Web bulletin board for Library reference
- The On-Line Books Page, now updated at Penn (originallly from Carnegie Mellon), with links to others sites for electronic texts
- Literary Research Tools on the Net
Jack Lynch's Comprehensive List, Now at Rutgers Searchable, and divided into periods. Spend some time here!- University of Virginia's Modern English Collection
- Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research, by Alan Liu (U. of California, Santa Barbara. Well-organized by the traditional divisions of the canon. A wealth of sites related to specific authors and genres are listed.
- Yahoo's Directory of Humanites Literary Topics at
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/- Suggested Sources for Citing Electronic Publications. A site at Auburn University, listing guidelines for electronic documentation, good for Info-Trac examples.
Sites for Authors in American Lit (EH 201)
- American Authors on the Web. Matsuoka's list of Authors is useful for organization by date of birth.
- A Midwife's Tale: Martha Ballard's Diary. This is the PBS American Experience site for the Documentary based on the Pulitizer Prize winning book. Go to bottom of home page to click on the Transcript for the show.
- Emily Dickinson Poems at http://www.bartleby.com/113/index.html
Columbia University's Project Bartleby the electronic edition is based on Poems By Emily Dickinson, 1896.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (by Eric Eldred), at
http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nhwrit.html- Herman Melville at melville.org
- Works of Poe from the E. A. Poe Soceity of Baltimore
- The House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), by Peter Forrest at
http://www.comnet.ca/~forrest/index.html- Walden.org Another good Thoreau site.
- Phillis Wheatley. Poems on-line, from the 1786 edition. (Warning! A very long file to print.)
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, available from New York Public Library.
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, another version, with a facsimilie of each page, at University of Michigan.
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, yet another of this classic by Harriet Jacobs. At University of North Carolina's "Documenting the American South" archive.
- American Transcendentalism at Gonzaga University.
- Time Line of American Lit, also from Gonzaga
Sites Related to American Lit (EH 202)
- American Studies Web by David Phillips, at
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw- Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures at
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/tamlit-home.htmlSponsored by D.C. Heath Publishing Company and Georgetown University Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS), Randy Bass (coordinator).- Ever The Twain Shall Meet: Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain by joseph at Telrama
Sites Related to English Lit (EH 203)
- Local hypertext of Chaucer in translation
- The Labyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies, Georgetown University at
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/A very complete site for Medieval Studies and links to texts in several languages, Old English and Middle English included- Middle English Text Collection, University of Michigan at
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/mideng/bibl.html- Baragona's Medieval Drama Page, at VMI
- Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485), at
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/- Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603), at
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/- British and Irish Authors (a list to many author sites, arranged chronologically by date of birth by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University), at
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.htmlSites Related to English Lit (EH 204)
- Matsuoka's list of 19th century British Writers
Organized by date of birth and therefore useful to track against the Norton Anthology's sequence.- Romanticism On the Net
A scholarly journal, web published, with many useful links. Search the current and past tables of contents.- The Victorian Web (by George Landau, Brown University), at
http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html
Click on Authors to see the hypertext treatment of the major writers.- Dickens Electronic Archive, with link to the Dickens Project
- Litrix Reading Room edition of Frankenstein
- Complete Works of William Wordsworth, the Chronological Index
The 1888 edition at bartleby.com. Also note the alphabetical list of first lines
- Coleridge's Albatros: David Miall's essay on the poem -- a good example of scholarly hypertext, with links to the quoted passages and a Coleridge timeline. (Note the different "starting points" to see how the essay can be read.)
- A Web Concordance to the Odes of Keats, 1819
- Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, at Bartleby, originally from Columbia
- The Index to Columbia's Bartleby Find the other English Authors, including John Keats, Percy Shelley, Robert Graves, John Stuart Mill, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Houseman.
- Lost Poets of the Great War A Hypertext Document by Harry Rusche, Emory University. Featured Poets: Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger, Edward Thomas. With supportive documents, bibliography.
- Virginia Woolf Web at
http://orlando.jp.org/- Jane Austen Information Page, originally at University of Texas (by H. Churchyard). The link now goes to pemberly.com. This is a rich hypertext. Explore all its layers.
EH 231, EH 232: World Literature Sites on the Web
- Homer: Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey. Read the disclaimers and give credit to Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University.
- Dante: created by Charlie Moore. Comparative translations and images of Cantos V and XXXIII.
- The Heptameron by Margaret, Queen of Navarre (From The Celebration of Women. Each tale is clickable from this table of contents.
EH 403, EH 404: Shakespeare Sites on the Web
- The Complete Works of Shakespeare, at MIT.
You can search the complete works or any individual play!- FILMOGRAPHY. A list of Films made of Shakespeare's plays, with sublinks to fuller information.
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (by Terry A. Gray), at
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/- Richard III On Stage and Off
A site from the Richard III Society about recent movie tie-ins, including Pacino's Looking for Richard, the Ian McKellen film, and the newly rediscovered silent film.- The Illinois Shakespeare Festival Home Page
This site offers good critical essays to the productions of their plays, past and current. Artistic Director of the ISF: Cal MacLean.- Sources to Shakespeare, used primarily for Dr Gates in Graduate Studies in Shakespeare.
EH 403, EH 404: Shakespeare Sites useful for Source Study
- Sources to Renaissance texts from Tuft University's Perseus project. Note: No longer active is the earlier cited Renaissance Sources Project, originally at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Renaissance.html. Contact the page editor if you located an updated link for the plan for development of an on-line library of texts related to the Renaissance, at Tufts University's Perseus Project.
Sites Related to Teaching of Composition (EH 408/408G)
- OWL: Purdue University's On-line Writing Lab
Click on Resources and Handouts, then on the Comprehensive List to see what instructional units and exercises are available. There are very specific guides to use of the comma, the "I before E" rule (with a practice exercise and a separate file to check answers), helps to know how to paraphrase, etc.- Inkspot, A Resource for Writers
This is a very comprehensive site, with many good links to a range of resources including information on Children's Literature.- Writing and Emerging Technologies, a Grad Course
With Many Good Links to Relevant Sites. Professor: Charles Moran, University of Massachusetts- Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors, by Jack Lynch, U Penn.
- The Rensselaer Writing Center
With useful "Online Handouts," Roget's Thesaurus, etc.- Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
Sites Related to Women's Lit (EH 420/420G)
- The Elizabeth Robins Web at JSU (by Joanne E. Gates)
- A Celebration of Women Writers (originally from Carnegie Mellon, now at Penn)
- Virginia Woolf Web Site
- The Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University), at
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/- Aphra Behn Home Page by Ruth Nestvold
- George Eliot's Mill on the Floss Hypertext at Biblomania.
- Lady Mary Wroth, the on-line edition of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, which contains the "Crowne" of sonnets. The url goes to the beginning of the sonnet crown. The full document is quite long.
Hypertext Information Sites
- Electronic Romanticism: The CD David Miall's Proposal with sample of a Hypertext Project on the Romantics.
Special Topics of Interest
- NativeWeb.org should contain some Native American Literature Online. Originally the site by Karen Strom was at
http://web.maxwell.syr.edu/nativeweb/natlit/NAlit.html- PBS Online. A Gateway to many Public TV Specials and Series. Check out Wishbone's treatment of your favorite novels, follow the links in the Life on the Internet series, or View and Study the Guide to Richard Wright's Black Boy, courtesy of Mississippi Educational TV.
- Exxon-Mobil Masterpiece Theatre. A complete list of current schedule, past productions, how to buy videos and books related to the Series.
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