Internet Resources

The purpose of this guide is to point visitors to relevant sites relating to English studies on the Internet and the World Wide Web. This is not a comprehensive guide or gateway but rather a starting point to information in the area:

Catalogues and Other Databases

The British Library Public Catalogue
The British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC) is a web interface to the main British Library catalogues, describing over ten million items.
The catalogues included in BLPC are:

Book History Online
Book History Online contains over 31.000 records on book and library history.

American Literature

American Literature Index 1
Literature from the period of exploration and colonization to 1865.

American Literature Index 2
Literature from 1865 to the present.

American Literature on the Web
Maintained by Akihito Ishikawa at Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages, Japan, this site provides links to American literature and its social and cultural contexts.

Literary Resources - American
Part of the Literary Resources on the Net collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.

Australian Literature

Australian Literary and Historical Texts
Frpm SETIS (the University of Sydney Library's Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service), this is a searchable full text database of 18th, 19th and early 20th century Australian prose and verse.

Australian Literature on the Internet
From the National Library of Australia, a list of Australian literature resources, together with links to other sites.

Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 : Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project
This project provides web access to digital copies of Australian serials first published between 1840 and 1845. Literary titles include The Colonial Literary Journal ..., The Examiner, and The Sentinel (formerly the Colonial Observer ...). Note that you will need to use a browser that supports Frames to access the browse lists and digitised files.

OzLife : Australian Biography and Book Review Index
This index from the National Library of Australia provides access to the citations of biographical or book review articles in major Australian newspapers and journals. Coverage is still limited (it began in July 2000), but is expected to grow by 8000 records a year.

OzLit
A very useful site devoted to information about Australian literature.

Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
Established to promote the study of the arts, the Society sponsors seminars, convenes conferences, and publishes the journal Literature and Aesthetics

English Literature

Old English and Medieval Literature

Beowulf
Electronic Beowulf Project.
A CD Rom held in Fisher AV 829.3 / J1 / 14 with an online Help facility.

The Labyrinth
Medieval Studies resources.
One of the largest sites for medieval resources, sponsored by Georgetown University. Searchable by category or keyword.

Medieval English Literature

Old English Pages: Texts & Manuscript Images
Old English texts, translations and images of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
The Piers Plowman archive aims to eventually create a hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the work. Currently available are editions of B manuscripts.

The Robin Hood Project at the University of Rochester
This site makes available in electronic format a database of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales. The project is sponsored by the University of Rochester and prepared in The Robbins Library.

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature
Voice of the Shuttle is a huge site for humanities research run by Professor Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbera. Covers everything from general resources to appropriate listserves and newsgroups.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literature

Early Modern Literary Studies
This site provides a link to a number of sixteenth and seventeenth century resources of interest to literary scholars.

English Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century Literature.

Shakespeare's Globe Research Database
Site sponsored by the University of Reading and dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions.

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
This site combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide full-text materials for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. The main authority used for accuracy of dates and details is the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Edition.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature

British Association for Romantic Studies
BARS was set up in 1989 by academics to promote the study of the cultural history of the Romantic period

Jane Austen Society of Australia
Links to other Austen sites on the Web as well as information about the Society in Australia.

Classics at On-line Literature Library
Works by a range of predominantly 19th century authors including the Brontes, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G.Wells and many more.

Domestic Goddesses, aka scribbling women
Devoted to women writers, from the 19th century on, who wrote 'domestic fiction'.

Quarterly Review Archive
Includes:

Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature

Romantic Circles Electronic Editions
A searchable archive of texts of the Romantic era

Romantic Movement in British literature
Access to a wide range of authors of this period.

A Selective Bibliography of British Romanitic Poetry

The Victorian Web
Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria

Victorian Womens Writers Project
British women writers of the 19th century.

Twentieth Century Literature

CELT: Corpus of electronic texts
Contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.

A Celebration of Women Writers

D.H.Lawrence
A site devoted to research on D.H.Lawrence from the University of Nottingham

English On-line Resources

Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia.

Henry James
The Henry James scholar's guide to web sites.

Science Fiction
Resource guide for science fiction.

Children's Literature

Children's Literature
Resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.

Literary Criticism and Theory

Women's Studies Resources - Feminist Theory

Voice of the Shuttle - Literary Theory Page
An extensive range of resources for literary and cultural theory, and related journals and discussion groups, with a link to VOS's Cultural Studies page

On-line literary criticism collection
Contains over 1500 critical biographical websites about authors and their works.

Icelandic, Nordic, Middle Welsh and Old Irish Literature

Arnamagnaean Institute
Arnamagnaean manuscript collection and digitisation project.

Dokumentasjons Prosjektet
Information on a wide range of aspects of Norwegian language and culture.

Gwarnant
Medieval Welsh poetry, from the earliest surviving works to the 15th century.

Heimasida Eddu
Texts from the Poetic Edda, some with annotations.

Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
Extensive links to both old and modern Irish literature, folklore and drama.

Llenyddiaeth Ganoloesol : Medieval Literature
A website dealing with medieval Welsh literature, with access by Welsh or English.

Netutgafan
Large collection of sagas and other texts.

Old-Irish-L
A listserve for the discussion of Old Irish language and literature. Contains links to other sites of interest.

Old Norse manuscripts

Project Runeberg: Nordic literature on-line since 1992
Access to the Internet's most extensive site for Nordic literature.

Sagnanet - Icelandic medieval literature
A project between the National and University Library of Iceland and Cornell University, with the association of the Arni Magnusson Institute to digitize the entire range of Icelandic family sagas (as well as large portions of the Eddas, the history of Norwegian kings, etc.), from manuscripts and books published before 1901.