About British Literature
Access sites that are mainly about British Literature: sites
that define, interpret or give overviews.
Bibliomania
This site archives full text works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and reference.
Find such works as A.S. Eddington's Stars, James Joyce's Ulysses,
William Blake's Songs of Innocence or Leo Tolstoy's War and
Peace. Special interest: Collections, Fiction and Study
Guides. Note: You must register to access study guides, but they are
free.
Britannica.com:
Shakespeare and the Globe
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, this
exhibit features information about Shakespeare, his
plays, the theater in which they were performed and
more.
EDSITEment:
British Literature and Language Arts
Access top British Literature and Language Arts Websites, EDSITEment lesson
plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities from participating
Websites.
Victorian
Web
From George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University.
Access full text literatures, historical, and cultural information and full
text books on the period. Special interest: Authors, Victorian
Web Books, and Victorianism.
British Literature Collections Access sites that mainly collect full text British Literature.
British
and Irish Authors on the Web
Created by a professor of Language & Culture
at Nagoya University, Japan. Get links to scholarly
as well as irreverent web sites relating to authors
of British and Irish literature. Authors are accessible
by time period, and include such writers as Chaucer,
Eliot and Swift.
CELT Corpus of Electronic
Texts
Texts by Irish authors, including literary
and historical works. Find the works of such authors
as Oscar Wilde, Oliver Goldsmith, and Pádraic H. Pearse,
as well as documents of historical interest such as The
Path to Freedom by Michael Collins, or The
Re-Conquest of Ireland by James Connolly. Note:
Not all texts present have been translated into English,
but are in the original Irish languages, or Latin.
eserver.org: Eighteenth-Century
Studies This collection archives works of the eighteenth century
from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays,
memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here, along with
modern criticism. The bulk of the material is British, but it also includes
American and French (in English) resources.
Representative
Poetry Online
Based at the Department of English, University of Toronto, Representative Poetry
On-line includes about 1,650 English poems by about 260 poets from the early
medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century. This page is the
index by poet page, but other indexes may also be accessed: by First Line;
by Title; by Date; by Keyword; or by Criticism on Poetry. Special interest: Glossary
of Poetic Terms.
Victorian
Women Writer's Project
A project of Indiana University. This expanding
site has collected the works of such authors as Harriet
Martineau, Edith Nesbit, and Lady Jane Wilde.