About World Literature
Access sites that are mainly about World Literature: sites
that define, interpret or give overviews.
Bartleby.com
"the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web..." This
site includes a full text collection of classic literature and reference
works (formerly Project Bartleby). Special interest: Fiction, The
Harvard Classics, The
Short-Story and Verse.
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.
Contemporary
Postcolonial and Post imperial Literature in English From George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History,
Brown University. Access full text literatures as well as historical,
political, and other background information from Africa, Australia,
Canada, Caribbean, India, Singapore, New Zealand, and the United
Kingdom. Special interest: Authors, Gender
Matters.
Early
Modern Literary Studies
Access full text literature covering the 15th,
16th and 17th centuries of literature in English, as
well full text articles. Authors include John Donne,
René Descartes, Giovanni Boccacio and more. Special
interest: All
Issues and Electronic
Texts.
EDSITEment:
World Literature and Language Arts
Access top World Literature and Language Arts Websites, EDSITEment lesson
plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities from participating
Websites.
Literary
Resources on the Net Based at Rutgers University and created by a professor
of English. This extensive site includes the following categories:
Classical & Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century,
Romantic, Victorian British, Twentieth-Century British and
Irish, American, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism,
Ethnicities & Nationalities, Other National Literatures,
Bibliography & History of the Book, Hypertext and Miscellaneous.
Writing
Black
From the University of Keele, UK. This site
has collected links to Black writers, generally American,
such as Maya Angelou and Frederick Douglass and writers
who portrayed Blacks in their writing, such as Mark
Twain. There are also to historical texts, such as The
Confessions of Nat Turner and The Emancipation
Proclamation, as well as a select collection of
other Internet resources on Black or African American
topics.
Yahoo!
Authors
Find links to sites about specific authors
and their works.
World Literature Collections
Access sites that mainly collect full text World
Literature.
19th-Century
German Stories
From Virginia Commonwealth University, works by Heinrich Hoffmann, Wilhelm
Busch and the Grimm Brothers.
Alex: Catalogue
of Electronic Texts
Browse Alex by Authors, Date (time period text was written), or Title or search
by keyword. Alex makes texts available to read online, or download in the following
formats: PDF, Newton Paperback, Palm Pilot, or Rocket eBook.
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.
Electronic
Text Collections in Western European Literature
From the Western European Specialists Section (WESS) of Association of College
and Research Libraries (ACRL), this non-English literature collection includes:
Catalan, Galician, Old Norse and Modern Icelandic, Danish, German, Portuguese,
Dutch, Irish, Provençal, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, French, Norwegian, and
Swedish Literature. Note: Most of the collections are in the original languages.
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures
Based at the University of Evansville,
Indiana, this multi-award winning site covers
the Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient
Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient
Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe. It
includes primary texts archived at the site
such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Genesis, The
Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the
Dead) and more.
eserver.org
Based at the University of Washington, this is an extensive,
award winning site. Collections include not just English, but
also art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political
theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music
are all included here. Special interest: Drama
Collection, Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Novels, EServer
Poetry Collection and Short Fiction.
Google Literature
Full Text literary classics you can read online or download as PDF files.
MIT: Internet
Classics Archive
From Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT). A full text collection of Mainly Greco-Roman
works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English
translation.
The
Labyrinth Library
This site is sponsored by Georgetown
University and includes links to texts in Latin,
Old English, Middle English, French, Italian,
and Spanish and Iberian. Works in English include Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight, The Canterbury
Tales, Orpheus and Eurydice and
more.
Literature@SunSITE
This resource from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE,
is building a collection of digital texts. Access the works
of such authors as Jane Austen, Upton Sinclair and Joseph Conrad.
Of special interest is the extensive Jack
London collection which includes not only literary works,
but nonfiction works such as Jack London's Journalism, as well.
The Online
Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)
Browse this resource from the Berkeley
Digital Library SunSITE by Title, Author, Genre
or Language. Access Medieval and Classic literature
and historical documents such as The Anglo
Saxon Chronicle, Troilus and Criseyde,
or The Fall of Troy.
Perseus
Digital Library
Hosted by Tufts University, this site is
also sponsored by Harvard University, National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Grant
program and many others. Perseus has received
many awards for its outstanding coverage of
Greek, and more recently Roman, literature,
history, art, and archaeology. This digital
library continues to evolve and now includes
many other full text resources, such as English
Renaissance works, and the scientific journals
of Robert Boyle.
Project Gutenberg One of the most comprehensive collections of electronic
texts on the Internet. Many classic and contemporary works
of literature. Click on the letters to browse alphabetical
listings of authors.
Wiretap Electronic
Text Archive: Classics
This portion of the Wiretap Electronic
Text Archive includes simple text versions of
the works of such authors as Aesop, Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, and Willa Cather.
Yahoo!
Anthologies
Links to online collections of literature,
generally by period or genre.
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