Literature & Literary Criticism
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Gale Literary Index http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex
 

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General

ÉCLAT! The “Essential” Comparative Literature and Theory Site  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/
A wealth of information about literary theory, literary criticism, and comparative literature can be found on the Internet, particularly at academic Web sites.  This gateway site, developed by graduate students in comparative literature and literary theory at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Glossary of Literary Criticism  http://web.mac.com/radney/humanities/litcrit/litcrit.htm
Hosted by SIL International, a nonprofit group that promotes language-based development through research, translation, and literacy, this online glossary defines many literary criticism terms.

Literary History.com  http://www.literaryhistory.com/
Created by Jan Pridmore, a former English teaching fellow at Boston University, Literary History.com “is committed to promoting the use of the Internet for scholarly research in literary studies.” Students, writers, teachers, and other avid readers will find a vast collection of links to literary criticism here.

A Literary Index  http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html 
Indices to several web sites, run by American universities. 

LitLinks  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/
Bedford/St. Martin’s, a college textbook publisher specializing in the humanities, offers a valuable resource for students and teachers of world literature.

Literary Resources on the Net  http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Created by Jack Lynch, an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, this gateway features an extensive directory of Web resources that cover literature and comparative literature.


Online Literary Criticism Collection  http://www.ipl.org/IPLBrowse/GetSubject?vid=13&cid=1&tid=6927&parent=7006
From the Internet Public Library.  Links to over 260 sites; searchable by author's name, works, or literary period.

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American

American Literary Resources  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html 
General literary sites, plus extensive list of web pages on individual authors, from Rutgers University (NJ). 

Paul P. Reuben Website: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature – A Research and Reference Guide http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
Students of American literature will find a wealth of literary criticism resources at this site, part of the larger Perspectives in American Literature site by Paul Reubens, an English professor at California State University, Stanislaus.

 

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Poetry

Atlantic Unbound: An Audible Anthology  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound//poetry/antholog/aaindx.htm 
Alphabetical listing of authors follows the featured selections.  Click on the Real Audio message to the left of the poem to have it read to you.  From the Atlantic Monthly.

Representative Poetry On-Line http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/
Scroll down past the opening poem for search options by poet, first line, title, keyword, or timeline. Also check their FAQ section for links to more poetry and poet sites. 

 

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Poetry, British

The Labyrinth at Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html 
A long-standing collaboration that include an on-line library of Middle English poetry. 

Luminarium    http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm 
An anthology of medieval, Renaissance, and 17th-century poetry. 

The Victorians http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html 
Links to political and social history, philosophy, religion and science. 

Eighteenth-Century Resources http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/ 

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