Literary Criticism & Theory 
    Resources on the Internet

Choose from among the following: 1. General Resources 2. Reference Sources 3. Text Collections General Resources American and English Language Internet Resources (very comprehensive; from Southern Connecticut State University) E'CLAT! The "Essential" Comparative Literature and Theory Site (U. of Penn) The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Page ("websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period") LiteraryHistory.com ("a guide to critical articles on literature" in British and American literature)   A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature ("a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources;" from Chris Flack of Vanderbilt Univ.) Literary Resources on the Web (Jack Lynch's guide to Internet sites on literature, with a concentration on American and British literature) Literature Webliography (Louisiana State University) PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide (Paul Reuben) Theatre Central (includes "the largest compendium of theatre links on the Internet;" affiliated with Playbill) Voice of the Shuttle (start here to find excellent guides to:  Literature (in English) Literature (Other than English) Literary Theory Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (U. of Minnesota) Reference Sources AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (standard work, but published from 1907 to 1921) Concordances of Great Books ("fully searchable word indexes) Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English The Gale Group Literary Index (citations to entries in Gale company publications, many of which are in the Library and can be found in Sprague Library catalog) Glossary of Poetic Terms A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism Literary Movements (from Donna M. Campbell of Gonzaga University) Poets and Writers Online ("resources for creative writers") Text Collections "All the World's a Stage": WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music (links to medieval and early modern texts, especially play texts) Bartlebyverse: American & English Poetry 1250-1920 British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (from the Electronic Text Center at the U. of Va.) CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive (part of the EServer collection) Classic Short Stories   Classic Short Stories and Fairy Tales The Electronic Literature Foundation ("advanced electronic text versions of a variety of texts from world literature". Interesting way of presenting electronic texts) Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (very good guide to collections of "literary texts in the western European languages other than English) HTI American Verse Project (electronic versions of volumes of pre-1920 American verse; from the Humanites Text Initiative at the U. of Michigan) Poet's Corner (over 6,000 works by almost 800 poets...and growing) Representative Poetry On-line ("over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century") Sonnet Central (an archive of English sonnets) Wright American Fiction, 1851 - 1871   Last updated: June 13, 2002