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MLA is a not-for-profit membership organization that promotes the study and teaching of language and literature. The homepage features membership information, employment opportunities in the field, convention information, and a listing of the various MLA publications.
The homepage for this federal agency features information about grant opportunites for history, philosophy, literature, and other humanities fields.
Website for the trade union for freelance writers of all genres publishing in U.S. markets.
A website that offers access to essays about writing, well over 100 articles, a job center, a freelancer's center and the most recent addition, education about money.
A resource of sites relating to the various "borders" that demarcate the postmodern and postindustrial social imagination. Categories include Diaspora, La Frontera, Gender, Lesbigay, Cyborgs, Border Incidents, and Other Borders.
"Gathering spot and central clearinghouse" for students and scholars of Cultural Studies. The page features original interactive commentary and analysis, links to other cultural studies resources on the internet, and pointers to World Wide Web projects devoted to Cultural Studies.
CTHEORY is an international journal of theory, technology, and culture, publishing articles, interviews, event-scenes and reviews of key books in the field of Critical Theory.
A refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
A literary journal from the University at Albany that is devoted to publishing experimental fiction and poetry.
This prestigious literary journal from Emerson College offers access to innovative poetry and prose, book reviews, and literary commentary.
The electronic incarnation of The Stanford Humanities Review, this source provides a diverse forum for humanities scholarship, including literary criticism, language theory, and critical theory. Though the SHR ceased production in the year 2000, online full-text versions of 7 volumes and 1 supplement are available.
From the extensive humanities metasite Voice of the Shuttle, this site points to numerous other sites about contemporary American writers and their work.
Part of The English Server, this resource offers access to many works of and about current fiction from around the world.
A unique site, highlighting texts of and criticism about Hypertext Fiction, an emerging electronic literary phenomenon.
From Brock University, a basic guide for undergraduates outlining methods to analyze and interpret poetry and fiction.
From the University at Albany, this summary details how to cite references in the MLA syle.
From Brock University, a brief and concise guide to aid beginning students in understanding and applying literary theory.
Written by Dino Felluga from Purdue University, this guide is an excellent introduction to the field of Critical Theory. It provides clear, basic definitions of key theoretical concepts and movements.
This resource features full-text writings of 19th century American women.
From the New York Public Library's Schomberg Collection, this resource is an electronic archive of texts by and about African American women.
Bartelby.com is comprised of a body of electronic versions of classic texts, including literature, nonfiction, and reference works.
A scholarly archive of electronic editions of poetry by British women written between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period.
The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Full text of Shakespeare's comedies, hisotories, and tragedies are available.
Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection has over 8,000 items representing a once popular genre from the second half of the 19th Century. It represents a significant, but poorly represented part of literary history.
From the extensive humanities metasite Voice of the Shuttle, this site points to numerous other sites about African American, Native American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Jewish, and Pacific Islander writers and their work.
The EServer is a unique website where 226 writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works (currently 34211 of them in all). It was founded in 1990 and is based at Iowa State University.
These two collections represent the best and most valuable writings from the past. In an effort to bring the benefits of a liberal arts education to the general public, they have been made available online for all to read by Bartleby.com. Also included is a special volume of lectures originally composed for the set that introduce the reader to some of the primary themes of the included works.
Humbul Humanities Hub is dedicated to evaluating and collecting valuable Internet Humanities resources. It is part of the Resource Discovery Network.
From the Internet Public Library, this site contains links to 1500+ critical and biographical Web sites about British and American authors from the Middle Ages to the present. This site may be browsed by author, title, nationality, or literary period.
Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. The "Library of Southern Literature" includes the hundred most important literary works of the American South published before 1923. These works were selected by Southern Studies professors from around the United States.
Part of a larger metasite from Rutgers University, this site highlights those sites that address race, ethnicity, or national identity explicitly
A beautifully illustrated resource, featuring the full text of many Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century literary works. Luminarium also makes accessible in-depth biographical material, criticism, and images of the writers of these eras.
The Mark Twain Papers & Project, based out of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, "makes it possible to read virtually every document in Mark Twain's hand known to survive" for library visitors. On-line visitors have access to exhibits, databases of incoming and outgoing letters, photographs, and more.
Part of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, this resource includes the full text of many works written prior to 1500.
Part of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, this resource makes available a heterogenous collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest.
A major collection of electronic versions of classic English-language literature.
Committed to spreading the word about the best in contemporary literature, this website reviews and gives access to current literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Press profiles, interviews, and in-depth reviews reflect Rain Taxi's commitment to innovative publishing that often falls outside the purview of mainstream review media.
A large collection of writings by British women of the Victorian Era, including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
A hypermedia environment for studying the life and works of the nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman. The archive is a structured database holding digitized images of Whitman's works in their original documentary forms. Whitman's poetical manuscripts, early printed texts, proofs, and first editions are included. The materials are designed to accomodate electronic search and analysis, and they are supplied with full scholarly annotations and notes.
A homepage that includes criticism of Cather's work, biographical information, and the full-text of many of her novels, short stories, poems, and essays.
A beautifully illustrated archive of the works of William Blake.
A large database containing the full-text of American poetic classics written prior to 1920. This project is a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press.
From the Atlantic Monthly, this multimedia resource showcases classic and contemporary poets and their work.
Part of the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia, this archive makes accessible the full text of several prominent British poets.
A rich collection of poetry resources containing links to electronic poetry magazines, authors' pages, visual poetry files, and more.
This extensive guide from the University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library provides a wealth of on-line sources as well as print sources available through their library. If the University at Albany does not own a title you are interested in, please use Interlibrary Loan to borrow a copy.
This page provides access to recently published poems, reviews, and literary news of interest to the poets and scholars.
From the Electronic Poetry Center at the University at Buffalo, this megasite is a resource that lists and provides links to electronic poetry publications and literary journals.
This well-structured page features many resources, readings and sites of interest to the postmodern scholar.
A listing of over 1000 resources pertinent to Postmodern theory, including links to many e-zines and texts.