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Authors
Electronic Text Archives
Electronic Text Centers
Departments & Institutes
Electronic Courses
Organizations & Societies

eJournals
Classified Resource Directories
Style Guides

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Authors

Biographies Plus (WilsonWeb)
Contains almost 40,000 full text biographies of Authors, Artists, Film Directors, Nobel Prize Winners, American reformers, Musicians and Composers.
Contemporary Authors
Offers biographical and bibliographical information on nearly 100,000 modern authors, including novelists, poets, screenwriters, journalists and other nonfiction writers.
Literary Index

Electronic Text Centers

Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) - (Rutgers Univ.)
Electronic Text Center - (Univ. of Virginia)
Electronic Texts (eTexts) - (University Library, UW-Whitewater) - eText gateway

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Electronic Text Archives

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online.
Black Drama-1850 to Present
Black Drama integrates approximately 1,200 rare and hard-to-find plays written from the 1850s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean and other African Diaspora countries. Includes many previously unpublished plays.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
The largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it offers the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women and will eventually include approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from the 1500 to 1900. The collection represents many age groups and life stages, geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions - (Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Contains digital images of every page of 150,000+ books published during the 18th century. Covers as wide range of topics, including literature.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature - (Western European Studies Section, ACRL)
HTI American Verse Project - (Univ. of Michigan)
Middle English Collection - (Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia)
Modern English Collection - (Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colony to 1950
This collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform. It includes biographical information and the texts of many items. Represented are a variety of age groups, life stages, ethnicities, geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.
Representative Poetry On-Line - (Univ. of Toronto)
Victorian Women Writers Project - (Indiana Univ.)
Women Writers Project - (Brown Univ. )

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Departments & Institutes

100 English Department Home Pages - (Rutgers Univ.)
English Departments Home Pages Worldwide - (David L. Hoover, New York Univ.)

Electronic Courses

World Lecture Hall - (University of Texas) - To locate online literature courses, click on Browse by Area, then on Comparative Literature, English / Writing / Rhetoric or another subject area

Organizations & Societies

Calls for Papers - (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Modern Language Association
Resources of Scholarly Societies: Literature - (Univ. of Waterloo)

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eJournals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - This directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The full text of articles are freely available. The goal is to cover all subjects and languages. There are currently over 1000 journals in the directory.
Early Modern Literary Studies - (Sheffield Hallam Univ. ) - 1 (1995) - present
"a refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area."
JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections - (Univ. of Michigan)
- African American Review 26 (1992) - 3 years ago (moving wall)
  - continues Black American Literature Forum 10 (1976) - 25 (1991)
    - continues Negro American Literature Forum 1 (1967) - 10 (1976)
- American Literature [archive] (See ° Project Muse for current issues) 1 (1929) - 71 (1999)
- Callaloo [archive] (See ° Project Muse for current issues) 1 (1976) - 41 (1989) & 13 (1990) - 17 (1994)
- ELH [archive] (See ° Project Muse for current issues) 1 (1934) - 61 (1994)
- MLN [archive] (See ° Project Muse for current issues) 77 (1962) - 109 (1994)
  - continues Modern Language Notes 1 (1886) - 76(1961)
- Nineteenth Century Literature 41 (1986) - 4 years ago (moving wall)
  - continues Nineteenth Century Fiction 4 (1949) - 41 (1986)
    - continues Trollopian 1 (1945) - 3 (1949)
- Representations no. 1 (1983) - 4 years ago (moving wall)
- Shakespeare Quarterly [archive] 1 (1950) - 51 (2000)
- Speculum 1 (1926) - 5 years ago (moving wall)
- Transition 1 (1961) - 5 years ago (moving wall)
- Yale French Studies 1 (1948) - 2 years ago (moving wall)
Milton Review
Project Muse - (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
- American Imago quarterly. 52 (1995) - present
- American Journal of Philology quarterly. 117 (1996) - present
- American Literary History quarterly. 12 (2000) - present
- American Literary Scholarship quarterly. (1998) - (1999)
- American Literature quarterly. 7 (1999) - present
- The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 20 (2000) - 21 (2001)
- Arethusa triannual. 29 (1996) - present
- Biography quarterly. 23 (2000) - 24 (2001)
- Callaloo (see ° JSTOR for older issues) quarterly. 18 (1995) - present
- Chaucer Review quarterly. 34 (2000) - present
- Common Knowledge triannual. 8 (2002) - present
- Comparative Literature Studies quarterly. 37 (2000) - present
- Configurations triannual. 1 (1993) - 9 (2001)
- Diacritics quarterly. 26 (1996) - 30 (2000)
- Eighteenth-century Life triannual. 20 (1996) - 25 (2001)
- Eighteenth-century Studies quarterly. 29 (1995-1996) - present
- ELH (English Literary History) (see ° JSTOR for older issues) quarterly. 60.4 (1993) - 67 (2000)
- The Emily Dickinson Journal biannual. 7 (1998) - present
- Essays in Medieval Studies annual. 18 (2002) - present
- The Hemingway Review biannual . 23 (2003-2004) - present
- The Henry James Review triannual. 16 (1995) - present
- Journal of Modern Greek Studies biannual. 14 (1996) - 19 (2001)
- Journal of Modern Literature quarterly. 22 (1998-1999) - 24 (2000-2001)
- Journal of the History of Ideas quarterly. 57 (1996) - present
- Joyce Studies Annual annual. 12 (2001) - present
- The Lion and the Unicorn triannual. 19 (1995) - present
- Literature and Medicine biannual. 14 (1995) - present
- Manoa twice a year. 11 (1999) - 13 (2001)
- Milton Quarterly quarterly. 31 (1997) - 34 (2000)
- Modern Fiction Studies quarterly. 40 (1994) - present
- Modern Language Quarterly quarterly. 60 (1999) - present
- Modernism/Modernity triannual. 2 (1995) - present
- MLN (see ° JSTOR for older issues) five times a year. 108 (1993) - present
  - continues Modern Language Notes
- Narrative triannual. 10 (2002) - present
- New Literary History quarterly. 26 (1995) - present
- Oral Tradition biannual. 18 (2003) - present
- Philosophy and Literature biannual. 20 (1996) - 25 (2001)
- Poetics Today quarterly. 20 (1999) - present
- Postmodern Culture triannual. 1 (1990-1991) - present
- Research in African Literatures quarterly. 30 (1999) - present
- Resources for American Literary Study biannual. 25 (1999) - 27 (2001)
- Shakespeare Quarterly quarterly. 52 (2001) - present
- South Central Review triannual. 21 (2004) - present
- Studies in American Indian Literatures quarterly. 16 (2004) - present
- Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 quarterly. 39 (1999) - present
- Victorian Poetry quarterly. 38 (2000) - present
- Victorian Studies quarterly. 42 (1999/2000) present
- The Yale Journal of Criticism biannual. 9 (1996) - present

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Classified Resource Directories

Comprehensive

Intute: Arts & Humanities - (University of Oxford)
Humbul Humanities Hub and Artifact have merged to form this hub for research and educational websites
Literary Resources on the Net - (Jack Lynch, Rutgers Univ.)
UW-Whitewater Humanities Databases -
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English - (Univ. of California - Santa Barbara) - list of literature links
Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures (Other than English) Page - (Univ. of California - Santa Barbara) - list of literature links subdivided by language

Specialized

American Verse Project: Bibliography - (Univ. of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative)
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
This database contains information about children's books, including over 150,000 full text reviews from 27 sources including The Cooperative Children's Book Center [CCBC] in Madison
Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
Dickens Project.
Literary Terms by Category - University of Victoria's Writer's Guide
LitFINDER
This is an index to published poems (Poem Finder), an index to published short stories (Short Story Finder), and several others which may be searched simultaneously or individually. Some full text is included, so for those without, search for the publication using the University Library Catalog.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colony to 1950
This collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items. Much of the material is in copyright. Represented are many age groups and life stages, ethnicities, geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry - (Library of Congress)
Portals to the World - (Library of Congress) - Contains selective links to over 67 countries and areas of the world, providing authoritative, in-depth information on a variety of topics. Of most interest is Language and Literature, which includes titles of reference works and websites on the topic. When completed, the project will include all the nations of the world.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
This database contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.

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Awards

Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature - (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies UW-Milwaukee)
Awards and Best-of-the-Year Lists - (Cooperative Children's Book Center, School of Education, UW-Madison)
Caldecott Medal - (ALA)
Canadian Awards Index - (Canadian Children's Book Centre)
Coretta Scott King Book Award - (ALA)
Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
MLA: Annual Prize and Award Winners
National Book Award Winners
Newbery Medal - (ALA)
Nobel Prize in Literature - (Nobel Foundation)
Poetry Society of America Awards
Pulitzer Prizes

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Style Guides

How do I document sources from the Web in my works-cited list? These guidelines are the only ones authorized by MLA.
MLA Style Electronic Formats from Mary Ellen Guffey (March 1997) "Formats for the Citation of Electronic Sources in Business Writing" Business Communication Quarterly 60 (1) 59-76. Online version last revised, August 25, 2001.
Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor, Columbia Guide to Online Style - a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources. - (Columbia University Press, 1998)
Using Modern Language Association (MLA Format) - (the Purdue University Online Writing Lab) - Contains helpful hints and links.

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Last Revised: MS - 5/12/2008