New Literary Resources

• 23 December 1999:
  • Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet (Univ. of Evansville) -- A "limited area search" engine, which restricts indexed items to only those concerning the ancient and medieval worlds. A good place to start on a search on these areas.
  • Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus (Rutgers Univ.) -- Extensive hypertext commentary on Jesus and the Bible, including the Hebrew background.
  • Virgil.org (David Wilson-Okamura, MacAlester College) -- A very impressive site on Virgil, including biographies, translations, links, and maps.
  • Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet (Univ. of Evansville) -- A "limited area search" engine, which restricts indexed items to only those concerning the ancient and medieval worlds. A good place to start on a search on these areas.
  • Geoffreychaucer.org (David Wilson-Okamura, MacAlester College) -- Very useful collection of information on Chaucer, including an annotated bibliography, commentary, biographies, images, and links. O si sic omnes!
  • Chaucer Pedagogy: The Electronic Canterbury Tales Home Page (Daniel T. Kline, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage) -- Very extensive guide to the Canterbury Tales, with annotated texts, translations, contexts, and links. O si sic omnes!
  • Julian of Norwich: Her 'Showings' and Their Contexts (Julia Bolton Holloway) -- "An Internet version of the Julian Library Portfolio, a collection of booklets which began as a series of lectures given to Quakers on Medieval Mystics." Dozens of essays and links. Admirably extensive, though directed at the faithful rather than the scholarly.
  • William of Ockham's Dialogus (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi) -- Superb electronic edition and translation of a major work of medieval philosophy. O si sic omnes!
  • The Lollard Society Homepage -- Information on the Society, with links and a bibliography.
  • Furness Shakespeare Library (Univ. of Pennsylvania) -- "A collection of primary and secondary sources, including both texts and images, that illuminate the theater, literature, and history of Shakespeare, Shakespearean texts, theatrical production, and criticism, Furness Library resources are now being selectively scanned and mounted here to make them available for class and research use and to draw attention to the richer resources available in the Library as a whole." Very scholarly. O si sic omnes!
  • Shakespeare Institute Library (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) -- Information on the library and its collections.
  • The Shakespeare Question (R. W. Bivens-Tatum) -- An overview of the authorship question, with links to the major sites on authorship (including orthodox Stratfordian sties).
  • Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning -- Contains extensive information on Bacon -- sometimes scholarly, sometimes not -- with an agenda to promote Bacon's claims to the Shakespeare canon.
  • The Early Modern Drama Database (Columbia) -- A chronological list of all public performances of drama in London from 1576 to 1642. Still in progress.
  • "Native Dyes": Race and Politics in the Jacobean Masque (Chad Edward Weidner and Karolien Walravens, Univ. of Bayreuth) -- A collaborative essay on three masques: Jonson's Masque of Blackness, Middleton's Triumphs of Honour and Virtue, and Chapman's Memorable Masque. A single illustrated document (not hypertextual).
  • Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (Bartleby) -- Texts of poems by Butler, Carew, Cleveland, Cowley, Crashaw, Davenant, Donne, Godolphin, Herbert, King, Lovelace, Marvell, Milton, Philips, Quarles, Suckling, Vaughan, Wotton, and others.
  • Renaissance Florence (Michael Papio, Holy Cross) -- A well-designed course page on Renaissance humanism, with useful links.
  • Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text -- Information on the Edition Corvey and a collection of original articles on Romantic topics.
  • Corvey Women Writers on the Web (Sheffield-Hallam) -- The goal is "to make fully searchable, peer-reviewed research available to all interested academics, scholars and researchers. ... Focuses on the 1,065 English belles-lettres titles -- around 3,000 volumes -- by women authors," 1796-1834. Now just bibliographical information, no full-text. Still, very extensive, very scholarly.
  • Jane Austen Society of North America -- An extensive site on Austen for both scholars and Janeites. Includes the on-line journal Persuasions.
  • Making Monsters: A Web Site Devoted to Mary Shelley and Her Novel Frankenstein (Cynthia Hamberg) -- E-text, biography, links, and brief notes on contexts.
  • Hail Mary Shelley for her Frankenstein exercise of mind -- An unscholarly reading of the novel.
  • The Emily Brontë Page (Steph Gray, Oxford) -- Annotated links.
  • The Browning Society (Scott Lewis, Univ. College London) -- Information on the Society (on both Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning), with brief biographical sketches and links.
  • The Spirit Of Bohemia (Bohemia Books) -- A collection of original essays and links on 19th- and early 20th-c. Bohemian culture in Paris and London.
  • Postmodernism is/in Fiction (Pomona) -- Original essays and links on Acker, Auster, DeLillo, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Hagedom, Morrison, Powers, Pynchon, Reed, and Rushdie. Some aren't yet available.
  • Exploring The Waste Land (Richard A. Parker) -- Annotated version of Eliot's poem. Requires frames.
  • Flying by the Net: James Joyce in Cyberspace (Michael Groden) -- Extensively annotated guide to Joyce resources on the Web, including discussion groups, Web sites, and journals. O si sic omnes!
  • D. H. Lawrence Grove (Tina Ferris) -- An unscholarly but well informed site, with commentary on a number of poems and stories.
  • Political Writings of George Orwell (Patrick Farley) -- A collection of Orwell's essays on political topics, with a few links.
  • Evelyn Waugh -- Doubting Hall -- Introduction to Waugh's life and works, with a chronology, synopses of the novels, quotations, suggestions for further reading, and links.
  • Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction -- A Distance Learning Project (Joel Rich and Nancy Henderson) -- Originally a course page for a distance-learning project; now an archive of discussions, a brief chronology and primary bibliography, and excerpts from some of the women's works Woolf discusses.
  • American Literature (Josh Anderson, Basehor-Linwood High School) -- An extensive course page for an advanced high school survey of American literature from its beginnings to the twentieth century.
  • Covers, Titles, and Tables: The Formation of American Literary Canons (Kenneth W. Roemer, UTA) -- Facsimiles of front matter of anthologies of early American literature from 1878 to the present, with attention to their role in shaping the canon. Well done.
  • Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read (Pat Pflieger) -- A scholarly look at 19th-c. children's reading habits, with original essays and bibliographies.
  • North Carolina Writers' Network -- Information on the Society, including its conferences, with links.
  • Mississippi Writers and Musicians (Starkville High School) -- Impressively thorough guide to 20th-c. Mississippi writers, major and minor. Includes list of works, biographical sketches, original essays, reviews, and links.
  • The Don DeLillo Society -- Information on the Society, with a bibliography and annotated links.
  • Ralph Ellison Webliography (Claude Henry Potts, UCLA) -- A thorough list of mostly primary works, with a chronology and links.
  • Frank Harris (1856-1931) -- E-texts, biographical sketches, and links on the notorious biographer and autobiographer.
  • The Jack London Collection (DL SunSITE) -- A first-rate collection of information (E-texts, biography, bibliographies, images, miscellaneous documents) on London, well organized and presented. O si sic omnes!
  • The Pynchon Files -- An excellent and extensive site on Pynchon's life (what little is known) and works. Coverage isn't comprehensive, but plenty of good stuff here, much of it not to be found elsewhere.
  • Lots of Thomas Pynchon Links (Susan Danewitz) -- A big (but unannotated) list of links on Pynchon.
  • HyperArts Pynchon Pages (Tim Ware) -- Useful starting point for Pynchon links, Web guides, a discussion group, and so on.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (Virginia) -- Electronic text of the novel, nestled among very extensive and intelligent contextual material, including reviews, illustrations, historical information, and even video clips of movie adaptations. Impressive from top to bottom. O si sic omnes!
  • Robert Penn Warren -- "Honoring the life and works" of Warren. Biography, bibliographies, filmographies, and links.
  • The Edith Wharton Society Home Page (Gonzaga) -- Useful collection of E-texts, links, bibliographies, suggested readings, and tips on teaching. Well done.
  • Thomas Wolfe -- A brief biography and bibliography, with a few links, on a single page.
  • Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (Cardiff) -- Information on the Centre and its publications.
  • Prickly Problems at First Base or Angels in the Outfield? (Tony Hughes) -- Paper on software developed for English instruction.
  • Michael Joyce, "Notes toward an Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Text, 'The Ends of Print Culture' (A Work in Progress)" (PMC)
  • The Heresy of Hypertext (John Tolva)
  • Poems, Plays, and Prose: A Guide to the Theory of Literary Genres (Manfred Jahn, Univ. of Cologne) -- A worthy introduction to genre theory and narratology.
  • Fabula -- An E-journal on fiction theory, supported by dozens of other resources: original essays, links, discussiong roups, and so on. Very well done. In French only, and requires frames.
  • Literature and Cinema Journal -- A collection of essays ("seminars") "designed to record and reflect upon the course Literature and Cinema. Key themes addressed include comparative textuality, intertextuality, authorship and authority, genre and narrative and narration in literature and cinema."
  • Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project -- "An effort to digitise important Islamic resources and make them available to the masses." Many electronic texts from the Islamic world.
  • Hippias: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet (Univ. of Evansville) -- A "limited area search" engine, which restricts indexed items to only those concerning philosophy. A good place to start on a search on these areas.
  • Literary Movements (Donna M. Campbell, Gonzaga Univ.) -- Extensive collection of information on American authors, including a timeline, bibliographies, and many, many links. Well done, and a good place to start on American literature.
  • Literaryhistory.com -- A budding collection of materials for literary history, including original essays contributed by readers.
  • Scottish Writers (Andrew Crumey) -- Novelist and critic Crume provides very valuable information on hundreds of Scottish authors. Entries are brief but solid. Also a history of Scottish literature. O si sic omnes!
  • Oxford Text Archive
  • Modern English Collection (Michigan) -- Extensive corpus of English literature since 1500.
  • Tetrameter: Four-Footed Verse (Eric Howard) -- A brief discussion of the meter, with abundant examples and links to other guides to metrics.
  • Biographical Dictionary -- Very brief entries on 27,000 figures.
  • The Altered State: England, Literature, and the Pub (Steven Earnshaw) -- Selections from a book which "looks at how inns, taverns, alehouses and pubs have appeared in literature from Chaucer to the present day." Includes bibliographies and extracts. Requires frames.
  • British Literary Prizes -- Information on the major literary prizes, including their winners.
  • Invisible Library (Brian Quinette) -- "A collection of pseudobiblia, artifiction, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, fictitious books, and books within books." Very clever.
• 27 August 1999:
  • Scrinium Latinum: A Toolbox of Materials for the Intelligent Study of Latin (William Harris, Middlebury College) -- Hypertext essay on the study of Latin language and literature.
  • An Intelligent Reader's Latin Chrestomathy (William Harris, Middlebury College) -- Short Latin selections with commentary for those learning the language.
  • Papers on the Classics (William Harris, Middlebury College) -- Dozens of short essays on classical topics.
  • Essays on some Latin Authors (William Harris, Middlebury College) -- Brief biographical sketches on major literary figures in Latin literature, including Apuleius, Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Lucretius, Ovid, Persius, Petronius, Propertius, and others.
  • Greek Mythology: Chapters in Pre-History (William Harris, Middlebury) -- A critique of Joseph Campbell's approach to mythology in a dozen chapters "designed to investigate the myths as thinly cloaked chapter in an ancient Historical Tradition, which goes far back into the history of the Near East."
  • Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (Géza Alföldy) -- "The project aims at integrating Latin inscriptions from all parts of the Roman Empire into an extensive database." Supporting material in German and English. Very ambitious and scholarly.
  • ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (Laura V. Blanchard and Carolyn Schriber, Rhodes College) -- An impressive, ambitious, and very scholarly collaborative collection of resources, mostly for students, including an in-progress encyclopedia, a collection of electronic texts, bibliographies, and annotated links. "The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web." First-rate.
  • Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources (R. G. Siemens, Univ. of Alberta) -- iEMLS reproduces Siemens's extensive bibliography, with useful commentary, from The Cambridge Companion to Milton, 2nd ed. Over 300 items. Mighty impressive.
  • A Select Romanticism Bibliography (Nicholas Halmi, McMaster) -- A very handy annotated bibliography of editions, biographies, and important criticism on major Romantic figures: Burke, Barbauld, Smith, Blake, Robinson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, de Quincey, Peacock, Byron, P.B. Shelley, Hemans, Keats, and Mary Shelley. The overviews of Romanticism are also useful.
  • Romanticism: Selective Bibliography (Adriana Craciun, Loyola Univ. Chicago) -- A useful (but unannotated) bibliography of editions, biographies, and critical studies of Romantic topics and writers: Blake, Burney, Byron, Coleridge, Dacre, Hays, Hemans, Keats, Landon, Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth. The recommendations on overviews of Romanticism and topics such as the novel, women, the Gothic, and sensibility are especially extensive.
  • The Victorian Literature Website: Everything Victorian (Jen Buttaro) -- Very short biographies for Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Carroll, Collins, Dickens, Disraeli, George Eliot, and Gissing; a few poems; a guide to currency; quotations; a chronology; and links. Not scholarly and just getting off the ground, but promises to be useful.
  • Center for Regional Studies (Southeastern Louisiana Univ.) -- Information on the Center and links to other resources.
  • Thinking About DeLillo's White Noise (Philipp Schweighauser, Univ. of Basel) -- Interesting and sophisticated interactive pedagogy site, with a series of "tasks" and questions on the novel. Answers are sent to Schweighauser. Requires frames.
  • Women Writers (Kim Wells) -- Commentary on women writers from 1800 to the present, with extensive annotated links to other sites.
  • Theatre and Drama resources, WWW Virtual Library (Barry Russell) -- Very extensive meta-site on world theatre. An excellent starting point.
  • Calendrier des spectacles sous Louis XIV, 1659-1715 (Barry Russell) -- An in-progress catalogue of all performances -- theatre, opera, ballet -- in Louisquatorzean France. Very impressive.
  • Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website (Univ. of Texas at Austin) -- Learned commentary on the works of the Frankfurt School, including Adorno, Benjamin, Fromm, Horkheimer, Habermas, Marcuse, Aggger, Best, Bronner, and Kellner.
  • Model Editions Partnership (Univ. of South Carolina) -- "The purpose of the Model Editions Partnership is to explore ways of creating editions of historical documents which meet the standards scholars traditionally use in preparing printed editions." Includes "experimental mini-editions" on the First Federal Congress, the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Henry Laurens, Abraham Lincoln, Nathanael Greene, Margaret Sanger, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
  • English Literatures on the Internet (Thorstein Schreiber, Bayreuth) -- M.A. thesis which discusses the nature and role of electronic resources. The depth of commentary on major sites is unparalleled. Very handy. Requires frames.
  • Internet Library of Early Journals (Bodleian)
  • Repositories of Primary Sources (Univ. of Idaho) -- "A listing of over 3300 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar." Links to thousands of libraries and archives.
  • The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages (Heidi Anne Heiner) -- Annotated fairy tales, with historical and contextual information and bibliographies on further reading. Not scholarly, but well-informed and clearly written. Experts will find nothing new, but beginners will benefit.
  • English Literature & Religion (William S. Peterson, Univ. of Maryland) -- Organized around a huge bibliography (in Adobe Acrobat format), cataloguing over 6,000 items on the history of religion, particularly strong on 17th- and 19th-c. Anglicanism. Shorter bibliographies on topics (the English Bible, the Book of Common Prayer), movements (Puritanism, mysticism), and people (Andrewes, Milton, Hooker, Tennyson, C. S. Lewis) are also available.
• 19 July 1999:
  • Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) (Rutgers) -- "Its aim is to provide scholars with an expanding library of information in electronic format on the medieval and early modern periods of European history, circa 800-1815 C.E." Contains information on historical prices and currency exchange.
  • York Corpus Christi Play Simulator -- PSim 2.1 (Dennis G. Jerz, Univ. of Wisconsin -- Eau Claire) -- A novel use of technology to show the progress of the York play through the city. Still a little buggy. Requires Java.
  • Shakespeare Page (Clark Holloway) -- Includes a complete facsimile of Much Ado about Nothing (2nd folio, 1632), along with images, essays, and commentary by Johnson.
  • A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet (Ian Delaney) -- A study guide to the play for A-level students (upper-level high school). Includes text, review questions, links, a discussion group, and related texts (Saxo Grammaticus, Belleforest, T. S. Eliot, and others). Not for scholars, but a useful introduction for beginners.
  • Approaches to Shakespeare (David Worrall, St. Mary's Strawberry Hill) -- Pages for a course on Shakespeare, with extensive contextual materials and useful links on Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.
  • GGRENir (Heinrich C. Kuhn) -- Very extensive "Internetography on Renaissance intellectual history," collecting hundreds of annotated links on learning and the arts, 1348-1648. Searchable in many ways.
  • Romanticism and the Law (Romantic Circles) -- Scholarly hypertext essay collection, edited by Michael Macovski.
  • Romantische Anthropologie (Uli Wunderlich and Adam Lawrence) -- Guide to Romantic-era anthropology, with profiles of Autenrieth, Baader, Brandis, Burdach, Carus, Doellinger, Ennemoser, Goerres, Heinroth, Ideler, Kieser, Leupoldt, Nasse, Oken, Schubert, Steffens, Troxler, and Windischmann, with more to come. Biographies, bibliographies, and some illustrations -- all very impressive. In German and English.
  • Romantic Prose Fiction (Uwe Spoerl) -- Overview of an in-progress volume in the ICLA Comparative Literary History Series, with useful bibliographies and links on Romantic prose across Europe. Admirably comparative.
  • Charles Dickens, Gad's Hill Place (Marsha Perry) -- Unscholarly fan site on Dickens's life and works.
  • George Gissing Website (Peter Morton, Flinders Univ.) -- Overview, biographies, E-texts, criticism, and extensive and annotated links. Very impressive.
  • Anthony Trollope:
    • Anthony Trollope: An Overview (Victorian Web) -- The best starting place for information on Trollope on the Web.
    • Anthony Trollope (Mitsuharu Matsuoka) -- Links, E-texts, and chronology.
    • The Trollope.Org Page -- A handy set of links to the major Trollope resources, including a discussion group.
  • Literary Women of the Left Bank (Paula DiTallo) -- On-line magazine on early Modernism, especially women in Paris, 1900-1940, but with broader coverage than the title suggests.
  • Felix Octavus Carr Darley (1821-88): America's First Illustrator of Note, & Victorian American's Most Famous Illustrator -- Information on the illustrator of works by Dickens, Irving, Poe, Longfellow, Cooper, and others.
  • John Ford's Romantic Afterlife (Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam Univ.) -- Brief biography and critical overview, with a bibliography of primary and secondary works.
  • The Anne Sexton Bibliography (Jeremiah Gilbert) -- An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works, including not only Sexton's books of poetry but also the first magazine publications of many of her poems. Very handy.
  • Thomas Wolfe Memorial -- Official site on Wolfe's house, with information for visitors and a timeline-cum-bibliography. Requires frames.
  • Salman Rushdie:
    • Salman Rushdie (Subir Grewal) -- A useful overview of Rushdie's publications, with brief commentary. Includes links to interviews, bibliographies, and other sites. Well done.
    • Salman Rushdie: An Overview (Brown) -- Collaborative project on postcolonial writers includes this incomplete and not always scholarly overview of Rushdie's life, works, and contexts.
    • Notes on Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (Paul Brians, WashingtonState) -- An impressive study guide to The Satanic Verses, with links to other Rushdie sites.
  • Pilot-Search.com -- A Literary Search Engine -- A big literary meta-site, with more flash than substance. Coverage is spotty, the commentary minimal, and the site itself still fairly buggy, not to mention overloaded with advertisements. Requires frames.
  • Alliance of Literary Societies -- British umbrella group for various societies, including the Jane Austen Society UK.
  • Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire -- Journal of the International Comparative Literature Association, with full text of recent issues, and a list of links to other comp lit sites.