LITERATURE   LINKS:   AMERICAN   &   BRITISH

General Literature   [ Websites with broad coverage of literary resources ]

• Literature Resources: Internet Collections by Period, Genre, Etc. is maintained by MIT.
  
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English) provides exceptionally broad coverage of internet sites on literature.
  
• Literary Resources on the Net includes large collections of links arranged by literary time periods.
  
• English Server covers a variety of humanities topics in addition to language, fiction, poetry, and drama.
  
• Online Literary Criticism Collection from Internet Public Library includes "critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be searched by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period."
  
• Internet Sites Related to Electronic Literature lists links to sites covered in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
  
• LitWeb San Antonio College site surveys literatures by nationalities, time periods, ethnicities, etc.

Authors   [ Websites that include numerous individual authors ]

• Online Literary Criticism Collection from Internet Public Library has links to authors, searchable alphabetically by last names, by titles of works, and by nationality/literary time periods.
  
• Literature Resources: Internet Collections Devoted to Specific Authors or Works includes an alphabetical list of author links.
  
• American Authors on the Web includes an extensive chronological list of author links.
  
• British and Irish Authors on the Web includes an extensive chronological list of author links.

American Literature   [ Websites with broad coverage of American literature - Find within these websites literary time periods such as Colonial to 1800, 19th Century, Modern and Contemporary ]

• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
  
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English) - American... includes biographical, critical and full-text resources on a variety of authors as well as links to discussion lists and journals.
  
• American Authors on the Web includes an extensive chronological list of author links.
  
• SAC LitWeb: The American Literature Index

British Literature  [ Websites with broad coverage of British Literature - Find within these websites literary time periods such as Medieval (Old and Middle English), Renaissance/17th Century, Restoration/18th Century, Romantics, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary ]

• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English)...
  
• Literary Resources on the Net
  
• Online Literary Criticism Collection
  
• British and Irish Authors on the Web includes an extensive chronological list of author links.
  
• SAC LitWeb: The British Literature Index
  

Minority Literature  [ Websites dedicated to American minority literatures ]

• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English) - Minority... lists websites for minority literatures such as Afro-American, Asian-American, Chicano/Latino, Jewish, and Native-American.
  
• Indigenous Peoples Literature includes a wealth of material related to Native Americans and indigenous peoples throughout the world.
  
• SAC: LitWeb: A Brief Chronology of African American Literature includes links to some individual author pages.
  
• SAC LitWeb: The Chicano Literature index includes individual authors with bibliographies and links to other sources.
  
• Mundo Latino Rincón Literario This Spanish Language site includes novels/novelists, poems/poets, online journals, theatre, Spanish Language links, and more related to Latino Literature. Has its own search engine.
  
• Latin American Literature An excellent list of Latin American Literature Resources...
  
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color Each author page includes biographical, critical, and bibliographical information as well as links to other web sources on the writer. Search by "by name, by genre, by place of birth..., by significant dates, and by 'axes of affiliation.'"

Women's Literature

• A Celebration of Women Writers "provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers" as well as to full texts of works by women. Search by author name, by century, or by country.
  
• WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Literature and Culture Web Sites is maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. It includes links to online texts, literary criticism, bibliographies and more.
  
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Literature and Poetry includes a chronological list of links to individual women authors. A name index provides links to biographies of important women (not limited to authors).
  
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color Each author page includes biographical, critical, and bibliographical information as well as links to other web sources on the writer. Search by "by name, by genre, by place of birth..., by significant dates, and by 'axes of affiliation.'"
  
  

Full Texts Online

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts provides full texts of 14,000 "classic" works of English and American Literature as well as philosophy. It indexes Project Gutenberg and similar etext projects on the Internet. It is searchable by keyword as well as browsable by authors and titles.
  
• Hypertexts from the University of Virginia includes etexts of titles important to American culture.
  
• Avalon Project from the Yale Univ. Law School includes etexts relevant to law, history, and diplomacy.
  
• Bartleby, Great Books Online includes etexts of major literary works out of copyright.
  
• Bibliomania includes classic fiction, non-fiction & reference on the web
  
• Eserver includes arts and humanities etexts, searchable by keyword.
  
• Etext Archive (etext.org) "provides electronic versions of texts [including amateur writing] without judging their content."
  
• Fiction: The Eserver Collection provides etexts of works by and about fiction, including electronic texts of novels and short stories.
  
• Great Books from ELF (Electronic Literature Foundation)
  
• Internet Library of Early Journals (18th & 19th century)
  
• Online Literary Criticism Collection from Internet Public Library includes critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be searched by author, title, or nationality/literary period.
  
• The On-Line Books Page includes more than 12,000 listings, searchable by author, title, subject and serial.