English Language & Literature

General Directories of Literary Web Sites

• LitLinks: Bedford/St. Martin's guide to sites for fiction, essays, drama, poetry, and critical theory
• On-Line Literary Resources
• Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
• Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature

Online Resources

• ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) (via LION) More about ABELL
• ESTC (English Short-Title Catalogue) via British Library
  Database project of the British Library, containing every letterpress item printed in England or any of its dependencies from 1473-1800, or in English anywhere else in the world during that period. More about ESTC.
• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism

• LION (Literature Online)
  Full text of 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 20th Century, plus author biographies and literary criticism from ABELL and MLAIB.  More about LION.

• MLA International Bibliography (via LION)
• World Shakespeare Bibliography

Linguistics

• Center for Applied Linguistics
• Ethnologue
• Global Language Monitor
• iLoveLanguages: your guide to languages on the Web
• Language sites on the Internet
• The Linguist List
• Linguistics Resources on the Internet
• The Modern Language Association language map
• yourDictionary.com
  Comprehensive portal for language with more than 1800 dictionaries and 250 languages.

Period-Oriented Sites

Anglo-Saxon

• Old English at the University of Virginia
• ORB Old English

Medieval

• Labyrinth Home Page
• Luminarium
  Texts and supplemental materials for Medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century British literature.
• Medieval Sourcebook
• ORB-Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Modern

• Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
• Early Modern Literary Studies: WWW-Accessible Resources
• Eighteenth-Century Resources
• The English Renaissance in Context
• Gothic Materials for Study
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
• Literary Gothic
• PAL: perspectives in American Literature
• Romantic Chronology
• Romantic Circles
• Romantic Links, Home Pages, and Electronic Texts
• Victorian Studies on the Web
• The Victorian Web
• Victorian Web Sites
• Victorian Women Writers Project

Author Sites

Lists of Author Sites

• American Authors
• British & Irish Authors
• Literary Index
  Master index to almost 50 literary series published by Gale. Check results in MARQCAT for Reference location.

Selected Major Author Sites

American Authors

• American Authors
• American Writers
• Willa Cather Page
• Emily Dickinson Page
• T.S. Eliot: What the Thunder Said
• William Faulkner (Ole Miss)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
• The Life and Works of Herman Melville
• Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

British & Irish Authors

• Jane Austen Info Page
• The William Blake Archive
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400)
• New Chaucer Society
• Charles Dickens
• The Milton-L Home Page
• The Milton Reading Room
• Rossetti Archive
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (MIT)
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Shakespeare.com
• Sir Philip Sidney Online
• Edmund Spenser Online
• Virginia Woolf Web

Poetry: see the Libraries' Research Starting Points Guide to Poetry

Digital Texts

Textbases (Library subscriptions)

(Marquette-licensed subscriptions; available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only.)

• Early American Imprints 1639-1800 (Evans Bibliography)  More about Evans
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)  More about EEBO
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)  More about ECCO
• W. B. Yeats Collection 1885-1995
  The major works of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, published between 1885 and 1995.
• Women Writers Online
  Textbase of out-of-print and manuscript works by women covering 1400-1850. List of texts available.

Public Domain E-texts

• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
• Bartleby Library (Columbia U.)
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
• Celebration of Women Writers
• Electronic Literature Directory
• Electronic Text Center (U.Va.): English Resources
• The English Server (CMU)
• Humanities Text Initiative (U. Mich.)
• Library of Southern Literature (U.NC.,Chapel Hill)
• The On-line Books Page
• Project Gutenberg
• TEAMS Middle English texts (Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
• Wright American Fiction 1851-1875

Electronic Journals

• Early Modern Literary Studies
• Hypermedia Joyce Studies
• Papers on Language & Literature
• Postmodern Culture
• Renaissance Forum
• Romanticism On the Net

NOTE:  See E-Journals for full-text MU subscriptions:
   *   JSTOR includes Shakespeare Quarterly from volume 1--
   *   MUSE includes many literary journals, including ELH, Callaloo, Modern Fiction Studies, MLN, and Postmodern Culture

English Departments Online

• Marquette University English Dept.
• English Departments Worldwide
• English Department Homepages Worldwide

Search Aids and Bibliographic Tips

• Search the Internet
  Want more? Here you'll find a collection of search engines, indexes and directories.
• Internet Resources Citation Guides
  Learn how to cite information found on the Net in a bibliography.
• Evaluating Information Sources 
• Writer's Handbook
  Produced by the Writing Center at UW-Madison. Contains tips on style, grammar, punctuation, and citing sources.
• Research and Documentation Online
  Information on finding and documenting sources in the humanities, social sciences, history, and the sciences.