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Literature and Language Guide

English Literature

Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery

Choice Highly Recommended site

Caxton's Chaucer: The British Library

Scout Report; Choice Recommended site

The New Chaucer Society

Choice Outstanding site

Bluestocking Archive

18th Century

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832

Choice Outstanding site

Camelot Project

University of Rochester; Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information

Canadian Literature Archive

University of Manitoba

Catalog of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

Choice Highly Recommended Site; University of California - Los Angeles

Celebration of Women Writers

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English

Choice Highly Recommended site

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Choice Highly Recommended site; the complete writings and paintings

Choice Outstanding site

East London Theatre Archive

Provided by the Victoria and Albert Theatre Collections; about 2,700 items from 1827 to the present

Eighteenth-Century Resources

Jack Lynch of Rutgers

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature

National Library of Medicine exhibit

gender Inn

English and German language searchable database

The Gothic: Materials for Study

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Choice Outstanding site

Jane Austen Information Page

for her experiences in Bath see the online exhibit at the Jane Austen Centre, Bath, England

JASNA: Jane Austen Society of North America

John Keats: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Works

Choice Highly Recommended

Leigh Hunt Onlin : The Letters

Choice Highly Recommended; University of Iowa

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

by Elizabeth Gaskell; through Project Gutenberg

Lord Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Works

Choice Highly Recommended site

Luminariuim: Anthology of English Literature

Choice Highly Recommended site; Middle English, Renaissance, 17th century, and Restoration literature

Middle English Compendium

Choice Highly Recommended site; Harvard

The Modern English Collection

Univ. of Virginia Electronic Text Center

Morris, William

The William Morris Society; includes a set of related links

OzLit@The University of Sydney

more than 3000 Australian literary and historical texts; keyword search available

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

at Artchive.com

The Pre-Raphaelite Critic:

Contemporary Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, 1846-1900

Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource

Birmingham (UK) Museums and Art Gallery

Representative Poetry Online

University of Toronto

Romantic Circles

University of Maryland

Romantic Chronology

University of California - Santa Barbara

Romantic Links: from Voice of the Shuttle

Choice Recommended site

Romanticism: Romantic Online Resources

Nicely arranged outline with links from San Jose State University

The Rossetti Archive

The complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Illustrated Shakespeare Collection

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections; This online collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share the marriage between book art and Shakespearean text with a wider audience. It also suggests the variety of responses by visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Choice Recommended site; especially helpful to non-English major

TEAMS Middle English Texts

Choice Outstanding site; part of the Camelot Project

Victorian Studies on the Web

an elegant and powerful website for researchers on all aspects of British Victorian studies. . .. "

The Victorian Web

Wilke Collins

The William Blake Archive

Women Writers Project

Choice Highly Recommended site; Brown University; Visitors should be sure to check out the actual manuscript collection found here, which contains over 320 texts published between 1526 and 1850. Visitors should also be sure to check out the "WWO Lab" area, which is also found in the "Research and Publications" section. The Lab offers several intriguing visualizations that show the percentage of dramatic speeches according to the speaker's gender in two 17th-century plays as well as another visualization that looks at the letter-writing networks at the heart of "The History of Emily Montague" from 1769.

West European Studies Section; Association of College and Research Libraries—WESS

WESS: West European Studies

WESS—British Studies

WESS—Irish Studies site began construction in 2011