Useful Literary Websites

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Here you will find some useful websites and resources for people studying English and literature related subjects. Please fell free to add to the list as well as structuring the page in a great way. If you spot a broken link, please remove it (or try to find a link to the broken page if it still exists somewhere else)

• TSR English Revision Notes

General

• Book Blogs and Cataloging

• Renascence Editions, a collection of English works printed between 1477 and 1799

• - analysis of loads of novels and plays

• - English Resources from UniversalTeacherRevision materials, poetry readings, exam preparation etc.

• The Internet Public Library

• GCSE English Resources

• The Forest of Rhetoric

• UK Lit notes

• English Teaching Resources - (usually has some useful A-level guide things)

• Literature Online Subscription service through the university Athens server (most universities should have an account if you check) This website has digital versions of all out of copyright texts, poems etc, aswell as digitized versions of literary magazines for reading criticism.

• Early English Books Online Athens Subscription service that contains digital scans of books printed up to 1750 (for scans of shakespeare original folio / quarto etc.)

• SCETI - electronic text and images of rare books and manuscripts

• Guardian Books The guardian books website, reviewing contemporary and older literary releases, author biographies and offering discussion boards.

• Bibliomania - literature and study guides

• - miscellaneous literary resources

• Summaries and reviews of books and academic papers

Poetry

• Poetry Collection A large collection of digitized poetry, categorized by genre.

• Poetry Corner - Poetry Definitions

• Poetry ArchiveReal poets reading their own works. Supported by the arts council of Britain.

Dictionaries

• Etymological dictionary giving all the various morphemes and their origins, and dates of first usage

• A pretty good dictionary of literary terms

• Oxford English Dictionary (access through Athens)

Literary Theory, Criticism and Reference

• Literary History

• Literary Encyclopedia

• Literary Theory

• - Resources for comparative literature and literary theory

• Bartletby Cambridge Encyclopedia of English and American Literature An encyclopedia charting the history of English and including essays and criticism up to the end of the Victorian Era

• - A journal of peer-reviewed survey articles from across the discipline

Shakespeare

• - info on quite a few Shakespeare plays

• Shakespeare Criticism

• SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE WEST VIRGINIA SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE ASSOCIATION

• Criticism of Individual Plays (this looks quite good, but I've only just found it, never used it)

• Digital Library contain all Shakespeare's plays and much more

• Shakespeare resource centre

• Another Shakespeare site

• Some of Shakespeare's works in audio format (can be saved as mp3 and put on an iPod/mp3 player)

Othello

• Othello Notes

• Leavis On Othello Criticism

Measure for Measure

• Debate and Themes

• Ways to Think about Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

• Essays, guide and exercises

• Measure for Measure Themes and for the stage (Royal Shakespeare Company)

• Guardian Books Measure for Measurel

• From Mistress to Master: Political Transition and Formal Conflict in Measure for Measure - Critical Essay

Medieval Literature

• Medieval Literature

• Medieval Literature Companion (again, only just found it, but looks great)

• - The Camelot Project - a site about Arthurian texts

Chaucer

• A guide to chaucer Biography, bibliography, audio files, lectures and much more.

Kazuo Ishiguro

• [1]

The Remains of the Day

• [2]

Victorian Literature

• Victorian WebA large, scholarly contributed archive with regards to all aspects of Victorian Literature. Unmissable if you study the period and require everything from quick reference to detailed analysis.

L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between

• [3]

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

• Wuthering Heights Resources (excellent, excellent, excellent site)

Links originally from the thread started by Sehnsucht on TSR Forums.