Literary Research: Web Sites

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General Sites:

• Voice of the Shuttle - an excellent index of the world's online literary resources, maintained by Alan Liu of UC Santa Barbara.
• The Internet Public Library - Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Literary Resources on the Web - a site maintained by Jack Lynch, co-creator of the Penn English Web.
• American Studies Virtual Library - from Georgetown University
• LitLinks - Site created by Bedford/St. Martin´s
• Collection of Literature Resources - MIT Libraries: "This is a collection of Internet resources devoted primarily to English and American literatures"
• BookSpot - A great site to find out about all types of book awards; authors online; publishers and lots more!

Subject Specific Sites:

• A Celebration of Women Writers - "The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing." You can browse the site by name, century or country.
• Voices from the Gaps - Women Writers of Color - this site is maintained by the University of Minnesota as "an instructional Web site focusing on the lives and works of North American women writers of color".
• Gender Inn - "The database consists of bibliographic records pertaining to feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on British and American literature. In addition, great emphasis is placed upon the inclusion of general resources and introductory texts in feminist theory. As the database has a declared interdisciplinary orientation we also include feminist literature on pedagogy, sociology, history and psychology." The content of this database has been "collected and recorded at the chair of Prof. Natascha Würzbach at the English Department at the University of Cologne."
• Eighteenth-Century Resources - another site maintained by Jack Lynch.
• Literature & culture of the American 1950s - outstanding interdisciplinary and multimedia site for students and scholars of this time period.
• Bartleby library - Bartlett´s Quotations, Bartleby Verse, and Books online.