World Wide Web Resources for the Study of English

The place to start:

The Carnegie Mellon index to English materials, "The English Server": http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/
Especially strong on scholarship, secondary material generally.

See also:

Voice of the Shuttle

Part of a Princeton graduate student project; contains lots of useful information, including guides to searching the Web.

http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Online Literary Criticism Collection: index to criticism online
Places to search in:

Yahoo (try this first, limited, but fast and well-organized): http://www.yahoo.com/search.html

Best for common topics, limits number of hits and is likely to take you to home pages directly.
Hotbot: http://www.google.com/
For more obscure topics, the fastest, most comprehensive search engine.

Lists of listservs

Electronic mail newsletters you can subscribe to and participate in.

Literature:
http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/S0044s.html

Linguistics and Text Analysis:
http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/S0043s.html

Writing:
http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/S0067s.html
The Write Site: http://www.writesite.org/ Aimed at middle school teaching

Spoon Collective Theory Lists: http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/~spoons/

Comprehensive list of lists:
http://www.liszt.com/

MLA English Graduate Student List: E-GRAD:
http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/CD/1738.html

The most comprehensive list for the humanities: Humanist:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/

Calls for papers: http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/calls/

Job Openings: http://chronicle.com/jobs/

Languages and Linguistics: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/langs.html

Feminism and Women's studies: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/feminism.html

Queer Studies: http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/QueerInfo/qstudy.htm

American Studies:

American Studies Web: A Guide to American Studies Resources on the Internet: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/

Archiving Early America: Historic Documents from 18th Century America and the journal Early America Review

Writing Black USA

Greek and Latin Classics Internet Resources:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/classics/classics.html

Medieval Studies:

Labyrinth: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Electronic Beowulf: http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/BL/kportico.html

Shakespeare: http://www.shakespeare.com/

http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/other.html

J.M. Massi's Shakespeare pages:
http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/shakes/

Renaissance English Literature:
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

Archive for 18th-Century Studies:
 http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/18th.html Romanticism

Blake Multimedia Project:
http://www.multimedia.calpoly.edu/libarts/smarx/Blake/blakeproject.html

Victorian Literature

Victorian Web

Reference sources & electronic peer-reviewed publications

Searchable hypertext dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Searchable Bibles:
http://estragon.uchicago.edu/Bibles/

Exemplaria: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria

Postmodern Culture: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/

Cultronix: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/

CWRL: The Electronic Journal for Computer Writing, Rhetoric and Literature: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~cwrl//

CTHEORY: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/ctheory/

an international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture at Concordia University: Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.3/

Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies: http://152.1.96.5/jouvert/

Text archives:

Searchable index to books online by title: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/booktitles.html

Searchable index to books online by author: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/bookauthors.html

Library of Congress index to text archives: http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html

The Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia:

Victorian Women Writers Project

Internet Poetry Archive

Catalogues and indexes:

Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov:80/homepage/

CARL http://www.carl.org/carlweb/

FirstSearch: telnet://fscat.oclc.org/ You'll need the same ID and password as when you use this resource from the library terminals.

Access to various library catalogues world wide: http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Libweb/

ABELL: The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MHRA/ABELL/

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/

Other:

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Local resources:

WSU Department of English : http://www.wsu.edu/~english/

Paul Brians' Common Errors in English Page:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

Paul Brians' Serious Links Page: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/favorite_sites.html

Paul Brians' list of cultural events at WSU: http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/~brians_syllabus/events.html

World Civilizations Home Page: http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/

Prepared by Paul Brians 9/22/95, revised 10/13/96

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