General Directories for Literary Information on the Web

The best place to start any search is the Oberlin College Library Web Site http://www.oberlin.edu/library/  where you can find out more about general internet research tools.  As well as giving access to OBIS, this site allows you to easily consult the MLA International Bibliography which provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages and literature, folklore, and linguistics, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature which lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world, Humanities Abstracts which cites articles in literature and language, history and philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology, and Art Abstracts which lists publications in architecture, film, and art history.

Most Comprehensive Sites 

The English Server

http://eserver.org/

 

 Literary Resources on the Net

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

 

 University of Toronto English Library

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/

 

 Voice of the Shuttle

http://vos.ucsb.edu/index-netscape.asp

 

 The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource

http://www.zuzu.com/

Genre/Time Period-Specific Sites                                       

 Illuminations: The Critical Theory Web Site

http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/

 

 Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

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

 

Myths and Legends

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze33gpz/myth.html

 

Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

http://orb.rhodes.edu/

Old English Pages

http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/old_english.html

Romantic Circles

http://www.rc.umd.edu/

 

Victoria Research Web

http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/

 

Victorian Web

http://www.victorianweb.org/

Selected Sites

American Authors on the Web

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

 

American Literature Archive

http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/

 

American Studies Crossroads Project

http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/index.html

 

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/

 

BoondocksNet.com

http://www.boondocksnet.com/about.htm

 

British and Irish Authors on the Web

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html

 

The Camelot Project

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm

 

Chaucer: an annotated guide to online resources

http://geoffreychaucer.org/

 

Geoffrey Chaucer Web 

http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

 

Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English

http://65.107.211.206/post/misc/postov.html

 

Electronic Poetry Center             

http://epc.buffalo.edu/

 

Thomas Hardy's World

http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/english/hardy/

 

Humanities and Social Sciences Online

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/

 

Hyperizons

http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

 

Internet Poetry Archive

http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/

 

Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection

http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

 

Modern American Poetry

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm

 

 

Work in Progress: A Website Devoted to the Writings of James Joyce

http://www.2street.com/joyce/etext/index.html

 

The Literary Gothic

http://www.litgothic.com/

 

New York Public Library Digital Library Collections

http://digital.nypl.org/

 

Orlando Project: Women's writing in Britain

http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/

 

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

http://www.powa.org/

 

Perdita Project :Early modern women's manuscript compilations

http://human.ntu.ac.uk/perdita/perdita.htm

 

Perseus Project (Includes English Renaissance sources)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

 

Post-WW II American Literature and Culture Database

http://english.berkeley.edu/Postwar/default.html

 

REED: Records of Early English Drama

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html

 

Romantic Chronology

http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/

 

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

 

Victorian Women Writers Project

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

 

Wired for Books

http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/

Literary Magazines Online

Agni*

 http://webdelsol.com/AGNI/

 

Atlantic Unbound*

    http://www.theatlantic.com/

 

Arts and Letters Daily

 http://www.aldaily.com/

 

Blue Moon Review (1995+)

http://www.thebluemoon.com/

 

Boston Review (1993+)

http://bostonreview.mit.edu/

 

Conjunctions*

http://www.conjunctions.com/

 

Exquisite Corpse

http://www.corpse.org/

 

Five Points*

http://webdelsol.com/Five_Points/

 

Flashpoint (1997+)

http://webdelsol.com/FLASHPOINT/

 

Field

http://www.oberlin.edu/~ocpress/

 

InterText (1991+)

http://www.intertext.com/

 

Kudzu

http://www.etext.org/Zines/Kudzu/kudzu_core.html

 

Left Bank Review

http://www.leftbankreview.com/

 

Literal Latte*

http://www.literal-latte.com/index1.html

 

Literary Traveler

http://www.literarytraveler.com/

 

Missouri Review*

http://www.missourireview.org/

 

Mudlark (1995+)

http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/

North American Review (1997+)

http://webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/NAR/

Oyster Boy Review (1994+)

http://www.oysterboyreview.com/

 

La Petite Zine

http://www.lapetitezine.org/

 

the place

http://theplace.walkerart.org/

 

Planet Magazine (1994+)

http://www.planetmag.com/

 

Ploughshares (1995+)

http://www.pshares.org/

 

Prairie Schooner current issue only, partial contents

http://webdelsol.com/Prairie_Schooner/

 

(Re)Soundings (1996+)

http://www.millersv.edu/~resound/

 

Salon (1995+)

http://www.salon.com/

 

Stanford Humanities Review (1994+)

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/

 

TRANS>arts.cultures.media

http://www.echonyc.com/~trans/

 

The XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics Archive (1998+)

http://bfn.org/~xcp/

 

Zoetrope (1997+)

http://www.all-story.com/

 

ZYZZYVA (1996+)

http://webdelsol.com/ZYZZYVA/

* signifies only partial contents online

Journals

American Imago (psychoanalysis and culture)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_imago/index.html

 

Callaloo (African American arts and literature)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/index.html

 

Configurations (Society for Literature and Science)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/index.html

 

Critical Inquiry

http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/critical.inquiry.home.html

 

ELH (English Literary History) or ELH for nonsubscribers

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/index.html

     

Renaissance Forum

http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/EL_Web/renforum/

 

The Henry James Review

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/henry_james_review/index.html

 

The Keats-Shelley Journal

http://www.luc.edu/publications/keats-shelley/ksjweb.htm

 

The Lion and the Unicorn (children's literature)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/index.html

 

Literature and Medicine

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/index.html

 

MLN (Modern Language Notes) or MLN for nonsubscribers

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/index.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/v108/

 

Modern Fiction Studies

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mfs/index.html

 

Modernism/Modernity NLH (New Literary History)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/

 

Post-Modern Culture

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

 

Reviews in American History

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/index.html

Links to Text Archives

The On-Line Books Page allows you to search over 1400 on-line books

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

 

The Electronic Text Center at The University of Virginia

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

 

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

http://www.ccel.org/

 

Renaissance Electronic Texts

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/ret.html

 

The Milton-L Homepage

http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton.html

 

Project Bartleby (at Columbia)

http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

 

Humanities Text Initiative (at U Michigan)

http://www.hti.umich.edu/
 

http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html 

An extensive bibliography of Internet resources, print articles, and list serves "which address the problems and issues related to teaching and using critical thinking skills to evaluate Internet resources".

Evaluation of Personal, News, Advocacy, Informational and Business web sites.

http://www.colby.edu/library/research/web_search/evaluating/

Outlines prepared for different types of web sites by Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University.

Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources, by Esther Grassian.

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htm

A guide to both general and discipline based criteria for evaluation of web pages developed at UCLA. It includes criteria for content and evaluation, source and data, structure, and other.

Unusual sites

Banned books

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html

 

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for worst writers

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

 

Julia A. Moore Poetry Contest: equal time for worst poets

http://www.flint.lib.mi.us/about/programs/jmoore/

 

Poems that Go

http://www.poemsthatgo.com/

 

Learn a Word a Day

http://wordsmith.org/awad/

 

Sublime Anxiety: Gossip about Gothic

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/gothic/index.html

 

A Hero's Journey: Become a hero in your own story

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/journey/

 

Passions in Poetry: A Poetry Source for the People

http://www.netpoets.com/