genre/topics
| African American Written Works | Scott Williams. Includes prose, poetry, and non-fiction. |
| American Studies Web | Crossroads. Broad resource of links to literature and literary criticism sites. |
| ARTFL | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. Searchable database of over 2,000 full text novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises, dating from the middle ages to the present. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Also bibliographies, reference works, etc. |
| Aspects of the Victorian Book | The British Library. Information on Production and publishing of books in Britain during the nineteenth century: bindings, penny dreadfuls, women's magazines, children's books, etc. |
| Association for the Study of Literature and Environment | University of Minnesota. Sites aim is to "promote the exchange of ideas and information pertaining to literature that considers the relationship between human beings and the natural world". Bibliographies, syllabi, articles on ecocriticism, bibliography, environmental writings, news bulletins, essays, etc. |
| Beyond Nancy Drew | Duke University. Annotated bibliography of books for girls written that reinforce gender stereotypes. |
| Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index | An index of journal articles, essays, and book reviews about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. |
| Forest of Rhetoric: silva rhetoricae | Brigham Young University. Guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Shows relationships and groupings of terms within and across the various levels of the rhetorical curriculum. Links. |
| German Literature | University of California San Diego. Good links. |
| A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection | Michael E. Grost. Contains reading lists and essays on great mysteries, mainly of the pre-1960 era. |
| Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction | Duke University. Searchable, extensive listings of primary and secondary sources related to hypertext fiction. |
| Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies | Georgetown University. Provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. |
| Literary Movements | Gonzaga University. Information about a variety of literary movements including Calvinism, Travel Narratives, Captivity Narratives, and Domestic Fiction. Information about each includes characteristics, authors, and techniques of the genre. Other sites from this page include an American Literature timeline, detailed information on American Authors, and links to other American Literature sites. |
| Literature and Culture of the American 1950s | University of Pennsylvania. Readings, images, etc. from and about the 1950s. Links to relevant sites. |
| Native American Literature | |
| Northwest Passages | A Canadian literature bookstore site that also features biographies, bibliographies, links, etc. for Canadian authors, as well as Canadian literature information and links. |
| Opera del Vocabolario Italiano | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche/University of Chicago/University of Notre Dame. Searchable 1,369 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375. Verse and prose works including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. Also historical dictionary of the Italian language. |
| Postcolonial and Post Imperial Literature | Brown University. Contemporary literature about and from authors in the former colonies of Great Britain, including, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, as well as selected authors in the United Kingdom. Provided for each country is critical information about noted authors as well as background about the literature. Also available are the contexts for the writings including the demographics, geography, economics, politics, history, science and technology, religion, and the arts for each region. |
| Project Crow | Associate Colleges of Illinois. Directory of American literature web resources. Includes chronologies and links to author sites, links to American literature class sites, annotated web links, etc. |
| Psychedelic '60's: Literary Tradition and Social Change University | of Virginia. Diverse web site examining the literary tradition and social change of the era. |
| Romantic Chronology | Miami University/University of California Santa Barbara. Vast number of links and information related to literature, 1660-1851. |
| Romantic Circles | University of Maryland. |
| Russian Literature | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Literature and language links. |
| SSSL: Bibliography. A Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature | University of Mississippi. Annotated checklist of scholarship on writers (novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, diarists) associated with the American South. There are over 1,000 writers currently in the checklist, Searchable by writers/ subjects, authors, and journals |
| Utopia | Information and history on Utopian societies and literature derived from the ideology. |
| Victorian Women Writers Project | Indiana University Accurate transcriptions of anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama written by British women of the late nineteenth century. |
| WESSWEB | College Association and Research Libraries. Links to European studies resources. |
| Women Romantic-era Writers | Adriana Craciun, University of Nottingham. Links to texts and information by and about women writers. Arranged alphabetically and in six categories: electronic texts, annuals, anthologies and gift books, contemporary responses to women writers, electronic text archives, cultural and visual resources, and related web sites. |
| Women's and Gender Studies Database | Gender Inn. Over 5,000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusingfocusing on English and American literature. |
| Women's Travel Writing | University of Minnesota. Travel diaries, journals, and publications, 1830-1930. Some sections are restricted to UM. |