Literary Studies: Web

The site for the world-famous library with information about their collection and events, as well as information that supports the study of Shakespeare.

Resources, including fully annotated texts of plays and poems, multimedia materials and records of plays in performance, and searchable pages devoted to the study of Shakespeare's works. Affiliated with the Universtity of Victoria, Canada.

A comprehensive anthology and guide to English literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Restoration and Eighteenth Century.

Prepared by the Norton Anthology editors, this extensive, freely accessible Web resource for The Norton Anthology of English Literature offers twenty-seven topics for study and discussion related to the literature the anthology.

Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.

Offers a constellation of Rossetti's poetry, prose, and visual art. Maintained at the University of Virginia under the editorship of Jerome McGann.

Most of his major poetry in English and some of his prose. Many works are annotated. Course web site from Dartmouth College, by Professor Thomas Luxon.

Treats the period in the round. Contributors include numerous scholars, professors and graduate students.

An independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. Publisher of Poetry Magazine.

The aim of the project is to make serious study of Dante's great poem possible for students and amateur readers alike, of all levels of expertise and having various kinds of interest in the work, by means of a basic electronic edition that will make available in a single locus many of the tools a reader of this text would want to have as an aid to understanding it.

Portal maintained by Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara for Humanities research. Provides links to sites related to Humanities research and scholarship.

A website devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work. Produced by the Dickinson Editing Collective.

Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives.

Online resource for Melville studies, texts, research, and teaching. Housed in Hofstra University's server, MEL is organized by a group of internationally-known Melville scholars and digital specialists.

Applies innovative technology to more than four decades' worth of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project.

Poems, biographical and supporting information for the study and enjoyment of American poetry. From the Academy of American Poetry.

"We engage in outreach, education, and advocacy on the web and on the ground to promote public understanding of Thoreau and his work in his time and in ours." Contains a variety of information about Thoreau's life and works.

Produced from a partnership between the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society and the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.

An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

A not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting understanding and appreciation of the life, time, settings, and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather.

Its primary purpose is to provide an academic site that will provide a repository of biographical, historical, critical, and other contextual materials related to Hurston's life and work.