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Gateways

• BUBL Link:  Language Literature & Culture
  BUBL LINK is a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification).
• Digital Librarian:  Literature
  Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York Covers a wide variety of resources, listed alphabetically.
• English Department Homepage Worldwide
  Links to more than 1300 English department web sites, maintained by the English Department of New York University.
• History of the English Language
• Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
  Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, or literary period.
• Literary Resources on the Net
  Collection of links to sites dealing with English and American literature.
• The Voice of the Shuttle
  A web site for humanities research created by the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Full-Text Websites

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
  African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg collection, this site provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
  Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
• Celebration of Women Writers
  The Celebration of Women Writers links to a wide variety of on-line resources, most of them at other sites. Sites for writers groups include biographical pages for members as well as useful resources and contacts.
• The Oxford Text Archive
  The OTA works closely with members of the arts and humanities academic community to collect, catalog, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages.
• Project Gutenberg
  Full text of classic works published before 1923.
• Romantic Circles
  A web site devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. It is the collaborative product of a community of editors, contributors, and users around the world, published by the University of Maryland.
• Romanticism on the Net
  An international refereed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies.

Scholarly Societies

• Academy of American Poets
• ASECS: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• LSA: Linguistic Society of America
• MLA: Modern Language Association
• MMLA: Midwest Modern Language Association
• NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English
• NASSR: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
• Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender
• Poets and Writers Online
• Resources on Scholarly Societies:  Literature

Resources for Writers

• Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
• Citing Sources (Duke University)
• Famous Quotes & Authors
• Heinemann/Boynton Cook Publisher
• MLA Documentation Style (Bedford/St. Martin's)
• National Council for Teachers of English
• Poets and Writers Online
• Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors