Library

English Resources

General Resources & Online Texts	Anglo-Saxon / Medieval	Renaissance
Shakespeare	Victorian / Romantic	19th Century
Other Lit. in English	Children's	Religious Themes

Print Indexes

Essay and General Literature Index: 1900 - Present
Author and title index to essays published in collections with particular emphasis on materials in the humanities and social sciences.

Humanities Index: 1974-Present
A cumulative subject and author index to humanities topics, including archaelogy, classical studies, performing arts, and language and literature. Also includes a separate book review section, with entry under author of the book reviewed. Updated quarterly.

General Resources & Online Texts

Voice of the Shuttle: English Home Page
The main page for the Voice of the Shuttle. Use this page for access to VoS pages not annotated and hyperlinked below.

Internet Public Library: Literature Reference
Links to web sites containing information about authors, criticism, online texts, literary awards and literature of specified time periods.

Literary Resources on the Web
From Rutgers University, annotated links to literary resources available on the Web from Classical to Contemporary.

Many literary classics are works that are in the public domain (no longer subject to copyright protection). Many of these works are freely available online. The links below will provide access to some of the major repositories of freely accessible online texts.

Project Gutenberg
Thousands of books in the public domain available for viewing or downloading free of charge.

netLibrary
netLibrary is a collection of electronic books, some of which are publicly accessible and some of which are available only to those who have paid for access. More than 3400 books are freely available and an additional 2000+ are available through the USF Library's subscription.

Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)
Over 10,000 publicly available e-texts.

Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
This is a searchable index of 20,000 freely available electronic books with links to the text on various sites on the Internet.

Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction
Electronic editions of the "Harvard Classics" and the "Shelf of Fiction": Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century. From Bartleby.com.

Google Books
Download PDF versions of out of copyright books. Make sure to check the radio dial for "Full View Books" before searching.

Turning the Pages
Rare books from the British Library.

Anglo-Saxon & Medieval

Anglo-Saxon Culture
Scroll down to find Anglo-Saxon literature resources including journals, organizations and manuscripts.

Beowulf Resources
From Georgetown University, a list of resources for the study of the Old English text.

TEAMS Middle English Texts
The goal of the TEAMS Middle English text series is to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions.

Renaissance

Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance & 17th Century Literature
Links to online resources on writers, criticism, social issues, and other general resources in Renaissance literature.

Luminarium
Sixteenth-Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) resources.

Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
From MIT, full-text of Shakespeare's comedy, tragedy and history plays as well as his poetry.

Mr. William Shakespeare
This is an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet.

Victorian/Romantic

Romantic Links, Electronic Texts and Home Pages
Compiled by the University of Pennsylvania, this resource provides links to author information and electronic texts as well as links to the home pages of about 100 International Romantic scholars.

Victorian Women Writer's Project
Provides full-text transcriptions of hundreds of works by lesser known British women writers of the Nineteenth-century.

Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature
Links to online resources on writers, criticism, social issues, and other general resources in Victorian literature.

19th Century

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
From the New York Public Library, a collection of 52 online texts (poetry, fiction and biography/autobiography).

Voice of the Shuttle: Modern Literature
A bibliography of general sites, criticism, texts, journals and author information available online.

Other Literatures Written in English

Voice of the Shuttle: Other Literatures Written in English
Links to information about the literatures of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Indian subcontinent.

Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
From Brown University, an extensive collection of resources organized by country.

Poets.org
From the Academy of American Poets.

Children's Literature

The Children's Literature Web Guide
Online resources for students, parents and teachers--including book reviews, research guides, book lists and more.

Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism
An online index to periodical literature pertaining to children's literature. Use the search feature to generate an annotated bibliography.

Religious Themes in Literature

English Literature & Religion
A searchable online annotated bibliography to print resources which examine the religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present century.

Last updated: March 12, 2008