Useful Links for the Student of English

Please select any of the categories below.

General Internet Resources:

• IPL: The Internet Public Library
• The E-Server
• Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate (Chronicle of Higher Education site)

Reference Tools:

• William Strunk's Elements of Style
• Purdue OWL's guide to 2009 MLA formatting and style
• MLA Style (the official MLA site) (FAQs)

List of Dictionaries:

• Thesaurus.com
• Familiar Quotations
• Jack Lynch's A Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms
• Guide to Grammar and Style  (Jack Lynch)

List of Writing Resources and On-line Writing Labs (OWLs):

• Among the best OWLs: Purdue's On-Line Writing Lab and the University of Texas at Austin's On-line Writing Lab--Virgil and writing handouts.
• Virtual Encyclopedia
• Voice of the Shuttle
• Sylva Rhetoricae - The Forest of Rhetoric (Rhetorical terms and practice)
• A glossary of rhetorical terms, with examples  (courtesy of the Division of Classics, University of Kentucky)

Books Online:

• The Internet Classics Archive
• On-Line Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Humanities Text Initiative
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
• The Alex Catalogue of On-line Texts

Sites for Specific Periods, Movements, or Authors:

British Literature:

• Luminarium (Medieval, Renaissance, and Seventeenth Century)
• Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net
• Beowulf in Hypertext
• Sites of interest to students of Old English literature
• Geoffrey Chaucer Home Page
• Edmund Spenser Home Page
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Shakespeare Web
• Luminarium's Renaissance Drama
• Milton-L
• Jack Lynch's Eighteenth-Century Resources
• Eighteenth-Century Literature Page (Jack Lynch)
• From LiteraryHistory.com -- Links to selected literary criticism about eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literary works
• Jane Austen
• Romantic Chronology
• William Blake Archive
• William Blake Archive-Related Sites (some gorgeous images, including hypertext plates from Jerusalem and an online exhibition of 175 plates from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
• The Blake Multimedia Project
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (from LiteraryHistory.com)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley Resource Page
• Victorian links (thanks to David Whalen): Guide to Victorian Web Sites; Victorian Web; and Victorian Women Writers Project
• Another excellent website for information about all kinds of Victorian material: Victorian Resources
• Hypertext concordances to the works of selected Victorian writers
• A Concordance to the works of Thomas Hardy
• The Hardy Society -- scenes from Hardy country, Dorset and surrounding area
• James Joyce Resource Center (thanks to Susannah Luthi)
• Virginia Woolf links: International Virginia Woolf Society; Cheryl Mares' page of Woolf links.

American Literature:

• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Transcendentalist Movement
• Emily Dickinson
• The Dickinson Electronic Archives
• Herman Melville
• "Mark Twain in His Times" (Stephen Railton's collection of images and links from the University of Virginia Electronic-Text Project)
• Walt Whitman
• Henry James
• Edith Wharton
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
• Zora Neale Hurston
• The Steinbeck Center
• Ralph Ellison
• The African-American Mosaic - a resource guide from the Library of Congress
• Web-links for a wide variety of modern and contemporary poets (Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)

Great Books Sites:

• Malaspina Great Books Home Page
• St. John's College List of Readings

Film Studies (Courtesy of Bill Scalia):

• Society for Cinema Studies
• American Film Institute
• Film-Philosophy
• Film Comment
• Film Quarterly
• Screen
• Film Preservation Foundation

Literary Criticism and Theory:

• Tim Spurgin's Contemporary Critical Theory site (Lawrence University)
• Dino Felluga’s Introductory Guide to Critical Theory (Purdue University)
• Prof. Mary Klages' Lecture links for Modern Critical Thought
• Prof. John Lye's contemporary literary theory site, with links to other theory sites (Brock University)
• Paula Backscheider's resources page
• A page of links for the study of Michel Foucault
• James Joyce site (thanks to Susannah Luthi)
• The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
• Marjorie Perloff's website (links to articles by this major critic of modernist and postmodernist literature)
• Marjorie Perloff responds to Harold Bloom (article from the Boston Review)
• "After Free Verse: The New Nonlinear Poetics" (article by Perloff)
• Warren Hedges on Derrida and Deconstruction

We hope you find these links useful; no endorsement of particular sites or views expressed there is implied. Many of these links were originally selected by Pete Olson; the list has been expanded and updated by Nicole Guenther Discenza and Debi Belt.