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Electronic Literature Collections

General | Medieval and Ancient | Foreign Language

General

American Hypertexts Collection: University of Virginia. This site contains a number of seminal American and American Studies texts by authors such as Crevecoeur, Tocqueville, Henry Adams, and Mark Twain. The texts have been linked to various explanatory and illumination projects.

Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920: University of North Carolina. This site includes the texts of works by such 19th century Southern authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, and Charles Chesnutt.

Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia. An outstanding repository of thousands of SGML texts from American, British and Medieval literature. This site is easily searchable, and it includes a large poetry archive.

Humanities Text Initiative: University of Michigan. This library provides access to electronic texts and allows for the creation of new texts in SGML.

Internet Public Library Catalog: This is a directory of over 4,000 online texts, browsable and searchable by author, title, and Dewey Decimal Classification.

Project Bartleby: Columbia University. This is a small but elegantly designed collection of literature and poetry.

Project Gutenberg: This is a huge library of electronically stored books, mostly classics, that can be downloaded to be viewed off-line.

Medieval and Ancient

Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia. An outstanding repository of thousands of SGML texts from American, British and Medieval literature. This site is easily searchable, and it includes a large poetry archive.

Labyrinth Library: Georgetown University. Many Middle English texts, including works of Chaucer, are housed at or linked to this site.

Online Medieval and Classical Library: University of California, Berkeley.

Foreign Language

Le Chateau: This site contains an electronic collection of French literature including Rimbaud, Proust, Balzac, Baudelaire, and La Fontaine. Many texts are in both French and English.

National Library of Canada Electronic Collection: A repository that incorporates formally published Canadian online books and journals.

Project Runeberg: Electronic editions of classic Nordic literature and art are kept here.

Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae: At this site is a text base of Irish literature, including Old Middle and Modern Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, Old Norse, and English. Currently contains 1,000,000 words.

Literary Studies

Academic | Non-Academic | Journals

Academic

The American Studies Web: Yale University. Literature and Hypertext.

The Institute for Advanced Technolgy in the Humanities: University of Virginia.

The Voice of the Shuttle: University of California, Santa Barbara. An extensive network of resources.

The WWW Virtual Library: University of North Carolina. A dense listing of "book-related" resources. Useful, if not very rigidly organized.

Non-Academic

Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature: A sophisticated set-up, with extensive links to various literature-related resources.

Journals

Callaloo: University of Virginia. A "journal of African-American and African arts and literature."

CTHEORY: Carnegie-Mellon University. "Theory Technology, Culture."

New Literary History: A journal of theory and interpretation.

Postmodern Culture: University of Virginia.

18th and 19th Century Author Sites

A-B | C-D | E-F | G-I | J-L | M | P-S | T | W

A-B

Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams--a developing hypertext, from American Studies at UVA.

Louisa May Alcott: Little Women--a searchable SGML text by chapter, from the Electronic Text Center at UVA.; Scarlet Stockings--in SGML, from the Electronic Text Center.

Horatio Alger: The Cash Boy--an SGML text, by chapter; from the Electronic Text Center.; Paul Prescott's Charge: a story for boys--an SGML text, by chapter; from the Electronic Text Center.; The Errand Boy; or How Phil Brent Won Success--an SGML text, by chapter; from the Electronic Text Center.; A Fancy of Hers--an SGML text, by chapter; from the Electronic Text Center.

Ambrose Bierce: My Favorite Murder--in SGML, from the Electronic Text Center.
Charles Brockden Brown: Charles Brockden Brown--A collection of information and resources

C-D

Charles W. Chesnutt: Hot-Foot Hannibal--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The Bouquet--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Dave's Neckliss--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Baxter's Procrustes--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The Wife of His Youth--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The March of Progress--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The Goophered Grapevine--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Po' Sandy--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The House Behind the Cedars--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.

James Fenimoore Cooper: The James Fenimore Cooper Society--A large site featuring biography,etexts, and scholarly work about Cooper.; The Last of the Mohicans--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-text center.

Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Red Badge of Courage--A hypertext, taken from the Project Gutenberg text.

Hector St. Jean Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer--a hypertext.

Emily Dickinson: The Emily Dickinson Page--A general linked collection of material related to her life and work.; Poems--From Columbia's Project Bartleby. A well-organized compendium of Dickinson's poetry, in hypertext.; Selected Poems--From The University of Maryland at College Park.

Frederick Douglass: The Narrative--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center. An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; My Escape From Slavery--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Reconstruction--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

Theodore Drieser: The International Theodore Dreiser Society--a large collection of scholarship and information.

W.E. Burghardt Du Bois: A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Strivings of the Negro People--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The Freedmen's Bureau--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Of the Training of Black Men--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

E-F

Jonathan Edwards: A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God--in HTML.; Resolutions--in HTML.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ralph Waldo Emerson Homepage--A nice collection of Emerson e-texts, but the highlight of this page is the extensive concordance.; The Conduct of Life--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; English--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Essays: First Series--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Essays: Second Series--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Nature: Addresses and Lectures--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Representative Man--an SGMLtext, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Uncollected Prose--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.
Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Boston and London--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; London 1757-1775--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Paris, 1776-1785--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Philadelphia, 1726-1757--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Philadelphia, 1785-1790--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733-1758--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.

G-I

Hamlin Garland: Two Stories of Oklahoma--in SGML.; Drifting Crane--in SGML.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Fanshawe--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The House of the Seven Gables--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Marble Faun--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Scarlet Letter--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

Patrick Henry: The War Inevitable (Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!)--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

Washington Irving: The Alhambra

J-L

Henry James: American Writers--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The American--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Aspern Papers--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Confidence--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; English Writers--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Essays on Literature--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Europeans--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Roderick Hudson--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Watch and Ward--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Portrait of a Lady; Washington Square

Thomas Jefferson: Addresses, Messages, and Replies--an SGML text, from the E-Text Center.; Autobiography--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Letters--an SGML text, from the E-Text Center.; Miscellany--an SGML text, from the E-Text Center.; Notes on the State of Virginia--an SGML text, from the E-Text Center.; Public Papers--an SGML text, from the E-Text Center.; A Summary View of the Rights of British America--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Other Works--A listing of Jefferson's works, under "J" at UVA's Electronic Text Center.

Sarah Orne Jewett: Sarah Orne Jewett--a nice site from Gonzaga with links and e-texts.; The Foreigner--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; In Dark New England Days--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The Landscape Chamber--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The White Rose Road--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Tom's Husband--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Going to Shrewsbury--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; A Dunnet Shepherdhess--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; William's Wedding--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The Song of Hiawatha--plain text, by verse.

M

James Madison: Letter to Thomas S. Grimke--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

George Mason: Virginia Declaration of Rights--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

Cotton Mather: The Education of Children--in HTML.; What Must I do to be Saved?--in HTML.; Cotton Mather Home Page.

Herman Melville: Herman Melville Home Page--extensive and very useful HTML links, including biography and bibliography and related resources.; Bartleby the Scrivener--an HTML text from Columbia's Project Bartleby.; "Chronometricals and Horologicals" (from Pierre)--in HTML.; The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade--The 1857 text, linked and searchable.; The Encantadas--in HTML.; Moby Dick or, The Whale--plain text, from Project Gutenberg.; The Piazza--in HTML.; Redburn--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.(for UVA users only); Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life--plain text (by chapter).; White Jacket--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.(for UVA users only)

P-S

Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason; The American Crisis; Common Sense; Common Sense--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Rights of Man; The Rights of Man--an SGML text, from the E-Text Center.

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Works--all in SGML; from UVA's Electronic Text Center, under "P."; Index of Stories--a listing of plain text short stories.; The Gold Bug--in SGML.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

T

Henry David Thoreau: The Thoreau Home Page--This site, which is still evolving, houses a large collection of work on and by Thoreau.; Cape Cod--an SGML text, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; Civil Disobedience; Civil Disobedience--a hypertext.; The Maine Woods--an SGML text, by section; from the E-Text Center.; Walden--a hypertext.; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers--an SGML text, by section, from the E-Text Center.

Mark Twain: Ever the Twain Shall Meet--a fun Twain site.; Mark Twain Resources--the title says it all.; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--a hypertext, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer--a hypertext, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court--a hypertext, by chapter; from the E-Text Center.

W

Booker T. Washington: The Awakening of the Negro--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; "The Case of the Negro"--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Signs of Progress among the Negroes--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; The Fruits of Industrial Training--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

Phillis Wheatley: Voices from the Gaps--Biography, bibliography and links.
Walt Whitman: Complete Prose Works (1892)--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Leaves of Grass (1855)--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Leaves of Grass (1891)--a hypertext, searchable by line.; Leaves of Grass (1891-1892)--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.; Leaves of Grass (1900)--a hypertext, from Project Bartleby; Supplementary Prose--in SGML, from the E-Text Center.

20th Century Author Sites

A-B | C-D | E-F | G-H | J-L | M-N | O-P | S-T | U-W

A-B

Edward Abbey: Abbey's Web
An exceptional site maintained by Christer Lindh with a biography, articles, bookstore, bibliography, links, downloads, and opportunities for reader feedback.
Kathy Acker: Trevor Dodge's Kathy Acker Site
An Australian site with current news, collected essays, and a tribute to Acker's work.

A.R. Ammons: from the Norton Website
A biography and brief discussion of Ammons' work.
John Ashbery: SUNY Buffalo Site
A good site with online versions of selected works, articles, photographs, and a biography.
Charles Bernstein: SUNY Buffalo Site
Another strong page from the SUNY Buffalo Poetry center with excerpted poetry and biographical information.
Ambrose Bierce: Devil's Dictionary
A plain etext version from wiretap.

Elizabeth Bishop: Vassar Site
With a biography, list of works and translations, calls for papers, and links.
Paul Bowles: Paul Bowles at Literary Kicks
Compelling biographical information and links.
Cleanth Brooks (and Robert Penn Warren): Understanding Poetry: Anthology for College Students
A hypertext version of the essay with links to other works in Alan Filreis's 1950s class at U Penn.

Charles Bukowski: Buk's page
An excellent author-approved site with letters, art, links, and biographical information.
Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars
A hypertext version--site also includes The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars, and Thuvia, Maid of Mars.; Tarzan of the Apes
From the same CMU site as above.

William S. Burroughs: William S. Burroughs Files
A good Burroughs page--includes excellent links to related pages and an extensive bibliography.

C-D

John Cage: Princeton Site
From James Pritchett, including hypertext version of his work and essays about the musician and poet.
Truman Capote: Bohemian Ink
From Bohemian Ink, a biography and textual analysis.
Raymond Carver: Resources
A basic Biography/Bibliography page.

Willa Cather: Alexander's Bridge
An etext version of the novel via wiretap

Raymond Chandler: Pulp Fiction at the Library of Congress
Get your pulp favorites here.
Samuel Delany: Samuel Delany at the Physician's Computer Company
An excellent site with a bibliography, links to hypertexts, and related links and information for this most iconoclastic and influential of science fi ction writers.; Stranded in the Jungle
Steven Shaviro's wonderful essary on Dhalgren and Delany.
Phillip K. Dick: philipkdick.com
A fantastic site with news, reviews, a bookstore, essays, articles, and even a listing of Dick's awards.
Rita Dove: Poets in Person
Information and audio of Dove reading her work.

E-F

T.S. Eliot: T.S. Eliot Page
A good resource page for Eliot; includes links to some poems.

Ralph Ellison: Bohemian Ink
With biographical information, essays, and links.
William Faulkner: William, Faulkner, American Writer, 1897-1962
A catchall page from U. Mississippi: contains a bibliography, excerpts from works, character profiles, plot summaries, trivia, ephemera, and history.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Baseball Canto Poem via Al Filreis' poetry class at U Penn.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: University of South Carolina
A fantastic page with a comprehensive set of resources, including a number of hypertexts, articles, a chronology of his life, and reams of biographical information.

G-H

William Gibson: Bohemian Ink
A biography, plus links to interviews, essays, and a bibliography.
Allen Ginsberg: America
From U Penn (A Filreis), a hypertext of the poem--as is the one below.
John Hawkes: The Hawkes Scrapbook
A page maintained by the author's brother-in-law with lots of good links, essays, and photos.
Ernest Hemingway: Resources
Page includes references, pictures, biography, bibliography, quotes and some links.
Chester Himes: GIVEADAMN
An excellent personal page created by a mathematics professor at SUNY Buffalo, with a biography, links, and a guide to the author's works.
Langston Hughes: The Academy of American Poets
A brief but professional page with a short biography, a bibliography, and links to broader Harlem Renaissance exhibits on the Academy's site.

J-L

William James: Essays in Radical Empiricism
An etext version of the essay via wiretap.
Maxine Kumin: The Academy of American Poets
Maxine Kumin at the Academy of American Poets, with a few poems, links to other exhibits, and audio of the author reading her work.
Ursula Leguin: The Unofficial Ursula LeGuin Page
From Laura Quilter, a page with many links, a bibliography, interviews, reviews, and biographical information.
Mark Leyner: Team Leyner
The unofficial Team Leyner link list, with many links to all things Leyner, plus some brief biographical information.

M-N

Norman Mailer: New York State Writer's Institute
With a biographical profile, a guide to the Mailer Corpus, and excerpts from books.
Arthur Miller: From the Fall 1996 Issue of American Drama
This special issue profiles Miller, and offers two interviews with the playwright, as well as a number of essays on his influence on Americ an drama.
Christopher Morely: Parnassus on Wheels
Another etext from wiretap.

Toni Morrison: Anniini's Toni Morrison Page
With links to all things Morrison, this page provides pathways to hypertext versions of the authors works, biographical information, and a lot of great commentary.
Vladimir Nabokov: Zembla
A great site loaded.
Frank Norris: The Pit: A Story of Chicago
A basis etext version of the work.

O-P

Charles Olson: The Author's Web Page
With essays, reviews, manuscripts, and readings from the author.
Dorothy Parker: Dorothy Parker's New York
A guide to the author's favorite haunts.; Bohemian Ink
With biographical information, links and reviews.
Walker Percy: The Walker Percy Project
A phenomenal site with multimedia, essays, biographical information, and anything else one might be interested in finding on the web related to Percy.

Sylvia Plath: The Sylvia Plath Forum
A place where readers can share ideas on the author, as well as find bibliographical information and links.
Ezra Pound: Encounter
A hypertextualized version of the poem, courtesy of A Filreis at U Penn.

Thomas Pynchon: Resources
Page provides FAQs and summary/commentary on all of Pynchon's published works.; Spermatikos Logos
Speaks for itself.
Ishmael Reed: Ishmael Reed Publications
The author's current project.
Adrienne Rich: The Academy of American Poets
The usual polished site from the Academy, with links to exhibits, essays, and biographical information.

S-T

Gertrude Stein: Readings
Part of A Filreis's hypertext project at U Penn.; A Very Valentine
Same as above.; Let us Describe
Ditto.; Signifyin(g) on Stein
Ditto.

John Steinbeck: The John Steinbeck Page at the University of Southern Missisippi
With links to Steinbeck resources, primary and secondary texts.
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
A resource for the author's latest book.; The Hacker Tourist
Stephenson's series of articles on the Wired magazine site.
Wallace Stevens: Gray Room
Part of A. Filreis's project at U Penn.

Allen Tate: Narcissus as Narcissus
Via U Penn, an essay on the author's own writings.

Hunter S. Thompson: The Great Thompson Hunt
With pictures, essays, articles, hypertexts, and "fun".

U-W

John Updike: The Centaurian
A comprehensive site with news, discussion, and a bibliography

Kurt Vonnegut: Resources
Pages includes links to other Vonnegut pages, FAQs, newsgroups, and a bibliography.

Alice Walker: Alice Walker - Womanist Writer
With biographical and bibliographical information, from the University of Texas.
Eudora Welty: The Eudora Welty Newsletter
With biography, bibliography, and timely news on the writer and Welty studies.
William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow
Part of A Filreis's hypertrext project at U Penn; Item; The Baroness
A Chapter from Williams's Autobiography.
Charles Wright: The Academy of American Poets
With links, biography, and other information.

American Studies at the University of Virginia