English Language & Literature

A federated full text search of dispersed digital archives, both open and proprietary. Contains over 674,000 peer-reviewed digital objects from 17 federated sites, including Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Old Bailey Online, The Poetess Archive. Users may set up a free account. Excellent for research into 18th-century culture. (as reviewed in CHOICE, March 2013)

The 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.

The best collection of resources for Medieval literature, provided by Georgetown University.

The MJP is a multi-faceted project that aims to be a major resource for the study of modernism and its rise in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. The historical scope of the project has a chronological range of 1890 to 1922 (though the earliest journals that currently appear on the site date from 1896 and 1904), and a geographical range that extends to wherever English language periodicals were published. With magazines at its core, the MJP also offers a range of genres that extends to the digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals and other supporting materials for periodical study.

The New York Public Library has an excellent collection of databases for research in literature. Anyone may access the databases with a NYPL card barcode and pin number.

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in American culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. Website offers articles, definitions of literary terms, podcasts, poetry news, and more.

An excellent resource for archives related to American women writers, including links to special collections. The site is intended to foster research, teaching, publication, offering a syllabus exchange and conference and student funding information. (As reviewed in CHOICE, March 2013)

The Text Creation Partnership creates standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books. Content is drawn from these databases: Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Evans Early American Imprints.The resulting text files are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries worldwide. All of the TCP's work has been released the public domain for anyone to use.

Collection of digitized texts for fiction, poetry, prose, and American history. Use the VIRGO catalog search to find the digital collections online.

Created and maintained by Alan Liu of U.C. Santa Barbara, this is the best Web source for literature available today. Links on the left menu for Literature in English, Literatures (Other than English), and Literary Theory will be of particular interest.