Library Databases *

• MLA Bibliography
• Humanities Abstracts
• Project MUSE
• JSTOR
  

• Dictionary of Literary Biography
  Lists of books published by Gale on an author or work. Check the Library Catalog to see if we have the book.
  
• Contemporary Authors
  Biographical and bibliographical information.
  

• Bartleby.com
  Definitions, quotations, biography, in addition to complete works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

• Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
  An eighteen volume encyclopedia, all online.

• Literary Encyclopedia
  Most entries are about 2500 words; non-members only get the first 600 words. Membership costs $17.95 per year.

• Humanities Text Initiative
  Texts made available online by the University of Michigan. When you click on Text Collections, you are given an alphabetic list of resources. Most of the resources are collections of works, and you can browse them or search for keywords within the texts.

• Project Gutenberg
  More important texts online. Searchable by author and title.

• Web Resources compiled by the English Department

• Voice of the Shuttle
  Contains a lot of links!

• Literary Resources on the Net
  A good selection of links compiled by a professor at Rutgers University.

• Lit Links
  Annotated links organized by author in the areas of Fiction, Essays, Drama, Poetry, and Critical Theory.
  
• Literature Resources from MIT
  Can browse sites by period, genre, author/work, and additional options.
  
  

• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature.
  An online research and reference guide.

• Outline of American Literature, by Kathryn VanSpanckeren.
  Gives brief bios of important authors and discusses the themes, forms, and techniques adopted during each period through American history.

• American Verse Project
  Part of the Humanities Text Initiative, contains American poetry before 1920.

• English Department at O.U.

• Modern Language Association

• Nobel Prize in Literature

• Pulitzer Prize

• Book Reviews
• Contemporary American Authors
• Film
• Film Criticism and Film Reviews
• Folklore
• German Literature
• Literary Criticism
• Literary Research
• Mythology
• Religion