Literary Criticism & Theory Resources

General Resources | Reference Resources | Text Collections

General Resources

• American and English Language Internet Resources (very comprehensive; from Southern Connecticut State University)
• E'CLAT! The "Essential" Comparative Literature and Theory Site (U. of Penn)
• The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Page ("websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period")
• LiteraryHistory.com ("a guide to critical articles on literature" in British and American literature)
• A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature ("a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources;" from Chris Flack of Vanderbilt Univ.)
• Literary Resources on the Web (Jack Lynch's guide to Internet sites on literature, with a concentration on American and British literature)
• Literature Webliography (Louisiana State University)
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide (Paul Reuben)
• Theatre Central (includes "the largest compendium of theatre links on the Internet;" affiliated with Playbill)
• Voice of the Shuttle(start here to find excellent guides to:
  • Literature (in English)
  • Literature (Other than English)
  • Literary Theory
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (U. of Minnesota)

Reference Sources

• AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (standard work, but published from 1907 to 1921)
• Concordances of Great Books ("fully searchable word indexes)
• Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
• The Gale Group Literary Index (citations to entries in Gale company publications, many of which are in the Library and can be found in Sprague Library catalog)
• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
• The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
• Literary Movements (from Donna M. Campbell of Gonzaga University)
• Poets and Writers Online ("resources for creative writers")

Text Collections

• "All the World's a Stage": WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music (links to medieval and early modern texts, especially play texts)
• Bartlebyverse: American & English Poetry 1250-1920
• British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (from the Electronic Text Center at the U. of Va.)
• CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive (part of the EServer collection)
• Classic Short Stories
• Classic Short Stories and Fairy Tales
• The Electronic Literature Foundation ("advanced electronic text versions of a variety of texts from world literature". Interesting way of presenting electronic texts)
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (very good guide to collections of "literary texts in the western European languages other than English)
• HTI American Verse Project (electronic versions of volumes of pre-1920 American verse; from the Humanites Text Initiative at the U. of Michigan)
• Poet's Corner (over 6,000 works by almost 800 poets...and growing)
• Representative Poetry On-line ("over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century")
• Sonnet Central (an archive of English sonnets)
• Wright American Fiction, 1851 - 1871

Last updated: June 13, 2002