English
Literary Texts

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century-- courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
• American Poetry Project: 19th Century
• American Transcendentalism -- authors and texts, roots and influences, criticism, bibliographies and more. Searchable. Site sponsored by the Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Jane Austen-- full text of the novels, plus other resources
• Bartleby Library -- full-text of classic literature.
• Beat Page -- covers the writers of the Beat Generation, Kerouac, Synder, Ginsberg, etc...
• Bibliomania -- full-text of fiction, nonfiction, plays, short stories and poetry.
• British Women Romantic Poets Project--a collection of electronic texts from UC-Davis of British women's poetry between 1789 and 1832. 
• Canadian Poetry Archive -- full-text and biographies of 19th and 20th century Canadian poets.
• Canterbury Tales
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Eighteenth Century E-Texts--archive of important 18th century texts.
• Eighteenth Century Studies-- "archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism."
• Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF)--produces advanced electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature. 
• English Renaissance in Context -- "is a NEH-funded project designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions. It can provide students with a rich introduction to English Renaissance literature in its historical and artifactual context."
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project--a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. 
• Emily Dickinson -- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
• Writings of the Medical Arts in Literature - full-text.
• Great Literature Online -- full-text of classic literature.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne -- An excellent site, that has full-text of his works as well as notes to help the reader and links to other resources.
• Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection --searchable, full-text literature (over 10,000 titles)
• Henry James: Scholar's Guide to Web Sites -- e-texts of the writings, criticism and film reviews, plus journals and conference calls.
• J.R.R. Tolkien -- a list of links to his oeuvre and more.
• Literary History Online -- a guide to critical articles on 19th century English literature, and 20th century English and American literature.  Includes full-text articles of literary criticism and short biographies of authors.
• Lyrics: popular contemporary songs
• Memory of the World -- sponsored by UNESCO, this website offers access to digitized collections from all over the world, including works by Jack London, Jonathan Swift, Victorian women writers, and narratives of the American South.
• Middle English Collection-- includes texts famous and obscure, including Morte d'Arthur, Everyman, Sir Gawain, some Chaucer, miscellaneous poems and letters.
• Eugene O'Neill--includes audio of five productions and his own voice speaking words from "Long Day's...", a short biography, photographs and more.
• Renaissance Dante In Print 1472-1629 -- from the University of Notre Dame, this includes an editorial history of Dante's poems and digitized images of pages from the original books.
• Renascence Editions -- an online repository of works printed in English between 1477-1799.  Includes the full-text.
• Representative Poetry Online--a historical anthology, more than 1400 poems, from more than 200 authors, searchable.
• Robert Louis Stevenson -- complete collection of Poems
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet---a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet, including a timeline, a genealogy, a biography quiz, festivals, and prefatory texts.
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare--full text of all the plays. A Concordance is helpful too (searches the texts of all the plays.)
• The Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Shakespeare-- searchable index of collected works
• Shakespeare in Quarto: British Library -- "93 high-resolution digitised copies of 21 of Shakespeare's plays.The texts date from Shakespeare's lifetime and are pamphlet editions of plays prepared to be sold after performances had finished. Accompanying the online collection is background material, essays by Shakespearean scholars, commentaries, images and sound clips.Tools on the site allow scholars to compare different versions of the same play to track textual changes." BBC News
• Shakespeare Resource Center -- very nice, from grammar to bio to reading lists and more
• Text & Translations from the Perseus Project -- includes full text of the works of Christopher Marlowe, Julius Ceasar, and Greek mythology.
• Victorian Women Writers Project -- digitized full-text of works by 19th century British women writers.
• Walt Whitman Collection --from the Library of Congress.
• Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
• Walt Whitman's Manuscript Drafts
• Women Writers of Early Canada
• Women Writers Project---only available to SAU community on campus
• Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 -- as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1752 texts included (1602 unedited, 155 fully edited and encoded) by 845 authors. Boolean, Proximity and Citation searchable as well as by single keyword and one can browse by author or by unique words found in the texts.
• Zora Neale Hurston Plays -- not full text, but never before published and newly rediscovered.