ENG 243/244 English Literature: Web Resources

The Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.

Provides a brief overview and topics for research in each major period of British literature.

Anthology of British Literature

A web anthology of 4,800 poems in English and French by over 700 poets spanning 1400 years.

An interactive learning tool that can help you understand what makes metered poetry in English tick.

An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

-The Camelot Project: A collection of Arthurian texts, images, interviews, and basic information
-TEAMS Middle English Texts: Online full text of Middle English works, with glosses and notes
-The Robin Hood Project: A collection of texts, images, and information on the Robin Hood tradition
-The Crusades Project: The Crusades in English Literature
-The Cinderella Bibliography: An extensive annotated bibliography of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast texts, films, music, objects, and criticism.
-Visualizing Chaucer: Visualizing Chaucer documents through a bibliography and numerous images the history of illustrations of Chaucer’s works.

More than eighty verse romances (metrical and alliterative), composed between c.1225 and c.1500, survive, often in multiple manuscript versions and, later, in early modern prints.

Offers access to an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.

Presents the vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon England within ordered categories.

Available freely online.

"Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare This web site is for the intelligent nonspecialist who doesn't know what to make of these challenges to Shakespeare's authorship"

A global forum for the study of the Shakespeare canon, the Elizabethan theatre, and the social and political life of the Elizabethan period, with emphasis on an open-minded exploration of the Shakespeare authorship debate.

From the Shakespeare Research Center

Collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you discover William Shakespeare.

Touchstone is a project funded by the British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme (BLCPP) to identify and map significant UK Shakespeare collections. The site is currently maintained by the Shakespeare Institute Library, University of Birmingham, in partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Birmingham Central Library.

A work in progress, when finished, will provide textual and commentary notes for each line of Hamlet.

See 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures

The world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world.

Take a virtual tour of The Globe.

Yellowbacks are an artifact of nineteenth century publishing named for their cheap binding that was often wrapped in yellow paper. Often sordid and sensational, publishers sold the inexpensive books in train stations to the increasingly mobile and literate population of Victorian Britain. Digitized over 1,200 yellowbacks.

Explore literary treasures from the Romantic and Victorian periods

Offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction. The database is hosted by the Victorian Research Web, a major and free research resource for Victorian scholars.

A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture

Primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century.

An archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues, including predecessor texts, and literature of sensibility as it is derived from the Bluestockings' concerns with aesthetics, and with women's aesthetic achievements.

A selective list of online literary criticism with links to reliable biographical and introductory material and signed, peer-reviewed, and scholarly literary criticism.

Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series and holdings of story papers