Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker is dedicated to indexing freely-available digital facsimiles of eighteenth-century texts and cross-referencing them to standard bibliographical reference sources. This site provides a clearinghouse for discovering and sharing links to eighteenth-century primary materials. Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker aims to build a database of bibliographically accurate records that link to freely-available texts online. By pooling its users' expertise, the site brings bibliographical order to the sometimes haphazard world of mass digitization. This site is devoted to preserving the identity of eighteenth-century books in a digital realm where such distinctions are at risk of being lost in a sea of mere text. The database currently includes 2,702 links, representing 1,232 texts and 22 periodicals.
This is the Web site of Literature Compass, a new literature resource from Blackwell Publishing. The site is designed to give students and teachers access to the bewildering range of perspectives on literature from the Medieval period to the present. The site, therefore, carries short, sometimes polemical, articles that attempt to both analyse a specific text and provide readers with an insight into new developments in the field.The site is subscription-based, but a generous sample of what is available can be browsed.
The University of Pennsylvania's Digital Library Initiative provides IT support for this volunteer project, as part of its 'Online Books' work. The project also links to other digitised library sites such as Project Gutenberg. The contents can be browsed by an A-Z of the author's name or by the century a text was written, also by the author's country or ethnicity. Essays and contextual information are also available.
Zembla is one of the finest Internet resources devoted to the Russian / American novelist and poet Vladimir Nabokov. It is organised by the library at Pennsylvania State University, and will be of interest to: students; enthusiasts; teachers; and researchers. Resources available here include: extensive biographical information on the author; excerpts from his work (including Nabokov's own readings from his poetry and his novel Pale Fale); detailed critical essays, bibliographies, creative writing based on Nabokov; and news on Nabokov mailing lists, conferences, summer schools, etc. The site also give information relating to the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and its publication 'The Nabokovian
a site dedicated to African American women who have gifted, shaken up, and disturbed the theatre world with their powerful words. It is a testament to their courage and perseverance. Hopefully, this site will encourage other sister storytellers to make their words heard.
Celebrating and documenting the creativity of Asian, Black, Latina, and Native women, VG is one of the internet's most comprehensive and well-respected academic databases for women artists of color. We provide innovative teaching and research tools for accessing a global community of women writers of color living and dead, obscure and renowned. The site reaches backward and forward to place readers, thinkers, students, and educators on a bridge which connects the gaps that exist in literature, society, and culture. Through our student-generated profiles, essays, reviews, and interviews, you can engage with artists whose works put faces on difficult and important issues ranging from immigration to racial prejudice, gendered violence to community resistance.
Crimeculture was created in Summer 2002 by Lee Horsley and Kate Horsley. The site now gets something like five million hits a year from all over the world, and has published several dozen essays on crime fiction, crime films and representations of criminality.
NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. Our activities are driven by three primary goals: to serve as a peer-reviewing body for digital work in the long 19th-century (1770-1920), British and American; to support scholars' priorities and best practices in the creation of digital research materials; to develop software tools for new and traditional forms of research and critical analysis.
Scott W. Williams is a Professor of Mathematics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Under the name 'Big Mouff', he provides links to a number of his web pages relating to black American writers of novels, poetry, and science fiction. These include substantial individual sites on Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Alice Walker and Chester Himes, and more limited pages on other writers such as Lucille Clifton and Audre Lorde
The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.