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The 'Electronic Labyrinth' looks at some of the opportunities presented to writers by the advent of the Internet and hypertext. It analyses the literary tradition of non-linear approaches to narrative, examines recent works that utilize hypertext, and evaluates the hardware and software available to writers.

In the eighteenth century, a linguistic big bang spun off a new etymological universe: the language of sensibility. "Sensibility" and its related terms either appeared for the first time, took on meanings unique to the period, or gained enriched connotations. The denotations of these new linguistic planets have proved as elusive as the rings of Saturn, however. This hypertext offers a new approach to understanding the language of sensibility, one that accounts for the multiple possibilities of meaning. Rather than attempting hard-line definitions, this project offers the tools for recognizing the multivalent connotations of such sensibilious words as "virtue," "sense," and "benevolence." Our hypertext groups excerpts from major words of sensibility according to 24 primary words; we imagine the sensibilious reader exploring these passages to glean a new understanding of the vocabulary and the literature of the period.

This website created by Henry Targowski and Charly Jungbauer offers an abundance of information for cyberculture, English Literature, new media, hypertext, postmodernism, critical theory, avant garde and popular theory (et al.) students.

The Nineteenth Century English Novel Bibliogrpahic Resources webpage is a large bibliography on material published both in book and hypertext format for research in nineteenth-century novels. As well as texts on the internet, there are various websites about authors and literary movements. Beginning in the Romantic period with authors such as Jane Austen, Mary Wollestonecraft, Mary Shelley, William Cowper, William Blake, Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth, the site works its way through the nineteenth-century, the largest section devoted to the Victorian novel.

hypertext version of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, by Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768). The text itself is taken from the third and first editions of the book, and laid out as it was in the original print versions. It includes links to secondary and reference materials, placing the text in a non-linear environment in which the user may explore various issues and themes. The web site includes a number of categorised subsections via which the user may broaden his appreciation of the text. These include pages devoted specifically to art, fashion, history, structure, Irishness, language and rhetoric, music, the novel, poetry, and science.

This is the homepage of Dichtung Digital (Digital Fiction), an online newsletter in German devoted to "contributions on digital aesthetics." The site contains annotated links to and commentary on a broad range of electronic literature; hyperfiction; Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature; canonized hypertexts; trans-medial narrative theory; and digital poetry that references prehistoric texts and symbols.

Carolyn Guertin of the University of Alberta in Canada provides this online resource for hyperfiction and critical works. This website will be of interest to students of hypermedia, web writing, literature and of course postmodernism and contemporary schools of thought.