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The website, 'Le XIXe siècle électronique' is a gateway to electronic resources useful for the study of 19th century French literature. The site's author, Andrew Oliver, has compiled and offered brief evaluations for a selection of sites related to: Balzac; Stendhal; Hugo; Flaubert; Baudelaire; Rimbaud; Zola; and Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, Madame de Charrière and Madame de Staël.

The website of the British organisation, Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS), provides information about their aims, conferences, seminars, and members. The organization is a group of women colleagues working within all areas of Luso-Hispanism, such as feminist theory, history, cultural memory, literature, linguistics, cultural and textual theory, audio and film studies, performance studies, anthropology, geography, queer theory and theatre studies

Inspired by the hunger for books on Jewish subjects written in a lively, intelligent, and popular manner, Nextbook Press's Jewish Encounters Series brings together writers of the first rank with people and ideas and events from the Jewish past. The series, under the general editorship of Jonathan Rosen, is a collaboration between Nextbook Inc., devoted to the promotion of Jewish literature, culture, and ideas, and Schocken, with its storied backlist of Jewish classics. It is a sister organization to Tablet magazine.

This French-language site, designed and hosted at the City University of New York and associated with a French non-profit educational association, focuses on the history, society, and literature of various French-speaking islands located throughout the world.

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.

gender Inn is a searchable database providing access to over 8,400 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.

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The 25,000 records in this largely full-text database follow developments in English poetry from the publication of the Shepheardes Calender in 1579 down to Spenser's successors among the nineteenth-century romantics. The archive presents poets as readers - imitators and emulators, critics and biographers - engaged with literary traditions that were complex, dynamic, and embedded in social networks. ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830 begins with series of poems that imitate Spenser and his followers, series that grew and diversified as English literature migrated across time and space. The archive aims to document how each writer was read by contemporaries and successors, gathering over 10,000 poems linked to commentary and biography for more than a thousand writers from all parts of the English-speaking world.

Joseph Donohue is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught dramatic literature since 1971. A theatre historian with special interests in the British and Irish theatre from the late eighteenth century to the present and in the nineteenth-century British music hall, he is the author of Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age (Princeton, 1970) and Theatre in the Age of Kean (1975), and editor (with Ruth Berggren) of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James's Theatre, London, 1895 (Colin Smythe, 1995), which won the 1997 MLA prize for an outstanding scholarly edition and the 1997 Hewitt prize for an outstanding work of theatre history

he Afterlife of Alice in Wonderland was an exhibit of various editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other Alice-related material. The exhibit included the first American edition of the text (D. Appleton, 1866) and other editions of the original text, including a facsimile edition of the original manuscript, Adventures Underground, which includes Lewis Carroll's own illustrations. Other items on display included later editions and illustrated versions of the book, texts that reference Alice, and material, such as an Alice chess set, teacups, album covers, play scripts and dolls, from popular culture. This classic of children's literature shows the popularity of the Alice story as it reverberates through American culture and as it contributes to ideas of American childhood.

The Virtual Classroom is intended to introduce A-Level English Literature students to practical criticism. The site was written by Colin Burrow, a member of the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. As well as describing the methods and aims of practical criticism, Burrow offers two practical examples for students to work through, along with a reference section and a literary quiz