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This website was dedicated to British Gothic drama and its various manifestations between 1768 - the year of composition of the first Gothic tragedy, Horace Walpole's The Mysterious Mother- and the later, pre-Victorian, culture of the 1820s and 30s. The materials made available here range from critical bibliographies to links to internet resources and teaching and study aids, and are offered as a starting-point for all those readers who wish to explore Gothic drama and theatre in order to rediscover a cultural phenomenon which, although now relatively unfamiliar to contemporary readers, was as notorious, shocking and frightening as the better-known Gothic romance. This website is no longer updated.

Though translation is a vital part of any vibrant literary culture, no practical guide to the process of translating foreign works into English and preparing them for publication has yet been made available to prospective translators, editors, or readers. In February 2008, editors and translators from the US and UK came together at the British Council in London to discuss "best practices" for translation of literary works into English. This volume comprises the results of that meeting, a collection of summaries, suggestions, and instructions from the leading literary translators and publishers. It is intended as an introduction, the first in an ongoing series of documents to be published by Dalkey Archive Press that will address the challenges faced by translators, publishers, reviewers, and readers of literary translations.

Practical Chinese Reader is perhaps the most widely used textbook for students of elementary Mandarin Chinese. This online companion to the written text was devised by Xie Tianwei of California State University, Long Beach, and contains quizzes, reading comprehension questions and grammar tests that help students learn outside the classroom

Utopia Documents v2.2, is a free PDF reader that connects the static content of scientific articles to the dynamic world of online content. See also pdfx v1.0 > http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/ a fully-automated PDF-to-XML converter for scientific articles. It takes a full-text PDF article as input and outputs the hierarchy of its distinct logical elements in an XML format.

Archipelago Books is a not-for-profit press devoted to publishing excellent english translations of classic and contemporary world literature. Seeking to develop a wider audience for international fiction and poetry in the USA, Archipelago Books has been working in partnership with like-minded organizations hosting readings and events for authors and translators. The community around Archipelago is growing, thanks to the enthusiasm of booksellers, professors, librarians, translators, and our devoted readers. FB page at https://www.facebook.com/archipelagobooks

The Interpreter Diaries takes readers through the different phases of an interpreter's life and work, sharing details on everything from preparation for post-graduate training to testing at the institutions and beyond. The author of the Interpreter Diaries, Michelle Hof, is a professional conference interpreter and trainer. She works as a freelance interpreter (ACI) for the European Institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Spain.

A fairly accurate record of books published in translation since January 1st, 2008. Data are limited to original translations of fiction and poetry published or distributed in the United States. The focus is on identifying how many new books and new voices, are being made available to English-speaking readers in the USA. I FILE DELLA BIBLIOGRAFIA SONO SCARICABILI IN FORMATO EXCEL PER ANNATE

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.

an independent web resource dedicated to the dissemination of information about literature (fiction, drama and poetry) written by Spanish women. The site is divided into two sections: the first is a 'magazine' that offers regularly updated news of publications by Spanish women, reviews, interviews, events, literary prizes, book fairs and signings. There are links within the magazine to websites of specific publishers and authors where appropriate, and to other websites that may be of interest. The magazine invites and publishes reader comments about its articles, and the user may also access an archive of material. The second section is a unique, extensive index of 20th Century Spanish women writers, offering biographical and bibliographical details.

Three Percent launched in the summer of 2007 with the lofty goal of becoming a destination for readers, editors, and translators interested in finding out about modern and contemporary international literature. The motivating force behind the website is the view that reading literature from other countries is vital to maintaining a vibrant book culture and to increasing the exchange of ideas among cultures

Novels-On-Line is an ongoing project making freely accessible full-text transcripts of some of the rarest works in the Chawton House Library collection. These texts, which explore such broad-ranging themes as satire, slavery, marriage, witchcraft and piracy, signal the rich texture and innovative character of women's writing in the period 1600 to 1830. In bringing these little-known novels to a wider audience, it is hoped to stimulate interest in these works amongst a new generation of readers and to encourage critical scholarship of some of the more obscure texts and authors represented in the collection.

Booktrust, which runs the translated fiction website, is committed to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy reading. We are proud to be able to expand our work into the world of translated fiction and believe we are well placed to celebrate and broaden readers' awareness of these amazing novels. We also want to support the authors who wrote the books in the first place, and the publishers who have committed themselves to publishing these books in a highly competitive and increasing homogeneous market. Additionally we want to praise the translators - the unsung heroes of contemporary literature - whose intelligence and creativity render into English novels that deserve to be read all over the world.

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.

SHAKSPER, now in its twentieth-first year of serving the academic community, is an edited and moderated, international, e-mail distribution list for discussion among Shakespearean scholars, researchers, instructors, students, and anyone sharing their academic interests and concerns. In addition to regular mailings to members, anyone can use the Internet to access the archives and other SHAKSPER materials from the SHAKSPER web site shaksper.net. SHAKSPER strives to emphasize the scholarly by providing the opportunity for the formal exchange of ideas through queries and responses regarding literary, critical, textual, theoretical, and performative topics and issues. For readers' convenience, these messages are lightly edited and grouped in separate digests according to topic

This document offers scholarly researchers, students and general readers a reliable, genealogically-based descriptive bibliography of all U.S. and British publications of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

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.

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management - E-book conversion - Syncing to e-book reader devices - Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form - Comprehensive e-book viewer - Content server for online access to your book collection

Words without Borders translates, publishes, and promotes the finest contemporary international literature and opens doors for readers of English around the world to the multiplicity of viewpoints, richness of experience, and literary perspective on world events offered by writers in other languages

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.

The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The main goal of the project is to make texts by pre-Victorian women writers accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. The website hosts Women Writers Online, a full-text collection of early women's writing in English that contains more than 320 texts published between 1526 and 1850.