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Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a large team of conversion specialists to provide easy to use access to vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, hard copy form or as images. Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. Developed by dedicated instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current.

Digital resource of The Schomburg Center, part of The New York Public Library. It consists of 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. These include books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text searchable database, subjects written about include family, religion, and slavery. There are additional research resources presented alongside the database.

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

The University of North Carolina Press joins the UNC Office of Information Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts.

The British Women Romantic Poets Project is a digital initiative of the University of Carolina Library, Davis (USA). The resource consists of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. These are fully searchable online.

Edited by PURDUE ONLINE WRITING LAB this handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.

South African society and its changes over time is of particular interest for sociology and the other social sciences, because it provides a fascinating crucible for exploring the mechanisms of social change, including the eventuation of what became its distinctive overlapping hierarchies of racialised, gendered and classed inequalities, organised around segregation and then institutionalised apartheid. The 'Whites Writing Whiteness' project explores these complex matters concerning social change by focusing on one aspect of this which has been particularly associated with South Africa: it is investigating 'whites writing' and 'writing whiteness' in letter-writing and correspondences from the 1770s to the 1970s, a crucial period in South African history.

The Furness Shakespeare Library has made available over the internet rare and often first editions of Elizabethan documents contemporary to Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare's own works. By scanning the images of these rare texts, the library hopes to inspire interest and learning through texts most will never have the opportunity to see otherwise. Within this website you can browse by author or text. While some texts are complete others contain title pages or illustrations, or the author's comments. Under ERIC (English Renaissance in Context) there are tutorials designed to assist teachers. The tutorials do not supply answers like study guides, rather they propose important questions about the text and bring up issues to be discussed in class. There are tutorials on "Romeo and Juliet", "Merchant of Venice", "Richard III", "King Lear", and topics about Renaissance publishing and printing.

Adam Smyth's on-line 'Index of Poetry in Printed Miscellanies, 1640-1682' catalogues 41 poetical miscellanies published during the Civil War and Restoration. Verses are searchable alphabetically by title, first line, last line and author. Description fields also include titles, dates and page references of the miscellanies. The resource compensates for the lack of indices in many of these collections of seventeenth-century verse and provides the opportunity to establish quickly a sense of the predominant themes, topics and verse forms employed by some of the lesser known poets of this period

This Web site is devoted to the 'Generación del '27', a group of Spanish poets and writers who achieved fame and notoriety in the early 20th century. The site acts as a good introduction to the writers considered to form part of this generation, explaining the cultural and historical context of their work and their shared philosophies. Most of these writers stayed at Madrid's Residencia de Estudiantes at some point in their lives, considered to be Spain's first cultural centre (Dalí and Buñuel were also among the residencia's famous guests), and shared aesthetic affinities such as the influence of Góngora, cubism, Paul Valéry. The site points out that despite crossovers in trajectories, each poet's work was unique.

This project brings together transitory pieces of popular literature: portable, forgettable, ephemeral and tossable. These objects have been undervalued for too long, and should be regarded as markers of both literary and popular culture. The website provides a taxonomy of the genres of popular literature, and investigates what makes each genre what it is. By navigating through the categories presented, we can recognize and come to understand what ordinary people are reading as they move through their daily lives.

The Bibliophile Bookbase lists several million antiquarian books, rare books, used books, and out-of-print books, plus antique maps, atlases and rare prints. These are offered for sale by independent booksellers worldwide. When you make an enquiry or order books using our shopping cart, your enquiry or order goes directly to the bookseller or booksellers who have listed the books. They will contact you directly regarding availability, postage and payment options.

Since 1989 Panorama of Russia, an American company, has specialized in non-fiction, predominantly reference and academic publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). These include books, periodicals, CDs, videos, manuscripts, maps, posters, signs, and albums, electronic and other products from academic and commercial publishers. Many of our titles are printed in small amount. The fields we cover are philosophy and religion, government and politics, military and legal affairs, humanities, literary history and criticism, history, social sciences, and much more.

The University of Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning. The OTA also gives advice on the creation and use of these resources, and is involved in the development of standards and infrastructure for electronic language resources

The goal of TalkBank is to foster fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication. It will construct sample databases within each of the subfields studying communication. It will use these databases to advance the development of standards and tools for creating, sharing, searching, and commenting upon primary materials via networked computers.

This phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

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.

a project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. This site provides classroom resources for teaching the rich tradition of American literature by women. The Scribbling Women project provides an opportunity for teachers, students, library patrons, visually impaired listeners, and a general audience to learn about and enjoy an often neglected part of our cultural heritage. By providing highly produced thirty-minute dramatizations of short stories by these writers, together with related curriculum and lesson plans, the site offers teachers the opportunity to include both the listening experience and a discussion of the story and dramatization within a standard class period.

ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The project finished in 1999, and no additional material will be added. JOURNALS: Gentleman's Magazine - The Annual Register Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Notes and Queries - The Builder - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

is a vast, quality, award-winning website devoted to Catalan literature, and will be of immense value to anyone working on, or generally interested in, Catalan studies. It features studies and reviews of individual writers, works, literary movements and genres, overviews of literary histories, and provides an impressive number of annotated links to all these areas as well. The site's excellent directory of Catalan writers (including Ramon Llull, Josep Pla, Mercè Rodoreda, Montserrat Roig, and many more) provides extensive bio-bibliographic details and links to relevant online resources