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Old English and Medieval Literature

Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3037 texts in the corpus.

DOE: Dictionary of Old English
Searchable vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language, from the letters A to I.
Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature
Voice of the Shuttle is a huge site for humanities research run by Professor Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbera. Covers everything from general resources to appropriate listserves and newsgroups. No longer maintained- last updated in 2000.

Middle English Compendium
Access to three major Middle English electronic resources, - Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.

Beowulf
Electronic Beowulf Project.
The Labyrinth
Medieval Studies resources.
One of the largest sites for medieval resources, sponsored by Georgetown University. Searchable by category or keyword.
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
The Piers Plowman archive aims to eventually create a hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the work. Currently available are editions of B manuscripts.
The Robin Hood Project at the University of Rochester
This site makes available in electronic format a database of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales. The project is sponsored by the University of Rochester and prepared in The Robbins Library.
Early English Prose Fiction : EEPF via SETIS
Over 200 works of prose fiction dating from 1500-1700. It includes Elizabethan fiction, Jest Books, collections of short pieces and novellas, Restoration fiction and works of popular fiction.
IMB : International Medieval Bibliography
References journals citations, conference proceedings and festschriften on all aspects of the European Middle Ages.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English Literature

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
This site combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide full-text materials for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. The main authority used for accuracy of dates and details is the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Edition.
Early Modern Literary Studies
This site provides a link to a number of sixteenth and seventeenth century resources of interest to literary scholars.
Shakespeare
Access to major editions and adaptations of Shakespeare including the First Folio (1623) and Bell's acting editon of plays (1774).
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe library and archive is a Performing Arts repository, specialising in Shakespeare in Performance.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Access to annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced from 1971.

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Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature

Eighteenth Century Fiction : ECF via SETIS
Eighteenth Century Fiction includes 96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles.
Nineteenth Century Fiction : NCF via SETIS
This database includes the major prose fiction of the Romantic and Victorian periods, as well as many neglected or little-known works, most of them out-of-print or difficult to find. Nineteenth Century Fiction includes 250 complete works of prose fiction from the period 1781-1901, by writers from the British Isles.
Victorian Fiction Research Guides
Bibliographic finding tools both for lesser-known writers active from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1910 and for work published in periodicals during the same period. Besides bibliography, the Guides usually contain informative introductory essays by recognised academic scholars.

Gale primary sources
Specialised search interface to analyze the content of the Library's historical collections hosted by Gale, using frequency and term-relationship tools.
The collections are: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2012, The Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2010, Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003, The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926, The Making of the Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926, The Making of the Modern World, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Times Digital Archive, The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2011.
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Australian Literature

Australian Literature on the Internet
From the National Library of Australia, a list of Australian literature resources, together with links to other sites.
Australian Poetry Library
The online library holds more than 42,000 poems by 217 Australian poets.
Literature and aesthetics : the journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics (SSLA)
Established to promote the study of the arts, the Society sponsors seminars, convenes conferences, and publishes the journal Literature and Aesthetics
Australian Texts via SETIS
Includes the Australian Literary and Historical Texts, Australian Classic Works, Novels from the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 and Australian Poets: Brennan--Harford--Slessor.
Australian literature databases
A full list of the library's recommended databases for Australian literature.

American Literature

Early American Imprints Series 1, Digital Evans (1639-1800)
Full text of 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in America between 1639-1800.
African-American Poetry 1760 - 1900
Corpus of Afro-American poetry.
American Poetry
Full text of more than 200 American poets.
Modern American Poetry
161 poet companion sites

Icelandic, Nordic, Middle Welsh and Old Irish Literature

Arnamagnaean Institute
Arnamagnaean manuscript collection of Icelandic texts and digitisation project.
The Skaldic Project
An international project to edit the corpus of medieval Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry.
Project Runeberg: Nordic literature on-line since 1992
Access to the Internet's most extensive site for Nordic literature.
Handrit.is
This site provides access to historical manuscripts dating back hundreds of years. Provided by the National and University Library of Iceland.
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
Extensive links to both old and modern Irish literature, folklore and drama.
Old-Irish-L
Old Irish language literature. Contains links to other sites of interest.
CELT: Corpus of electronic texts
Contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.
Welsh Prose 1350-1425
A searchable corpus of Medieval Welsh prose, covering 54 manuscripts. Created by Cardiff University.

Literary Criticism and Theory

Voice of the Shuttle - Literary Theory Page
An extensive range of resources for literary and cultural theory, and related journals and discussion groups, with a link to VOS's Cultural Studies page. Archived from 2000.
Women's Studies Resources - Feminist Theory

Cambridge Companions Online via Cambridge Core
Cambridge Companions Online includes handbooks on a variety of different literary periods, theoretical frameworks and philosophies.

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Children's Literature

Children's Book Council of Australia
Children's Literature
Resources related to books for Children and Young Adults, from the University of Calgary.

Twentieth Century English Literature

CELT: Corpus of electronic texts
Contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.
A Celebration of Women Writers
D.H.Lawrence
A site devoted to research on D.H.Lawrence from the University of Nottingham.
Henry James
The Henry James scholar's guide to web sites.
Discovering Literature: Twentieth Century
A collection of reflections, biographies and collection items relating to twentieth century literature from the British Library.