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Useful and Interesting Websites
What's up in Wichita State University's
English Department?
Get information about programs, faculty, and upcoming events.
Academy
of American Poets. Search the work of over 500 American poets,
browse for poems by occasion or theme, get information on publishing
and awards, and more.
The
ActivePaper Archive,
through the British Library, offers fully searchable digitized
content from 4 British newspapers. Only a few years of each have
been digitized, but you can get an interesting overview of life in
Britain between 1851 and 1917. Read, for example, of M. Jullien's
masked ball at the Theatre Royal, advertised in News of the World
on December 7, 1851, and wonder why "Persons in the Costume of
Clowns, Harlequins, or Pantaloons, will not be admitted."
New!
The Chronicle of Higher Education
provides Arts and Letters Daily, a
highly recommended site featuring essays, articles, and book reviews
from around the globe.
Bartleby. One of
the oldest sites on the World Wide Web, Bartleby's goal is to
publish the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference in
full text. If it's out of copyright and was ever considered
important, chances are good you'll find it here.
BookWeb has links
to many book prize sites, as does
BookSpot
and
Bookwire. Can't remember that title you heard about on NPR or
that author you saw on television? Try the New York Public Library's
Books on the Air page (goes back only about a week).
Canadian Poets Biography from the University of Toronto.
Provides biographies, bibliographies, contact information, writing
philosophies, full-text poems and other information about Canadian
poets living and dead.
CHILDE.
Search
for images from collections of early European children's books.
Really fascinating, particularly in comparison to today's
counterparts. Courtesy of the European Commission's Culture 2000
program.
Dictionary of Old
English Project at the University of Toronto. The DOE offers two
tools for researchers on its internet site: a Variant Phrase Search,
and a List of Texts cited in the DOE.
Read 142
digitized
schoolbooks used by American children in the 19th century at
this site from the Digital Research Library, University of
Pittsburgh. Pretty fascinating stuff.
New!
Dime Novels and
Penny Dreadfuls.
An excellent online exhibit from Stanford University on these genres
that were popular from about 1860-1920.
The
English Short Title Catalogue lists over 460,000 items published
between 1473 and 1800, mainly in Britain and North America, mainly,
but not exclusively, in English, from the collections of the British
Library and over 2,000 other libraries. (Description provided
by the British Library.)
The Eserver at Iowa State (formerly The English Service at Carnegie
Mellon) is an online publisher of original writing in all genres. It goes back to 1990, and is still active.
What's up in the European Union?
EUFeeds is a page that
aggregates over 300 newspapers from across the EU and is updated
every 20 minutes. Hover over a headline to get the opening
sentence of an article, or click on a headline to get the whole
story.
New!
Folklinks.
An extensive collection of organized links to reference sources,
full text e-books, scholarly work, and much more having to do with
folklore and fairy tales.
Internet Library of Early
Journals. The fruit of a
joint project of several UK institutions. Complete scanned issues of
the following journals and years: Notes and Queries 1849-69;
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1843-63; Gentleman's Magazine
1731-50; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 1757-77;
Annual Register 1758-78; The Builder 1843-52.
Luminarium.
The virtual candy store for medieval, Renaissance, and Restoration-studies
kids.
The
Mark Twain
Project Online from the California Digital Library is still in
beta, but it already has over 2300 letters online, about 100 of
which also can be viewed as page images. The project will
eventually include images and full text of Twain's writings,
including his autobiography.
New!
Part of the Library of Congress's
American Memory project, the
Nineteenth Century in Print features digitized copies of 23
popular American periodicals of the era.
New!
The Plays of
Thomas Middleton. An attractive site featuring about 20 of
his plays in full text, with hyperlinked notes.
Poetry from the Library of
Congress. Listen to webcasts of American poets discussing their
craft.
Poetry Magic. On making
poetry. Also see its sister site,
TextEtc, for a more advanced discussion on theory and criticism.
Poetry Portal. Links to
contests, readings, ezines, and much more po-biz.
If you listen to public radio you've
probably heard Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and the mention
of the
Poetry Tool. Search or browse for poetry by poet, first line,
occasion, category, title, or glossary term. A service of the
Poetry Foundation.
New!
Project Gutenberg
makes available over 20,000 out of U.S. copyright e-books in plain
text.
Renaissance Electronic Texts from the University of Toronto
offers old-spelling editions of early individual copies of English
Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of
such works.
Resources for Electronic Research from the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. A stunning
collection of links to websites of use to researchers working on
topics in the Reformation and Renaissance.
Reviews of Books.
Reprints full-text reviews of recently-published fiction and
nonfiction that is popular, literary, or "intriguing" to the
editors. Among criteria for inclusion is that work must have
received at least 3 substantial reviews from respected sources.
Archives go back to 1992.
Routes of English.
A site about the English language and how it developed. "Where I
Live" links to recordings of over 50 regional accents and dialects
of English as it is spoken in the British Isles. From the BBC.
Scribbling Women. From this Northeastern University
site you can listen to highly produced 30-minute radio
dramatizations of short stories by a number of 18th
century American writers, all of whom are women. Windows MediaPlayer
required.
Silva Rhetoricae/The
Forest of Rhetoric, from Brigham Young University. The place to go
to learn your asteismus from your thaumasmus.
Turning
the Pages, a project
from the British Library, makes available sections of over a dozen
unique books from the several disciplines in a format that allows the user to virtually
"turn" pages,
magnify sections, and read or listen to commentary. The technology
is to scanning as PS3 is to Pong.
A multi-university undertaking, the
Walt Whitman Archive
is an extraordinary resource. Here can be found marked-up
manuscripts, nearly 130 images, scholarly criticism, teaching
resources, and digitized images of the complete text of several
editions of Leaves of Grass.
The
Writing Center at WSU can help students with everything from
developing a topic to specific writing problems. They will not write
a paper for you.
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