We now subscribe to PROJECT MUSE, the best on-line repository of literary journals. Check it out.This webliography was originally compliled by Sherry Mashburn and Joseph Thomas, graduate students at Georgia Southern. It will be updated and maintained at various intervals by faculty and graduate students of the Department of English. For comments on the list, suggestions for added sites (especially welcome), and bad links reports, contact Doug Thomson or Joseph Thomas.
For a general theoretical introduction to the hypertext, see Doug Thomson's "The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic (Re)production."
We now subscribe to PROJECT MUSE, the best on-line repository of literary journals. Check it out.
Have questions about documentation in this new age of electronic resources? Check out the MLA DOCUMENTATION page from the University of Wisconsin's Writing Center.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE ITEMS TO THE ANNOTATED WEBLIOGRAPHY
ARTFL PROJECT, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html
Created as a research tool in French Studies, ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) holds 2000 texts ranging from the 13th to the 20th centuries. ARTFL's greatest value lies in its effectiveness and accessibility as a research tool. It contains many useful bibliographies and databases (as well as plenty of links) and can be an invaluable aid to students of comparative literature.
BRITISH POETRY 1780-1910: A HYPERTEXT ARCHIVE OF SCHOLARLY EDITIONS
http://etext/lib/virginia.edu/britpo.html
This archive rises above the mediocre only in that it provides a list of electronic texts which are annotated and/or illustrated. Divided into three sections, two of which are links to the rather lame Project Bartleby and the University of Virginia archive, British Poetry is most niftyin its first section, which includes a link to a beautifully illustrated version of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark and a link to Jerome McGann's Rossetti archive. It also includes a site on the recently canonized Romantic poet Mary Darby Robinson.
A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN WRITERS
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/writers.html
Looks like the site for information on the growing number of recently rediscovered women writers. This Carnegie Mellon U project contains a number of texts by women writers that are extremely hard to come by through any other resource.
http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/classics/
This extensive archive is divided into several sections, some of which are General Collections, Journals, Textual Criticism, and Miscellaneous Resources. Each section provides scores of links to interesting and useful sites for the classics scholar. Some of the most intriguing sites are Mythology in Western Art, The Ovid Project, and the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Computer Analysis of Texts.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: BARTLEBY LIBRARY
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/index.html
"I prefer not to" would be the perfect response to anyone requesting that you hit this site. Though it does contain many important texts, all of them are non-hypertextual and, therefore, no more useful than their book-bound cousins. It does contain the ever inspiring Chapman's Homer as well as the ever inspired works of John Keats. But, on the whole, Bartleby is a well-nigh useless imitation of a book-form anthology.
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/
This archive contains a vast number of subgroups on critical perspectives such as feminism, gender and sexuality, and rhetoric. One of the highlights of this archive is its link to an illustrated, hypertextual version of Aristotle's Rhetoric. Also of particular interest is the site entitled Marx and Engels which compiles works dealing with economic and social theory. Though this site is called the English Server, it provides links to sites pertaining to other areas in the humanities as well--music, art, and drama among them.
LINKS TO WEB RESOURCES FOR ENGLISH RESEARCHERS
http://www.siue.edu/~english/resource.html
Another broad literature bibliography, especially helpful for including a list of lists (scholarly e-mail discussion groups) and the latest info on documentation and the internet.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Lit
A particularly useful site, with links to literature resources organized by period and informed by a helpful critical intelligence (Jack Lynch of UPenn).
htp://chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~pbeidler/gea/wwwlit.htm
A well-organized webliography developed by the Graduate English Asoociation of UToronto.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-Authors.html
A Toys'R Us site, as it were, listing primarily artists of pop culture such as Douglas Adams, Piers Anthony, and Isaac Asimov. Of course, it does have links to pages devoted to more critically significant authors--Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, and (maybe!) J.R.R. Tolkien. Also of interest is the site's link to The Children's Literature Web Guide.
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit.html#bibliographies
Next to The Voice of the Shuttle, the Literature Webliography is the most extensive and invaluable archive of archives on the net. It provides links to university library catalogs, bibliographies, newsgroups, hypertextual dictionaries, periodicals, and even electronic style guides (including the MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources). It also includes a list of general archives and hypertext and web publications. A must see.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD EARLY PRINTED BOOKS PROJECT: FOREIGN BOOKS OUTSIDE THE BODLEIAN
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/icc
The Printed Books Project is an ambitious one. Begun in 1995, this project's goal, as yet unreached, is to compile into a database all pre-1641 foreign books which are not found in Bodleian libraries. Scholars who wish to track down books of this sort will find the Printed Books Project invaluable.
http://www.literature.org/
This project is on a smaller scale as it is a personal rather than a commercial one. It would be a great deal more useful if it contained hypertextual texts; as it stands, the most intriguing part of this archive is the Lewis Carroll archive within it, which contains an illustrated version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ENGLISH LIBRARY
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/utel.html
The University of Toronto English Library page includes four subgroups of poetry, drama, and prose: Representative Poetry (RP), Renaissance Electronic Texts (RET), Chaucer's Works (CW), and Relevant materials elsewhere (RME). RP is an electronic anthology of non-hypertextual poetry, spanning from the medieval period to the early twentieth century. Itincludes 730 poems by some 80 authors. RET is a growing collection of Renaissance texts, including Elizabethan Homilies, 1623, and supplementary studies such as Ian Lancashire's Renaissance Electronic Text Encoding Guidelines, 1994. CW electronically records texts from the Riverside Chaucer, third edition. Unfortunately, these Chaucer texts are only available to the U of Toronto scholars. RME is a links site to other on-line resources in English.
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu
Perhaps one of the most useful links pages for the humanities on the net, this site contains links to other pages pertaining to literature, literary theory, art, history, university information, and teaching aids. It should be the starting point for any critical searches on the net.
cc.joensuu.fi/~koskinie/
A no-nonsense, concisely organized yet quite comprehensive list from the University of Joensuu.
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html
For those scholars interested in the medieval period, this site will come in handy. Within the site one will find a listing of medieval academic discussion groups (for e-mail), important information about discussion lists, links to electronic medieval texts (including a searchable Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible), and links to a variety of medieval home pages--Labyrinth and Atrium, for example. A rathereclectic site (you might want to brush up on your Latin), but a valuable one for serious medieval scholars.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/
An ambitious project still very much in the works, with powerful federal and private funding. The ARCHIVE should set the standards for hypertextual projects and protocol as it documents the labyrinth of Blake's illustrated texts (and their many versions).
THE COMPLETE WRITINGS AND PICTURES OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI: A HYPERMEDIA RESEARCH ARCHIVE
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/rossetti.html
Including elaborate illustrations, the Rossetti Project database holds digitized version of the painter and poet's works, including early texts and first editions. It also has its very own search engine, allowing scholars to narrow their searches in the immense archive. Its aim is to explore and test hypermedia design. This site is definitely on the cutting edge of multi-media, hypertextual technology.
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/English/Beowulf
The Electronic Beowulf Project is a vast database of digitized Beowulf manuscripts which allows the intrepid scholar to examine the ancient manuscripts in the comforts of his own office. Expanding every day, this site currently features fiber-optic and ultra-violet readings of erasures in the eleventh century manuscript. Soon the site will be adding full manuscript illuminations. All Beowulf scholars should check this site out.
THE HYPER-DUNCIAD: ANOTHER VARIORUM
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~wendyjc/pope/popehp.html
This link is now obsolete. If you know the current address, please contact us
This fully annotated and hypertextual version of Pope's Dunciad is essential for the Neoclassical scholar and layperson alike. Still in progress, the site still has a few glitches to be worked out; nevertheless, it is a fun and informative read.
http://daemon.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/index.html
This beautiful site, promising to become a "multimedia translation of The Divine Comedy," already contains a facing page translation of the work, Dante's verse lying beside that of Longfellow's. The Project boasts that it will become "essentially a twenty-first-century illumination--one that intends to take advantage of the existing technical possibilities of our contemporary culture to create a viewpoint . . . of contemporary and historical culture, much like Dante's original work was . . . a thirteenth-century viewpoint of then contemporary and historical culture." While the Project hasn't quite reached that goal yet, it looks promising.
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK HOME PAGE
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/index.html
This site, featuring an annotated version of The Rape of the Lock, provides background information, illustrations, and related materials. It also features a fully-rhymed German translation of the poem as well as Pope's "explanation" of the work.
http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton.html
This site is a great resource for Milton enthusiasts, as it links them to other Milton web-pages as well as nine versions of Paradise Lost. With the help of scholars from other universities, Kevin Creamer is assembling the Milton Transcription Project, a project which promises "to create authoritative transcriptions of ALL Milton's poetry and prose." This prodigious undertaking will not be complete for some time unless the number of Creamer's "judicious friends" grows exponentially. Great site.
SHAKESPEARE OXFORD SOCIETY HOME PAGE
http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/
The Shakespeare Oxford Society has as its goal the establishment of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford "as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare." While their efforts can provide much amusement (especially entertaining is the site's sampling of Edward de Vere's poetry), the site's real merit lies in its extensive links to all manner of Shakespeare sites (not all involved in the authorship debate).
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/stc/Coleridge/stc.html
The Coleridge site boasts a semi-hypertextual concordance feature, matching up similar and identical references in different Coleridge poems, which is interesting if not ashelpful as an actual hypertext. This site provides a good introduction to Coleridge, though it probably is not of great use to the more astute Romantic scholar.
http://www.aa.net/~urizen/blake2.html
Beautifully illustrated, the ever-evolving Blake Page already provides an electronic reproduction of the illuminated Marriage of Heaven and Hell and promises an analysis of both Milton and Jerusalem in the near future. The page also offers valuable links to other Web pages concerning Blake and looks to be a useful tool for Blake scholars.
THE WORDWSORTH NATIONAL TRUST PAGE
http://www.dovecott.demon.co.uk
The page of the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage and the Centre for British Romanticism. Contains information on the Trust's literary holdings, splendid conferences, and other resources.
http:/dc.smu.edu/Arthuriana
Arthuriana is a scholarly e-journal which deals with, as the name implies, issues surrounding the Arthurian mythos. Quite a nice site with many useful links for the Arthur enthusiast.
http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlshome.html
EMLS serves as a venue for scholarly chat and a research tool in the areas of sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and language. The current issue contains articles such as "Personations: The Taming of the Shrew andthe Limits of Theoretical Criticism" and "The Madness of Syracusan Antipholus." It is a worthwhile journal, especially in that it provides the obligatory (but not less useful) links to sites dealing with 16th and 17th century literature.
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/mfs/
Begun in 1956 as a newsletter of the Modern Fiction Club at Perdue University, MFS has expanded into the world of the internet, publishing essays dealing with many theoretical and cultural perspectives. Some recent issues of MFS include "Postmodern Narratives" and "Narrative and History." As well as being a quality journal, MFS provides many links to other sites of interest to scholars of modern fiction.
PROMETHEUS UNPLUGGED? ROMANTICISMS PAST AND FUTURE
http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/
This page, left over from the April Prometheus Unplugged? conference, is still a handy tool, for it contains invaluable links in the "Library" section, and its "Opium Den," still a favorite among scholarly surfers, is billed as the site's "contribution to a surrealistic Romantic appreciation" and "a place of speculation and frivolity."
http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/rc.html.circles.html
An American counterpart to Romanticism on the Net with greater emphasis on hypetextual editions and projects.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/
Romanticism on the Net is an extremely useful site concerned exclusively with the Romantic period. Each "issue" featuresseveral e-articles; the current issue (the next will be posted later in August) features Duncan Wu's "Tautology and Imaginative Vision in Wordsworth" and David Miall's "Electronic Romanticism: The CD." The "Forum" section allows scholars to comment on the articles posted on the site. Also included in the site is an extensive links section.
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/liu/canonweb.html
This page records the significant 1996 MLA panel on the topic by Alan Liu (of VoS and Laura Mandell and has plans for continuing dialogue on the issue.
WOMEN OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD HYPERTEXT
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~worp/worp.html
Yes, a valuable port for information about its subject, but equally interesting as an example of an imaginative and fully interactive hypertext.
http://165.212.218.7/room111/r/lite/htmltrainer.html
A great page constructed by a great lady. If you want the low down on html, check out this site: it's user friendly without being simple-minded. It has everything you need to get started down the road to html mastery. Also, the WhymisqueL woman who runs the page will personally reply to any questions and concerns you e-mail to her.
http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~ogorman/gibb/howcover.html
This essay deals with Jerome McGann's "structure of reading" as it is outlined in his essay "How to Read a Book". It contains suggestions on how hypertextual essays should be arranged. This essay should be helpful to scholars who are new to issues of hypertextuality.
HYPERTEXT AND ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~slatin/resources/ht_rsrc.html
If you're into hypertextuality, this site is for you. Check it out.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/radiant.html
This essay by Jerome McGann examines the great impact of technological advances on literature and the humanities. An important essay by an important scholar.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html
This essay by Jerome McGann is a must read for all scholars interested in the internet and hypertextuality. The essay focuses on the physical character of literary works and how hypertextuality will affect it.
http://www.orci.com/personal/jim/grave/alphabet.html
This site consists of an extensive database which performs the crucial task of helping scholars (and fans) locate the final resting places of their favorite literary (and popular) figures. Each artist's listing contains an actual address and lot number so the more macabre enthusiast can visit the grave site. Lots of morbid fun.
We welcome additions and updates to this literary weblio. For the most part, the following instructions are designed for English majors and graduate students at Georgia Southern who, as part of class exercises, are researching literary resources on the web and contributing to the list. But we'd be happy to hear from others regarding suggestions for literary resources that should be included on the page.
One of the key features of our page is that it, indeed, does offer annotations, brief, to-the point summaries, often evaluative, of the materials it lists. Each submission should include title; pagemaster and/or sponsoring institution; full URL; and a descriptive "tag" providing a brief one or two sentence explanation of the site's main value (wit helps!). GSU students should also submit the following three part evaluation/justification: