Literature Websites
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Potpourri
- Legends
- Provides "guided access to primary source material and up-to-date
scholarship" for varying myths & legends including King Arthur, Robin
Hood, Norse Sagas & Eddas, and more.
- Librarians' Index to the Library
- Internet sites organized and evaluated by librarians.
- Literary Resources on the Net
- Resources supporting the study of English and American Literature.
- ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- "ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for
the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles
have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high
standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval
studies."
- Project Gutenberg
- "The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other
materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the
computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search."
Project Gutenberg uses editions of texts whose copyright has expired and are
in the public domain. You can find the full text of many classics here.
- Voice of the Shuttle
- "VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and
defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a
higher-education, professional approach to the humanities." A well-maintained
site which points to other humanities sites. Good breadth of subject material.
English literature sites range from medieval to the Beat generation.
- Yahoo's Index to the Humanities
- Of these sites, Yahoo is less scholarly but if you want to chat to others
about your favorite authors, aficionados await.