reference resources
| Analytical Bibliography of on-line neo-Latin texts | 5,694 Latin texts listed, all should be completely available online. Most of the works are from the Renaissance. Updated periodically. |
| Canadian Literature Archive | University of Manitoba/St. John's College. Information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, literary organizations, magazines, publications, books, texts and library archives. |
| Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography | Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres. |
| Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | Bibliomania. 1895 edition of the Brewer classic. Searchable and browsable. |
| Eighteenth-Century Resources | Jack Lynch. Many links, mostly focused on British literature, theatre, drama, gothic, romanticism, late-century and romantic women writers, French literature, German literature, and research articles. |
| Electronic African Bookworm | Hans Zell Publishing Consultants. Directory of sites on Africa, African studies, and the African publishing and book trade. Links are provided to African and Africanist journals and newspapers; libraries in Africa and major Africana libraries in the Northern hemisphere; African literary and cultural journals; and a number of African literature sites. There is also a section on the Internet and Internet infrastructure in Africa. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Online Version. |
| Encyclopedia of the Celts | Knud Mariboe. Searchable encyclopedia of Celtic literature including the legends, mythology, tales, and history of this ancient culture. It provides alternate spellings of words and names, and pronunciation notes. Most entries have numbers referring to their sources in the bibliography. This is an online version of the published book (c.1997). |
| German Studies Web:Literature Resources | Reinhart Sonnenburg, Dartmouth College. Links to journals, online texts, catalogues, and directories. |
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism | Individuals, Schools, Movements, Theorists & Critics |
| Literary Index | Gale Group. Author and title index to 40 major literature series published by Gale Group. Contains more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. Search by author, title, nationality, birth, and death dates. |
| Literary Resources on the Net | Rutgers University. Many links, searchable by keyword and arranged by subject or time period. |
| Literature Resources | MIT. Primarily English and American literature with links to sites, style manuals, journals, etc. |
| Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary | Information on >5,000 authors, primarily from the U.K. and Commonwealth, 14,500 works, and >1,200 topics |
| MCLC Resource Center | Ohio State University. Primarily bibliographical list relating to Chinese literature and culture. A Chinese browser is required for some sections. |
| Middle English Compendium | University of Michigan. Includes a Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. |
| On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies | Links to more than 700 medieval works. |
| Post World War II American Literature and Cultural Database | University of California, Berkeley. Great site that includes genre sites (postmodern, science fiction, feminism, queer, multiculturalism, and more), information on special library collections, and bibliographies. |
| Reading Women Writers and African Literature | University of West Australia. Biographies, bibliographies, synopses of works, links, etc. |
| Reference Sources for Literature in English | Bob Kieft, Haverford College. |