selected web resources
| American Authors | Donna M. Campbell, Gonzaga University. Information on over eighty-five authors and twenty-five literary movements. Also a timeline and briefly annotated links to relevant sites. |
| Anglo-American Language and Literature | State and University Library at Göttingen. Thousands of links to literature sites arranged in many specific categories. |
| ArmenianHouse.org | Features a collection of documents on Armenian literature, history, religion and anything else Armenia-related. |
| Autodafe | European Union. Translations of censored literary works from around the world. News, interviews, bookshop, etc. |
| Chorus | Includes a general reviews section and several topical sections featuring reviews, original research, bibliographies, annotated links and Shockwave demonstrations. |
| Comparative Literature Resources | Yale University. Links to academic departments that maintain links pages, selected links. |
| Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English | George Landow, Brown University. Arranged by country, author, and theme. Includes articles, bibliographies, biographies, and links. |
| Context | Center for Book Culture. Literary criticism, articles about literature and reading, extracts of writings by literary luminaries, etc. |
| Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures | Georgetown University. Contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States. |
| English Departments Worldwide | New York University. Links to more than 1,300 English departments with web pages and a listing of English departments without web pages. |
| Hyperizons | Michael Shumate, Duke University. Hypertext fiction, theory, links, etc. |
| Literary Resources on the Net | Jack Lynch, Rutgers University. Annotated links, mainly in American and English literature. |
| Litgloss | University of Buffalo. Texts written in languages other than English, selected for their literary importance, and the original language text. For each text, there is commentary and links to additional resources. |
| Luminarium | Anniina Jokinen. Links relating to Middle English, Renaissance, and 17th Century literature: writers; works; essays and articles; background information on the periods, etc. |
| New Pages Online | Online guide to alternative media. Annotated links to news and articles about books, censorship, writing, libraries, etc. |
| OzLit | Mareya and Peter Schmidt. Huge database with information and links relating to Australian writers, literature, and books. |
| Perspectives in American Literature | Paul Reuben, California State University Stanislaus. Outlines and bibliographies of hundreds of authors, themes, and literary movements in the U.S. from colonial days to the present. There are many appendices, including the elements of poetry, drama, and fiction. |
| SparkNotes | Harvard University students and alumni. Study guides to about 100 literature classics, including sections on context, characters, overall summary, chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary, study questions, and a message board for collaborative learning. |
| Voice of the Shuttle | University of California, Santa Barbara. Many links to humanities resources. |
AWARDS | |
| Booker Prize | Booker McConnell Ltd and administered by the National Book League in the United Kingdom. It is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa. |
| National Book Awards | Books of exceptional merit written by Americans, awards, 1950 -present. |
| National Outdoor Book Awards | Idaho State University. |
| Nobel Prize | The Nobel Foundation. Information on the Nobel Prize in Literature, including a searchable database. |
| Pulitzer Prize | Archive lists awards by year, and includes all Pulitzer Prize-winning works from the past three years, including photos, editorial cartoons, music clips and the full text of all winning articles. |
LITERARY THEORY | |
| Critical Theory Resource | University of California, Irvine. Large number of scholarly bibliographies. Searchable. |
| Online Literary Criticism Collection | The Internet Public Library. Critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. |