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On this page:  African American | American | Banned Books | Classical | Directories | Folklore | Gothic | Latino | Literary Awards | Mythology | Native American | PoetryStyle Manuals | Western European | Women

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DIRECTORIES / GENERAL

Bookwire
Book industry information, new releases, reviews, author interviews

Digital Librarian:  Literature

The English Server: The Fiction Collection

Literary Resources on the Net - from Rutgers University

 Literature@Sunsite - Berkeley Digital Library

LitLinks - from Bedford/St. Martin's Press

Media History Project Timeline: From Petroglyphs to Pixels

The Voice of the Shuttle:   A Web Page for Humanities Research
    

AFRICAN AMERICAN

African American & Latina/o Literature

African American Authors

African-American Literature

African American Literature - includes links to many digitized works

African American Literature Handout

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

African American Writers: Online E-texts

The Antislavery Literature Project (Arizona State University)
Dedicated to the history of slavery and antislavery movements and the rich literature associated with it: slave narratives, letters, manifestos, poems, fiction, etc. Has some links to information about modern day slavery.

Author Profiles  from the African American Literature Book Club

A Brief Chronology of African American Literature

Documenting the American South

The Library of Congress: The Zora Neale Hurston Plays

Rhapsodies in Black

Writing Black: Literature and History Written By and On African Americans
       

AMERICAN

American Folklore
American folktales, ethnic folklore, urban legends, spooky stories, tongue twisters, and more!

American Literature on the Web

Kate Chopin:   A Re-Awakening

19th Century United States Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies Online

Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren

The West in Popular Culture and Folklore
    

BANNED BOOKS

Banned Books Online
    

CLASSICAL (See also Mythology)

The Perseus Project
    

GOTHIC

The Literary Gothic
    

LARAZA / LATINO

African American & Latina/o Literature

Latino Literature
              

LITERARY AWARDS

SEE Virtual Reference: Reading Lists
    

MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE

American Folklore
American folktales, ethnic folklore, urban legends, spooky stories, tongue twisters, and more!

Bulfinch's Mythology

Encyclopedia Mythica

The West in Popular Culture and Folklore
         

NATIVE AMERICAN

Native American Authors  (Internet Public Library)
         

POETRY

The E-Server Poetry Collection

Internet Poetry Archive

100 Greatest Poems Ever Written

Poetry.Com: The International Library of Poetry
     

STYLE MANUALS

SEE style manuals links on Bibliographies page
    

WESTERN EUROPEAN

Absolute Shakespeare

Shakespeare Homepage

Shakespeare Web
biographical information, e-notes about the plays, themes, quizzes, lesson plans and more

Victorian Women Writers

West European Literature
    

WOMEN

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Kate Chopin:   A Re-Awakening

Victorian Women Writers

Women and Literature

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