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On this page:  African American | American | Banned Books | Classical | Directories | Folklore | Gothic | Latino | Literary Awards | Mythology | Style 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

Literature@Sunsite - Berkeley Digital Library

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

AFRICAN AMERICAN

African American & Latina/o Literature

African American Literature - includes links to many digitized works

African American Literature Handout

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

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.

A Brief Chronology of African American Literature

Documenting the American South

The Library of Congress: The Zora Neale Hurston Plays

Rhapsodies in Black       

AMERICAN

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

Kate Chopin:   A Re-Awakening

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

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

The West in Popular Culture and Folklore
           

STYLE MANUALS -- SEE style manuals links on Bibliographies page
    
WESTERN EUROPEAN

Absolute Shakespeare

Shakespeare Homepage

Victorian Women Writers

West European Literature
    

WOMEN

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Kate Chopin:   A Re-Awakening

Victorian Women Writers

 

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