English Literature Reference Resources

  • Academic Info Guide to American Literature

  • Academic Info Guide to English Literature

  • a.k.a. (Also Known As), author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names, etc.

  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, including English & American literature resources.

  • American Heritage Book of English Usage, the 1996 edition.

  • American Humanities Index, bibliographic references to over 700 literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada from 1975 forward. Produced by Whitston Publishing. Available through EBSCOhost Web. Accessible via campus machines. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, listing the world's myths, characters, and proverbs in a searchable index, illustrated with examples, quotes, and etymologies.

  • Colorado State University Online Writing Center Reference Materials, contains information on seven topics related to critical writing, including writing processes, critical reading, document types, and sources.

  • DeVry Online Writing Support Center

  • dictionary.com, guide to a wide variety of reference tools on the web.

  • Dictionary of Old English: Old English Corpus is now available to UK affiliates. The 1998 Release of the Dictionary of Old English Corpus has been produced with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency. It represents a more correct version of the Corpus and supersedes all previous versions. The text is currently available in a Gopher file.

  • Dictionary of Slang, British.

  • Early Modern English Dictionaries Database: search the full-text of sixteen dictionaries dated 1530-1657.

  • 18th Century Resources, a collection of Internet resources related to the 18th century, including literature, art, history, and the history of science. Also includes a complete catalogue of electronic texts from the 18th century, roughly from Milton to Keats.
  • The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. From Columbia University, Academic Information Systems (AcIS), Bartleby Library. Transcribed, proofread, and marked-up in HTML, May 1995.

  • Encyclopedia Mythica [Frames] Encompassing mythology, folklore, and legend, the Encyclopedia Mythica--a collaborative reference resource with over 150 contributors--contains more than 4400 definitions of mythical and legendary figures and almost 200 images. Users may search the entire work by keyword or browse by topic areas. The browseable index is available in both a frames and non-frames version. The unique Miscellanea section compliments the numerous entries on gods, creatures, and heroes with pronunciation guides, maps, genealogy tables, brief histories of ancient peoples, lists of deities and ancient feast days, and the linguistic origins for the names of days, months, and celestial bodies. Contributions to the encyclopedia are encouraged. All submissions are reviewed by editor Micha F. Lindemans.

  • English Literature and Composition Resources on the Internet: Selected Sites.

  • The English Server, cooperative publishing humanities texts, with over eighteen thousand works.

  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication

  • Ethnologue: Languages of the World. thirteenth edition, edited by Barbara F. Grimes and provided by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Contains links between 6,703 languages and the countries in which they are spoken.

  • Grammar & Style Notes, from Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania.

  • A Guide for Writing Research Papers, based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation.

  • The Human-Languages Page

  • The Hypertext Webster Interface, provides a point-and-click client interface (for non-linemode browsers) for accessing the various Webster's dictionary services on the Internet.

  • The Internet Grammar of English Written and designed for undergraduate students, the Internet Grammar of English (IGE) explains the functions and relations of word classes in English sentences, in order to teach readers the principles and rules governing grammatical structure.

  • Literature Resources (non-ENglish)

  • Literary Resources on the Net, from the University of Pennsylvania English Dept.

  • Literary Awards Winners, from Virtual Wordsworth.

  • The Lynx, a collection of links to English-related web sites. Maintained by the University of Kentucky English Department.

  • Middle English Compendum (MEC) includes the Middle English Dictionary (MED), the HyperBibliography of Middle English Prose and Verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Proxy Access.

  • MLA Style--Citing Sources from the World Wide Web, contains the MLA-authorized guidelines for citing Internet resources.

  • The Modern Library: 100 Best, Recently, a panel (actually, "Board") at The Modern Library, a division of Random House, got together and decided on a list of the 100 "best novels published in the English language since 1900."

  • New York Review of Books

  • Dictionary of Old English Corpus, available through the Humanities Text Initiative for University of Kentucky faculty, staff & students.

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Paradigm Online Writing Assistant, created by writing professor Chuck Guilford. Offers editorial assistance to writers. Organized around a series of exercises that you copy into your word processing program, Covers most of the major stages of writing, from organizing your thoughts to planning paragraphs and documenting sources.

  • The Playwriting Seminars, "An Opinionated Web Companion on the Art & Craft of Playwriting." From Virginia Commonwealth University.

  • Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab

  • Roget's Thesaurus, based on the text of the 1911 edition.

  • Romantic Period Chronology

  • Resources for American Literature, interactive sites with online texts, student comments and analysis, transcripts of discussions, and student projects.

  • Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric. Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University's English Department has created this guide to "the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric."

  • Reaching the American Literatures Electronic Archives, from the American Studies Program at Georgetown University.

  • Tools for College Writing, created by Joseph McNeilly of Cabrillo College.

  • United Kingdom Writers' Site, for authors, artists, illustrators, journalists, playwrights, and scriptwriters; their professional societies; and various rights organizations.

  • WATCH: Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders.

  • The Word Detective, free online version of an internationally syndicated newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language (primarily word and phrase origins) since 1953.

  • Writers' Resources on the Web, from WWW Virtual Library.

  • Writing Center, University of Kentucky.

  • Writing Center Online, from the University of Maine.

  • WWWebster Dictionary, from Merriam-Webster. Each retrieved word is accompanied by pronunciation, usage, grammatical function, a brief etymology, and definition. A thesaurus can be queried for similar words, hypertext cross references are available, misspellings return suggested spellings, and there are hypertext links to illustrations. The search system supports internal wildcards (single and multiple letter) and right hand truncation searching.
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    This page was last updated 3 December 2004. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to bcarring@uky.edu.

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