Gateways and Portals
Special Topics and Periods
Specific Authors

Gateways and Portals

Voice of the Shuttle Home Page (Alan Lui, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara) The Voice of the Shuttle is a primary gateway to a web of Internet links on topics in the humanities, including British and American literature. Below are shortcuts to just a few of the topical pages one can access from its home page. The name of the site is taken from a quotation from Aristotle. You will find an explanation of the allusion in one of the links on the home page. 

• VoS English Literature: English Literature Page (British and American) 

• VoS Literary Theory Page 

• VoS Technology of Writing Page 

• VoS Libraries and Museums Page 

• VoS Reference Works Page 

• VoS Journals and Zines Page 

Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers Univ.) This site is a good gateway to many links on literary topics. The initial page is organized around literary periods and includes a search function to find links including a specific word.

British and Irish Authors on the Web (Mitsuhara Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) This gateway to information and links on British writers is organized chronologically. It is updated regularly, with new writers and new links frequently added. 

American Authors on the Web (Mitsuhara Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) This link provides a deep chronological listing of websites on American authors.

The English Server (Univ. of Washington; formerly at Carnegie Mellon Univ.) The English Server publishes a wide range of texts in the arts and the humanities.

Special Topics and Periods

The Luminarium (Anna Jokinen) Although not associated with an academic institution, the Luminarium is an excellent starting point for finding information and additional resources on medieval, 16^th century, and 17^th century figures.

Romanticism on the Net -- an electronic journal devoted to Romantic studies

Romantic Chronology (Mandell and Liu -- Univ. of California at Santa Barbara)

Romantic Circles -- a website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture

The Victorian Web (George Landow, Brown Univ.) The Victorian Web illustrates the opportunities the WWW offers for integrating and cross-referencing materials on related topics and issues. Here you will find information on a number of Victorian British writers, as well as information on politics, philosophy, technology, gender, and other elements of Victorian culture.

Women Writers Project Online (Brown)  This is valuable resource especially for those seeking materials on early modern women writers.

19th Century British and Irish Authors (Mitsuhara Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan)

Specific Authors

The Geoffrey Chaucer Website (Harvard)  This site is an excellent resource not only for basic information on Chaucer's life and work but also on the culture of the late medieval period.

Chaucer (Edwin Duncan, Towson)  This is a class website comparable to Baragona's.

The Edmund Spenser Home Page  (Cambridge Univ., UK)  Produced by the English faculty at Cambridge University, this site provides a good starting point for studying Spenser; it includes abstracts of articles on Spenser.

The Blake Archive (Univ. of Virginia) -- electronic reproductions of William Blake's Illuminated Books

The Wilfrid Owen Multimedia Digital Archive (Oxford)  This site contains a full collection of scanned in manuscripts, documents, and photos of WW I.  These materials are especially valuable in exploring how Owen uses literary language to get his points across.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Jeremy Hylton, MIT) This site provides access to electronic texts of the Bard's plays. It also is a gateway to links across the WWW on background materials, articles, and courses on Shakespeare.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (Terry Gray, Palomar College)

The Internet Shakespeare Editions (Michael Best, University of Victoria)

Shakespeare's Life and Times (Michael Best, University of Victoria)

The Shakespeare Resource Center (J. M. Pressley)