Outline of American Literature --by Kathryn Van Spanckeren--offers a
series of lectures organized by time period.
Perspectives in American Literature --Paul P. Reuben--Early American
Literature to Present-- Primary works, bibliographies, related outside links
and a comprehensive list of authors.
20C British Literary Criticism - - Browse by author, literary movement
and time period.
Online Literary Criticism - Internet Public Library - Browse by author,
title and literary period. Includes foreign works.
Bibliography - Teaching American Literature - Housed at Georgetown
University.
A Celebration of Women Writers - Search by name, date, country and
ethnicity.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - From the New York
Public Library.
Writing Black - "Literature and history written by and on African
Americans".
Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Links to resources for literature,
including e-journals.
Library of Congress - Links to their Spanish Reading Room and other
interesting stuff.
Native American Authors - Internet Public Library.
Gale Group Library - Free resources at the "Poet's Corner".
Atlantic Online -
search for Atlantic's "poetry pages" with interviews, reviews and
what's new.
Poets & Writers Magazine - News, trends and what's happening with poets
and poetry.
Academy of American Poets - Essays, biographies, poems. Features "find a
poem" and "find a poet". Includes a "listening booth".
Academy of American Poets
- listing of Rhode Island poets
Language
Places
Resources for Teachers
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Folger's Shakespeare Lesson Plans - Teacher-created lesson plans from
the Folger Shakespeare Library, a private research institute in Washington
DC. Folger houses the largest collection of Shakespearean literature
outside of the UK.
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Shakespeare Lesson Plans -
From PBS, links to lesson plans for elementary or secondary school.
Also see electronic texts below.
Online Books - University of Pennsylvania - 17,000 listings by author,
title, subject and serial. Includes "Prize Winners", "Banned Books", and
"Foreign Language".
Oxford Text Archive - Comprehensive site, free downloads. Search by
author, title or language.
Shakespeare Bookshelf at Internet Public Library - Links you to Bartleby
complete works of William Shakespeare.
Modern English Collection - University of Virginia Library
One Look Dictionary - This online search system searches 50 general and
specialized dictionaries.
Webster's Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Columbia Encyclopedia
Rhyming and More - Rhymes, synonyms, antonyms and more.
Bartleby Book of Quotations - Chronological and alphabetical author
index.
First Amendment Web Sites
American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU
American Library Association - Especially check out "Issues and
Advocacy".
Freedom Forum - First amendment and media issues. |