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MLA Style Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format, a concise overview from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
Literature--Online Texts Literary Resources on the Net -- the best. Project Gutenberg Books Online -- A listing of books available in electronic text over the WWW. Project Bartleby -- Columbia University's online literature resource. Renascence Editions, Works in English 1477-1799 African American Perspective -- Documents of African American culture Representative Poetry on Line (University of Toronto) Poems That Go The Electronic Poetry Center: Contemporary Poets and Poetry Anthology of Southwestern American Humor Perseus (Classical, English Renaissance, and Michigan texts) Early American Fiction Electronic Editions (Romantic Era texts) The Modernist Journals Project Victorian Texts American Memory, from the Library of Congress North American Slave Narrative
Literary and Cultural History and Criticism; Reviews Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide CommonPlace, American cultural history Literary History--an index of net materials on 19th C. British and 20th C. American literature Critical Theory -- course materials of Professor John Lye (Brock University) Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Romantic Circles Victorian Women Writers Project The Victorian Web The Labyrinth -- Medieval studies
Authors The Jane Austen Information Page Dante and Virgila The Walt Whitman Archive The William Blake Archive The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive Emily Dickinson International Society Mark Twain in His times Doyle--The Sherlock Holmes Museum William Dean Howells Society Henry James The Shakespeare Resource Center The Gulliver's Travels website Portraits by Carl Van Vechten from the Library of Congress
Audio Files Poetry Outloud -- Sound files from the BBC archives Poets on Poets
Film and Film Studies Movie Review Query Engine The Internet Movie Database -- This excellent search engine pulls up reviews, cast lists, and much more. Moviefone -- Going to the show? Click here to find out where your film is playing and when it starts.
Writing Poets Online--Poetry-writing prompts every other week
Reference Literary Resources on the Net -- Indispensable research aid Concordance of Great Books -- Search for word / phrase occurences in great works of literature Romantic Circles Scholarly Resources The Victorian Web The Making of America -- digital copies of American texts and documents Internet Library of Early Journals The Dictionary
Journals and Zines Chick-lit: "For women who love words" The Vocabula Review Women Writers - A Zine
Fun Stuff Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest -- 'Twas a dark and stormy night Poetry Daily -- a new poem every day! The Modern Humourist The Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Day General Delivery University The Favorite Poem Project -- Americans recite their favorite poems Bad Poetry Index -- includes work by Julia Moore, "the sweet singer of Michigan" Etymologic--Word game Book-A-Minute Classics -- Ultra-condensed masterpieces!
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