Useful Websites - English and Media Studies

The School of English, Film and Theatre website also has a good set of links for English Literature.

General

A2A: Access to Archives – Search across the UK archives network for the location of archival research material.
American Women's Dime Novel Project: Dime novels for women, 1820-1870.
BUBL Link - English, Scottish and Irish Literature (a catalogue of selected Internet resources)
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Contemporary postcolonial and postimperial literature in English - not clear when last updated, but a useful resource.
Contemporary writers in the UK - Searchable database containing up-to-date profiles, biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs.
Humanities research Network
In the first person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and other personal narratives
Institute for Advanced Tecnology in the Humanities
International Institute of Modern Letters - Te Putaha Tuhi Auaha o te Ao
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Intute - free online database of Web resources selected and evaluated by subject specialists from a network of UK universities.
Irish writers online
Jacket magazine - free internet-only literary magazine
Literature and Theater - from Cornell University's Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections
Luminarium - Anthology of Middle English, Renaissance and 17th century literature.
The Medieval Page – sources for Medieval Studies on the WWW
Multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (OUP, 2000)
National Library of Scotland's Digital Library - includes brief biographical information on contemporary Scottish authors, as well as images of The Murthly Hours and other early Scottish books.
New Zealand electronic poetry centre
NZ Literature File authors list
Online reference book for medieval studies (ORB) - Established and maintained by scholars across the Internet. Provides links to a wide range of resources supporting Medieval Studies.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Reference - Literature
Oxford Reference - Quotations
The Page - a page devoted to "poetry, essays, language, ideas"
Poetry Archive (requires RealPlayer)
Poetry foundation
Poetry Library
poets.org
Saganet – Icelandic medieval literature
Today in Literature - biographical and bibliographical information about selected authors, as well as recommended links.

Dictionaries & encyclopaedias

Language

Common errors in English
Figures of speech
A glossary of rhetorical terms with examples
A handbook of rhetorical devices - Definitions, with examples, of sixty rhetorical devices of writing style and arrangement to promote effective written expression. Includes a self-test.
Silva rhetoricae : the forest of rhetoric - a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.

Electronic texts

Alex catalogue of electronic texts
Best New Zealand poems
Bibliotheca Anglica - electronic texts from the 8th century to the 20th.
Electronic text links from Early Modern Literary Studies.
Free e-books from the University of Adelaide. (Check their statement on access and copyright.)
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
The Online Books Page
Perseus Digital library ( Tufts University) – English Renaissance
Renascence Editions - An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 (Hosted by the University of Oregon)
University of Virginia Library E-text resources: English - Although many of the texts listed are for University of Virginia access only, a significant number are freely accessible.

Shakespeare

Complete works of William Shakespeare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Illustrated Shakespeare, 1826-1919 - illustrations from a selection of works by and about Shakespeare during the 19th century. Hosted by the University of Wisconson at Madison.
Internet Archive pages related to Shakespeare
Internet Shakespeare editions - "scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays."
Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet - a thorough guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet, including works, criticism and biographical information.
Online books by William Shakespeare ( University of Pennsylvania Library)
Shakespeare Bookshelf at the Internet Public Library
Shakespeare in Quarto – part of the British Library’s Treasures in Full collection.
Shakespeare Online - quite good for quick reference on Shakespeare's life and works.

Individual authors, playwrights, poets...

The Aphra Behn page
The Blake Archive
The Brazen Head - resources on James Joyce
Lord Byron: a comprehensive study of his life and work - from englishhistory.net
The Edmund Spenser Home Page - based at Cambridge University
The Encyclopedia of Arda - an interactive guide to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Geoffrey Chaucer Website - Maintained by Jane Tolmier and her colleagues at Harvard University, this site offers information about the life and work of Chaucer and includes the full text of the Canterbury Tales with interlinear modern English translations as well as background essays.
Harold Pinter.org - includes news, reviews, political writings, and discussion forum.
The Henry James scholar's guide to web sites - maintained by Richard D Hathaway, Professor of English at the State University of New York.
James Joyce – from Dublin to Ithaca ( Cornell University’s James Joyce collection)
The Milton reading Room - An etext edition of Milton's poetry and selected prose with hyperlinked annotations.
Treasures in full: Caxton's Chaucer - Images of two Caxton editions of Chaucer (ca 1476 and 1483)
The Walt Whitman Archive

Media Studies

Cyberjournalist.net from the Online News Association
MasterNewMedia
Pew Internet and American Life Project – “…reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.”
Semiotics (University of Colorado at Denver)
The State of the News Media - an annual report on American journalism.
Theory.org.uk
The Video Game Revolution – an American PBS website