Related Web Resources

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 Web Site
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!

Other
Oakland University -- College of Arts and Sciences