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General English Lit. Resources
Metapages, Text Archives, & Other General Resources
ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Modern Humanities Research Assoc.)
About.com Literature Pages
About.com: Contemporary Literature Page (extensive links to contemporary literature, arts, etc.) (Mark Flanagan)
About.com: "Classic" Literature Page (canonical works of literature) (Esther Lombardi)
ACLAnet (American Comparative Literature Assoc.) ("searchable site for information related to international, interdisciplinary, and crosscultural literary studies (theory and practice")
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (Infomotions, Inc.)
Anglistik, Romanistik, Klassische Philologie (German-language metapage of resources for English, Romance-language, and classical language and literary studies) (Armin Fingerhut)
ArtsandCulture: Literature (Arts and Culture Network)
Bartleby.com (e-text archive of canonical English and American literature)
Homepage of Bartleby.com (e-text archive of canonical English and American literature)
Bartleby Verse [Show]
Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations (searchable) (Bartleby Library)
Bob Teeter's rec.arts.books Page (links to all rec.arts.books FAQs, directories of bookstores, current postings to rec.arts.books newsgroup, home pages of regular r.a.b. readers, etc.)
Bohemian Ink: On-line Review of the History and Future of Experimental Literature and Poetry
Homepage (very large, well-organized site covering both the historical canon and modern / contemporary authors) (Christopher D. Ritter)
Beatnik Links 
Booker Prize (home page of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, which "promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year"; the prize was first established in 1968)
Book Lovers (a selection of sites on writers, poets, libraries, publishers and booksellers) (Piet Wesselman)
Book Reviews on the Internet (Internet Book Information Center virtual review of books)
British Literary Prizes (Merritt Moseley)
British National Corpus (info about the project to create a 100 million+ archive of samples of written and spoken British English; accessible by CD-ROM or licensed online use)
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (Electronic Text Center, U. Virginia)
Carrie: A Full-Text Electronic Library (Lynn Nelson, U. Kansas)
A Celebration of Women Writers (extensive list of online texts) (Mary Mark Ockerbloom & John Mark Ockerbloom)
CETH: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton U. / Rugers U.)
Chadwyck-Healey (Prospectuses For Cd-Rom Resources)
The American Poetry Full-Text Database 
English Verse Drama: the Full-Text Database 
The English Poetry Full-Text Database 
CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse (The English Server, Carnegie Mellon U.)
Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Textual Studies (Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford U.)
Contentville (academically-oriented commercial site that sells books, dissertations, speeches, articles, legal documents, screenplays, etc.; includes "expert" advice and recommendations)
DataText E-Library 
Descriptive Bibliography: On-line Tutorial ("introduction to the notational paradigms of traditional descriptive bibliography [quasi-facsimile transcription, collation-formulae, bibliographic reference, and some of the various items found in textual apparatus]"; uses Peter Brubach's 155
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, by E. Cobham Brewer (1894) (Bibliomania)
Directory of Electronic Text Centers (gopher)
The Electronic Labyrinth
Homepage (major guide to the genealogy, philosophy, structure, and technology of hypertext (as related to literature); includes links to many short essays as well as online literary resources at U. Alberta) (Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, robin)
Selected Resources:  
Guide to Publications on Hypertext Writing and Criticism 
Hypertext Terminology 
Literary Formats from Manuscripts to Electronic Texts (set of short informational essays on early precedents for contemporary hypertext and multimedia, ranging from palimpsenst and manuscripts through Blake and William Morris to electronic media)
The Non-Linear Tradition in Literature (short information pages with links regarding eight print authors of particular relevance to the age of hypertext: Sterne, Robbe-Grillet, Nabokov, Cortázar, O'Brien, Calvino, Pavic)
Re-Thinking the Book (short informational essays on the history of the book from its beginnings to contemporary hyper- and intertextuality)
Software Environments 
Software Environments for Hypertext Work 
Time Line (chronology with links to informational resources elsewhere in the site)
Writing and Reading Electronic Texts (short information essays on the structure, design, and process of authoring/reading hypertexts)
Electronic Text Projects (Project Runeberg outbound links) (Lars Aronsson)
Electronic Texts (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Sheila Cavanagh, Emory U.)
English Literature & Religion ("large bibliographical database about religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature, from the Middle Ages to the present century") (William S. Peterson, U. Maryland, College park)
English Server (English Literature and Theory Resources, archive maintained by Carnegie Mellon graduate students)
The English Teachers' Web Site (Australian site "designed specifically for teachers of secondary school English") (Mark Dobbins)
English World (English Dept., U. Texas, Austin)
EServer ("The EServer's primary function is to publish texts in the arts and humanities. Our collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music"; also publishes journals such as Bad Subjects, Cultronix and Sudden) | EServer Books (U. Washington)
Find-A-Grave (search by name or cemetery to locate graves of historical persons; includes pictures of gravestones) (Jim Tipton)
FrontList Books: Scholarly Books on the Web
Homepage of FrontList Books (online bookstore offering "scholarly and literary titles to readers with decidedly theoretical interests;" emphasis on recently published and soon to be published titles from over 175 publishers in "literary, feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory; cinema, literary, gender, women's, asian, latin american, and cultural studies; fiction, philosophy, anthropology, history, and poetry"; allows browsing by category and includes brief descriptions of books)
African-American Studies 
Anthropology 
Architecture 
Art History & Theory 
Cinema & Media Studies 
Critical Theory / Marxism 
Cultural Studies 
French Stuff (French Theory) 
Gender & Sexuality 
History 
Literary Studies 
Philosophy 
Photography 
Political Science/ Sociology 
(Post)Colonial Studies 
Queer Theory / Gay & Lesbian Studies 
Race & Culture 
Science Studies 
Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms (from U. Victoria English Dept.'s Writer's Guide)
Glossary of Poetic Terms (includes links to examples) (Robert G. Shubinski)
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (U. Kentucky, Lexington)
A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection (Michael E. Grost)
Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry (Harry Rusche)
History of English Studies Page (a page for the study of the development of English literary studies as a cultural and global force; cultural-critical and postcolonial perspectives upon the problem are anchored upon a series of texts or excerpts from authors both past and present-
Humanities Faculty And Research Positions (Chronicle Of Higher Education)
Faculty Positions in English 
Faculty Positions in English as a Second Language 
Faculty Positions in Theater 
HUMBUL Gateway to Humanities Resources (Oxford U.)
Hypertext at Brown 
Ian's English Calendar (dating resource for students of English history and literature: "converts between old and new style dates, calculates day of the week, British regnal years, and the date of Easter and other moveable religious holidays") (Ian McInnes, Albi
Index of Online Poetry (with teaching materials; Seamus Cooney)
Jeff's English Page (Jeff Frost)
Language Arts (annotated metapage of links to language and literature sites) (Richard I. Purman, New Horizons Regional Education Center, VA)
Library of Congress 
Links to Places Literary (Rob Watt, U. Dundee)
Literally Literature (links to resources on authors, books, genres, and online resources; includes brief bios for each author) (Jane Benham, U. Sunderland, UK)
Literary Links (Readme: Online Journal of Poetics) (meticulously annotated list of A to Z web links for literature and poetics)
Literary Award Indices (lists of literary awards and award winning books)
A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature ("functions both as a descriptive meta-index . . . and as a review of the most important lists of literary resources and collections of literary links that proliferate on the Internet") (Chris Flack, Vanderbilt U.)
The Literary Link (Janice Patten, San Jose State U.)
The Literary Link for Writing and Submitting Essays (includes links to resources on close reading, critical reading, imagery, use of quotations, writing critical essays, style, etc.) (Janice Patten, San Jose State U.)
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
The Literary Web (a hypermedia guide to literary resources available on the Web)(U of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Literature & the Visual Arts (includes exhibit on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Medieval & Modern Perspectives) (Max Edward Cordonnier)
Literature, Cognition & the Brain ("research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience"; page includes "abstracts, reviews, accounts of work forthcoming or in progress, links to related web sites, and a regularly updated bibliography&
Literature of the Fantastic Page (Doyle & Macdonald)
Literature Resources for the High School and College Student (Michael Lee Groves, Wilsonville High School, Oregon)
Literature Webliography (LSU)
Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story? (an Annenberg/Corp. for Public Broadcasting exhbit designed to introduce literature; the exhibit "takes you on a literary journey through a classic short story, 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell. Follow the tale to determine who killed Jo
LiteratureClassics.com ("biographical details, lists of works in chronological order, contextual details and critical and analytical essays on individual texts")
Litpage: Resources for Readers, Writers, Students, and Teachers of Literature (emphasis on short fiction) (Robert C. Evans)
Luminarium (Anniina Jokinen's beautiful, redesigned literature site featuring extensive resources in medieval, renaissance, and 17th-century British literature)
John Lye (Brock U.)
"Critical Reading: A Guide" (guide designed for first-year university literature students)
"The Problem of Meaning in Literature" (brief introduction for first-year university literature students)
Marist College English Web: Humanities Gateways and Institutes (Tom Goldpaugh)
Marist College English Web: Reference & Research Tools for Humanities (Tom Goldpaugh)
The Master Works of Western Civilization ("hypertext-annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many others"; links to online texts) (Mason West)
Medical Humanities Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (New York U. School of Medicine)
MLA Graduate Student Caucus (GSC) 
MLA (Modern Language Assoc. of America)
Homepage of MLA 
MLA Annual Conventions 
MLA Committee & Commissions 
MLA Job Information Services 
MLA Prizes and Awards 
MLA Publications 
MLA Radio Show 
The Modern English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, U. Virginia 
National Association of Scholars (NAS) (the recent pro-canon, anti-pc, anti-"post" professional organization of literary scholars; "the only academic organization dedicated to the restoration of intellectual substance, individual merit, and academic freedom in the universi
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) (U.S.)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 
NCSU Libraries Electronic Texts, Newsletters, and Texts 
NCSU Libraries Webbed Information System 
New York Times Sunday Book Review Section (current and past reviews; free registration required)
Nobel Laureates for Literature, 1901-Present (Jason R. Tippitt / Anna Clark, U. Tennessee at Martin)
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Writers and Editors (detailed description of what various writing and editing jobs involve and forecasts for employment opportunities through 2005) (U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Online Books (previously known as Eris Project) (Virginia Tech)
On-Line Books Page (John Mark Ockerbloom, U. Penn)
On-Line Literary Resources (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles (multi-volume print and electronic project to create "the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles") (project headquarters: U. Alberta)
Oxford English Dictionary Electronic Text Center 
The Period Pages Project (resources on writers in four periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration and Eighteenth century, and Victorian) (U. Windsor graduate and undergraduate students)
Photography in Literature -- Fiction, Poetry (J. David Sapir)
Planning the Research Trip (practical travel guide written specifically for scholars going to the U. K..; includes links) (Patrick Leary, Indiana U. / Victoria Research Web)
The Poetry Archives (large archive of poets taught in universities) (eMule.com)
Poetry Here and Then: A Collaboratory Project for New Researchers in the Humanities (introduces "new researchers to the principles of humanities research in special collections, using the poetry collections at the Bentley Historical Library as a point of entry") (U. Michigan)
Project Gutenberg (major e-text archive)
Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry (extensive archive of resources) (U. Toronto)
Prose and Poetry ("classic poetry and prose") (Bill Massey)
Resources of Scholarly Societies - Literature (U. Waterloo)
Richard's Poetry Library (selected poems primarily of pre-modern British and American authors) (Richard Darsie, U. California, Davis)
Alan Richardson (Boston C.), Advanced Research Colloquium (course designed to complement the curriculum of advanced literature graduate students by familiarizing them with research methods, prospectus- and grant-writing, giving conference papers, publication, etc.)
The "Rutgers Reading List" (an attempt by a Rutgers professer to remember the shape of the "classic" or "traditional" English literature major by "reconstructing the English comprehensive reading list used at one eastern liberal arts college [Dartmout
Thorsten Schreiber (U. Bayreuth, Germany), English Literatures on the Internet (M.A. thesis offering a "comprehensive study of material about English Literature on the internet"; includes discussion of the nature and role of electronic resources and in-depth commentary on major sites)
The Secular Web (extensive resources on freethinking and atheism; includes archive of historical literature; previously called The Freethought Web) (Internet Infidels)
A Small Anthology of Poems (links to many poems put online for teaching by Seamus Cooney, Western Michigan U.)
So Funny, They Forgot to Laugh: British and American Women's Comedy, 1100-1998 ("Women's comedy has frequently been ignored or disparaged. We seek to change that. Our mission is to furnish scholars and teachers with information about primary and critical sources, and a sample course, on women's comic writing from 1100 t
Sonnet Central 
STARN: Scots Teaching and Research Network
Homepage (U. Glasgow)
Selected Resources:  
Criticism/Commentary 
Scottish Plays 
Scottish Poetry 
Scottish Prose 
Statistics Every Writer Should Know (guide to use and interpretation of statistics for the generalist) (Robert Niles)
Scott Stebelman (George Washington U.)
Bibliography of Studies on the MLAIB International Bibliography: A Working Bibliography (Scott Stebelman, George Washington U.)
"Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians" (bibliography)
Suite101.Com (Directory To The Web That Includes Editorial Columns/Articles On Specific Areas And Descriptions Of Editorially-Chosen &Quot;Best&Quot; Pages) (I5Ive Communications, Inc.)
Arts and Humanities (includes a variety of links to sites on books and writing)
Classic Literature (Susan Jensen)
Literature (Jon Blackstock)
TACTWeb Home Page (info and demos for the Web interface to TACT text databases) (John Bradley & Geoffrey Rockwell)
TeleRead ("TeleRead is a nonpartisan plan to get electronic books into American homes--through a national digital library and small, sharp-screened computers--in an era of declining literacy"; emphasis on copyright-law barriers to e-literacy)
Transcriptions: Literary History and the Culture of Information (NEH-sponsored curricular development and research project designed to integrate literary and technological studies; includes courses, colloquia, topics pages, and resources that interweave two sets of themes: the current social and cultural context
U. Alberta English Dept. LitLinks (Andrew Mactavish, U. Alberta)
The Ultimate Poetry Links (The [U.S.] National Library of Poetry)
U. Michigan Humanities Text Initiative 
U. Michigan Humanities Text Initiative: Modern English Collection (HTML search gateway to archive of TEI-encoded SGML texts in modern English; viewing the texts requires an SGML-to-Web browswer like SoftQuad's
UMI Dissertation Abstracts International Database 
U. Toronto Representative Poetry (Ian Lancashire, U. Toronto)
UVA Electronic Text Center 
UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities 
UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (publications) 
U. Waterloo Electronic Library 
Virtual Ink: A Highly Opinionated Guide (brief, colorful reviews of online literature sites) (Bancroft & Associates)
English Studies Information Server (Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim) " target="VoSLink"> 
Web Concordances (requires Netscape 2.0+) (Rob Watt, U. Dundee)
The Western Canon ("the purpose of this site is to provide a single location where the Internet community can come and find links to the most important written works of western civilization") (Paul John Barnette, Jr.)
Wired for Books (forum that invites scholars to host online discussions of past and contemporary literature selected under the rubric of broad topics; includes the texts under discussion and audio resources) (Ohio U. Telecommunications Center)
Women Writer's Project (Brown U.) (information page for large, sophisticated project that is creating a TEI/SGML textbase of women writers' texts; texts are available by order)
The Word: Literature, Journals, Books (Douglas Brick)
World Cultures: An Internet Classroom and Anthology ("combines the reading and course materials of two World Cultures courses taught using web-based materials since fall of 1994. The site is now expanding into a larger resource for a larger population and distribution of students and will eventu
The Write Page ("on-line newsletter with information about books for readers and about writing for writers of genre fiction") (Callie Goble)
Writing the Research Paper (collection of guidelines developed for a composition course) (George Brosi / Joe Pellegrino, Eastern Kentucky U.)
Yahoo! Humanities Page 
Yahoo! Literature Page 
A Yellow Wood: Diverging Career Pathways for PhDs in English Literature ("a waystation where you can learn more about the job market through trends and statistics, find out about alternative career paths for PhDs in the humanities, hear from professionals who have used their humanities background in creative and in
English & Comparative Literature Depts.
Homepage (on separate page)
Literature Journals
General Literature Journals [Show]
Journals (Anglo-Saxon & Medieval Literature) [Show]
Journals (Renaissance Literature) [Show]
Journals (18th-C. British Literature) [Show]
Journals (Romantic Literature) [Show]
Journals (Victorian Literature) [Show]
Journals (Modern British & American Literature) [Show]
Journals (Contemporary British & American Literature) [Show]
American Literature Journals [Show]
African-American Literature Journals [Show]
Minority Literature Journals [Show]
Journals (Other Literatures in English) [Show]
Non-English Language Literature Journals [Show]
Literary Theory Journals & Zines [Show]
Creative Writing Zines & Journals [Show]
General Criticism (For Criticism Of Specific Periods Or Authors, See Appropriate Sections On The Main English Literature Page)
Cleanth Brooks, Community, Religion, and Literature, Essays (publisher's description)
Canon /Culture Wars: Essays and Resources (on Cultural Studies page) 
Computerphilologie: Ein Elektronisches Forum für Literaturwissenscaftler und Literaturwissenschaftlerinnen ("devoted to the study of literary criticism and includes a collection of links, the contents of some relevant journals and an electronic journal on the use of the computer in the humanities"; in German) (Karl Eibl, Volker Deubel und Fotis
Simon During (U. Melbourne),
Don Anderson (U. Sydney), "Teachers, Intellectuals, Politics" ("Surely one had a choice: merely to accept such interventionist restructuring of universities . . . or, on the other hand, to critique such New Statism"; extracted from longer piece published in 1995)
John Frow (U. Queensland), "Literature, Culture, Mirrors" (critique of both During's theses and Anderson's response; "The opposition set up here between cultural and literary studies is a phoney one. Cultural studies is a way of contextualizing texts, of any kind - of analysing the social relations of
Scott Heller, "Wearying of Cultural Studies, Some Scholars Rediscover Beauty" (1998) (article for Chronicle of Higher Education "Colloquy" discussion on "renewed attention to aesthetic criteria in criticism")
Nelson Hilton (U. Georgia), Lexis Complexes: Literary Interventions (1995) (full-text)
David S. Miall (U. Alberta), "Representing and Interpreting Literature by Computer" (1995) 
Mark Rose (U. California, Santa Barbara), "When is an Author?" (1997) (Thresholds)
Trevor Ross (Dalhousie U.), "The Emergence of 'Literature': Making and Reading the English Canon in the Eighteenth Century" (1996) (ELH; only accessible to institutions subscribing to Project Muse)
Sonnet Criticism (1575 -) (Sonnet Central)
General or Cross-Period English Literature Courses
Ron Broglio (U. Florida), Revolutions in Thought 
California Virtual University: Courses in Humanities, Literature, Languages, General Education (part of "an Internet-based, interactive catalog that contains the online and technology mediated course offerings of 81 accredited California colleges and universities"; "also links to 60 campus online libraries and offers a free cou
Michael Gamer (U. Penn), A Landscape of British Poetry, 1700-1900 
Barbara Harlow, Bret Benjamin, Mary Harvan (U. Texas, Austin), Literary Contexts and Contests ("Through active--and activist--readings of these texts, and participatory writing, our own project will be to investigate the cultural arguments that literary works can instigate and the conflicts that they just as often resolve and/or exacerb
Gary Harrison (U. New Mexico), Introduction to the Professional Study of English (graduate course)
Martin Irvine (Georgetown U.), Technoculture from Frankenstein to Cyberpunk 
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Virginia), Literary Narrative in an Information Age ("How does literary culture perform its age-old ritual of narrative in an era when fragmentary and discrete units of information . . . have become the dominant means by which we communicate")
Paul J. Korshin (U. Penn), Madness and English Literature (cross-period course)
Literature Course Syllabi (collected by Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
Alan Liu (U. California, Santa Barbara)
Canon Revision: History, Theory, Practice (graduate)
The Culture of Information (graduate seminar in 2000 on the history, philosophy, sociology, and theory of information; attempts to define the parameters for a study of "information" that relates the concept to past ages of speaking and writing, listening and reading) (Alan Liu, Transcriptions Project, UCSB)
Jack Lynch (Rutgers U.), From Epic to Hypertext 
David S. Miall (U. Alberta), Reading, Hypertext, and the Fate of Literature (graduate course; includes well-developed set of hyperlinked notes and links)
Novel Courses ("Creating a course on the novel? In response to current directions in the canon debate, this site provides an anthology of courses that approach the syllabus at the nexus of pedagogical concerns, genre concerns, and historical concerns")
Carol Pasternack (U. California, Santa Barbara), From Scroll to Screen (explores "the differences in telling a tale orally, in writing, in print, and on the computer screen") (Transcriptions Project, U. California, Santa Barbara)
Rethinking Introductory Courses in English (Web site for the Society for Critical Exchange project on this topic; includes info on the conference, related publications, and links) (under construction)
Jeff Rice (U. Florida), Writing About Cool (course examining "the ways in which the concept of 'cool' has been played out in 20th century American literature and thought")
Richard Ruppel (Viterbo C., Wisconsin)
The Literature of Work ("traces the development of the modern concepts of 'work' and 'working people' . . . beginning in Colonial America and Victorian England and ending with contemporary American film")
Survey of British Literature: 1789-Present 
Harry Rusche (Emory U.) The Poet Speaks of Art 
Michael J. Salvo (SUNY Binghampton), Computers in English Study 
Society for Literature & Science On-Line Syllabi Database (searchable archive of syllabi; site includes a form that allows instructors to submit their syllabus)
Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses: Literature in English (Joan Korenman, U. Maryland)
Transcriptions: Literary History and the Culture of Information (NEH-sponsored curricular development and research project designed to integrate literary and technological studies. "Put in the form of a question: what is the relation between being 'well-read' and 'well-informed'? How, in other words, can contemporary culture sensibly create a bridge between its past norms of cultural literacy and its present sense of the immense power of information culture?" (Alan Liu, Director)
U. Texas, Austin Online Courses (index)
Homepage 
Bret Benjamin (U. Texas, Austin), British Literature Survey (16th-20th Centuries) 
Bret Benjamin (U. Texas, Austin), Masterworks of British Literature 
Melinda Menzer (U. Texas, Austin), Masterworks of British Literature 
Tim Rogers (U. Texas, Austin), Masterworks of British Literature 
Robert Stevens (U. Texas, Austin), Masterpieces of World Literature 
Fred Wah (U. Calgary)
Introduction to Poetry 
Poetry Writing 
A Celebration of Women Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, U. Pennsylvania)
General Literary Studies Listservs & Newsgroups
General
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Discussion Lists
Listservs in Literature (CMU gopher)
Literary & Other Listservers (UPenn listserv index)
Literature Lists (Kansas State U. English Dept.)
Theory Listservs (originally from UPenn listserv index) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
Usenet Newsgroups
alt.books.reviews 
rec.arts.books 
rec.arts.books.reviews 
Turning the Pages ("interactive program that allows museums and libraries to give members of the public access to precious books") (British Library)
WordHoard (an application for the "empirical and computer-assisted study of large bodies of written texts or transcribed speech"; "texts are annotated or tagged by morphological, lexical, prosodic, and narratological criteria [and] mediated through a 'digital page' or user interface that lets scholarly but non-technical users explore the greatly increased query potential of textual data kept in such a form"; "currently includes all of early Greek epic, all of Chaucer [via Larry Benson's Glossarial Concordance to the Riverside Chaucer], Spenser's Faerie Queene, and all of Shakespeare in a version derived from the Globe Shakespeare") (Northwestern U. Departments of Classics & English / Northwestern U. Academic Technologies)
General Literary Studies Conferences & Calls for Papers
Calls for Papers: Master-List (UPenn gopher)
Calls for Papers
U. Penn. Call for Papers Page (U. Penn English Dept.)
Cultural Studies and Historical Approaches 
Eighteenth Century 
Gender Studies and Sexuality 
Graduate Conferences 
Humanities Computing and the Internet 
Medieval 
Renaissance 
Romantic 
Calls for Papers: Theatre 
Theory 
Twentieth Century and Beyond 
Victorian 
Imagination and the Adapted Mind: The Prehistory and Future of Poetry, Fiction, and Related Arts: Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Aug. 26-29, 1999 (conference in which "humanistic participants will address aspects of the imaginative arts that might eventually illuminate the nature of the cognitive systems which produce and process cultural representations while the cognitive scientists
Intersections, George Washington U., Mar. 30, 1996 (interdisciplinary graduate student conference "to facilitate dialogue across traditional disciplinary boundaries"; John Guillory is the keynote speaker)
Women Writing Identity in Nonfiction (call for essays "for a collection of essays that will consider identity as it is constructed and revealed in non-fiction writings by women")
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History of the Book
General Resources
Book History Online (bibliographical database) (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands)
Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology (with drawings by Margaret R. Brown and a preface by Frederick R. Goff' part of the COOL: Conservation OnLine set of pages, hosted by Stanford U.)
British Association of Paper Historians (archived articles, overview of paper history, news, links, and more) (Durham, UK)
Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (multi-institutional site, with extensive links on book history and related subjects) (Institute of English Studies, London, UK)
The History of Copyright: A Critical Overview With Source Texts in Five Languages (description of forthcoming book, plus links to primary documents) (Karl-Erik Tallmo)
Harry Hillman Chartrand "Copyright C.P.U." (essay on the history of licensing and copyright)
Digital Scriptorium (searchable database of manuscript images) (U. of California, Berkeley and Columbia U.)
Indiana U.: Center for the History of the Book Seminar (abstracts of papers archived, plus general information) (Paul Gutjahr and Peter Lindenbaum, Indiana U.)
Bruce Jones (U. California, San Diego) Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World (articles on the history of the book)
Medieval Manuscripts on the Web (links to archives) (Siân Echard, U. of British Columbia)
NYPL: History of Books and Printing: A Guide to the Collections of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library (bibliographies, arranged by subject) (New York Public Library)
Literary Resources: Bibliography & History of the Book (annotated links) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
Paleography and Codicology: Introductory Bibliography (Martin Irvine, Georgetown U.)
The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking (exhibits, museum info, links, and more) (Georgia Tech)
Penn State Center for the History of the Book (general information, some links under "reference," bibliography, and more) (James L.W. West, Penn State U.)
The Great Menagerie: The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996 (images and overview articles, arranged by century, from a 19997-98 exhibit at the Rare Book Room, Willis Library) (Kenneth Lavender and Gwen Smith, U. North Texas)
Princeton U.: The Center for the Study of Books and Media (conference papers archived, some links, center information, and more) (Princeton U.)
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (searchable database of texts, exhibitions, information about other collections, and more) (U. Pennsylvania)
SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (numerous links, arranged by subject) (Patrick Leary)
Daniel Traister (U. of Pennsylvania) Resources for the History of Books and Printing (annotated links, covering both centers for book studies and archived images)
UK Book History
An Anthology of Chancery English (e-texts of numerous bureaucratic writing samples, from the John H. Fisher, et. al 1984 edition) (Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia)
BOOKHAD: Support for Nationwide Research in Book History and Book Design (links up 6 library centers with major holdings in the history of the book) (U. of the Arts, London)
The British Book Trades 1710-1777: an index of masters and apprentices recorded in the Inland Revenue registers at the Public Record Office, Kew (searchable database) (Ian Maxted, Devon County COuncil)
The British book trades 1775-1787: an index to insurance policies (database, in the Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History series) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council)
Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History (homepage, with lists of papers, arranged by topic, on the UK, but with a focus on Southwest England) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council)
BBTI: The British Book Trade Index ("an index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851") (U. Birmingham)
British Association of Paper Historians (archived articles, overview of paper history, news, links, and more) (Durham, UK)
Centre for the History of the Book (homepage, with journal files, links to other sites, and relevant news) (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, U. of Edinburgh)
Ian Maxted A History of the Book in Devon (articles, arranged by period) (Devon County Council)
The English Emblem Book Project (large repository of emblem books; presents facismile pages, some clickable to to show the text associated with each emblem) (Penn State U.)
HoBo: The site formerly known as History of the Book @ Oxford ("Dedicated webspace for History of the Book events and resources throughout the UK") (Ian Gadd, Oxford U.)
Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 (includes statistical information arranged by topic and region, data on, currently, 27,000 libraries across Britain, plus links, and more) (Robin Alston, U. College, London)
he London Book Trades of the Later 18th Century (articles and statistics) (Victor Berch and Ian Maxted, Devon COunty Council)
SBTI: Scottish Book Trade Index (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh)
UK Print History [Show]
Imperial Views, Colonial Subjects: Victorian Periodicals and the Empire (images and text from a 1999 exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library) (Yale U.)
Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles)
US Book History
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Davies Project: American Libraries before 1876 (searchable database,offers statistics, tables, and more) (Princeton U.)
US Print History [Show]
Charles Seavey (U. Missouri) Public Libraries: Images from the 1876 Report (explanatory text, wtih images culled from the US Bureau of Education Report
Yale, Sterling Memorial Library: Arts of the Book Collection (details on collections, summaries of exhibits, and links) (Yale U.)
Virtual Exhibits on General Book History
The Age of Charles V (1000 illuminations from 14th-Century manuscripts) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Treasures of the Royal Library (images and texts from the cream of the collection, ranging from manuscript to print, and with different kinds of documents) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library (virtual exhibit, on the manuscript and print collections, on later history, through the Romantic period) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830: selected from the collection of Harris N. Hollin (virtual exhibit, (Kenneth R. Holston, Dept of Special Collections, U. Pennsylvania Library)
World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings (online exhibit of "international collections"; various media are presented) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
American Treasures of the Library of Congress (online exhibit, with objects in various media) (LOC, Washington, DC)
DScriptorium  (digital images of manuscript pages, as well as links to manuscript archives and special exhibitions) (Jesse D. Hurlbut, Brigham Young U.)
Vatican Exhibit (virtual exhibit, including images of the Vatican Library) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Manuscripts and Manuscript Study
General Resources
The Medieval Bestiary: Manuscripts (descriptions of manuscripts containing medieval bestiaries, along with some images) (David Badke)
The Age of Charles V (1000 illuminations from 14th-Century manuscripts) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Bodleian Library, Illuminations from Manuscript Pages 
Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (a "new research centre created from the merger of the Centre for Palaeography and the Research Centre in the History of the Book"; site has events info, links, and more) (Institute of English Studies, London)
Finales de libro: Exposición de colofones (images from exhibit on colophons, from ancient to modern, in Spanish) (U. Salmanaca)
Digital Scriptorium (searchable database of manuscript images) (U. of California, Berkeley and Columbia U.)
Early Manuscripts at Oxford ("digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned direct from the originals"; inncludes ancient papyri (from Herculaneum), Celtic manuscripts, and other medieval manuscripts) (Oxford U.)
Kevin S. Kiernan (U. Kentucky), "Digital Preservation, Restoration, and Dissemination of Medieval Manuscripts" 
Medieval Manuscripts on the Web (links to archives) (Siân Echard, U. of British Columbia)
Medieval English Literary Manuscripts (glossary of terminology key to manuscript studies, including a discussion of locating microfilm copies of mss, by Tom Hickman) (Rossell Hope Robbins Library, U. of Rochester)
Technology of the Word in the Middle Ages (manuscript images) (Jim O'Donnell, U. Penn)
Manuscript Studies
The Auchinleck Manuscript (description and history of the Auchinleck MS) (Alison Wiggins, National Library of Scotland)
Borgia Group of Unknown Provenience [sic] (manuscript information, images, and bibliography) (GB Online)
Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship (virtual exhibit, including historical background and images) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents (online exhibit, with articles and images) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (description of broad-based project to produce electronic reproductions of Piers texts) (Hoyt Duggan, U. of Virginia)
Libraries of Timbuktu: for the Preservation and Promotion of African Literary Heritage (images, articles, and program description) (Alida Jay Boye, U. of Oslo)
Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Manuscript Reproductions and Exhibits
The Age of Charles V (1000 illuminations from 14th-Century manuscripts) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Aberdeen Bestiary Project (Aberdeen Library, UK; digitized images of complete manuscript)
The Age of Charles V (1000 illuminations from 14th-Century manuscripts) (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
The Book Of Kells [Show]
Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library (virtual exhibit, on the manuscript and print collections, on later history, through the Romantic period) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Leonoardo da Vinci: From inspiration to innovation  (virtual exhibit, with viewable reproductions of the Codex Arundel, a 16th-century manuscript, as well as background articles, and more; in the Treasures collection) (the British Library, London, UK)
A Leonardo da Vinci Notebook (Codex Arundel) (British Library exhibit)
Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (Project ARTFL)
The Lindisfarne Gospels (images of the manuscript, and articles about background) (the British Library, London)
DScriptorium  (digital images of manuscript pages, as well as links to manuscript archives and special exhibitions) (Jesse D. Hurlbut, Brigham Young U.)
The Wanderer (reproduction of manuscript pages, plus edition and translation of poem) (Tim Romano)
Manuscript Archives
Bibliothèque nationale de France 
Biblioteca Nacional  (Madrid, Spain)
Bodleian Library (Oxford U.)
The British Library (Manuscripts collections homepage)
Cambridge University Library (Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
The Archive of John Evelyn (e-texts of his diaries, within a virtual exhibition) (the British Library, London, UK)
Treasures from Two Millennia:Fifty Treasures from Glasgow University Library 
Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (Saint John's U.)
The Huntington Library 
Karpeles Manuscript Library (site for a museum with numerous holdings throughout the US, with images, links, and more) (The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums)
The Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
The Library of Congress: Manuscript Reading Room (includes online exhibits, information about the library's services, and more) (LOC, Washington, DC)
World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings (online exhibit of "international collections"; various media are presented) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (National Library of the Netherlands)
The Pierpont Morgan Library 
The Schøyen Collection (Elizabeth Gano Sørenson, National Librayr of Norway)
The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Bruce Jones (U. California, San Diego) Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World (articles on the history of the book)
Mesoamerican Codices
Maya Codices (information, images, and bibliography) (GB Online)
Mixtec Codices (manuscript images, information, and bibliography) (GB Online)
Print History
General Resources
Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (a "new research centre created from the merger of the Centre for Palaeography and the Research Centre in the History of the Book"; site has events info, links, and more) (Institute of English Studies, London)
Early Printed Books Project, Oxford U. 
Recent Studies of 18th-Century Book Culture (bibliography on bibliophilia and related topics) (James E. May, Pennsylvania State U.)
The Infancy of Printing: Incunabula at the Golda Meir Library (virtual exhibit, with text and images on the transition from manuscript culture to print, early prints, and more) (U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Bruce Jones (U. California, San Diego) Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World (articles on the history of the book)
Bruce Jones , "The History of Printing" (U. California, San Diego), [Show]
The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books (part of The Making of America in Books and Periodicals; virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and U. of Michigan)
Saul Blumenthal (Massachusetts I. of Technology) The Print and The Book: A look at the relation between prints and books over four centuries. (virtual exhibits, with sections on the Nuremberg Chronicle, Night Thoughts, Voyages Pittoresques, and the Kelmscott Chaucer)
Printing Historical Society (organization homepage, includes journal information and links to sites on printing history)
Printing: Renaissance & Reformation (virtual exhibit, with images arrange din sections, with text by Patrick Scott and Roger Mortimer) (Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina
Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, & Book Designers (virtual exhibit, with articles, images, and more) (Rebecca W. Davidson, Princeton U. Library)
Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles)
Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century (virtual exhibit, featuring works by Audobon and others) (Hugh M. Morris Library, U. Delaware)
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas (virtual exhibit, with sections arranged by topic, including essays and links) (U. Pennsylvania)
James A. Dewar "The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead" (essay)(RAND)
Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith (virtual exhibit, with focus on the Diamond Sutra, the "earliest printed book to bear a date (11 May, 868)" and "now one of the greatest treasures in the British Library) (the British Museum, and the British Library, London, UK)
Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library (virtual exhibit, on the manuscript and print collections, on later history, through the Romantic period) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
the Gutenberg Bible (among the Treasures of the British Library, with two e-texts of Gutenberg prints, biographical background, and more) (the British Library, London)
Phil Bishop and Scott Anderson The Mosher Press (pages devoted to the history of the printer Thomas Bird Mosher)
Periodicals and Newspapers
British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution (a small archive of articles from the London Times and Morning Chronicle of 1792-93 designed to assist in study of Romanticism and the Revolution; also includes William Wordsworth's Salisbury Plain and an excerpt from Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution) (Alan Liu, U. California, Santa Barbara)
British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early Nineteenth Century ("The following handlist reports many periodicals that began publication in Great Britain between 1801 and 1850, and also some that began their careers in the eighteenth century or earlier and continued to publish after 1800") (Michael Hancher, U. Minnesota)
The London Gazette (selected online issues of the Restoration-era gazette) (Electronic Historical Publications)
The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals (part of The Making of America in Books and Periodicals; virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and U. of Michigan)
Penny Magazine Online (etexts of 1830's UK publication aimed at the "working classes") (U. Rochester)
RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals  (includes resource page with scans of periodicals ffrom the 19th-21 centuries, society info, and more) (Ellen Gruber Garvey)
RSVP: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (society info, links) (
Imperial Views, Colonial Subjects: Victorian Periodicals and the Empire (images and text from a 1999 exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library) (Yale U.)
Printmaking: On Line Information
Homepage (Arvon Wellen, Anglia Polytechnic U., Cambridge, UK)
Links Related to Printmaking 
Printmaking Techniques and History 
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
Homepage (Theodore Cachey, Louis Jordan, Christian Dupont, Mark Olsen)
Dante Chronology (text)
Dante's Hell 
History of Dante Title Pages 
UK Print History
Caxton's Chaucer (offers full e-texts of Caxton's 2 prints, along with biographical background, and more) (the British Library, London, UK)
English Caricature Prints: 1720-1820 (virtual exhibit, with text by Edward Hammond) (Haley and Steele, Boston, MA)
The Lifeof Thomas Gent: Printer of York, 1693-1778 (e-text of 1832 edition of Gent's autobiography, plus biographical info) (Thorn Gent)
William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture (virtual exhibit, wtih sections on techinque, theatricality, physiogonbomy, politics, and more) (Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern U.)
The London Gazette (selected online issues of the Restoration-era gazette) (Electronic Historical Publications)
William Morris [Show]
Newspaper readership in south west England: an analysis of the Flindell's Western Luminary subscribers list of 1815 (database, in the Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History series) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council)
RSVP: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (society info, links) (
Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles)
The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadow, Dreams, and Substance (virtual exhibit, with image-filled articles arranged by topic, focusing on the 17th-19th centuries) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
US Print History
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas (virtual exhibit, with sections arranged by topic, including essays and links) (U. Pennsylvania)
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop (virtual exhibit, with lithographic images and cultural and historical background) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
American Printing History Association (organization homepage, including links to related sites)
RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals  (includes resource page with scans of periodicals ffrom the 19th-21 centuries, society info, and more) (Ellen Gruber Garvey)
Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War Two (virtual exhibit of 1996 exhibition at the Dome Room of the Rotunda) (U. Virginia)
Paleography
An Introduction to Palaeography (courses in medieval and early modern paleography; numerous paleographical resources available within) (Dave Postles, U. of Leicester)
An Anthology of Chancery English (e-texts of numerous bureaucratic writing samples, from the John H. Fisher, et. al 1984 edition) (Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia)
Commission of Paleography and Codicology of Medieval Manuscripts in Austria (in German) (Austrian Academy of Sciences) <~Cat1~>
Cyndi's List: Handwriting and Script (annotated links, organized by topic, and more) (Cyndi Howells)
Andrew Zurcher (Cambridge U.) English Handwriting, 1500-1700: An Online Course (includes lessons, an extensive introduction, images, bibliography, and more; within Cambridge U.'s CERES site)
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts (devoted to analysis of the processes of studying New testament manuscripts) (Timothy W. Seid, Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, IN)
Kevin S. Kiernan (U. Kentucky), "Digital Preservation, Restoration, and Dissemination of Medieval Manuscripts" 
Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 (includes statistical information arranged by topic and region, data on, currently, 27,000 libraries across Britain, plus links, and more) (Robin Alston, U. College, London)
Paleography and Codicology: Introductory Bibliography (Martin Irvine, Georgetown U.)
The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking (exhibits, museum info, links, and more) (Georgia Tech)
RuneType: The Rune Typology Project (computerizing runic Inscriptions at the history museum in Bergen) (Espen S. Ore, National Library of Norway)
The Watermark Archive: Archive of Papers and Watermarks in Greek manuscripts (Robert W. Allison, Bates C., Lewiston)
The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive (access to database) (U. Delaware, and Daniel W. Mosser and Ernest W. Sullivan, Virginia Tech)
Bookbinding
Early American Bookbinding: "Cover as Clue to Content"  (virtual exhibit, with pages by period, from 1830 to the 1890s) (Maris Humphreys and Jennifer Caswell, The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, RI)
Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology (with drawings by Margaret R. Brown and a preface by Frederick R. Goff' part of the COOL: Conservation OnLine set of pages, hosted by Stanford U.)
British Library: Database of Bookbindings (database of collection holdings, with images of selected items) (British Library, London)
Colin Chinnery The History of Chinese Bookbinding (images and articles) (International Dunhuang Project)
Thomas Kinsella (Stockton U.) Binding Time & Space: Examining a Renaissance Italian Manuscript in the Computer Age (detailed analysis of Penn MS Latin 13)
Watermarks
David L. Gants (U. Virginia) A Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Type Ornaments Used by William Stansby in the Printing of The Workes pf Beniamin Jonson (London: 1616) (also includes biographical information, lists of prints, and an overview article)
The Watermark Archive: Archive of Papers and Watermarks in Greek manuscripts (Robert W. Allison, Bates C., Lewiston)
The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive (access to database) (U. Delaware, and Daniel W. Mosser and Ernest W. Sullivan, Virginia Tech)
Library History
The History of the Libraries: The Bodleian Library (overview article, with photos) (Oxford U. Libraries
The Davies Project: American Libraries before 1876 (searchable database,offers statistics, tables, and more) (Princeton U.)
A history of the book in Devon: Libraries in the early 19th century (overview essay, with statistics, from the Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History) (Devon County COuncil)
Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 (includes statistical information arranged by topic and region, data on, currently, 27,000 libraries across Britain, plus links, and more) (Robin Alston, U. College, London)
Libraries of Timbuktu: for the Preservation and Promotion of African Literary Heritage (images, articles, and program description) (Alida Jay Boye, U. of Oslo)
Charles Seavey (U. Missouri) Public Libraries: Images from the 1876 Report (explanatory text, wtih images culled from the US Bureau of Education Report
International Dunhuang Project (multi-institutional project with database for manuscripts from Silk Road sites, with bibliographies, maps, and photos for context) (International Dunhuang Project)
Learned Societies and Scholars
The Roxburghe Club Collection (historical overview of the history of the Roxburghe Club, with details on collection in the U. Iowa Libraries) (Valerie Lagorio, U. Iowa)
Photographs of the Roxburghe Club, 1892 (overview essay and photos) (U. Iowa Libraries)
Skeat, Reverend Walter William (1835-1912)  (brief biographical overview, with exhaustive list of works and projects) (King's College, London)
The Damned Art (virtual exhibit on books related to witchcraft and demonology, based on the collection of John Ferguson (1837-1916); includes introductions, descriptions and images (Glasgow U. Library)
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The Literary Encyclopedia (databases with information on literature in English, with listsof authors, works and topics; a collaborative project) (Gen. Ed. Robert Clark, U. of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
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