Virtual Reader

ENGLISH LITERATURE I
From the earliest texts to Neo-classicism (600-1700)
A collection of web resources for the English Literature student

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Representative Texts and Authors

1- The Old English Period

Beowulf

http://www.heorot.dk/beowulf-on-steorarume_front-page.html

2- The Middle English Period: the Romances

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gawain.htm

3- The Middle English Period: Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm

4- The Fifteenth Century: Ballads

Ballads collected by Child:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/index.htm

5- The Late Fifteenth Century: Morality

Everyman

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/everyman.htm

6- The English Renaissance: Sonneteers

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Sir Philip Sidney
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/sidney.htm

E. Spenser
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/spenser.htm

W. Shakespeare
http://www.bartleby.com/70/index1.html

7- The English Renaissance: William Shakespeare
The Complete Works

http://www.ipl.org/div/shakespeare/

8- The Seventeenth Century

J. Donne

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/index.html

Background Reading

• Beowulf

Translations

http://www.beowulftranslations.net/raff.shtml

The Electronic Beowulf

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue9/reviews/beowulf.html

IPL Online Literary Criticism

http://www.ipl.org.ar/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=beo-279

Old English Links – University of Toronto

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~msundara/eng240/links.htm

• Middle Ages

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medresource.htm

• Ballads

Internet Sacred Texts Archive

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/index.htm

Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project

https://depts.washington.edu/hisprom/

English Ballad Archive 1500-1800

EMC (Early Modern Center- University of California-Santa Barbara)

http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/other_sites.asp

• Shakespeare

Shakespeare - University of Virginia - US

http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/

University of Victoria - CA

http://ise.uvic.ca/index.html

Books- Pronouncing Shakespeare CUP

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/literature/pronouncingshakespeare/links.htm

Shakespeare's Resource Centre

http://www.bardweb.net/

Shakespeare and the internet

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

Shakespeare’s Themes

http://www.shakespeare-online.com

E-notes

http://www.shakespeare.com/

• Aristotle: Poetics

Introduction
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/resources/poetics/index.htm

Adapted version by Prof. Malcolm Heath

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/resources/poetics/poettran.htm

Download e-book

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1974

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Evaluating Website Content

Trash or Treasure? How to Evaluate Internet Resources

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/eval.html

Evaluating Website content

http://www.studygs.net/evaluate.htm

Online Research Resources

Universities

UK

• Leeds University http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/resources/index.html#Teaching
• University of Birmingham

• http://www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/researchcollections.htm

• University of York

http://www.york.ac.uk/library/subjects/englint.htm

CA

• Brock University

http://www.brocku.ca/english/elinks.html

• University of Waterloo Library, Ontario

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/resources/index.html

US

• University of New Hampshire

http://www.reference.unh.edu/guides/englit.html

• Standford University

http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/oes.html

• Yale University

• http://www.library.yale.edu/humanities/english/reneng.html

Libraries

The British Library

http://www.bl.uk/

ILP – Internet Library Project- Literary Criticism

British Pre-1500 Literature

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?pd=British:+Pre-1500

British 1500-1700 Literature

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?pd=British:+1500-1700

The British Academy

http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/index.html

Harvard Libraries

http://lib.harvard.edu/

Enciclopedias

• Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/

• Bartleby

History of English and American Literature

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

Books

Cambridge Companions to Literature

http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CCL

Sites with Link Collections

Luminarium

http://www.luminarium.org/

Heorot Resources

http://www.heorot.dk/beo-links.html

Internet Medieval Source Book (Full texts)

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html

Searchable Online Early Texts

http://eebo.chadwyck.com/about/about.htm

Medieval Studies

Nottingham University

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medieval/

Harvard University

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~medieval/links/

The Catholic University of America

http://libraries.cua.edu/instruct/irmedbyz.html

Worldwide Universities Network

http://www.wun.ac.uk/medieval/

University of Kent

http://www.kent.ac.uk/mts/research/index.htm

Glassglow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/mars/CMRShome.htm

Bristol University

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/medievalcentre/

The University of York

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cms/research/gateway.htm

Universidad Nacional del Comahue

http://www.uncoma.edu.ar/investigadores/htdocs/cecym/cecym2005/recursos.htm

Recursos en Internet para Medievalistas

http://www.geocities.com/medievalnet/

Medievalists Weblogs

http://fishpond.owlfish.com/medievallogs.html

Conferences

Cambridge University

http://www.medievalgender.org.uk/about.htm

Course of Studies Search Engine

http://www.educationuk.org/

http://www.netserf.org/Research/Degree_Programs/Medieval_Studies/

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Image & Sound

Literary Conferences

http://literaryconferences.britishcouncil.org/

Museums

British Museum

http://the.british.museum/

Theatre

Shakespeare’s Globe

Official Site

http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/

Resources

http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html

University of Victoria – Canada

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/stage/stagesubj.html

Study Guide

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xGlobe.html#Globe

Shakespeare’s Birth Place Trust

http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/

Royal Shakespeare Company

http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/default.aspx

Films

Shakespeare’s Films

http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/films/films.htm

http://absoluteshakespeare.com/links/films.htm

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Academic Writing

Essay

http://www.german.arts.gla.ac.uk/EssayGuidelines.doc

Downloadable

Writing Essays in Literature Classes

http://.studyqs.net/wrtstr2.htm

Research Paper

Owl Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_lit.html

Dissertations

University of Kent

http://www.kent.ac.uk/uelt/learning/online/dissertation.html

Thesis

Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation

S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D.

Michigan State University

http://www.learnerassociates.net/dissthes/

How to Write a PhD Thesis by Joe Wolfe

School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html

Reference and Citation

• Methods

Leeds University- General note

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/training/referencing/

Related links

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ROADS/subject-listing/service/01.1.html

• Citing Electronic Information

McGill Library- Montreal, Canada

http://www.library.mcgill.ca/refshelf/citguide.htm

University of Alberta Libraries, Canada

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm

• Citing Journalism Resources

University of Iowa, US

http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

• Citing Maps

Ohio Wesleyan University Libraries

http://library.owu.edu/citing222.html

Plagiarism

Links Collection

http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html

Anti Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers

http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

Plagiarism in the News: BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4804734.stm

References Databases

Software

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/is/support/training/refman.phtml#working

Online Databases: UNLOC COPAC Web of Science ZETOC

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/is/gateway/metalib_problem.html

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Media

Blogs

Ideant: The Blog as Dissertation Literature Review

http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2006/01/the_blog_as_dis.html

Literary Magazines

Art & Letters Daily

http://artsandlettersdaily.com

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