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Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

  • American Literature--Southern states
  • English drama--History and criticism
  • English language--Rhetoric
  • Poets--20th century

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Portraits of American Women Writers A gallery of portraits of antebellum American women writers accompanied by short sketches of their lives. Students of literature and cultural and art historians are encouraged to use this exhibit. All works cited are in the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia. The graphic images may only be reproduced with permission from the Library Company.
African American women writers of the 19th century
Is a special collection prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 10th edition

 1919
The CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse Alphabetically listed by title and author intermixed from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Continental Philosophy Provides links to information and sites on critical theory, cultural theory, deconstruction, existentialism, feminist theory, Marxism, post-colonialism, post-modern thought, semiotics, structuralism and other theoretical approaches.

Famous Quotes and Authors

 Is a useful Quotations web resource, serving as a large collection of Famous quotations for all occasions. Browse over 25,000 quotes online from over 6,700 famous authors.
The Fiction Collection This directory contains fiction and resources collected from English Server members and public-domain collections across the Internet and is edited by Martha Cheng and Geoff Sauer.
Literary Kicks Links to works by the best of the Beats including Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs brought together by Levi Asher.
Literary Resources on the Net Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.

The Making of America Project (MOA)

A multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. It is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Both important journals and books have been digitized.

-University of Michigan's MOA Project

-Cornell University Library's MOA Collection
The On-line Books Page Search or browse by author or title, and browse over 15,000 listings.
The New Bartleby Full-text versions of selected reference books, anthologies, fiction, and essay collections.
The Poetry Portal is a directory or guide to the internet poetry world, a simple-to-use and comprehensive overview of what's currently online
Project Gutenberg Hundreds of works in "plain vanilla ASCII" text.
Representative Poetry Online Evolved from print editions of &quote Representative Poetry" published by the Department of English of the University of Toronto between 1912 and 1967.
Romantic Circles Is a Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Romantic Circles is the collaborative product of an ever-expanding community of editors, contributors, and users around the world.
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 Is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included.
Undergraduate Introduction to Critical Theory Covers new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism and psychoanalysis and is maintained by Dino F. Felluga, professor at Purdue University.
The Middle English Compendium The Middle English Compendium, developed at the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, provides easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. Hypertext links offer quick connections between, e.g., an MED citation, bibliographical information about its source, and an electronic version of the source, if one is included in the collection, with the hope that eventually electronic versions of all the source texts will be available.
Poetry Archive Provides audible recordings of poetry read by the authors themselves. Links are also available to other websites about poetry including poetry organizations and arts councils.
The Speech Accent Archive The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers. This archive is potentially of interest not only to linguists but also to actors and others interested in spoken English.


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