Best of the Web: Arts & Humanities

This site contains a biography, a bibliography, critical information, and a number of online texts of poems.

Digital images of "ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997." Can be searched by keyword or browsed by title.

A bibliography (in English and Irish languages) of poets, dramatists, and writers of fiction (limited to period 1789-1840), with biographies and links to texts.

A directory of links whose major categories include history, periodicals, literature, Irish language, mythology, folklore, theatre companies, and fine arts.

Enormous site with many full-text electronic editions, articles, concordances, e-journals, teaching ideas, and links to other institutions and resources

An extensive site including numerous texts, essays related to James, bibliographic information, book reviews, and links to other James' sites.

Companion website to a 2005 exhibition.

Digital library of out-of-prints works of Joyce scholarship.

Full text version, translated into English. Also available in the original German.

"The Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit highlights original materials from seven titles featuring the character, Peter, who first appeared in 1962 with the publication of The Snowy Day. The materials are part of the Ezra Jack Keats Papers housed in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi. For each of the seven titles, the website includes an annotation, a finding aid, and original materials such as corrected typescripts, storyboards, and sketches."

Provides writings, images, links, a bibliography and more.

An online exhibit from the Library of Congress featuring the "large, lavish drawings Jessie Willcox Smith produced as color plates for The Water-Babies in 1916."

Official website. Biographical and bibliographical material, excerpts from her work, links to online stories, information on public appearances.

Full text, from Project Guttenberg.

This site provides information about Lovecraft's life, writings, and other critical and biographical work. Includes additional internet resources.

Biography, bibliography, full-text of several short pieces.

Enormous collection of links to Melville texts, events, biographical and geographical information, and other Web resources.

An exhibition running concurrently at the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum which explores the entirety of the architect's work. Includes drawings, scale models, video and digital displays, photographs, a selected bibliography, and a biography.

"The Arthur Miller Society is an incorporated, non-profit society whose primary aim is to promote the study of Arthur Miller and his work. Additional objectives include the promotion of productions of Miller's plays and the fostering of continued interest in Miller's work." Includes a biographical information, a chronology, synopses of the works, and information about current productions.

Biography and bibliography of the Polish Nobel Prize winner.

This site is a home for juried reviews of books about the life or work of John Milton, or books about anything that Milton might have read, or books about any author of interest to Milton scholars.

This site contains a critical bibliography, a list of primary works, and a review of Morrison's novel Paradise.

Website based on a New York Public Library exhibition drawn from the Vladimir Nabokov archive of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg collection of English and American Literature, and presented on the occasion of the centennial of the author's birth.

Provides biographical information on Nietzsche's life. The primary sources are the three volume biography of Nietzsche by C. P. Janz and the Chronik of the Kritische Studienausgabe. The citations from the Nietzsche's works and notes are based on the Kritische Gesamtausgabe.

Contains online texts by and about O'Neil, audiofiles, reviews of past productions, images, a biography, and finding aids for additional information.

In formation about "one of the largest and most important gatherings of George Orwell material. . . Consisting primarily of printed works by and about Orwell, the Leab Collection contains first and subsequent editions of all of his books, from Down and Out in Paris and London to Nineteen Eighty-Four. In addition, the Leab Collection contains a small, select group of manuscripts, as well as books owned by the author, including school books signed "Eric Blair," Orwell's birth name, and a considerable body of ephemeral material."

Includes news, reviews, biography, political writings, publications, calendar, and discussion forum.

In English and French.

Online exhibition companion features ""many of Poe's unique manuscripts and letters, scarce copies of his first editions, rare examples of the original newspaper and magazine issues in which much of his work first appeared, and editions of his most famous poem, 'The Raven.'"

"The Anthony Powell Society was founded in June 2000 by a group of scholars and enthusiasts following Powell's death at the age of 94. The Society's aim is to advance for the public benefit, education and interest in the life and works of the English author Anthony Dymoke Powell."

Access to the poems in French and English,plus letters and other documents, and biographical information.

Features information about the society, a short biography, a bibliography of works, and a very extensive list of related lins.

The Auchinleck Manuscript (NLS Adv MS 19.2.1) is one of the National Library of Scotlands greatest treasures. Produced in London in the 1330s, it provides a unique insight into the English language and literature that Chaucer and his generation grew up with and were influenced by. It acquired its name from its first known owner, Lord Auchinleck, who discovered the manuscript in 1740 and donated it to the precursor of the National Library in 1744.

Portal to links on Scottish literature. Prepared in collaboration with the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Executive.

Links to over 300 e-texts of works by Sir Walter Scott.

Companion site to a PBS program which "reveals how popular children's author Theodor Geisel advocated social change, teaching generations of children not only how to be better readers, but better people as well."

Full online text by the English writer Anna Sewell (1820-1878), from Project Guttenberg.

"This site is designed to help first year philosophy students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo." In English and Spanish.

Links, images, and heypertexts relating to Stevens.

Site provides information concerning Stowe's life and writings, her Conneticut home, bibliographies, and related links.

Exhibition of items drawn from UCR Libraries' Special Collections.

Site offers links to relevant resources.

An evolving site designed as an llustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples.

Links to e-texts of the works (including Anna Karenina and War and Peace), biographical information, photographs, and additional resources.

"VRW is dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and toaiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period. VRW is intended to supply a handy set of tips and links to help Victorianists find the practical information they need, whether it's an archive catalogue, a bibliography, a listserv address, a sample syllabus, a place to stay in London, or a journal's submission guidelines."

Includes timeline of his life, images of paintings, essays.

Over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales.

"This is a list of Welsh and Welsh-based writers. The entries include brief biographical details and information about publications, tutoring experience and other work in the creative writing field. Fuller biographical details can always be obtained directly from the writer or from their publisher. In a number of cases, photographs are carried and extracts of work can be seen by clicking the reference in the entry."