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"This site contains 17th century, Thirty Years War and English Civil War pamphlets, news sheets and other documents in full text format. Additionally, there are articles of interest to the reenactor, texts of blackletter ballads, bibliographies and links to other useful sites on the Internet."

Collection of links to web resources and full-text works, arranged chronologically by birth date of author.

To view resources for a particular author, click on the author's name in the frame.

Links to sites concerned with the literature and culture of the mid-fifth century to the mid-eleventh century.

Contains texts and biographies of the major literary figures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Biographies, bibliographies, and a selection of writing from Lady Mary Wroth Katherine Philips Aemilia Lanyer and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

This site "allows users to examine bibliographical records of 2,772 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogues, newspaper advertisements, publishing papers, reviews, and subscription lists)."

A project of the University of Cambridge which explores the developing importance of electronic media in literary research. Provides links to virtual workshops. Also publishes an online newsletter which reviews and recommends sites for scholars working on the Renaissance period.

Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.

Electronic texts of old-english poetry.

"This collection of Middle English texts was assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan facultyand from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive, as well as works created specifically for the Corpus by theHTI. . . . The Humanities Text Initiative intends to develop the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse into an extensive and reliable collection of Middle English electronic texts, either by converting the texts ourselves or bynegotiating access to other collections produced to specified high standards of accuracy. At present, sixty-onetexts are available several others will be added soon. HTI wants to include in the corpus all editions of MiddleEnglish texts used in the MED, and the more recent scholarly editions which in some cases may have superseded them. Large scale expansion of the Corpus will not take place until the MED and theHyperBibliography are further advanced, but text conversion continues at a modest rate as time and moneypermit. The Corpus is provided with a full array of search mechanisms, and texts may be searched individually,in user designated groups. or collectively."

EMLS examines English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and is committed to gathering and to maintaining links to the most useful and comprehensive internet resources for Renaissance scholars, including archives, electronic texts, discussion groups, and beyond. Full index and search capabilities.

The site is an "NEH-fundedproject designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels withaccess to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions.. . . ERIC comprises two separate but integrated units: a set of tutorials on some of Shakespeare's plays and on the making and selling of books during theEarly Modern period and a database of scanned texts (thanks to the work ofSCETI) from Penn's Furness Shakespeare Library. When used in combination, these two units can provide students with a rich introduction to English Renaissance literature in its historical and artifactual context." detail from frontispiece to Foxe's Actes and Monuments, Book 2 (1610) Tutorials

"This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism."

A site dedicated to the study of Literature, Imperialism, Postcolonialism.

Online magazine on early modernism, dealing especially with women in Paris, 1900-1940.

Provides links to resources on major Victorian period authors.

A well-organized and categorized set of links to reliable sites on various facets of medieval drama, dance and song.

Sources included are primarily for Western Medieval subjects, with a few Late Antique and Byzantine sites.

Site includes an introduction to paleography, medieval scribes and authors, manuscripts, decorations, tools, and a variety of links to additional resources.

Biographies and bibliographies of writers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Searchable and browsable.

Provides links to full-text, commentaries, and other resources.

Emory University site provides an introduction to major topics and issues in Postcolonial Studies, with links divided into the following categories: Introduction, Authors, Theorists, Terms and Issues.

"View 253 digitised Renaissance festival books (selected from over 2,000 in the British Library's collection) that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700."

An online repository of works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799, including full-text editions of Shakespeare and Spenser.

Website "devoted to using computer technologies to investigate critically the languages, cultures, histories, and theories of Romanticism."

Numerous links to English Literature websites covering the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.

Guide to English literature of the Renaissance, including relevant links.

This database, a project of the Electronic Text Research Center at the University of Minnesota Libraries, "is a digital archive for Victorian Studies that draws upon the Library's rich collection of Victorian periodicals as well as other primary sources from the era. This digital collection provides crucial background information that complements the web content of other Victorian Text Projects and can function both as a teaching and research tool."

"The Hyper-Concordance displays two pull-down boxes. The user can first choose one of a selection of authors from the box and then one from a list of the author's works. There are four limiting options displayed before searching: case sensitive, non-alphabet character sensitive, head length and tail length. The searcher can also ascertain the book's total word count and vocabulary distribution by searching without a query."

Literature, history, and culture in the age of Victoria, covering the period 1830-1901.

Established in 1995,this site contains a variety of work, including poetry, travel accounts, and political tracts.

Bibliography of works by and about women writers of the Middle Ages. Prepared by the Robbins Library at the University of Rochester.