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The following links are to web sites useful for literary and professional research. These are external sites so when you click on these links you will be leaving the English department home page. Before accessing these sites be sure to bookmark our page. Please follow copyright laws for using materials you find at the sites.

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MLA STYLE
http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm
This page is the official MLA site which describes the MLA Style.
Guide to MLA style
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm
A useful site that provides information and help with writing papers in the MLA style.
Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/
This online version of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, provides definitions, pronunciations, etymologies and spelling for thousands of words.
Grammar and Style Notes
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
This site provides grammar rules and style guidelines to help you write more clearly. The sections are arranged alphabetically by topic or word and you have the option of downloading or printing the entire guide for your own use.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
http://www.powa.org/
Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook written in HTML and distributed freely over the WWW. Paradigm is intended to be useful for all writers, from inexperienced to advanced.

Associated Writing Programs
http://awpwriter.org/
Modern Languages Association of America:
http://www.mla.org
Midwest Modern Language Association
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/
Association of the Departments of English
http://www.ade.org/
Conference on College Composition and Communication
http://www.ncte.org/cccc
National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.ncte.org
National Endowment for Humanities
http://www.neh.gov
WWW English Department Home Pages Worldwide
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/links/engdpts.html
Links to many English department pages all over the world.
CWIS Listings
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/cwis/cwis.html
Index of Campus Wide Information Servers in American Literature and related fields; page devoted to links for African-American, Asian-American and Chicano studies.

Resources by Literary Periods:

Classical
Ancient World Web
http://www.julen.net/aw/
The master index to all sources concerning ancient cultures, entries in the source, geography index, subject index, additional search engines and indices, and FAQ; extremely effective, easy-to-use research tool.
Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html
Course-related site from the U. of Kentucky with links to course materials, bibliographies.
Perseus Project Home Page
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Tufts University’s site for the study of Ancient Greek civilization; links to art and archaeology as well as texts, secondary sources, teaching suggestions.

Renaissance and 17th Century
Early Modern Europe
http://history.hanover.edu/early/literatu.htm
Literature emphasizing authors, mostly 17th and 18th century, maintained by Hanover College.
English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/
Page from Luminarium site. Essays and Articles on Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature. Luminarium selection of essays.

18th Century
American Literature (1700-1800)
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amlitfirst.htm#F
Reason and Revolution part of ISLMC (Internet School Library Media Center) site; primarily bibliographical with lists of links to authors and their works.
San Antonio College LitWeb Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature Index:
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/18thcent.htm
Part of the SAC LitWeb, long list of author links and short list of 18th century resources.
18th Century Ring
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/18th/index.html
Home Page of webring of WWW sites devoted to any and all aspects of the 18th century.
18th-Century English Literature
http://englishlit.miningco.com/msub-18th.htm
English Literature Net Links, commercial site, links to 18th century and Restoration, resources, texts, archives; extremely detailed source on 18th century literature and history.

19th Century
Romantic Chronology
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/
Website with authors and editors easily identifiable, images, reliable information, thought-provoking essays; many links.
Romanticism URL List
http://www.muohio.edu/~mandellc/eng441/urllist.htm
Long, helpful list of links, edited by Laura Mandell, English Department of Miami U.; provides a lot of guidance and explanation since it is designed for students.
American Literature - American Literary Classics:
http://www.americanliterature.com/
Literary site with rare books and manuscripts; sponsored by the William Reese Company.
Documenting The American South
http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/
Offers southern perspectives on literature and history, particularly of the 19th century; links to slave narratives, first person narratives, and Southern literature.

20th Century
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
A great page of interdisciplinary links for an advanced English class at the University of Pennsylvania.
Eclat
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/
Comparative literature and theory site.
Cultural Studies and Theory Site
http://eserver.org/theory/
Extensive site draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices.

Ethnic literatures:

African American Studies
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/af-am/
Yale University’s starting point for research into various areas of African American studies, including cultural or sociological studies, history, art and literature.
American Studies, Black History and Literature
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html
Explores African-American presence in literature and history from various aspects: links to texts and resources occupy most of the page, historical texts, and links to the other sources are offered at the end.
Collection of 20th century texts concerning or influenced by jazz; includes poetry by Langston Hughes.
Native American Authors
http://www.ipl.org/ref/native/
Information on Native American authors; bibliographies, biographies, and links to online resources (interviews, online texts, tribal websites); index is searchable by author, titles, and tribes.

Additional Sources on Women and Literature:

Orlando Project
http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/
The writing the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles: an electronic project based at the University of Alberta .
Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
The Indiana University e-text project dedicated to Victorian women writers; works by many relatively unknown authors are already available.
Voices From the Gaps
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
Women Writers of Color links to individual author pages, by name, birth date, birthplace, ethnic group, or significant dates; discussion room and related sites.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/
The New York Times on the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/

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