Literature: Brit. Lit Internet Sources

List of literary societies and professional associations whose purposes are closely related to those of the MLA.

Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.

A blog written by a literature professor at the University of Connecticut.

Reviews and critiques of international novels.

"The writers themselves may no longer be with us, but clever fans are impersonating them on Twitter, imagining what the scribes would have said if they'd had access to the microblogging service. Here are the best dead author Twitter accounts we could find."

Publishes literature, reference, and verse. Provides students with unlimited free access to books and information on the web.

Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.

Sources on King Arthur and scholarly Arthurian literature.

The Dickens Project of the University of California is a Scholarly Consortium devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens.

Digital Book Index provides links to more than 155,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 135,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.

The British Library brings19th-century classics to students, and introducing them to 19th-century literary and cultural history.

"The award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion." This source covers much more than British lore.

Although no longer supported, the ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Open access to over 4,300 journals.

This easy-to-navigate site maintains a collection of annotated links on 19th-century British and 20th century British and American writers.

Offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download.

Audio and video clips taken from various Shakespeare plays in their original voice.

Smart, fresh guides to great literature by Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley PhD students.

A very well respected web source, it encompasses sources in the humanities. VoS is woven by Alan Liu and a development team in the U.California, Santa Barbara, English Department.

One of the only surviving audio clips of C.S. Lewis’ radio addresses. Recorded on March 21, 1944, it eventually became Beyond Personality, and further became Book Four of Mere Christianity.