Literature: Am. Lit Internet Sources

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

"An almost-daily celebration of important (and not so important)
dates in 19th-century American literary history."

Reviews and critiques of international novels.

Blog posts by subject: English and American Literature.

"Short Stories and Classic Literature for teachers, students, readers and writers. Don't miss the Short Story of the Day."

"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."

Authors are chronically arranged and links to their works are provided.

Richard Horwitz, Professor of American Studies at the University of Iowa, has compiled this very useful cross-disciplinary list of recommended links in an easy-to-use tabbed format.

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.

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.

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.

Excerpts from the book, "Ernest Hemingway on Writing."

Advice from F. Scott Fitzgerald to aspiring fiction writers.

Listen to Flannery O'Connor reads excerpts from an essay.

Although ipl2 is no longer updated, the ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or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

Advice from John Steinbeck to aspiring writers and a film clip of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Open access to over 4,300 electronic journals.

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

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

This major site features links from the journal Legacy, pictures of American women writers, online texts, and other resources.

Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.

Celebrating and documenting the creativity of Asian, Black, Latina, and Native women, VG is one of the internet's most comprehensive and well-respected academic databases for women artists of color.

Advice from William Faulkner to aspiring fiction writers.