Internet Resources

Metapages

(The metapages are excellent tools for locating the resources available on the Internet.)

• Voice of the Shuttle (resources in the humanities)

• Yahoo (resources on all topics)

• Google (great search engine)I

Literary Web Pages

• Voice of the Shuttle's English Literature Page (both British & American)

(The following is a comprehensive eighteen-volume encyclopedia of English literary history with scholarly commentary on both major and minor literary works and authors. It is still useful despite its original publication dates of 1907-21.)

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (Project Bartleby)

On-Line Word and Phrase Search Programs 

These allow you to locate words, passages, and quotations in literary texts, and, in the dictionaries, definitions and etymologies.

• The Complete Works of Shakespeare

• King James Version Bible Search

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

• The American Heritage Dictionary

On-Line Library of Literary Texts

(Contained here are electronic versions of literary works in English. Some periods are more complete than others.)

• Romantics

• Victorian

• Modern

On-Line Grammar and Writing Resources

• The Writer's Handbook (University of Wisconsin)

• The Purdue On-Line Writing Lab

• Writing-World.com Resources and tips for free-lance writers

• William Strunk's The Elements of Style

• H. W. Fowler's The King's English

• MLA Documentation Style - General Guidelines (Purdue OWL)

Professional Organizations

• The College English Association

• The Modern Language Association

• The National Council of Teachers of English

• ADE (Association of Departments in English) Home Page - Go here to search the MLA Job Information List (username: 3062; password required--ask the webmaster)