English Literature

Online collections of English Literature.

Resources in this category:

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html

Complete versions of Shakespeare's plays, available for you to read online.

The English Server Drama Collection
http://drama.eserver.org/

A collection of both long and short English drama plays and criticism (complete scripts) that includes authors like: Shakespeare (complete works,) Shaw, Johnson, Gay, Moliere, Biggs and Sophocles. Organized by date from classical through contemporary. Also has links to other theater sites.

The English Server Fiction Collection
http://eserver.org/fiction/

Collection of online fiction texts. Includes short stories and novels by authors like: Alcott, Bronte, Bulfinch, Cather, Crane, Dickens, Dreiser, Elliot, Twain, Hardy and Fielding (among others.) Also has criticism.

Internet Library of Early Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

Browse through at least 20 consecutive years of British journals: 18th-century Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; and three 19th-century journals: Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/

Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and Restoration and 18th Century literary texts. Entries for each author include: works, biography, criticism, quotations and links. Texts are from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed.

Sonnet Central
http://www.sonnets.org/

Sonnet Central is "an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors." The site mainly concentrates on sonnets from Great Britain but other areas are represented as well.

The Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu./~letrs/vwwp/

The project was developed in order to provide accurate and complete digital texts of works by British women writers of the 19th century. Offerings include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama from over forty authors.