Literatures in English

This is the starting point for medieval studies resources on the Web. Sponsored by Georgetown University, the site provides access to over one million files located all over the world.
There are links to texts, pedagogical resources, organizations, conferences, discussion lists and other WWW sites.
A really useful feature: you can search the whole Labyrinth site for a particular topic, using an inbuilt search engine.

ORB

ORB is the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. Primarily it is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars to establish an online source of original essays in medieval studies, but there are also links to online bibliographies, texts and digitised images. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers.
The whole of ORB may be searched with an inbuilt search engine.

The Medieval and Renaissance Internet

Annotated links to the major sources plus some rather more esoteric ones. Maintained by Kathryn Talarico.

The Medieval Page: Sources for Medieval Studies on the WWW

Collection to links to websites "primarily for Western Medieval subjects, with a few Late Antique and Byzantine sites." Sites are organized by topic such as online journals, religion and philosophy, witchcraft, women, literature, music, and more. From an art history teacher and enthusiast.

Luminarium: Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)

Anniina Jokinen has kindly suggested that I link to her Middle English Literature page; I'm delighted to do so. Anniina's page is a veritable treasure trove of useful links in this area.

NetSERF

Subtitled 'The Internet connection for medieval resources', NetSERF is an eclectic mix of links to all things medieval from Medieval Archaeology to Medieval Technology. It's especially good for links on Medieval Art, Civilisation and Culture

Medieval Texts online

Medieval Manuscripts and images

Medieval Literature electronic journals

Renaissance and 17th Century

16th century Renaissance English literature

Renaissance and 17th Century Voice of the Shuttle

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603): Anniina Jokinen's pages are an excellent resource on this subject. Click on individual authors or use the search engine. Includes a selection of Essays and articles on Renaissance literature as well as Background Information, a comprehensive listing of links to Renaissance resources arranged under subject headings.

Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies: The CRRS is a library and research centre at the University of Toronto which is devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700.

Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service: CERES, the Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service, was started in 1996 in response to the developing importance of electronic media in literary research. Aimed at those working in the area of English Renaissance literature and its environs, it issues a regular email newsletter, CERES Harvest, detailing and reviewing new developments in electronic resources for research in the Renaissance, as well as relaying calls for papers and conference programmes.

Texts

Open Source Shakespeare

Renaissance Electronic Texts: A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web.

Electronic journals

Early Modern Literary Studies: Early Modern Literary Studies: a Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature is a refereed journal in electronic form which serves both as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum. Reviews evaluate recent work as well as academic tools of interest to scholars in the field. EMLS is committed to gathering and to maintaining links to the most useful and comprehensive internet resources for Renaissance scholars, including archives, electronic texts, discussion groups, and beyond.

Renaissance Forum: Renaissance Forum: An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies.
An interdisciplinary refereed journal, specialising in early-modern English literary and historical scholarship and in the critical methodologies of these fields, published biannually by the Departments of English and History at the University of Hull.
There is a handy keyword search facility to look for articles in all issues of the journal.
An email list is used to announce the contents of issues as they appear.

Early Modern Culture: The organisers of Early Modern Culture: an electronic seminar 'have tried to create an on-line space for something like the active and on-going inquiry of a good seminar. Hence, what you will find at this site are four works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers...'

Studies in English Literature (SEL): Every Winter edition of SEL focuses on the English Renaissance. The Barr Smith Library provides online access to all issues of SEL to members of the University of Adelaide community from a variety of online sources.
There is a complete paper set of SEL, from vol.1 (1961) onwards, in the Barr Smith Library Main collection at call number 820.5 S933.

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: The University of Adelaide Library has online subscriptions through Project Muse to volume 27, issue 1, Winter 1997; volume 30 (2000) - vol. 34(2004), and another subscription through Academic Search Elite to volume 27(1997) onwards, (excluding the latest year).

Restoration and 18th Century

Restoration and 18th Century Voice of the Shuttle

Romantics

Romantics Voice of the Shuttle

British women romantic poets, 1789-1832

Victorian

Victorian Voice of the Shuttle

Modern

Modern British and American Voice of the Shuttle

Contemporary

Anglophone and Postcolonial Voice of the Shuttle

Contemporary British and American Voice of the Shuttle

Specific English authors

Chaucer online resources

Geoffrey Chaucer

New Chaucer Society

Shakespeare online resources

Open source Shakespeare: an experiment in literary technology

Internet Shakespeare Editions

Sir Philip Sidney online

Edmund Spenser online

Children's and Young Adult Literature Web Sites

This list is from the Literature for Children and Young Adults: Research Guide created by Cecilia Poon, Librarian for Woodring, and Martha Mautino

Bookhive: Your Guide to Children's Literature & Books
Searchable site with recommendations provided by librarians at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg Co., NC.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature
Includes book reviews, use of children's literature in the curriculum, and authors and illustrators.

CHILDE - Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe
Images from children's books from six collections in England, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany. Most books published before 1890.

Children's Book Council (CBC)

Children's Literature
An easy-to-use annotated list of links to other online sources covering Stories Online, Lesson Plans & Ideas, Authors, Student Authors, Book Lists, Multicultural Stories and Resources, Book Reviews, Discussion Groups, Publishers on the Internet, Teaching Guides, Poetry, Theatre, Super Sites, and Harry Potter. Presented by Joyce L. Morris, Ed. D., Department of Education, University of Vermont.

Children's Literature Association (ChLA)

The Children's Literature Web Guide
Comprehensive guide to internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Offers exhaustive lists of English-language children's book awards, including international, US, Canadian, British, Australian and New Zealand awards. Compiled by David K. Brown, Director: Doucette Library of Teaching Resources - University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

The Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
"The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication is an information repository of the Indiana University School of Education ... dedicated to providing educational materials, services, and coursework to everyone interested in the language arts."

Database of Award-winning Children's Literature
"The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature." Compiled and indexed by a librarian. Searchable by a variety of categories, including keyword or phrase, reading level, genre, language, historical period, and gender and ethnicity of protagonist. Search results feature annotated reading lists.

ISLMC Children's Literature & Language Arts
ISLMC= Internet School Library Media Center

Once Upon a Time...A Children's Literature Web site

Reading Zone: Internet Public Library Youth Division
Links to collections of stories, comics, magazines, and information about authors for children, as well as resources for parents and teachers.

Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page

Language/Linguistics Web Sites

Center for Applied Linguistics

Global Language Monitor

UsingEnglish.com:Resources for English as a Second Language

YourDictionary.com: The Global Language Resource

Theory Web Sites

Literary Theory: VOS websites

Literary Theory and Cultural Studies (This list of sites was created by Jack Lynch Rutgers)

Literature by Genres Web Sites

Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database

Sisters in Crime

Literature by Women Web Sites

Feminist Science Fiction

Other Women's Voices

Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color