Literature

Includes links to home pages covering various aspects of American literature, as well as home pages dedicated to more than 50 individual writers and poets. Maintained by Jack Lynch, a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Developed by P. Timothy Ervin at the Yasuda Women's University in Heroshama, Japan, this Web site features literary events that occurred on a particular day in history. It features a calendar of the current month, each day a hypertext link. One can click on a particular date to view a chronological list of entries on writers, literary works, and literary movements -- most of them linking to other useful sites with a wealth of information.

Includes information on publishers of electronic literature, library sites, Web-accessible Gopher lists, lists of electronic literature resources, and resources by period or nationality. Choice is a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

literary metasite containing annotations of sites and articles devoted to literary criticism and information on authors. In addition to 200 American and British authors, more than 50 international authors are featured. The collection indexes over 2,500 resources.

Course material for an American-produced lecture survey on American literature for presentation at Yasuda Women's University in Hiroshima, Japan.

Contain a list of terms, arranged alphabetically, related to poetry; provides the phonetic pronunciation of each term, its definition, and examples of its use, as well as poetic quotations.

From Kathy Acker to Louis Zukofsky, a site at the State University of New York at Buffalo that contains information on and the writings of more than 150 American poets.

Contains essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States; created and maintained by the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies at Georgetown University.

An on-line companion to a spring 2002 American history series that looks at the lives and works of selected American writers who have been influential in the course of the nation. The series currently covers eight time periods, beginning with the founding of America and continuing through the Vietnam era, and features 45 writers and their works. Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures

A comprehensive timeline that matches the political and social history of the United States with the literature of the time, by decade for the early years and by year after the year 1800.