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Annotierte Bibliographie der Shakespeare-Internetquellen

Die Bibliographie der Internetquellen zu Shakespeare und der Frühen Neuzeit auf den folgenden Seiten speist sich aus den Katalogen des Anglistik Guide und des History Guide der SUB Göttingen. Die Guides sind Teil der Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Anglo-American Culture, einer interdisziplinären Bibliothek für Fachwissenschaftler und Studenten des anglo-amerikanischen Kulturraums.

 

Shakespeare: Metasites and Subject Gateways

 

Shakespeare: Special Search Engines

  • [Shakespeare, William] Open Shakespeare This site provides access to many, but by no means all, of the facilities of the downloadable Open Shakespeare package. Users can read a variety of texts (plays, poems etc.) as well as ancillary material, compare two versions of the same text side-by-side, analyze text or word statistics, and search any text.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Open Source Shakespeare: An Experiment in Literary Technology “Open Source Shakespeare (OSS) was created to be the best free resource for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers. It includes the 1866 Globe Edition of the complete works.” OSS is a substantial website on Shakespeare containing full texts of his plays (which can be listed alphabetically, by genre, by date and by the total number of lines), his sonnets, and his poems. There are extra features such as statistics about Shakespeare’s works, a concordance and a special full-text search engine helping you find specific lines or words in the corpus of the texts.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Shakespeare Searched Shakespeare Searched is a search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. It clusters search results by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what one is looking for. Shakespeare Searched accomplishes tasks from identifying the speaker of a particular quote to discovering underlying thematic elements across works.This website is not a replacement for a copy of the text. It provides no analysis or footnotes. It is meant to supplement a traditional reading of a work.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Shakespearean Poetry Search This is a searchable index of Shakespearean poems and sonnets.
  • [Shakespeare, William] The Complete Works of William Shakespeare This site offers full access to The Complete Moby ™ Shakespeare. If offers a search engine for the full texts as well as some notes on words in the texts. The site also houses an extensive discussion board.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Touchstone Touchstone is a Shakespeare research tool. It provides a database that can be used to locate significant and rare Shakespeare resources in the UK. It records forthcoming and previous UK Shakespeare productions. Additionally, users can submit questions to the Shakespeare Enquiry Service, discover information on forthcoming conferences, lectures, and exhibitions, track down information on Shakespeare Societies and associations, and follow links to useful www sites.

 

Shakespeare: Online Text Editions and Facsimiles

  • [Shakespeare, William] Bartleby: William Shakespeare The Bartleby Library offers both works by and materials on Shakespeare, including an electronic version of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare (1914 edition), Bartlett’s Shakespeare Quotations (more than 1,500), and Anthologized Verse, as well as George Saintbury’s “Life, Plays, Poems, and Bibliography”, and T. S. Eliot’s essay “Hamlet and His Problems”.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Internet Shakespeare Editions Includes texts and facsimiles of all plays both in quarto and folio, including the apocryphal plays added in the Third Folio. This is a genuine attempt to edit the texts for electronic format rather than using out of copyright texts: the “illuminated text”, a new way of viewing and exploring Shakespeare’s works with full annotation and illustration. The site features an extensive and growing database of Shakespeare in performance. Complete with scholarly aims and objectives. The site also contains useful discussions of the principles of editing electronic texts. There is a gateway to internet sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Open Source Shakespeare: An Experiment in Literary Technology “Open Source Shakespeare (OSS) was created to be the best free resource for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers. It includes the 1866 Globe Edition of the complete works.” OSS is a substantial website on Shakespeare containing full texts of his plays (which can be listed alphabetically, by genre, by date and by the total number of lines), his sonnets, and his poems. There are extra features such as statistics about Shakespeare’s works, a concordance and a special full-text search engine helping you find specific lines or words in the corpus of the texts.
  • [Shakespeare, William] PlayShakespeare.com: The Ultimate Free Shakespeare Resource The website joins Shakespeare and technology, including all of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems for free on the internet. The text can be freely used without copyright or royalty fees for study, research and performance. PlayShakespeare.com used the First Folio of 1623 (and Quartos where applicable) and the Globe Edition of 1866 as sources for the texts on this site.The website features a user-friendly approach to the text, including an inline glossary. Scroll over an arcane or confusing word and a box pops up for easy reference of characters, locations and terminology. Additionally, on PlayShakespeare.com you can find Shakespeare’s text with indentation. Other features on the website include ongoing reviews of Shakespeare productions on stage and screen by a network of critics; a Links page showcasing the largest and most comprehensive up-to-date list of U.S. and International Shakespeare companies, festivals and organizations, plus a monologue search site and resource site for teachers and students; a discussion forum; and a Facts page that includes Shakespeare’s biography and play chronology.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Shakespeare Searched Shakespeare Searched is a search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. It clusters search results by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what one is looking for. Shakespeare Searched accomplishes tasks from identifying the speaker of a particular quote to discovering underlying thematic elements across works.This website is not a replacement for a copy of the text. It provides no analysis or footnotes. It is meant to supplement a traditional reading of a work.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Shakespearean Poetry Search This is a searchable index of Shakespearean poems and sonnets.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century This site offers studies of the stage texts used in various seventeenth-century performances of Shakespeare’s plays and provides an opportunity to examine Shakespearean performance traditions and innovations.
  • [Shakespeare, William] The Complete Works of William Shakespeare This site offers full access to The Complete Moby ™ Shakespeare. If offers a search engine for the full texts as well as some notes on words in the texts. The site also houses an extensive discussion board.
  • [Shakespeare, William] The works of William Shakespeare Diese Webseite ist eine Textsammlung der Werke von William Shakespeare: z.B. King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra. Es werden die Seiten aus der Originalausgabe als Bilddateien gezeigt. The website contains a collection of the works by Shakespeare: e.g. King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra. All the pages of the works are shown as they appeared in the original edition of the work.
  • [Shakespeare,William] Electronic Text Center – University of Virginia: Shakespeare Resources “The Electronic Text Center’s holdings include a variety of Shakespeare resources that range from early Quartos, the complete 1623 First Folio, and early playhouse promptbooks, to more modern editions and to many bibliographical articles that discuss Shakespeare’s works.”

 

Shakespeare: Criticism Online

  • [Shakespeare, William] Bartleby: William Shakespeare The Bartleby Library offers both works by and materials on Shakespeare, including an electronic version of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare (1914 edition), Bartlett’s Shakespeare Quotations (more than 1,500), and Anthologized Verse, as well as George Saintbury’s “Life, Plays, Poems, and Bibliography”, and T. S. Eliot’s essay “Hamlet and His Problems”.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Internet Shakespeare Editions Includes texts and facsimiles of all plays both in quarto and folio, including the apocryphal plays added in the Third Folio. This is a genuine attempt to edit the texts for electronic format rather than using out of copyright texts: the “illuminated text”, a new way of viewing and exploring Shakespeare’s works with full annotation and illustration. The site features an extensive and growing database of Shakespeare in performance. Complete with scholarly aims and objectives. The site also contains useful discussions of the principles of editing electronic texts. There is a gateway to internet sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance.
  • [Shakespeare, William] King Lear “William Shakespeare’s King Lear began as a web site for a North Carolina State University English class. It has since become a resource for understanding an incredible play.” On this website one can find a detailed summary of the plot as well as brief characterizations of King Lear, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, Gloucester, Edgar, Edmund, Kent, Cornwall, Albany, the Fool, Oswald, Burgundy, and the King of France. The FAQ section contains discussions on questions such as whether King Lear is insane or not or the elements that make this play a tragedy. The site alse provides a gallery of paintings and drawings illustrating scenes from the play. Furthermore the author of the sites offers links to further resources on the web.
  • [Shakespeare, William] PlayShakespeare.com: The Ultimate Free Shakespeare Resource The website joins Shakespeare and technology, including all of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems for free on the internet. The text can be freely used without copyright or royalty fees for study, research and performance. PlayShakespeare.com used the First Folio of 1623 (and Quartos where applicable) and the Globe Edition of 1866 as sources for the texts on this site.The website features a user-friendly approach to the text, including an inline glossary. Scroll over an arcane or confusing word and a box pops up for easy reference of characters, locations and terminology. Additionally, on PlayShakespeare.com you can find Shakespeare’s text with indentation. Other features on the website include ongoing reviews of Shakespeare productions on stage and screen by a network of critics; a Links page showcasing the largest and most comprehensive up-to-date list of U.S. and International Shakespeare companies, festivals and organizations, plus a monologue search site and resource site for teachers and students; a discussion forum; and a Facts page that includes Shakespeare’s biography and play chronology.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Shakespeare at eNotes Shakespeare at eNotes is a topical section of eNotes providing a basic introduction to Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. Some of the information is fee-based, but enough free stuff is available to warrant a visit. The site contains the complete text as well as plot summaries of the plays and sonnets and translations into modern English. Visitors can learn about the life and times of Shakespeare from the biography, chronology, and images. Additionally, visitors can search for Shakespearean quotes, use a question-and-answer section, and download lesson plans for Shakespeare in the classroom.
  • [Shakespeare, William] The Interactive Shakespeare Project “The Interactive Shakespeare Project at Holy Cross is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, initiative to use the World Wide Web to improve the teaching of Shakespeare. Created by a cohort of English and Theater professors from across the country, the Project incorporates computer technology to create an active learning environment for secondary school and college students. To augment the pedagogical effectiveness of the program, teaching resources and a cohesive methodology are provided for educators.”The project has produced a prototype interactive study guide to Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. One can find online essays relating to the play on topics such as marriage, prostitution and the performance history of the play. An archive of reviews of notable productions of the play is one of the many features of this site which would be of interest to those working on the stage history of Shakespearean drama.
  • [Shakespeare,William] Electronic Text Center – University of Virginia: Shakespeare Resources “The Electronic Text Center’s holdings include a variety of Shakespeare resources that range from early Quartos, the complete 1623 First Folio, and early playhouse promptbooks, to more modern editions and to many bibliographical articles that discuss Shakespeare’s works.”

 

Shakespeare: Biography Sites

  • [Shakespeare, William] Bartleby: William Shakespeare The Bartleby Library offers both works by and materials on Shakespeare, including an electronic version of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare (1914 edition), Bartlett’s Shakespeare Quotations (more than 1,500), and Anthologized Verse, as well as George Saintbury’s “Life, Plays, Poems, and Bibliography”, and T. S. Eliot’s essay “Hamlet and His Problems”.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Guide to Shakespeare This comprehensive site provides information on William Shakespeare, his works, his times, his contemporaries, and on Shakespeare scholars and their works. The site includes biographical data, offers historical insight and supplies brief summaries of all of Shakespeare’s plays which are pulled together chronologically in another contribution of the site. A glossary adds helpful background information on the topics discussed. Scholarly articles introduce the visitor to various issues in Shakespeare studies and later on offer additional reading possibilities. Furthermore, a filmography, and video- and audio-clips afford an opportunity to gain insight into the realisation of Shakespeare’s works on stage and film. In a last section of the site teachers can find teaching material for classroom usage and a Shakespeare quiz for pupils.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Shakespeare’s Life and Times Shakespeare’s Life and Times introduces you to the world Shakespeare lived and worked in. There is a detailed biography of his life and dicussions of the Shakespearean stage, the society of the time, the history and politics of Elizabethan England, Renaissance thought, religion, and cosmology. Visitors can learn about the kinds of plays and literature Shakespeare read, see samples of paintings of the time, and listen to Renaissance music. There is an extensive reference section that gives chronologies, maps, and bibliographies for further reading. These pages are part of the Internet Shakespeare Editions.
  • [Shakespeare, William] William Shakespeare: Writer, Actor, Investor, Family Man – Biography A 5,300-word essay (with documentation) on the private and public lives of Shakespeare: childhood, the “lost years,” London and the theatre, rising fortune, retirement, death.

 

Shakespeare: Educational Sites

Shakespeare: Lehren und Lernen

  • The English Renaissance in Context – ERIC “The English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) is a NEH-funded project designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions. ERIC grows out of both contemporary critical tendencies in the field of English Renaissance studies and a commitment to providing broad access to original source materials that would otherwise be out of reach for many. ERIC comprises two separate but integrated units: a set of tutorials on some of Shakespeare’s plays and on the making and selling of books during the Early Modern period; and a database of scanned texts from Penn’s Furness Shakespeare Library. When used in combination, these two units can provide students with a rich introduction to English Renaissance literature in its historical and artifactual context.”
  • [Shakespeare, William]: Shake Sphere: A Comprehensive Study Guide for the World of William Shakespeare Shake Spere is the “Internet’s most comprehensive study guide for the works of William Shakespeare, featuring plot summaries of every Shakespeare play and a discussion and analysis of Shakespeare’s sonnets. This site includes a wealth of information on sources, themes, settings, stage terms, iambic pentameter, folio and quarto texts, Shakespeare’s life and religion, the Globe Theatre, London in Shakespeare’s time, and other topics.”
  • [Shakespeare, William] Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Guide to Shakespeare This comprehensive site provides information on William Shakespeare, his works, his times, his contemporaries, and on Shakespeare scholars and their works. The site includes biographical data, offers historical insight and supplies brief summaries of all of Shakespeare’s plays which are pulled together chronologically in another contribution of the site. A glossary adds helpful background information on the topics discussed. Scholarly articles introduce the visitor to various issues in Shakespeare studies and later on offer additional reading possibilities. Furthermore, a filmography, and video- and audio-clips afford an opportunity to gain insight into the realisation of Shakespeare’s works on stage and film. In a last section of the site teachers can find teaching material for classroom usage and a Shakespeare quiz for pupils.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Hamlet on the Ramparts Hamlet on the Ramparts is a public website designed and maintained by the MIT Shakespeare Project. The site’s aim is to provide free access to an evolving collection of texts, images, and film relevant to Hamlet’s first encounter with the Ghost (Act 1, Scenes 4 and 5). For now it contains electronic texts of three major modern editions (the Arden, the Folger, and the Oxford), page images of the first three printed editions of the play (The First Folio, The First Quarto, The Second Quarto), an extensive collection of artwork and photographs, and sequences from three film versions — the Forbes-Robertson film of 1913, the Ragnar Lyth film of 1984, and the filmed record of the Richard Burton-John Gielgud production of 1964.
  • [Shakespeare, William] King Lear “William Shakespeare’s King Lear began as a web site for a North Carolina State University English class. It has since become a resource for understanding an incredible play.” On this website one can find a detailed summary of the plot as well as brief characterizations of King Lear, Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, Gloucester, Edgar, Edmund, Kent, Cornwall, Albany, the Fool, Oswald, Burgundy, and the King of France. The FAQ section contains discussions on questions such as whether King Lear is insane or not or the elements that make this play a tragedy. The site alse provides a gallery of paintings and drawings illustrating scenes from the play. Furthermore the author of the sites offers links to further resources on the web.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Macbeth: The Site Struggling with Shakespeare? Try this site with an interactive and easy way to learn about the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth. Annotated, online version of the play includes links to a glossary of terms, a summary of each scene, and a list of character descriptions. At the Macbeth Discussion Board students can ask questions and get answers from other students. And if that’s not enough, find links to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, shareware, and more.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Shakespeare at eNotes Shakespeare at eNotes is a topical section of eNotes providing a basic introduction to Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. Some of the information is fee-based, but enough free stuff is available to warrant a visit. The site contains the complete text as well as plot summaries of the plays and sonnets and translations into modern English. Visitors can learn about the life and times of Shakespeare from the biography, chronology, and images. Additionally, visitors can search for Shakespearean quotes, use a question-and-answer section, and download lesson plans for Shakespeare in the classroom.
  • [Shakespeare, William] The Interactive Shakespeare Project “The Interactive Shakespeare Project at Holy Cross is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, initiative to use the World Wide Web to improve the teaching of Shakespeare. Created by a cohort of English and Theater professors from across the country, the Project incorporates computer technology to create an active learning environment for secondary school and college students. To augment the pedagogical effectiveness of the program, teaching resources and a cohesive methodology are provided for educators.”The project has produced a prototype interactive study guide to Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”. One can find online essays relating to the play on topics such as marriage, prostitution and the performance history of the play. An archive of reviews of notable productions of the play is one of the many features of this site which would be of interest to those working on the stage history of Shakespearean drama.
  • [Shakespeare, William] The Shakespeare Classroom This site offers teaching materials relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare that may not only be used by students who wish to study the works of Shakespeare but by anyone interested in the Bard.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Verona World Verona World ist das Ergebnis eines Projektes im Anschluss an Shakespeares Drama Romeo & Juliet im Leistungskurs des Jahrgangs 12. Dabei erarbeiten Schüler und Schülerinnen Mini-Websites auf Basis von Textproduktion oder Internetrecherche. Verona World is an internet project concerning Shakespeare and his life. The web pages have been created by the college level English class of a German hight school.

 

Early Modern Period: History

  • Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain “‘Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain’ is a partnership between The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) and the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA), funded by the New Opportunities Fund. This exhibition appears on ‘Pathways to the Past’, the National Archives’ website for lifelong learners. The exhibition covers Black and Asian history in Britain from 1500 to 1850. Most of the digitised documents presented in this exhibition are held by The National Archives.” [self-description]
  • Black Presence. Asian and Black History in Britain from 1500 to 1850 “There were many Asian and Black people living in Britain throughout the period covered by this exhibition (1500-1850). They formed an integral part of British society, whether labouring as servants in country houses, enlisting in the armed forces, marrying in parish churches, engaging with literary and artistic life, or challenging the repressive laws of the day. For many places in Britain, we cannot speak of a separate ‘Black community’ at this time – Black people were integrated in the wider society, working and living with their White compatriots. This exhibition aims to reclaim some of this history and make it more widely known.” [self-description]
  • The British Academy’s John Foxe Project “John Foxe (1517-87) fled to the Continent during the reign of Mary I, and on his return, wrote a history of the English Protestant martyrs from the 14th century to his own time. Usually known as The Book of Martyrs, it traces the triumph of Protestantism through the sufferings of English Protestants. The facsimile of the 1583 edition was published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press on CD-ROM in June 2001. This ‘Category One Research Project’ of the British Academy has produced a new, definitive edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs, based on a textual reconstruction of the four editions published in Foxe’s lifetime. This edition is available online here.” [self-description]
  • Cromwell 1599-1999: 400th Anniversary A Cambridge University Library’s site about its Oliver Cromwell 400th anniversary exhibition.This site features articles about the life and politics of Oliver Cromwell and a bibliography.
  • Early Modern England Source This website is meant as a “source for scholars and others interested in the history of early modern England and Britain. Provides information on conferences, seminars and calls for papers. Contains recent publication notes, research resources and links to other sites.”
  • Encyclopedia of British History: 1700-1900 For each entry, this encyclopedia includes several pages of narrative, primary sources, illustrations and links to other relevant websites. Currently, only some of the planned 1,000 entries are ready.
  • Local History “The purpose of this guide is to assist those interested in local history by illustrating a selection of material which will be useful for local and regional historical studies. The site is restricted to ‘modern history’ from around 1700, in an attempt to make the site more cohesive. It should be recognised that not all our records are indexed in such a way as to make local history searches easy. Nevertheless, there are wide ranges of materials which are partially or fully indexed by parish, town, county etc., and which are indispensable for local historians. The range of topics studied by local historians is as broad as the records themselves. People may be interested in ‘agricultural change in the 18th century Berkshire’, ‘early 19th century industry in South Wales’ or ‘the General Strike in Bristol’. This guide is, therefore, divided into several themes or ‘chapters’ to assist local historians with regard to specific research with us.” [self-description]
  • Parish of Rowner/Portsmouth 1642 Originally a booklet researched to assist in an historical re-enactment of rural life around the parish of Rowner in early 17th century England, the site now covers both local material such as Wills, Muster Lists and Parish Register together with more general information including coinage, wages, prices and artillery.
  • Scottish Parliament Project The aim of the Scottish Parliament Project is “to create a new digital edition of the acts of the pre 1707 Scottish Parliament, to be published on CD-ROM and the internet. The previous edition of the acts was published between 1814 and 1875, edited by Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes. Since then, much new material has come to light, while other material excluded from the previous edition, such as committee minutes, will be added. The editorial techniques used by Thomson and Innes have long been seen as inadequate; as part of the new edition, all the text, whether in Latin or in Scots, will be translated into modern English, enabling computer searches on a theoretically infinite number of subjects, while the many sources which make up the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament will be properly cited.” This site offers some example acts of parliament and gives information about the history of Scottish Parliament.
  • The St. Thomas More Web Site This site is about “[t]he Life and Works of Sixteenth Century English Author, Scholar, Statesman, and Saint Thomas More”. It contains as well as links to biographies, organizations, images, and text including a full text version of “Utopia”.
  • The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, Scottish History 1563-1736 “The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft is the result of a two-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The primary goal of the project was to create a database of people accused of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563 and 1736. The aim was to collect, collate and record all known information about accused witches and witchcraft belief in a Microsoft Access database and to create a web-based user interface for the database. Users can view the data through our online web interfaces (searching, graphing and mapping capabilities) or they can download the full database into their own copy of MS Access. The web interfaces and database were designed to enable the public and academic researchers to examine biographical and social information about accused witches; cultural and sociological patterns of witchcraft belief and accusation; community, ecclesiastical and legal procedures of investigation and trial, national and regional variations; and the chronology and geography of witchcraft accusation and prosecution.” [self-description]
  • Tudor History This site is a comprehensive guide to Tudor history. It contains Tudor biographies plus the six wives of Henry VIII., a who is who in Tudor history, glossaries, chronologies, maps, primary sources, a comprehensive bibliography, links to related sites and many things more.
  • tudors.org “Tudors.org is a website of John Guy, Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews. It aims to dispense some of the most up-to-date information regarding Tudor England that is available […]. History students […] are guaranteed an interesting alternative to what current textbooks say, and an insight into what at least some of them will say in the future.” This site contains mainly lecture notes, and papers. A bibliography is also provided.
  • Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England The site deals with Tyburn Tree, the site of public executions in early modern English history. It features some background materials, transcripts of dying speeches, images of executions, a bibliography, and some related links.
  • Uniting the Kingdoms? (1066-1603) “How did the inhabitants of the island of Britain think of themselves in the five and a half centuries between 1066 and 1603? Did they see themselves as British, or as English, Scottish or Welsh? Or was a local identity more important? And what did English dominance mean for Ireland and France, which had never been part of Britain? This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England’s French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life. We hope it will give you insights into the events and forces that influenced ideas of identity, loyalty and nationhood.” [self-description]

 

Early Modern Period: Culture

  • EEBO. Early English Books Online “From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of graduate scholars – from their desktop! – in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.” [self-description] Scholarly users in Germany have free access to this collection which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society) and organized by the Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Goettingen (Goettingen State and University Library). For more information see Virtual Library of Anglo-American Culture & History .
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online “Gale® is honored to present to you Eighteenth Century Collections Online, a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm, available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm. In the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.” [self-description] Scholarly users in Germany have free access to this collection which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society) and organized by the Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Goettingen (Goettingen State and University Library). For more information see Virtual Library of Anglo-American Culture & History .
  • Quaker Archives Database “The Quaker Archives database is a combined name index to many of the older documents in Leeds University Library’s Carlton Hill archive, the nature of which is described in the guide to the Quaker Archives accessible below. The database contains nearly 40,000 records, most of them indexing the names of those individual Quakers who are recorded in minute books of West and North Yorkshire Meetings of the Society of Friends, dating from the late 17th to the early 20th century. Altogether some seventy minute books have been indexed for the database, and a list of indexed documents is also available below. It must be stressed that the records in the database – which are derived from old typescript indexes – provide (on the whole) little more than page references to archival documents. In this way the database is essentially a finding list for use alongside the Carlton Hill archive.” [self-description]
  • Revolutionary Players “Welcome to the website of Revolutionary Players, a project supported by the New Opportunities Fund focusing on the history of the Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands in Britain between the years 1700 and 1830. The region became internationally significant for achievements in science, industry, art and culture. The website contains images of many resources from museums, archives end libraries representing the history of the period. There are four main ways of accessing this material: Time, Place, People and Theme. You can also read Articles on historical subjects, enter the Digital Library of primary sources, explore a Gallery of images and create your own Album of items from the site.” [self-description]
  • Vive la différence! The English and French stereotype in satirical prints, 1720-1815 “The relationship between England and France during this time period was complex. There was a great deal of travel and cross-cultural influence, which would often manifest itself in the emulation of concepts or qualities of the other’s culture. There was also a great deal of enmity. The two countries were rivals in economic, colonial, constitutional and religious ways, and they were at war for much of the 18th century, continuing into the 19th century. The differences which were celebrated by some were seen in times of stress as a threat to each side’s value system. The satires in this exhibition demonstrate how the portrayal of national stereotypes was affected by the fluctuating political climate of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.” [self-description]
  • William Godwin’s Diary. Reconstructing a Social and Political Culture 1788-1836 “William Godwin’s diary is the centrepiece of the Abinger Collection, Bodleian Library and is its most frequently consulted source. Godwin kept his diary assiduously from 1788 until his death in 1836. The diary is a resource of immense importance to researchers of history, politics, literature, and women’s studies. In its pages one can decipher a remarkably detailed map of radical intellectual and political life in the turbulent period of the 1790s, as well as reconstruct publishing relations, conversational coteries, and theatrical production in the first third of the nineteenth century.” [self-description]

 

Early Modern Period: Literature Metasites

  • 17th Century Colonial New England with Special Emphasis on the Essex County Witch Hunt of 1692 The Web Site “17th Century Colonial New England – With Special Emphasis on the Essex County Witch-Hunt of 1692” is published and compiled by Margo Burns. This site is vast and offers hundreds of annotated links to resources on the North American colonies in the seventeenth century (the link collection currently contains 280 links). The links are arranged by topics to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio and video programmes; daily life; images and facsimiles; Literature that was inspired by this peiod etc..This site also includes links to teaching materials for all ages.
  • 17th Century Women Poets “17th Century Women Poets” is an online resource guide for seventeenth-century women’s literature. This site includes links to further resources on the web such as information on women’s poets in the 17th century ( e.g. Aphra Behn or Lady Mary Wroth), poems, articles, 17th century background, a picture gallery and a bibliography.
  • 18th Century Literature “18th century literature” is a site containing information on authors such as Daniel Defoe or Samuel Richardson, “Seminar Notes” on Charlotte Lennox or John Cleland’s ‘Fanny Hill’, a section called Books & Resources, information on “Study Skills”, bibliographies and eventually on further resources on the web. This site seems to be suited for students wanting to obtain basic essay writing and research skills.
  • American Verse Project The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) has assembled an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included. The full text of each volume is being converted into digital form. The volumes already online, which include books of poetry by a number of African-American and women poets, represent an interesting selection. In many cases, the texts selected are the only existing editions of the author’s work. The project is designed to reproduce already published texts without any additional (i.e., modern) critical material. The project is also structured as an archive to which additional volumes of poetry will be added continually.
  • The Bluestocking Archive This archive assumes a deep relation between the intellectual and social movement of the Bluestockings, the culture and cult of Sensibility and High Romanticism. It is an archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues, including predecessor texts, and literature of sensibility as it is derived from the Bluestockings’ concerns with aesthetics, and with women’s aesthetic achievements.
  • British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions This Internet Archive makes Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry (especially those texts that have gone out of copyright) freely available for study and classroom use. Facsimiles and other illustrative material in a hypertext structure are included.
  • British Women Romantic Poets Project A library of electronic texts edited from originals in the Shield Library of the University of California. The goal of this project is the design and development of highly accurate and reliable electronic editions of works published by British women poets between 1789 and 1832.
  • Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) is an on-line searchable database of entries from sixteen early dictionaries, dating from between 1530 and 1657. This resources includes bilingual lexicons as well as specialist and ‘hard-word’ dictionaries. Furthermore one finds a bibliography of works that may be helpful for those studying early lexicography.
  • Eighteenth-Century English Novel Research Guide This site offers information on the eighteenth century which originally has been developed as a project for a graduate seminar on the eighteenth-century novel. There is an annotated list of links to online sources, journals, biographies, and bibliographies, as well as to an highly selective reading list on eighteenth-century English novel criticism.
  • Eighteenth-Century Resources “These pages cover all the significant and reliable Internet resources I’ve been able to discover that focus on the (very long) eighteenth century — let’s say Milton to Keats. The collection includes information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world in the eighteenth century, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics. The site is aimed especially at scholars and students; I’ve excluded many sites of interest only to fans, historical re-enactors, &c.”
  • English Literature: 16th Century Renaissance (1485-1603) This site offers an index of biographies, essays, images, full-text of works, and scholarly articles on the major English literary figures of the period, as well as links to other sites covering geneal aspects of the era.
  • English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660) This site offers an index of biographies, essays, images, full-text of works, and scholarly articles on the major English literary figures of the period, as well as links to other sites covering geneal aspects of the era.
  • English Literature on the Web This site offers links to literary texts, books, archives, and other internet resources featuring English literature.
  • The Gothic Literature Page The Gothic Literature Page is devoted to study of Gothic Literature in England from 1764 to 1820. This site is intended to provide students and scholars of the Gothic novel access to the growing number of resources available on the web. An introduction to the Gothic novel, collected summaries, papers, critical and bibliographical information and related sites are assembled together to expedite research.
  • [Hume, David] David Hume (1711-1776) The David Hume website is part of the EpistemeLinks Philosophy Resources on the Internet. It offers a list of Hume websites, biographies, organisations, and related resources (discussion list, e-texts).
  • The Literary Gothic “The Literary Gothic is a Web site for all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, “classic” Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature prior to the mid-twentieth century. The goals of this site are twofold: to collect in one place all links pertaining to literary Gothicism, and to make available etexts of important and overlooked early works of Gothic or supernaturalist interest.”
  • MIMI: American Literature “e-texts” This page provides e-texts on American authors and their works from the 18th up to the end of the 19th century. Links to other useful sites on American literatur of this time are offered.
  • Norton Topics Online “Prepared by the Norton Anthology editors in anticipation of the Seventh Edition, this extensive, freely accessible Web resource for The Norton Anthology of English Literature offers twenty-one topics – three per period – for study and discussion.” The topics are: The Middle Ages; The Sixteenth Century; The Early Seventeenth Century; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century; The Romantic Period; The Victorian Age; and The Twentieth Century.
  • The Perseus Garner: English Renaissance Collection “The Garner is a gathering of primary materials from the early modern period in England (commonly called the English Renaissance) and selected secondary materials from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Begun with an electronic edition of the complete works of Christopher Marlowe, it now includes the works of William Shakespeare , important historical sources from the period, and a variety of secondary reference works. Our goal in assembling this collection is to provide scholars, students, and general readers with free access to important documents from the early modern period, many of which are difficult to find outside large research libraries, and to supplement them with helpful scholarship and criticism.”
  • Renaissance, The Elizabethan World Renaissance, The Elizabethan World is devoted the the social history of Elizabethan England. The site offers a compendium “Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603” (105p.), information on Elizabethan Heraldry, on The Trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton (1601), discussion forums, a search engine, and links to related sites.
  • Representative Poetry Online “Representative Poetry On-line is a historical anthology of English poetry, from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century, which includes about 2,100 English poems by about 330 poets. The bibliographical sources from which the selections are made hold vast libraries of poetry for readers and critics venturing out on their own, and for the ordinary reader interested in reading more by one poet. The archive may be browsed by several indexes which are classified by author, title, first line, date, keyword and criticism on poetry. The site also features a timeline, calendar, and a glossary.”
  • Richard III: On Stage and Off “This site deals offers information on Richard III Onstage and Off, including links to all the material on this site concerning dramatic portrayals of Richard III. Includes sections on the McKellen and Pacino films, other performances of Shakespeare’s Richard III, a hypertext edition of Shakespeare’s play with a timeline and links to historical background; and materials that help set Shakespeare’s play in the appropriate context.”
  • Romantic Circles This Website is devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts. Romantic Circles is the collaborative product of editors, contributors, and users around the world. The site offers electronic editions, features and events, publications, reviews, the praxis series, and scholarly resources.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet These pages are an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet.
  • [Shakespeare, William] Sh:in:E – Shakespeare in Europe A metasite with an impressive range of links to texts, criticism, music, film, background, educational, and popular Shakespeare. Additionally, Sh:in:E features conference announcements as well as a selection of primary and secondary texts.
  • [Shakespeare, William] VMI’s Shakespeare & Renaissance Home Page VMI’s Shakespeare & Renaissance Home Page is an annotated link list to electronic resources on Shakespeare, his work, life, and scholarship.
  • [Shakespeare, William] William Shakespeare (1564-1616) This page seeks to collect any and all Internet materials related to the life and works of William Shakespeare.
  • [Sidney, Philipp] The Sidney Homepage: Online Ressources These pages aim to provide a hub for the online study of writers in the Sidney family. At few times in English literary history have so many members of one family achieved so much. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) is now rightly celebrated, as he was for much of the seventeenth century, as one of the key figures in the Elizabethan revival of English letters, both as patron and as one of the most talented and original practitioners of that golden age. His sister Mary, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) was a major poet and patron in her own right. Although it is only recently that she has benefited from substantial critical attention, her status and importance were unquestioned in her own day. Their younger brother Sir Robert Sidney has only recently emerged as a gifted minor poet – his poems were identified in his own autograph manuscript copy in 1973. The writings of his daughter Lady Mary Wroth include a massive and intricate prose romance and a brilliant sonnet sequence.
  • Sixteenth Century Ballads The goal of this project is to produce a collection of “interesting” ballads from before 1700, containing sheet music and lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to a modern listener.
  • Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature This site provides background information concerning English Renaissance literature of the sixteenth century. Offered subjects are: General Introductions to the Renaissance; History and Politics; Economy, Trade, and Exploration; Royalty; Religion & Philosophy; Renaissance Science and Medicine; The Plague; Magic, Witchcraft, and the Supernatural; Women in the Renaissance; Images; Renaissance Music, Theatre, Dance, Art, Architecture, Costume, Printing and Publishing, Food and Drink; Miscellaneous; Journals; and Metapages.
  • [Sterne, Laurence] Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace The Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace website offers a general introduction to the life and work of the novelist. It offers links to e-texts, to a Sterne bibliography, to books and journals, essays, and misc. related links.
  • [Sterne, Laurence] The Shandean (Sitemap) The Shandean (Sitemap) is an information resource grouped around “the shandean”, the Laurence Sterne journal. The website offers tables of contents of the journal, information on Shandy Hall, events, information on Wolfson Cottage, and an image gallery.

 

General Resources: Libraries

  • ‘Fables’, by Robert Louis Stevenson “Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Fables’ was published in New York by Longmans, Green in 1902. Previously, the thirteen fables had been published with other works. Stevenson had a long-standing fascination with the fable as a literary form. In 1888, he approached his publisher with a collection of fables that he had composed over the years. This edition includes six etchings by Ethel King Martyn.”
  • Beowulf: A New Translation For Oral Delivery “Beowulf is the oldest narrative poem in the English language, embodying historical traditions that go back to actual events and personages in fifth- and sixth-century Scandinavia. The translation on this website is intended for “oral delivery,” that is, to be read or recited aloud. Accordingly this work includes an audio stream in which the translator provides a reading of his version of the poem. This reading is meant to model metrical and rhetorical features of the translation, not to lay down the law about how it should be ‘performed’.”
  • Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c.1500 “This is the home page for pre-c. 1500 western manuscripts, which form one part of the Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. Since the ‘c. 1500’ date is an arbitary dividing-line, these pages encompass many post-c. 1500 items which are nonetheless medieval/renaissance in character, such as 16th century illuminated and liturgical manuscripts, pre-dissolution English monastic works; etc. This page provides links to information both about the manuscript collections themselves, and links to information about other related resources available at the Bodleian.”The websites also makes a large number of images of the Library’s medieval manuscripts available online which can be found, arranged by century and country, under the following link:
  • Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford “The Bodleian Library includes the Old Library, the New Library, the Radcliffe Camera, and seven dependent libraries: the Bodleian Japanese Library, the Bodleian Law Library, the Indian Institute, the Oriental Institute Library, the Philosophy Library, the Radcliffe Science Library and the Rhodes House Library. The OLIS Online Catalogue contains entries for all material catalogued since September 1988 in the Bodleian Library.”
  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first time.”
  • The British Library [National Library of the United Kingdom] The British Library’s Online Information Server (Portico) offers information about the British Library as well as numerous online features (e.g. using the Library’s OPAC for searching and ordering).
  • Cambridge University Library This is the homepage of the Cambridge University Library. The catalogue of its significant holdings can be searched via the WWW.
  • CCBC: Cooperative Children’s Book Center CCBC: The Coopartive Children’s Book Center is an examination, study and research library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The CCBC’s noncirculating collections include current, retrospective and historical books published for children and young adults. A gathering place for books, ideas and expertise, the CCBC is committed to identifying excellent literature for children and adolescents and bringing this literature to the attention of those adults who have an academic, professional or career interest in connecting young readers with books.
  • Chamber’s Book of Days “The ‘Chambers Book of Days’ was written by the Scottish author Robert Chambers and first published in 1832. The ‘Book of Days’ was Chambers’ last publication, and perhaps his most elaborate. It was a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, and it is supposed that his excessive labour in connexion with this book hastened his death.” This website contains an online facsimilie of the book, presented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
  • Chawton House Library: Early Women’s Writing – Novels-On-Line ‘Novels-On-Line is an ongoing project making freely accessible full-text transcripts of some of the rarest works in the Chawton House Library collection. These texts, which explore such broad-ranging themes as satire, slavery, marriage, witchcraft and piracy, signal the rich texture and innovative character of women’s writing in the period 1600 to 1830. In bringing these little-known novels to a wider audience, it is hoped to stimulate interest in these works amongst a new generation of readers and to encourage critical scholarship of some of the more obscure texts and authors represented in the collection.’
  • Chawton House Library: Early Women’s Writing – The Female Spectator ‘The Female Spectator is a quarterly publication produced by Chawton House Library, containing articles on women writers and their work in the long eighteenth century, as well as news about activities at the Library.’
  • Chawton House Library: Early Women’s Writing – Women Writers ‘Chawton House Library is a UK registered charity with a unique collection of books focusing on women’s writing in English from 1600 to 1830. The biographies on this website give insight into the lives and works of some of the writers in the Chawton House Library collection, and look at the reception of their work by their contemporary audience and since.’
  • [Conrad, Jospeh] Online Books by Joseph Conrad This website provides various links to online books by Joseph Conrad.
  • The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection “The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection is one of North America’s leading research centers in the field of children’s literature.The main focus is on American and British children’s literature, historical and contemporary. The Collection holds the original manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1200 authors and illustrators, as well as 85,000+ published books dating from 1530 to the present.” Furthermore the collection provides several online exhibits about young adult and children’s authors. Online research aids include biographical information, discussion on the author’s work, and references to secondary material (e.g. books, articles, web sites).
  • [Dickens, Charles] Charles Dickens: The Life of the Author “In this presentation, The New York Public Library’s Kenneth Benson surveys the life and works of the most beloved author of the Victorian era. Readers will follow Dickens through his childhood, exploring how his writings were both influenced by and reflected his family history and the wider currents of Victorian society. Overcoming the hardships of his youth, he launched his literary career in the 1830s, and his rise was meteoric. This presentation traces the course of Dickens’s ever-increasing fame, from the humorous hijinks of the early Pickwick Papers to the artistic mastery of the great novels of the 1850s and 60s.”
  • Edwin Morgan Archive at the Scottish Poetry Library Selected poems and publications, rare ephemera, and resources for readers and writers. The Edwin Morgan Archive vividly illustrates the breadth, variety and context of his writing, from the 1950s to the 2000’s.
  • First Scottish Books This website contains the only known copies of nine of the earliest books printed in Scotland, which are the most precious items held by the National Library of Scotland in its role as custodian of the nation’s printed heritage. “Known as ‘The Chepman & Myllar Prints’, they were produced in or about 1508 on Scotland’s first printing press, established in Edinburgh (in what is now the Cowgate) by Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar.”
  • The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature “The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, held at New York’s Public Library, is one of America’s most celebrated collections of first editions, rare books, autograph letters, and manuscripts. It was assembled and presented to the New York Public Library by Dr. Albert A. Berg. The Berg Collection contains some 30,000 printed volumes, pamphlets, and broadsides, and 2000 linear feet of literary archives and manuscripts, representing the work of more than 400 authors.”
  • The Huntington Library “The Huntington is one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States in the field of Anglo-American civilization. About four million books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps, and other materials ranging in date from 3500 B.C. to the present are available to scholars. The Library has one of the world’s finest collections of rare books.” Its website offers information on the library and guides to its collections. Furthermore, there are online exhibitions and selected images available.
  • Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library “The Library for the Commonwealth Past, Present and Future is a major resource for those working on the Commonwealth as a whole or on its member states. We specialise in providing material which is unavailable elsewhere in the UK or in the country of origin. The library contains over 150,000 volumes and continually growing, runs more than 9,000 periodicals, 200 archival collections.”
  • International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) “The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) is a research project funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Microsoft Research to create a digital library of outstanding children’s books from all over the world.” The ICDL covers five centuries of publishing and currently holds more than 250 books in 15 languages. The project’sn aim is to eventually cover a 10,000-strong multilingual collection of freely accessible digital books for children between the ages of 3 and 13. The site can be searched via keyword, author, title, category or location.
  • Library of Congress [U.S. national library] The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library. Its mission is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. Through its website, the LOC is offering broad public access to a wide range of information. It presents these materials as part of the record of the past. Information resources and tools presented include the LOC catalogs, American Memory historical collections for the National Digital Library, THOMAS (U.S. Legislative Information), exhibitions, library services, and research tools.
  • Macquarie University Library “Macquarie University Library was opened in 1967. There are approximately one million volumes housed in Macquarie University Library. These items include printed books, journals, newspapers, reports, conference proceedings, working papers, maps, theses, software, microfilm, and additional non-print resources.” The libraries’ web catalogue offers a simultaneous search option in the catalogues of Macquarie University Library, the Universities of Sydney, the University of Newcastle, and the University of Wollongong.
  • Monash University Library Monash University Library houses approximately three million volumes. These items include printed books, journals, newspapers, microfilm, and additional non-print resources. The libraries’ web catalogue offers a simultaneous search option in the catalogues of Monash University Library, Coolcat, CSIRO, Deakin University, Latrobe University, RMIT University, the State Library of Victoria, and the University of Melbourne.
  • [Morris, William] Morris Online Edition The ‘Morris Online Edition’ is a web-based and text-searchable scholarly edition of the poetry and selected prose of William Morris. The working goal of the ‘Morris Online Edition’ is to provide readable annotated texts of Morris’s poetry and selected prose, prepared in accordance with current scholarly and critical norms, using current technology for text-searching, manuscript presentation, and comparison of multiple versions. Our longer-term hope is that we and our successors will bring these together in a complete scholarly edition of Morris’s literary works online.’
  • National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature “The National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature (NCRCL) facilitates and supports research exchange in the field of children’s literature. The NCRCL is based at Roehampton University, which houses several collections which are held in the Children’s Literature Collection and in the Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies.This website provides information about (primarily UK) resources, activities, and individuals, and links to useful World Wide Web sites.”
  • National English Literary Museum This is the website of the National English Literary Museum (NELM) of South Africa. “The mission of the museum is to promote the reading and appreciation of all forms of imaginative South African literature in English. Its principal functions are to collect and conserve material evidence pertaining to this literature, to publicise and popularise it, and to provide all sections of the reading public, both locally and abroad, with the means of access to it.The Museum started in 1972 as a collection of documents and has grown, over the years, into a national resource funded principally by the Central Government.”The NELM website provides links to lists of the collections housed in the museum, research topics and bibliographies, as well as outreach programmes and teaching aids, such the NELM backpack series. NELM backpacks comprise copies of collated biographical material and secondary sources on individual Southern African authors including J.M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Achmat Dangor and Nadine Gordimer,
  • National Library of Australia “The National Library of Australia is Australia’s largest library and is a rich information source for the nation. It was established as a separate entity in 1960 by the National Library Act.” It “offers access to a range of electronic Australiana resources that are available on the Internet and World Wide Web in addition to the more traditional library materials it holds in its collections.”
  • National Library of Canada The National Library of Canada offers a wide variety of services to researchers, librarians, publishers, government agencies and the general public.
  • National Library of Ireland This is the homepage of the National Library of Ireland. As of now, it does not offer any online material other than information on the physical library.
  • National Library of New Zealand – Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa “The National Library of New Zealand is one of New Zealand’s leading cultural and information centres. The unique role of the National Library is to collect and maintain literature and information resources that relates to New Zealand and the Pacific, to make this information readily available, and to preserve the documentary heritage of this country for future generations. The National Library of New Zealand was established in 1966. The National Library’s online catalogue holds all books, serials, videos, microfiche, maps, compact discs and CD-ROMs acquired after 1982.”
  • National Library of Scotland The NLS is Scotland’s premier library, serving both as a general research library of international importance and as the world’s leading repository for the printed and manuscript record of Scotland’s history and culture. The site provides information about its services and collections, including online catalogs, databases, images of historical documents, online exhibitions, and more.
  • National Library of South Africa “The objects of the National Library are to contribute to socio-economic, cultural, educational, scientific and innovative development by collecting, recording, preserving and making available the national documentary heritage and promoting an awareness and appreciation thereof, by fostering information literacy, and by facilitating access to the world’s information resources. […] The National Library of South Africa presently consists of various components that came together on 1 November 1999. The components are: The Cape Town Division, formerly the South African Library. The Pretoria Division, formerly the State Library. The Office of the National Librarian, which is the national head office of the National Library. The Centre for the Book, in Cape Town, a project of the former South African Library.”
  • National Library of Wales – Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru “The National Library of Wales is one of the six largest libraries in Britain” as well as a legal deposit library. Its website offers a wealth of information: access to catalogs, its various departments (printed books, manuscripts, and maps), online exhibitions, and well-assorted links.
  • The Newberry Library “The Newberry Library is an independent research library concentrating in the humanities with an active educational and cultural presence in Chicago. Privately funded, but free and open to the public, it houses an extensive non-circulating collection of rare books, maps and manuscripts.” Its website offers access to the searchable catalog, information about its various collections and publications, and provides a lot of material for research in genealogy.
  • North American Slave Narratives “‘North American Slave Narratives’ collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920.”
  • Online Resources- National Library of Scotland The online databases are bibliographic databases containing details of material relating to Scotland or held in Scottish Libraries. This database contains three separate components: 1. Bibliography of Scotland (BOS): Scotland’s national bibliography brings together over 90,000 records of books, periodicals and major articles of Scottish interest published all over the world. In principle it covers the period from 1976 to the present. 2. Bibliography of Scottish Gaelic (BOSG): It is intended to list books and periodicals published in Gaelic, or containing substantial Gaelic text, from the beginning of Gaelic publishing. 3.Bibliography of the Scottish Book Trade (BSBT): The Bibliography of the Scottish Book Trade (BSBT) is a flexible research tool for the study of an important aspect of intellectual and cultural life in Scotland. It records secondary materials, including monographs, essays in composite works and journal articles, in the fields of publishing, printing, bookselling, journalism, broadcasting, binding, illustration, graphic design, libraries and library history and the transmission of Scottish culture overseas.
  • [Pepys, Samuel] Pepys Library This is the homepage of the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge University. The website contains information on the author, his life, his library, and the building it is housed in.
  • Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s-1860s “This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman Notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995. The Thomas B. Harned collection of the Walt Whitman papers spans the period 1842 to 1937, with most of the items dated from 1855 to 1892. It was donated in 1918. The collection consists of correspondence, poetry and prose manuscripts, notes and notebooks, proofs and offprints, printed matter, and miscellaneous items, laminated and boxed in seven containers, and supplemented by one manuscript box of ancillary material.”
  • Princess Grace Irish Library: EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset) “PGIL EIRData is an ambitious Internet project in Irish studies comprising an extensive set of digital records dealing with Irish literary authors and their works in all periods. In common with Princesss Grace Irish Library (Monaco) to which it belongs, PGIL EirData is a tribute to Irish literary attainments and a testimony to the Princess Grace’s personal attachment to her paternal family origins in Ireland, commemorated in all activities and products of the Library. PGIL EIRData 2000 – the pilot-project – has been conducted in a spirit of discovery as regards the full potential of Internet technology in Irish-studies scholarship. Initial emphasis has been placed on organising a significant volume of digital on the website in conjunction with an electronic search engine to facility targeted researches.” The website offers an A-Z Irish author listing, extensive bibliographies, an OPAC, bulletin, gazette, and an archive.
  • [Shakespeare, William] The Folger Shakespeare Library “A major center for scholarly research, the Folger houses the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, in addition to a magnificent collection of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts on all disciplines – history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts. The collection, astonishing in its range and variety, consists of approximately 280,000 books and manuscripts; 27,000 paintings, drawings, engravings and prints; and musical instruments, costumes and films.” The website features information on events and exhibitions and scholarly resources (publications, fellowships, etc.)
  • [Shakespeare, William] The Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library “The Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library, Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, was begun by Horace Howard Furness, Sr., and continued by Horace Howard Furness, Jr., to make possible their work on the Variorum Edition of the works of William Shakespeare. In 1933, Horace Howard Furness, Jr., donated the Library to Penn. A collection of primary and secondary sources, including both texts and images, that illuminate the theater, literature, and history of Shakespeare, Shakespearean texts, theatrical production, and criticism, Furness Library resources are now being selectively scanned and mounted here to make them available for class and research use and to draw attention to the richer resources available in the Library as a whole.”
  • State Library of New South Wales “The State Library of New South Wales was founded in 1826. The State Library’s collection consists of about five million items and is a premier information source for the people of NSW and beyond. The Library is governed by a Library Council. WEBCAT, the State Library’s catalogue, contains records of published items catalogued since 1980. It includes books, videos, maps, music, electronic media, and periodicals.”
  • State Library of Queensland “The State Library of Queensland’s roots go back to 1896. The State Library is a premier information source for the people of QLD and beyond. The library’s telnet catalogue contains records of various published items, including books, electronic media, and periodicals.”
  • State Library of South Australia “The State Library of South Australia is a premier information source for the people of SA and beyond. The library’s WebPac catalogue provides a search interface for the Library’s three main online catalogue databases.”
  • State Library of Tasmania “The State Library of Tasmania provides for the information, educational, cultural and recreational reading needs of the Tasmanian community, delivered through a network of 50 public libraries, State Reference Library, Parliamentary Library, Department of Education Library, and other facilities. The library’s TALIS online information system provides instant access to the online catalogue.”
  • State Library of Victoria “The State Library of Victoria’s collection contains 1.5 million books, 16,000 current serials, CD-ROMs, reference works, and access to off-site resources. The library’s catalogue is accessible via the web (java and non-java based) and telnet.”
  • Trinity College Library “The Library of Trinity College is the largest research library in Ireland. In addition to the purchases and donations of almost four centuries, the Library is privileged in having the right to legal deposit of British and Irish publications. The Library contains a bookstock of almost four million volumes, twenty thousand current serials, significant holdings of maps and music and an extensive collection of manuscripts, the most famous being The Book of Kells.”
  • Universitaetsbibliothek Kiel | Kanada-Sammlung der UB Kiel The Canadian Document Centre of Kiel University on the one hand offers a collection of approximately 7000 books and journals dealing with Canadian language, literature or culture. On the other hand it provides information on other Canadian document centres, as for example a link to an account of all Canada collections in German libraries.
  • University of Alberta Libraries The resources of the University of Alberta Library Libraries comprise one of the major research collections in Canada. The system consists of 13 subject collections with a total of 3.6 million volumes, 735,000 government documents, 18,000 serials, 400,000 maps, 1,000,000 air photoes, audiovisual resources, and a large collection of research materials in microform. Collection access is provided through an online catalogue system, called The Gate.
  • University of Auckland Library “The University of Auckland Library is part of the Library Electronic Academic Resource Network (LEARN), the library catalogue Voyager includes books, journals, serials, conference proceedings, theses, newspapers, etc. and is searchable by author, title, keyword, and course materials.”
  • University of British Columbia Library “UBC Library is the third largest research library in Canada. There are libraries at 10 locations on campus, each specializing in a particular group of subjects. Together the libraries house over 3.7 million books and journals, 4.7 million microforms, and more than 1.5 million other items. The library catalogues are accessible via telnet or a web interface.”
  • University of Canterbury Library The University of Canterbury Library offers online access to its resources via a web client called PAC. The catalogue is searchable via title, author, keyword, etc. and contains books, journals, and other published resources.
  • University of Ottawa Library Network “The Library Network plays an integral role in the teaching programmes and research untertakings of the University of Ottawa. It consists of three libraries, with specialized services for media, music and maps. A staff of 171 persons are employed in the acquisition, cataloging, access and the use of the Network’s collecitons. The collections of the Library amount to some 4,497,000 physical items.”
  • University of Toronto Libraries “The University of Toronto provides access to an extensive and growing collection of electronic information resources. UTCat, the catalogue of the holdings, represents more than 8 million volumes in the more than 40 libraries at the University. UTCat includes books, journals, government publications, audio-visual materials, etc.”
  • The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress “The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited as typescripts in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. The plays reflect Hurston’s life experience, travels, and research, especially her study of folklore in the African-American South. Totaling 1,068 images, the scripts are housed in the Library’s Manuscript, Music, and Rare Book and Special Collections divisions.”

 

General Resources: English and American Studies Departments

University and Research Departments in the German-Speaking Area

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