This guide is developed to assist students researching topics in literary and cultural studies, composition and rhetoric, and film and media studies. Refer to other subject guides and the tabs below for related resources.
A collaborative initiative from six research institutions, this digital resource comprises works of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
From the Beinecke Library at Yale University: "The Langston Hughes Papers contain letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of the well-known African-American poet. Currently, only a portion of these papers are available online."
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.
The EServer's primary function is to publish texts in the arts and humanities. Collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music.
25,000 texts from the Early English Books collection, transcribed and encoded by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) and freely available for searching and downloading. Facsimile pages of the books are available through the library's subscription to Early English Books online.
The Open Library of Humanities is "dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs)." Articles are vetted through a peer review process.
This site focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color. You can browse by the author's name, birthplace, racial/ethnic background, or by significant dates. This is an archived site that was decommissioned in 2014.
Part of the larger, highly regarded Voice of the Shuttle site. Provides links to primary texts, literary criticism and biographical information on African American writers.
Wonderful site that covers Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century British literature. Includes many known authors from each period with biographies, bibliographies, essays, and other links.
Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Includes extensive resources including scholarly texts, critical essays, chronologies, and blogs.
From the University of California-Santa Barbara: "... priority is to archive all of the surviving ballads published during the heyday of the black-letter ornamental broadside ballad of the 17th century."
This site from Marygrove College, provides an interactive map of "locations with literary significance in and around Detroit and provides bibliographies of works by and about Detroit writers. . . The editor is Frank D. Rashid: frashid@marygrove.edu." [quoted from site]
25,000 texts from the Early English Books collection, transcribed and encoded by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) and freely available for searching and downloading. Facsimile pages of the books are available through the library's subscription to Early English Books online.
Contains over 2550 freely available famous and important texts. This includes many literary works. Browse or search for titles and download the text or compressed file from one of many FTP sites.
From the Folger Shakespeare Library: "The Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama is a hub for exploring over 400 early modern English plays that were performed in London's professional theaters between 1576 and 1642. "