Creative Writing/Literature
The following Web sites provide helpful information for students studying creative writing/literature and for faculty teaching it.
"Atlantic Unbound is at once The Atlantic Monthly's home on the Web and an evolving online publication." Through this page you can access the Atlantic's Audio Anthology of Contemporary Poets, and you can search for past or current articles, interviews, poems, stories, etc.
Bibliographical Society of America
This has articles and such on bibliography and textual criticism.
"The Electronic Beowulf Project is a vast database of digitized Beowulf manuscripts which allows the intrepid scholar to examine the ancient manuscripts in the comforts of his own office. Expanding every day, this site currently features fiber-optic and ultra-violet readings of erasures in the eleventh century manuscript. Soon the site will be adding full manuscript illuminations. All Beowulf scholars should check this site out."
The Internet Book Information Center (IBIC) Guide to Internet Book-Related Resources
IBIC offers a categorized list of helpful research links accompanied by descriptions and grouped in several categories including authors, publishers, booksellers, libraries, etc. So you can use this site to find research information, books to buy, or books to borrow.
"The Literary Arts WebRing™ is a community of Internet sites representing the very best the Web has to offer in the art, craft, and business of fiction, poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Here you will find online publications, writer's organizations, instructional material, and information of interest to all readers and writers."
The Literary Index at Vanderbilt University
"The Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature. This site is not intended to be an exhaustive index of all literary resources; rather it functions both as a descriptive meta-index to all things literary and as a review of the most important lists of literary resources and collections of literary links that proliferate on the Internet."
Literary Resources on the Internet
Jack Lynch runs this web page from the University of Pennsylvania, and our own Dr. Mark Trevor Smith calls it "the best site for browsing through Web lit. offerings." You have the options of conducting a keyword search (including author's names) or browsing through literary categories (e.g., Classical and Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, etc.).
Use this major Internet search engine to find homepages or related sites for authors anywhere on the web. Authors accessible through this engine are categorized by genre.
