Literature

The EServer is an electronic resource that hosts a wealth of literary materials, the majority of which is of literary relevance, but also includes poetry, political commentary, cultural studies, language theory, and philosophy. The server, which contains more than 35,000 documents, allows access via the web, several local area network protocols, and FTP, so that users may locate items of interest via search engines or by browsing by subject and publication name. The EServer also contains collections of reviewed external web pages.

The electronic home of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) offers membership information, conference information, links to graduate programs in relevant areas, and association announcements.

Some of the most useful features on the Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory web site, edited by George P. Landow of Brown University and the National University of Singapore, are the links to other sites and the bibliographic and citation data provided on the pages at this site.

A project of Pennsylvania State University Libraries' Electronic Text Center, this web site offers access to images and texts from emblem books (ones that combine pictures and text in an allegorical theme). Users can search the site's database, which contains scanned images, tables of content, and bibliographies of emblem texts. A contemporary scholarly bibliography is also available.

A Celebration of Women Writers supplies alphabetical, chronological, or geographic indexes of women writers. Most records have names, dates, ethnicity, and countries of origin, and many have images and link to online works, bibliographies, criticism, or more extensive biographical material. This web site also offers links to specialized web resources and bibliographies on women writers of a particular time, place, or genre. This project is actively involved in creating web editions of out-of-copyright works by women authors and welcomes ideas and volunteers.

The Marxist Internet Archive contains full-text documents of Marxist literature, including works by authors such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, and Connolly. Users can search the web site according to author, subject, and language (a non-English section offers works in 31 languages). The archive contains author biographies and photographs and encyclopedias of Marxism and Trotskyism.

Hosted by the University of Michigan, Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction during the nineteenth century. This web site provides access to the scanned collection, which contains more than 8500 books and more than 50,000 journal articles on subjects like education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Two search engines allow for a variety of searches, including Boolean, proximity, frequency, bibliographic, and index.

As part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Documenting the American South" project, the "North American Slave Narratives" web site is a virtual library of primary documents pertaining to the African-American struggle for emancipation in the US from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. The collection contains a searchable database of approximately 200 digitized and encoded electronic texts by authors like Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

EuroDocs, sponsored by Brigham Young University, is a portal to transcriptions, translations, and facsimiles of (mainly primary) historical documents about Western Europe. Listed chronologically, the documents provide broad coverage of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Western European countries from the medieval times up until the present. EuroDocs is divided into three sections: medieval and Renaissance Europe, Europe as a supranational region, and 24 individually listed countries from Albania to Vatican City.

Duke University's Papyrus Archive web site provides electronic access to texts about and images of more than 1400 ancient Egyptian papyri. Users will find comprehensive overviews of the archive and papyrology in general; links to other papyrology sites; and a searchable database of manuscripts that contains detailed cataloguing information. The site also provides access to Duke's bibliography of monographic volumes, the Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets.