Literature: British Online Resources
This guide will assist you in doing research in the fields of American and English Literature.
Professional Associations
Here are some literary associations and organizations that may be of interest to you:
- International Society for the Study of NarrativeCheck out the section on Wikis and Teaching Resources
- MLA – Allied OrganizationsList of literary societies and professional associations whose purposes are closely related to those of the MLA.
English (British) Literature Websites
Here are some links that will help you as you research English (British) literature: authors, works, and literary criticism.
- Bartleby.com : Great Books OnlinePublishes literature, reference, and verse. Provides students with unlimited free access to books and information on the web.
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in 18 VolumesConsidered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
- Camelot ProjectSources on King Arthur and scholarly Arthurian literature.
- Digital Book IndexDigital Book Index provides links to more than 155,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 135,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
- Discovering Literature: Romantics and VictoriansThe British Library brings19th-century classics to students, and introducing them to 19th-century literary and cultural history.
- Encyclopedia Mythica“The award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.” This source covers much more than British lore.
- Internet Public Library: Literary CriticismAlthough no longer supported, the ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
- JURNOpen access to over 4,300 journals.
- Literary HistoryThis easy-to-navigate site maintains a collection of annotated links on 19th-century British and 20th century British and American writers.
- Project GutenbergOffers over 36,000 free ebooks to download.
- Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation (OP)Audio and video clips taken from various Shakespeare plays in their original voice.
- Shmoop: Study Guides and Teacher ResourcesSmart, fresh guides to great literature by Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley PhD students.
English (British) Literature Blogs
- Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.
Masterworks of British Literature
A blog written by a literature professor at the University of Connecticut.- Reviews and critiques of international novels.
English (British) Literature Twitter Accounts
- Dead Authors on Twitter“The writers themselves may no longer be with us, but clever fans are impersonating them on Twitter, imagining what the scribes would have said if they’d had access to the microblogging service. Here are the best dead author Twitter accounts we could find.”
English (British) Literature Podcasts
Audio and video interviews
Here are listed sites that provide actual audio and/or video interviews with noted authors.
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BBC – Archive – Modern Writers – Interviews with remarkable authors
One of the only surviving audio clips of C.S. Lewis’ radio addresses. Recorded on March 21, 1944, it eventually became Beyond Personality, and further became Book Four of Mere Christianity.