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English & American Literature

Library resources for the undergraduate study of American and English Literature

Varied and Various

Center for Faulkner Studies

Chaucer Metapage  

Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Dialogues 
Theme pages and text pages explore the rich dialogues between colonial and postcolonial perspectives. You will find analysis, links, and resources

Feminist Literary Theory

Geoffrey Chaucer    

Illuminations:The Critical Theory Website
Links to sites of scholars associated with the Critical Theory Project of the Frankfurt School - Adorno, Benjamin, Fromm, Habermas, Horkeimer and Marcuse.

InfoMine 
 INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. 

The Jack London Collection   

Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction

Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism  
Begin the process of understanding literary theory and schools of criticism and how they are used in the academy.

LitLinks    
LitLinks: Literary Links on the Web. This site lists many of the best literary links on the web.

Literaryhistory.com 
 Literaryhistory.com catalogs credible literary criticism on nineteenth and twentieth century English and American literature that is available on the free internet.

The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies
More than 40,000 items related to John Steinbeck.

The Monstrous Feminine in Literature and Art

NINES: Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online
Aggregates more than 400,000 peer-reviewed digital objects from 210 federated sites. You will need to create a free account to use this resource.

Structural Analysis

The Victorian Literary Studies Archive: Hyper-Concordance 
A concordance of the works of many Victorian authors. Also covers select British, Irish and American Modernists.

Victoria Research Web
19th century Britain and designed to assist researchers with all areas of scholarly inquiry. Includes research resources, a journal guide, guide to discussion groups and blogs, teaching resources and links to other Victorian resources.

Voice of the Shuttle - Literary Theory
A good starting point to other free resources on the net (many by scholars) for many Critical Theory topics.

Websites for English Students and Faculty
 A customized search engine developed by a librarian and many English faculty at WCU. This uses the power of Google to search some quality websites.

The William Blake Archive    
A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the Carolina Digital Library and Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.