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This list was compiled and annotated by Cathy Eaton and Kristina Lucas, English Professors at
NHTI, Concord's Community College. Please send good literature and writing sites with title, brief explanation, and web address to ceaton@ccsnh.edu. Please contact us if web address links are inactive.
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- American Literature
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- Women in Literature
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Academic Info - American Literature GatewayTOP Native American Literature
Directory of Online American Literature Resources:
American Authors, American Poetry,
Digital Publications, and Periods of American Literature
http://www.academicinfo.net/amlit.html American Authors on the Web
100 General Resources of American Literature, Genres, Poetry, Movements
791 American authors listed by decades (1590 to 1950) with many live links
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html#Authors Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events, 1620-1920
Short chronology of events in American history and literature.
American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/timefram.html The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Essay topics range from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. Selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, Yiddish and Creole writers
http://www.bartleby.com/225/index.html Contemporary Authors
Data base provided by NHTI library (limited number of users and subscribers). Provides biographical and bibliographical information 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Username and Password available through NHTI library. Username: Conc90075; Password: Conc90075
http://www.galenet.com/index.html Hawthorne in Salem Website
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Complete collection of all his writings, extensive criticism, biographical information, timelines, maps of Salem, images, photographs, and architecture. Professor Cathy Eaton helped create this website.
http://hawthorneinsalem.org/ Heath Anthology of American Literature Web Site
Electronic resources for Heath Anthology. Primary and secondary materials: i.e. Life at the Turn of the Century; Slavery and Abolition; Women in Literature
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/reader_tc.html The Heath Anthology as Technology
How American literature is enhanced and transformed with the use of electronic tools and technology resources.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html Heath Guide to American Literature Volume II Web Sites
Online American Literature Resources. Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910, Modern Period: 1901-1945, and Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/lit_links2.html PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project by Paul B. Reuben
Literary movements in American literature i.e. Early American Lit to 1700, Early American Lit 1700-1800, 19th C Romanticism, 19th C Transcendentalism, Late 19th C Realism, Late 19th C Naturalism, Early 20th C Modernism, American Drama, The Harlem Renaissance, and Late 20th C
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm Questia: The world's largest online library
Subscribing
Useful for finding original sources for research: literature, literary criticism, theatre history as well as background information on politics, history, and context. Information from books, magazines, published and unpublished papers. Need to subscribe if you want complete information.
http://www.questia.com
Native American Authors: Index by AuthorTOP Poetry
Native North American authors (primarily contemporary) with bibliographies, biographies, and links to online sources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites.
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/authors#EStorytellers: Native American Authors Online
This website chronicles alphabetically Native American story tellers, essayists, poets, etc with biographical links, literature published available online, and links to published work. Also Story Telling information.
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/alfa.html
American PoemsTOP Short Stories: Authors, Biographies, Interview, & Critical Commentaries
Short (or a bit longer) biography of the poet, including links to their poems, some of which have user comments and analysis
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets American Verse Project
The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/ Academy of American Poets
There are more than 400 essays and interviews on Poets.org, and many of them deal with the writing process. Read prose pieces that discuss poetic techniques, interviews about the writing life, and browse our glossaries of poetic terms and concepts.
http://poets.org/page.php/prmID/55 Artist Biographies: Voices from the Gaps
VG's intent is to use new digital media to preserve and extend knowledge of art by women of color. VG focuses on the lives and works of North American minority women artists and writers, visual artists, performance artists, musicians, sonic artists, and filmmakers.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/VG/Bios/ Bartleby
Website for searching for poets, first lines, and titles of poems.
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/ Jack Kerouac's Blue Neon Alley
The Gateway to the Beat Generation on the World Wide Web. "A source for the best 'Beat' sites on the web, with references and resources about writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and others."
http://www.neonalley.org/ Blue Flower Arts by Alison Granucci
Represents many of the most distinguished and acclaimed poets, writers, and speakers of our time for readings, lectures, conferences, and special events at colleges, universities, theaters, and festivals.
http://www.blueflowerarts.com/index.html Famous Poets and Poems
A collection of poems and biographies from over 627 poets.
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets.html Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/ Glossary of Poetry Terms
(Click here for link) Internet Poetry Archive
7 poets read a selection of their own poetry; panels discusses each poet
Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/ JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Wonderful source for critical commentary.
http://www.jstor.org LitFinder (poetry)
Full texts of 168,000 poems and biographical information on poets. This database is provided for NHTI students and faculty. Username: newxha78; password: newx7g9k Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
Scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry. Excellent criticism on the best poets of our time.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to
Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford University Press, 2000)
Edited by Cary Nelson
There are 161 poet companion sites with critical analysis of poems (poems not included)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm Open Directory: Poetry
Biographies, Critical Analysis, and Links
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Poets/ Poetry Archieves at emule.com
Database is searchable by first-line, author and poem title
http://www.emule.com/poetry/ The Poem Tree: An Anthology of Metered Poetry
Poems and Essays about Metered Poetry
http://www.poemtree.com/ A Poem a Day for American High Schools
A new poem posted everyday with brief introduction by poet
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ Poem Hunter
Our database contains 168,207 poems from 16,474 poets, 126,006 Songs, 10,148 Artists, 64,870 Quotations.
http://www.poemhunter.com/ The Poem Tree: An Anthology of Metered Poetry
Poems and Essays about Metered Poetry
http://www.poemtree.com/ Poetry 180
Billy Collins, former poet laureate, selected 180 poems to be read out loud.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ Poetry and War
In the 20th century, the horrors and irreversible changes created by modern warfare changed poetry for good.The thirty or so poems in this selection (written between 1914 and 1998) demonstrate - among many other things - this change.
http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/poetry/index.html Poetry.com.au
Large collections of original and classic poetry. Search by poem title or poet.
http://www.poetry.com.au/ The Poetry Archive
The Poetry Archive is a treasure-trove of English-language poets reading their own work.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/poetsHome.do Poetry International WebA
A worldwide forum for poetry on the internet. PIW brings you news, essays, interviews and discussion, but, first and foremost, hundreds of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation. Also biographical information and essays.
(Click here for link) Poetry Magazines of the United Kingdom
Access to site to the full-text digital library of 20th and 21st century UK poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/ Poetry Online - Wired for Books
33 poets read their work or have their poetry read. Oral interviews with 13 poets. Photographs.
http://www.wiredforbooks.org/poetry/ Poetry Out Loud
Poets perform their own work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/ Poets Against War Poets
Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
http://www.poetsagainstwar.net/poemsoftheweek.asp Poets.org at The Academy of American Poets
Poets.org currently features biographies of more than 500 poets and numerous poems
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/58 Poets' Corner: Anthology of Poems
Named after the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, this site is possibly the most comprehensive poetry anthology on the internet. It is maintained by four poetry lovers. However, it includes only poetry which has fallen into the public domain (meaning poetry published before 1923), and typos abound.
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html Representative Poetry Online: Canadian
Includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm Sonnet Central
Archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets are grouped by period and author.
http://www.sonnets.org Web English Teacher: General Poetry Site
Lesson plans and activities for teaching specific types of poetry or poetry in general. Sites and Activities for Specific Poets and Collections of Poetry are also available. This page features lesson plans and activities for teaching specific types of poetry or poetry in general. Sites and Activities for Specific Poets and Collections of Poetry are also available.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetrygeneral.html
Artist Biographies: Voices from the GapsTOP Theater and Drama
VG's intent is to use new digital media to preserve and extend knowledge of art by women of color. VG focuses on the lives and works of North American minority women artists and writers, visual artists, performance artists, musicians, sonic artists, and filmmakers.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/VG/Bios/ Classic Reader
Site offers a large collection of free classic books, plays, and short stories by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. A selection of author biographies and portraits are also made available. This collection of classic stories currently contains 3226 works of literature (including 1830 short stories) by 326 authors
http://www.classicreader.com/ JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Wonderful source for critical commentary
http://www.jstor.org LitFinder
Full texts of 168,000 poems and biographical information on poets. This database is provided for NHTI students and faculty. Username: newxha78; password: newx7g9k Individual AuthorsMargaret Atwood
"Happy Endings" [text]
Biography
Critical Perspective
BBC Interviews
Salon Interview
Mother Jones Ambrose Bierce Raymond Carver
Biography:
http://www.whitman.edu/english/carver/biography1.html
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Carver,_Raymond/
http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/authors/cormier.cfm
Interviews: http://titan.iwu.edu/~jplath/carver.html Willa Cather
Website: http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Cather,_Willa/ Anton Chekov Kate Chopin
Short Stories & The Awakening [Texts]
Interviews about production of The Awakening Robert Cormier
Biographies:
http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/authors/cormier.cfm
http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=80 Ralph Ellison Stephen Crane
Biographies:
http://www.online-literature.com/crane/
(Click here for link)
Biography & Questions on "Open Boat"
The Wreck of the Commodore [text]
The Stephen Crane Society
Stephen Crane's Short Stories and Poems [texts]
Selected Works [texts] Louise Erdrich F. Scott Fitzgerald Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction: Critical Commentary, Biography & Photography
"Rappachini's Daughter" [text]
Complete works [texts] Ernest Hemingway
Biography
Hemingway Resource Center
Letters, Critical Analysis, Reviews of his writing O. Henry Mary Hood
Biography
Interview Zora Neale Hurston Washington Irving Shirley Jackson Sarah Orne Jewett
Biography
Sylvia as Hero in Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron"
"The White Heron" [text]
Complete works [texts] Jack London Joyce Carol Oates
Interviews
Websites:
(Click here for link) Tim O'Brien Flannery O'Connor Cynthia Ozick
Biography
Interview
Review of "The Shawl" and "Rosa" Edgar Allan Poe
Biography: http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/bio/
Short stories and poems: http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/works/ [texts]
Critical Commentary: http://www.poedecoder.com/
Teacher Resources
Web site Katherine Porter John Steinbeck
Web site James Thurber Mark Twain John Updike Alice Walker
Critical Commentaries on "Everyday Use"
Web sites:
(Click here for link)
(Click here for link) William Carlos Williams
Biography
Student project biography
"The Use of Force" [text]
13 William Carlos Williams' poems
Critical Commentaries
Web site Tobias Wolff
"Hunters in the Snow" [text] Richard Wright
Biography and Critical Commentary
Web sites:
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wright_richard/
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/W/Wright,_Richard/
LitFind (plays)TOP Women In Literature: Images of Women in Literature
Complete text of 708 plays. This database is provided for NHTI students and faculty. User and password available at NHTI library. [Username: newxha78; password: newx7g9k]
http://www.litfinder.com/login.asp Live Broadway: The League of American Theatres and Producers
Contemporary Broadway productions as well as Broadway plays and musicals currently touring the country. Background info on writers, composers, producers, directors, actors & designers. History for research purposes being added.
http://www.broadway.org TCG: Theatre Communications web site
Excellent source for current and recent theatre facts, figures, personalities and actual play scripts (usually not published in other sources). Focus: non-profit, professional, live theatre, experimental theatre & newer works.
http://www.tcg.org
Artist Biographies: Voices from the GapsTOP
VG's intent is to use new digital media to preserve and extend knowledge of art by women of color. VG focuses on the lives and works of North American minority women artists and writers, visual artists, performance artists, musicians, sonic artists, and filmmakers.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/VG/Bios/ Celebration of Women Writers
Biographies, Original Texts, Interviews, Critical Analysis
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Wonderful source for critical commentary
http://www.jstor.org Society for the Study of American Women Writers
The Society is committed to diversity in the study of American women writers -- racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual orientation, region, and era -- as well as of scholars participating in the Society
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/ 19th Century American Women Writers
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/eTextLib.htm African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/eTextLib.htm The Online Archive of Nineteenth Century Women Writers
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gcarr/19cUSWW/ Individual AuthorsFleur Adcock
Biography
Critical Perspective Maya Angelou
Biography
Biography/Criticism Margaret Atwood
Biography
Critical Perspective
BBC Interviews
Salon Interview
Mother Jones Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn links
Aphra Behn Chronology
Biography and Selected Works Elizabeth Bishop
Biography:
(Click here for link)
http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop/
Commentary:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19637
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/fish.htm Anne Bradstreet
Biography: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/bradbio.htm
Bibliography of Biography and Criticism
National Public Radio interviews with poet Charlotte Gordon, author of Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet:
(Click here for link)
Student paper on Bradstreet with References Lorna Dee Cervantes
Biography & Criticism
Web site Kate Chopin
Short Stories & The Awakening [Texts Online]
(Click here for link)
Introduction
Biography Sandra Cisneros
Biography
(Click here for link) Judith Ortiz Cofer
Reviews and Biography: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/87
(Click here for link)
(Click here for link) Emily Dickenson
(Click here for link)
Biography
Poets writing about Emily Dickenson and her poetry
(many sound clips)
Emily Dickenson's letters
Writing by family members and critical commentaries Annie Dillard Louise Erdrich Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Introduction
Biography
Bibliography Nikki Giovanni
Biography
Interviews
Black Arts Movement Joy Harjo
Introduction
Biography & Online Works Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction: Biography, Critical Commentary, Images
Women in Hawthorne
"Rappachini's Daughter" [text] Zora Neale Hurston Gish Jen
Interview
Articles
(Click here for link) Sarah Orne Jewett
Biography
Sylvia as Hero in Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" by Kelley Griffith, Jr. http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/ess/griffith.html
"The White Heron" [text] Maxine Hong Kingston
Biography, Bibliography & Criticism
Chronology, Issues & Themes
http://www.cc.nctu.edu.tw/~pcfeng/CALF/ch1.htm Edna St. Vincent Millay
Biographies:
Biography
http://www.sappho.com/poetry/e_millay.html
(Click here for link) Naomi Shihab Nye
Biography
Interview with Bill Moyers Joyce Carol Oates
Interviews Mary Oliver Cynthia Ozick
Biography Grace Paley
Biography & Themes
Interview: http://www.salon.com/11/departments/litchat1.html Sylvia Plath
Bibliography: http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/plath.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=pla-76
Online Essays & Papers: http://www.sylviaplath.de/ Katherine Porter Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Bibliography of Critical Perspectives
Biography
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84summer/burton.htm
(Click here for link) Sonia Sanchez
Biography Sappho
http://www.sappho.com/poetry/sappho.html
Images in art Leslie Marmon Silko
Introduction
Interview: http://www.altx.com/interviews/silko.html
Essay on Border Patrol Susan Sontag
Biography: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sontag.htm Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Introduction
Address @ First Women's Rights Convention Amy Tan
Biography: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/tan_amy.html
Interview: http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/tan3.html Alice Walker
Critical Commentaries on "Everyday Use":
http://home.online.no/~helhoel/walker.htm
(Click here for link)
(NHTI 2004-2006 Required Handbook for En 100 and En 101) Students gain access code packaged with new text. Includes E-Book, exercises, resources, and ability to take note and personalize handbook.TOP APA Format: Research & Documenting Sources
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NHTI Research Paper Handbook - APA DocumentationTOP Early Stages In Writing: Getting Started: Pre-Writing
Written and compiled by Professors Cathy Eaton and Dan Huston
http://www.nhti.edu/learningcenter/apahandbook.pdf Opposing Viewpoints
Access to more than 100 controversial issues - each one with multiple articles exploring different points of view.
[Username and Password available through NHTI library. Username: Conc90075; Password: Conc90075]
http://www.galenet.com/index.html Research Paper Guidelines - APA Format
http://www.apastyle.org/ Researching and Documenting Sources
The OWL writing lab at Purdue University covers productive web searches, evaluating sources, how to write a research paper, quoting, paraphrasing, & summarizing as well as sample outline and how to write a thesis sentence.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/
from Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate
"Getting an A on an English Paper."TOP Revising
Written by Jack Lynch, a "witty and sensible" guide to effective writing which includes additional reading and links to thesis, research, style, mechanics, and close reading.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/EngPaper/ Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Numerous writing strategies by Chuck Guilford at Boise State University: Discovering a subject. Organizing, revising, & editing your writing. Thesis sentence. Support essay. Informal essays. Exploratory essays. Argumentative essays. Exercises. Graphic organizers.
http://www.powa.org/ Thesis Sentences
When You Don't Know Enough About a Subject to Form a Thesis. Links to brainstorming, thesis, outline and research sites. From The UVic Writer's Guide: The Essay
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/EssayThesisDontKnow.html
Putting Voice into a Paper.TOP Grammar and Punctuation
Tips, activity suggestions, and works cited, by Krysti Sibley Revision Strategies.
Discussion with interactive exercises (word choice, effective sentences) Writing Conclusions.
Offers points for more interesting conclusions and strategies to avoid.
http://troy.troy.edu/writingcenter/handouts/WritingConclusions.doc
Elements of Style.
Strunk & White's handbook of concise advice on usage and composition.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5/html
All of the handbook.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/ Guide to Grammar and Writing.
(sponsored by Capital Community College Fund) Cache of 150 interactive exercises for punctuation, grammar, sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Send questions to Ask Grammar.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ Useful PowerPoint presentations on grammar & punctuation guidelines: i.e. run-on-sentences, sentence fragments, commas, semi-colons, clauses, apostrophes, subject-verb agreement.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ Interactive grammar quizzes
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ Grammar Help
200 Handouts available from the Purdue Online Writing Lab.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
TOP Resume and Cover Letter Writing
PowerPoint guidelines to writing a resume and cover letter as you seek jobsWriting Exercises
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/resumes.ppt
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/cover.ppt Writing the Resume
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/resume.html
Interactice exercises for practice.TOP Writing for the Humanities
Topics included writing process, coherence, simple sentences, coordination-subordination, past tense, past participle, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, confused words.
Explicating a poemTOP Technical Writing
Glossary of literary terms
How to prepare for an essay exam (handouts and resource links)
Questions about literature
Writing about art
Writing about film
Writing about history
Writing in the biological sciences
Writing in the health sciences
Writing about literature
Writing about theatre
Writing Journal Articles for Engineering and Science JournalsEnglish As a Second Language
Format guidelines including limited summary descriptions; links to sample article and sample brief.
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/ Writing Lab Reports
Discussion of abstracts, intros and procedures/methods, results and discussion, conclusions, appendices; guidelines and sample reports from Virginia Tech's Engineering Department.
Additional Resources link to Illinois, Toronto, and Wisconsin
ESL Quiz CenterTOP Revised August 2004
Interactive exercises for grammar, including counting/non-counting nouns, grammar, idioms and slang, reading comprehension and punctuation
http://a4esl.org/a/g.html Vocabulary building (ESL)
Interactive quizzes; American expressions, idioms
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/main/vocabulary.htm