Related Links
Digital Books
COLLECTIONS:
The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
At over 10,000 books listed to date, this is THE site for
finding full text books on the Web. It is now updated at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Classic Reader
http://www.classicreader.com/
Includes over 600 books and over 900 short stories. for the
most part fiction, short stories, and children's literature
The English Server Fiction Collection
http://eserver.org/fiction/
Full text of books "of and about fiction". Includes short
fiction, novels, magazines, other sites, criticism, awards, drama,
and poetry
Banned Books On-Line
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
Censored or challenged books selected from the On-Line Books
Page (see above).
The American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
" The American Verse Project is a collaborative project
between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI)
and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an
electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to
1920."
Scribbling Women
http://www.scribblingwomen.org/
"Scribbling Women, a project of The Public Media Foundation,
dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio
broadcast." Listen to: "A Wagner Matinee" by Willa Cather, "The
Yellow Wallpaper"by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and "A Jury of her
Peers" by Susan Glaspell. Curriculum materials for these and other
stories are available on a fee basis. No fee sign up required the
stories and lesson plans.
INDIVIDUAL WORKS
Mother Goose
http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/literature/mothergoose/
Full-text of nursery rhymes, some with illustrations, and
links to other Mother Goose sites.
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/
This site comes from a Louisiana Public Broadcasting
production about the life and work of Louisiana writer Kate Chopin.
"Kate Chopin scandalized the 19th century and triggered a
revolution in the 20th. She set her stories in New Orleans and in
the bayous and backwaters of Louisiana-a lush Creole world that
awakened desire and longings for freedom. Lost for over half a
century, her fiction has been unearthed and rediscovered for our
time." The site includes the full-text of her most popular work,
The Awakening and many short stories.
Emily Post's 1922 Etiquette in Society, in Business, in
Politics and at Home.
http://www.bartleby.com/95/
A fun selection from the Bartleby Library with chapter
headings like: "One's Position in the Community," "The Chaperon and
Other Conventions," and "The Growth of Good Taste in America."
Indeed, in a quotation from this last chapter, Miss Post's perky
optimism shines through, "The present generation is at least ahead
of some of its "very proper" predecessors in that weddings do not
have to be set for noon because a bridegroom's sobriety is not to
be counted on later in the day!"
My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/
This Website, part of a Master's thesis project in English
literature that focused on Information Sciences, offers an
electronic version of the original 1831 edition of Shelley's
Frankenstein. The text is fully annotated, including discussion of
literary allusions, character analysis, thematic content, and
historical references. Also included is a brief biography of Mary
Shelley with additional references, a literary analysis of the
book's subtitle, "A Modern Prometheus," and annotated links to
sites with related materials on Shelley and the circle of romantic
poets with whom she was involved and who, apparently, inspired her
"hideous progeny." -Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture [QuickTime,
RealPlayer]
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/
This site from the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the
Humanities at the University of Virginia contains a plethora of
materials concerning Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and
the nation's response to it. The site features a complete
electronic edition of the first published version of the novel
along with the various prefaces Stowe wrote for different editions
as well as audio versions of most of the Christian hymns presented
in the text. Users can also examine and compare different published
editions of the text using 3-D applications as well as view
selected manuscript pages and sheets from the novel's original
newspaper serialization side-by-side. The site's unique value,
though, lies in the documents it presents that elucidate the
novel's historical and cultural context. Included here are
anti-slavery and Christian abolitionist texts, materials on
Sentimental Culture in the nineteenth century, newspaper reviews of
the text, articles and notices, and both African-American and
Pro-Slavery responses to it. The subsequent media history of the
novel's adaptations in songs, children's books, plays, and films is
also represented here. As if that isn't enough, the site offers "an
interactive timeline, virtual exhibits to accompany the primary
material, and lesson plans for teachers and student projects." The
entire site--including the individual text of Uncle Tom's
Cabin--can be easily searched or browsed. -Copyright Internet Scout
Project 1994-2000.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
