While some sites require a subscription to access the material, many sites offer unrestricted access. The gateway sites above provide access to much of this material. The listings here offer additional alternatives. Categories of interest include cultural theory, eighteenth century, fiction, poetry, drama, and feminism. Search is by keyword or category.
Special features are a listing for multicultural literature, plus a listing by individual author.
Also includes newer resources, such as Brit Speak, and access to electronic texts representing many periods in linguistic history. There are a large number of full text, searchable reference works available on the Internet. This work provides brief definitions of literary and historical terms, identification for proper names, and explanations of proverbs and other common expressions. T he online work is a browsable, searchable version of the 1894 edition. Includes citations of and references to examples from poetic literature.