Note: I've included some links to specific authors web sites that I enjoyed, but I've also included some Really Comprehensive Lists of authors on other web sites, which may take some time to sift through.
Literature:
English____________________American_____________Other literature in English
Medieval Literature                 (Comprehensive listings)             Irish Literature
Shakespearean Studies            Colonial  Literature                     African & Caribbean Literature
17th century                            19th Century Literature               Indian & South Asian Literature
18th century novels                 20th Century Literature               South African Literature
Victorian Literature                 American Poetry                         World Poetry
Modern English Literature
English Poetry
 
Search the Publicly Accessible part of the Modern English Collection (the section of the University of Virginia's collection which is accessible to outsiders.)

Writing, and teaching writing

Children's literature
Women's literature
 
Linguistics
Linguistics Links
Language Families
Lexical Functional Grammar A glossary of Rhetorical Terms (with examples)

Poetry
Drama
           Middle English Plays
           Shakespearean Studies
                     Contemporary Drama

Theory & Criticism
 
 
American Literature
 American Authors on the Web (from Nagoya University, Japan) (a Really comprehensive list of American authors. You have been warned.)
American Literature Survey  (a class outline from the University of Austin. Page down and you'll see an impressive amount of American Literature Links)
American (and English) Literature
American Poetry

Colonial Literature
American Literature 1550-1750
Puritanism and the Colonial Period

19th Century American Literature:
The Rise of National Literature
Slave Narratives
Useful Critical links to sites on Nathaniel Hawthorne
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Mark Twain Resources on the web
Edgar Allen Poe
Why I wrote the Yellow Wallpaper, By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edith Wharton
The Life and Works of Herman Melville (an excellent page, with no mention of Bartleby Scrivener)
Henry James (1842-1916)
Willa Cather home page
 

20th Century American Literature:
Jewett, Sarah Orne. 1910. The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Native American Authors Online
20th century literature
Zora Neale Hurston
Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
The Papa Page (Hemingway Links)
F.Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Modern Literature
Raymond Carver
Toni Morrison
The Chicano Literature Index 
 
 

Medieval and Elizabethan Literature
The Canterbury Tales (The compleat text)
A Graduate Seminar on the Canterbury Tales, (from Washington State University, with useful  resources for reference)
 On-line reference books for Medieval Studies
(This is an excellent site for medieval literature, but beware of links with UVA after the title; this means they come from the University of Virginia.  Some of these files cannot be accessed by outsiders)
The Labyrinth: resources for Medieval Studies
Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
The Dream of the Rood (translated)
Middle English Plays
Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Home page
Medieval Feminist Index
Sonnet Central
Renaissance English Literature(1485-1603)

17th Century
English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)  (A cool site)
17th century resources (gopher)
Gothic Literature
Pope and Swift (gopher)
17th Century Women Writers
 

18th Century Novels
The Bluestocking Archive (rather a long wait for this site to load, but it has some things not seen elsewhere)
Jane Austen Info Page
18th Century Novel Research Guide
 

Victorian Literature:
Victorian Web Sites (another exhaustive/exhausting list from Nagoya University.)
The Dickens Page
Criticism of Lewis Carroll's writings

20th Century English Literature:
Virginia Woolf Page
T.S. Eliot
Evelyn Waugh
Graham Greene
A View of E.M. Forster
Virginia Woolf's review of E.M. Forster's novels
A View of D.H. Lawrence
Dylan Thomas
 

Children's Literature:
Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources Menu Page
C.S. Lewis and the Inklings
Rosemary Sutcliffe Bibliography
Arthur Rackham links
The Wind in the Willows
Lloyd Alexander (biographical information)
Introduction to the Mabinogion
 
Women's Literature:
Medieval Feminist Index
The Bluestocking Archive
Women's writers project
Women's writing on the web
17th Century Women Writers
Virginia Woolf Page

African & Caribbean literature:
AfricaLinks
Research in African Literature
Ngugi wa Thiongo
An analysis of Soyinka s Hamlet 
SOAS: Research and Publications

Caribbean literature
African & Caribbean Literature References
Christophine:  History and Literature of the Caribbean
Short Jean Rhys Biography
 
South African Literature:
South African Poetry Sites on the web
The Landsdowne Local (reviews of South African Literature)
Interview with Nadine Gordimer

Indian & South Asian Literature:
Indian Literature in English
Indian Authors on the web
Mailing list on Indian and South Asian Writers
South Asian Writers writing in English
 

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