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Writing Centers

http://www.usouthal.edu/writing/index.htm
The Writing Center at USA provides a place to talk about writing to all members of the University community, especially students who want to improve their writing skills. Writing consultants focus on the writer rather than the writing. Instead of simply fixing student writing, the consultants help the students learn techniques and strategies to improve their own writing skills. The Writing Center is located in Alpha Hall East in room 207, or call the Writing Center at 460-6480. Click on Consulting Hours at the Table of Contents for this semester's schedule.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/owl/index.html
If you're working on a project and have some specific questions, you can email Purdue University Online Writing Lab. The tutors will answer questions about a text's organization, its focus, its readers, and so on. They also respond to questions about research techniques, documentation, and mechanics such as spelling and grammar.


Poetry

http://www.poemfinder.com
Poem Finder on the Web is never out-of-date and continually updated online poetry reference center. Poem Finder's database contains over 750,000 indexed poems AND 70,000 full-text poems in one authoritative resource. Poem Finder will provide you with a window to poetry from 3,500 anthologies, 5,000 single-author works, and 6,000 periodical issues. You can search by any word(s) in a poem title, first line, last line, book title, author, thousands of designated subjects and create instant bibliographies with full bibliographic information for poem sources, including page numbers.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm
Cary Nelson's Modern American Poetry site with alphabetized links to poets of that period.


Literature

http://www.overleaf.org
Overleaf.org is Dr. Lincoln Shlensky's modern world literature site, containing links to historical, literary, intellectual, and cultural resources for those studying world literature of the late seventeenth century to the present. The site also features links to relevant information about critical theory, selected authors and texts, writing resources, and more.

http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net is a complete search engine for links to literature by category Medieval, American, Renaissance, Women's Literature and Feminism) and links to other invaluable general sources(The Voice of the Shuttle, Resources for Writing and Writing Instructors).

http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/
Details important events of the Romantic Period.

http://vos.ucsb.edu
Voice of the Shuttle is an excellent website for research in the humanities.

http://www.rc.umd.edu/
Romantic Circles is a fascinating, general resource for Romantic-
era texts, contexts, scholarship, and links to other sites.

http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
Romanticism on the Net is an on-line Romanticism journal--includes
articles and reviews.

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/
A nonprofit site that is not affiliated with any institution but provides a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. It provides a simple one-page site of links to Middle English and Renaissance Literature.

http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
Links to the culture and politics of the 1950s maintained by Alan Filreis, Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania, a specialist in modern and contemporary American poetry and the literary politics of the American 1930s and 1950s.

http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html
This site is also maintained by Alan Filreis, Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania, and has important links to the Holocaust.


Libraries

http://library.southalabama.edu
USA Library provides access to the University Library, Baldwin County Library, Biomedical Library, and the University Archives. Other libraries accessible through this site include the Alabama Virtual Library, Library of Congress, and the WWW Virtual Library.
Journals:

http://www.americanartists.org
American Artists connects you to a magazine exploring the impact of artists' lives on our society. The magazine presents the biographies, autobiographies, and the work of individuals who have dedicated years to perfecting their arts.

http://muse.jhu.edu
Project Muse at Johns Hopkins University provides online worldwide institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.


Humor

What can be done with an English major? Hear A Prairie Home Companion's answer (requires RealAudio player).


Online Texts

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
The OnLine Books Page/Electronic Text Center allows you to search over 5,000 publicly accessible texts including history, literature, philosophy, religion, history of science. Some collections are available in multiple languages including Latin, Japanese, and Chinese. This site offers access to 1,200 Microsoft Reader ebooks -- some with illustrations -- publicly accessible in English.

http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Project Bartleby -- Great Books Online. Bartleby, Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse provides online access to books and information on the web free of charge. Titles include reference, verse, fiction, nonfiction.

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