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Humanities and Literature Resources on the Internet

General Humanities Sites

• Voice of the Shuttle is a collection of many good web sites in a variety of fields, and a few "Highlight" sites are selected for each field. This is a great starting point!
• Arts & Letters Daily gathers articles, book reviews and essays on many humanities-related topics. This is a great place to find out about current ideas.
• Arts Journal is another daily roundup of arts and culture news. It's focused on music, visual arts and publishing.

Art and museums

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art web site contains images and information from all of the museum's current exhibitions.

• London's National Gallery web site contains images from the museum's collections, which focus on European painting from 1260 to 1900. Each image is accompanied by information about the painter, the subject of the painting, and the history of the painting.

Literature

• Online Literary Criticism Collection The Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4346 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, or by nationality and literary period.

• LANIC Literature Section LANIC, the Latin American Network Information Center, is operated by the University of Texas. The literature section contains links to regional and national literature sites, as well as online journals. Many of the links are in Spanish or Portuguese, but a few are in English.

• Index to Gale Reference Works Index to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, all found in our reference collection.

• New York Times Book Review Provides access to book reviews published in the New York Times since 1980. also includes information about selected authors, has first chapters, and links to book discussion forums. Access is free but registration is necessary.
• African American Literature at Bluefield State College Library Includes links to literary resources on the web, lists books available to BSC students, and has links to author information.

• The Atlantic Online Poetry Pages Provides interviews with poets, articles about poetry and by poets, and the text of some poems, including sound files. Site is searchable by keyword.

• Modern American Poetry A web companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry published by the Oxford University Press. “MAPS already includes excerpts from interesting analyses of poems, biographical information, relevant illustrations (such as book jackets, broadsides, paintings, drawings, comics, and photographs), manuscripts, drafts of poems, bibliographies, historical background, statements on poetics, interviews, mini-essays on important issues pertinent to the poet, book reviews, archival resources, and study questions. “ Highly recommended.

• North American Native Authors Catalog Online “Our online catalog offers more than 700 titles from over 90 different publishers, complete author bios, and tribal information.“

• East of the Web: Short Stories A collection of short stories to read, download, or print. Searchable by keyword. Many classic works included.

• Poetry Daily presents a different contemporary poem each day.

• Documenting the American South is a collection of digitized books including slave narratives, Civil War diaries, and novels. Authors include Kate Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, and many others.

• The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center contains many digitized texts in a variety of languages.