Humanities Resources

This Companion Website features an interactive timeline
dynamic web resources, which are a valuable source of supplemental information; in-depth author profiles; additional American literature resources for teachers and students; and a link to Research Navigator,

This online book is organized in chapters and appendices. The ten chapters represent the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-two appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies. This PAL site has individual pages on over 430 American authors. Except for a few, each page has a listing of primary works, a selected bibliography, links to relevant sites, brief introductions, brief biographies, and study questions.

The Philosopher’s Information Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the finest scholarly resources to philosophers and individuals interested in philosophy and related disciplines.
The Philosopher’s Information Center was founded in 1967 by Dr. Richard H. Lineback. The most important contribution of the Center has been the publication of philosophy’s preeminent reference resource, The Philosopher’s Index. For 45 years, The Philosopher’s Index has remained the world’s most current and comprehensive bibliography in philosophy. Currently, it is available Online, on CD-ROM and in Print.

Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings—with new material being added constantly. Also available are resources such as the National Poetry Map, a national events calendar, and poetry lesson plans for teachers. Poets.org also allows visitors to create their own anthologies of content from our site. Log in and create a Notebook, then fill it with text and audio to make your own poetry library on the web.

We study the reading of literary texts, such as novels or poems. These are often very attractive to us as readers: we commit much time and energy to reading and will become absorbed by what we read. And we will often continue reading despite difficulties or uncertainty about what a text means. Literary reading can be a demanding activity, both cognitively and emotionally. So we want to know what readers are doing, especially why and how they do it.

The Chronology is a database-driven site that generates Web pages "on the fly." This site is in an archived state. Embedded search features, forms, and some links will not function properly.

The Romantic Circles Scholarly Resources is a collected set of online research tools approved by the General Editors of the site, intended for the study of the Romantics, their contemporaries, and their cultural contexts. You may scroll down to see the contents, or choose from the following menu: Chronologies | Indexes & Concordances | Bibliographies | Miscellaneous | Related Web Sites

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN) is an International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature. The journal, which began publication as Romanticism on the Net in February 1996, is published four times a year. It expanded its scope in August 2007 to include Victorian literature.

Select a collection from the list to view a description and links to the web site that include online manuscripts and facsimiles have been developed by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries for the collection.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, is generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world. For over 80 years the Center has collected, preserved, and provided access to materials documenting black life, and promoted the study and interpretation of the history and culture of peoples of African descent.

This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric. This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing was founded to create a global network for book historians working in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. Research addresses the composition, mediation, reception, survival, and transformation of written communication in material forms including marks on stone, script on parchment, printed books and periodicals, and new media. Perspectives range from the individual reader to the transnational communications network. With more than 1000 members in over twenty countries, SHARP works in concert with affiliated academic organizations around the world to support the study of book history and print culture.

The Spectator Project is an interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general. The most innovative feature of the project developed out of the object of study itself. The format, style, and even the content of The Tatler and the Spectator were immediately and closely imitated in hundreds of periodicals in Europe and the Americas. The Spectator Project will allow users to compare imitated and imitating formats and passages of text through the means of hyperlinks.