General Resources->Libraries
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English Literature->Literary History

The full name of this virtual project is the “South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library,” the Baker Library being the official library used by the students of Harvard Business School. Within the Kress Collection that is kept in this library, there is said to be a large number of pamphlets, books, broadsides, prints, and ephemera related to the South Sea Bubble. The project to digitize this collection to form a new, virtual one was begun in 2005 so that the vivid visual resources could be presented to the public. In the project overview, Karen Bailey, the project manager writes, “the online guide was designed to create a dynamic Web product to inform researchers of the resources available in the South Sea Bubble Collection, to facilitate the use of the collection, to provide access to new digital content, and to build a framework for future additions to the collection.”

The website gives a short historical introduction of the South Sea Bubble, but the main aspect of this website is the collection description that is provided in detail to show what the South Sea Bubble Collection actually consists of. While the majority of these manuscripts and documents cannot yet be accessed directly through the Internet (the digital images are still in the process of being uploaded), by providing the title and contents of such resources enables this website to become a great starting point of research for those who are interested in examining this historical event. Links for related reading, in the form of books and article publications, are given as well for additional perusal.

URL : http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/index.html

Keyword(s) : 18c British History , Catalogs , Harvard Library , South Sea Bubble

English Literature->Poetry->By period->Medieval,Middle English(1066-1500)
English Literature->Manuscripts
English Literature->Literature in Translation
General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums

This website contains a full text edition of "The General Prologue" to Geoffery Chaucer's The Cantebury Tales. Glosses pop up to facilitate readers' understanding.

URL : http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/indexn.htm

Keyword(s) : Chaucer Geoffrey,, 1340?-1400, Cantebury tales, the general prologue, Middle English, 1100-1500, Literature, Medieval

General Resources->Libraries
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General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
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English Literature->Biographical Literature
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English Literature->Theory & Studies->Gender Studies
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->African American Literature

This site contains a digital collection of 52 works by 19th-century black women writers. There are also biographies of black women writers. Additionally, a part of this website- the New York digital library functioning as an online exhibition-shows African American migration experiences vividly.

URL : http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

Keyword(s) : African American arts, African American authors, African American women, African Americans in literature, African diaspora, Biography

General Resources->Digital Repositories
General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums
English Literature->Poetry->By period->17th century

The Milton-L home page was created as a resource for an internet community devoted to the life and works of the poet, John Milton (1608-1674). This home page is primarily intended to act as an email discussion group about Milton. This site also provides a sizable number of Milton resources including e-texts, images and book reviews of Paradise Lost. There is also a selection of critical articles. In addition, the site offers audio versions of a selection of Milton’s poems which users are able to download. Currently, there are more than 520 subscribed members from around the world. Anyone interested in discussing Milton can become mailing member of this site. There is also an email archive which is indexed by month and year. This well-organized and informative home page has won several awards including the Literary Research Award.

URL : http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/milton/chron.html

Keyword(s) : England, History, 17th century, Christianity and literature, History of doctrines, Dissenters, Religious, Literature and science, Protestantism and literature, Milton, John, 1608-1674, Paradise lost

English Literature->Poetry->By period->English Renaissance(1500-1640)
General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums

This website presents all the sonnets written by Shakespeare. Descriptive commentary attached to each one is given line by line with illustrations, and graphics such as paintings and engravings. Moreover, the site gives explanations of difficult words and phrases, and on how the language was used in that period. Included are also sonnets by other Elizabethan poets such as Spenser, Sidney and Drayton. The poems of Thomas Wyatt are also presented here, with both old and modern English versions, and with brief commentary. The site offers a huge amount of information not only to Shakespearean studies students but also to those who are interested in Elizabethan sonnets. Given the various images related to sonnets and authors, you can navigate without any sense of boredom.

URL : http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/

Keyword(s) : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Sonnet, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600