English Literature->SF/Fantasy/Horror

Despite its unsophisticated layout, The House of Usher provides a truly wide range of resources. A thorough look into the website will lead you to many of its entertaining treats that cover everything related to Poe’s works.

Most impressive is its all-encompassing library that deals with interesting and significant materials and events influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. These include recent audio works, bibliographies, societies, movies, musicals, comics, and theatre pieces. Everything is so broad in range that one can easily notice the widespread impact that Poe’s literary world had on contemporary culture.

Although most of the material is provided in links, the scope of this site is truly unlimited. Its list of miscellanea may seem to lack focus and depth. However, it could be a great source of amusement for younger readers and it would be most suitable for any reader of Poe’s works who wishes to start a basic online research.

URL : http://www.houseofusher.net/

Keyword(s) : Horror tales, American, Authorship, History and criticism, novel, poetry, Edgar Allan Poe

General Resources->Anthologies/Collections
English Literature->Poetry->By period->19th century

One of the subcategory of About.com, a comprehensive portal site. In this section, articles and net resources on 19th century poets are indexed by name, and includes Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson, and Whitman.

Contributors for this website construct page resource: they provide brief information related with each poet. Visitors are able to read poems and articles with ease.

URL : http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/19th_Century_Poets.htm

Keyword(s) : Poetry 19th century, Poems, 

English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->20th Century

Another webpage dedicated to the English writer, George Orwell, this site is easy to navigate through, and its format is cleaner and more simple than other sites. The contents are similar, however, with its biography (and photos) of the author, online versions of his texts, ranging from newspaper articles and reviews to essays and novels. The e-texts provided in this site is extremely easy to use and read, and recommended before all other sites.

An interesting aspect of this site is that it is a part of a “George Orwell Web Ring,” thus enabling the user, with a click of a mouse, to search through all the other websites that are also a part of this ring. (This webring can be seen at the bottom part of the webpage). These myriad of websites, whether they contain in-depth analysis of Orwell’s works, comics depicting 1984, and/or the location of Orwell’s favorite pub, are easy to access and helpful in their own particular way.

URL : http://orwell.ru/home.html

Keyword(s) : George Orwell, English Literature, 20th century, fiction, male author, 1984, Animal Farm

English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->20th Century

This is a website dedicated to the works and studies of George Orwell, and the vast bibliography itself is probably the most complete one that can be obtained online. It is a compilation of primary, selective, and annotated secondary bibliography concerning the author, and clearly proves to be a great starting point for those who endeavor to do research on this great author.

Various links of online biographies on the writer are posted in detail, so that one can read about one man’s character/life through the perspective of many. The webpage also provides all of Orwell’s texts (from his short essays to his famous novels such as Animal Farm and 1984) in e-format, so that anyone can read them online. Additional resources for the latter two books are given in detail for further research. Although some links are faulty, due to the non-frequent updating of the site, the provided resources that do work are extremely beneficial to those who intend on studying George Orwell in depth.

URL : http://students.ou.edu/C/Kara.C.Chiodo-1/orwell.html

Keyword(s) : George Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm, English literature, English fiction, 20th century, 

General Resources->Digital Repositories
English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->20th Century
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->Others

A section of “The Imperial Archive,” a digital project created by the School of English at the Queen’s University of Belfast which provides internet resources concerning the study of Imperial and Postcolonial literature, this website delves into the postcolonial literature of India. It is basically divided into two main parts, colonial and postcolonial India. The historical background of both periods are provided, alongside introductions of the famous English writers of that time: Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling in the former and Rushdie in the latter. Actual e-versions of their texts are provided, alongside papers that focus on not only these texts itself, but also the socio-cultural backdrop that they were written in. The site is concise and clear-cut, and the additional research references one can gain through it can only be helpful.

URL : http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/india/india.htm

Keyword(s) : English literature, 20th century, Postcolonialism, Commonwealth countries, Imperialism in literature, Fiction, India, Indic fiction (English), Salman Rushdie, Rudyard Kipling, Wilkie Collins