English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->18th Century
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts

This website was created by Lee Jaffe and focuses mainly on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The subcategories are listed on the left side:

1. Gulliver’s Travels: The electronic version of the text.
2. Dictionary: Provides annotations for the material in the text.
3. Bibliography: Very detailed listing of various print sources.
4. Links: Additional online sources are provided as links.
5. Timeline: A chronology of events in the text, Swift’s life, and his times.
6. Quotations: Selection of quotes from the book, from letters of Swift, from Swift’s own mouth, and from the mouth of others commenting on Swift.
7. Firsts: Terms and concepts Swift invented which have come to be commonly used today.
8. Images: Visual illustrations from various editions of the book, and other related pictures.
9. Info: Details concerning this Internet project, FAQs, how to navigate the website, and future plans, etc.

The award-winning site was cited by various well-known webpages, such as BBC Education Web Guide and Voice of the Shuttle. Its extensive and comprehensive information helps anyone who is interested in Swift’s novel to understand and enjoy the text more deeply. It is well designed and meticulously organized, and its continuous updates make it a website that should be bookmarked and visited on a regular basis.

URL : http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/

Keyword(s) : Jonathan Swift , Gullivers Travels , 18c British novel , satire

English Literature->Manuscripts
English Literature->Poetry->By period->Medieval,Middle English(1066-1500)
English Literature->Prose & Novel->

The Camelot Project, in my opinion, is the best website on medieval romances available right now. It provides a complete link to the TEAMS Middle English texts, which is the e-text version of all works of medieval literature published by Western Michigan University. The Camelot Project also has links to post-medieval reworkings of Arthurian legends, as well as many helpful and interesting articles written by professors and students in Rochester. Moreover, this web site is very well maintained--the latest update was done in August 2008. Anyone that has an interest in Arthurian romances but do not know what to read or where to start should check out this web site.

URL : http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm

Keyword(s) : Literature, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Study and teaching

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