Etext Archives, Literature and Linguistic Links

Please note that this page is under construction -- for a comprehensive listing of speech- and text-friendly Etext Archives and Academic and Scholarly Resources, please consult Camera Obscura's Caveat Lector, from which this archive is excerpted

Topical Etext Index

• Electronic Text Archives
• Finding Etexts: accessible searching for individual works
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Poetry and Poetic Resources

Electronic Text Archives
(arranged aphabetically by Archive name)

• The ALEX Catalog of Electronic Texts allows you to search for a specific work by title or for works by a specific author...
  1. Browse ALEX by Author
  2. Browse ALEX by Title
  3. Browse ALEX by Date
  4. dowload compressed collections of all of ALEX's American, English, & Philosophy Texts
     
     
• B&R Samidzat Express
  
  
• CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts is, as it claims, "The Online Resource for Irish history, literature and politics." (a project of the History Department of University College Cork
  
  
• The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
  1. Browse UVA's Electronic Text Library by Subject
     1. Search UVA's Electronic Text Library's Publicly-Accessible Collections
  2. Early American Fiction Collection at UVA
  3. British Poetry 1780-1910: Scholarly Hypertext Editions at UVA
  4. The Modern English Collection at UVA
     1. Search the Modern English Collection at UVA
  5. The Free Electronic Book Archive at UVA
     1. UVA Online Journals & Publications
     2. French Electronic Texts and Resources at UVA
     3. German Electronic Texts and Resources at UVA
     4. Spanish Language Collection: Electronic Texts & Resources at UVA
     5. Chinese Text Initiative at UVA
     6. Japanese Text Initiative at UVA
     7. Chiracahua & Mescalero Apace Narratives, Linguistics, & Resources at UVA
     8. Latviešu tautas dziesmas (Chansons populaires lettonnes), volumes I to XII at UVA
        
        
• Electronic Texts and Publishing Resources, an index maintained by the Library of Congress
  
  
• The English Server at Carnegie Melon University offers a wide variety of options:
  1. peruse the English Gopher Server
  2. chat it up with academics using this telnet connection to the English Server's Electronic Conference Line, an "online academic community"
  3. upload texts to CMU's English Server's FTP Archive
  4. pick and choose from a listing of complete books on the Web
     
     
• The Eris Project (Virginia Polytechnic University)
  
  
• The ETEXT Archives a rather disappointing site, which suffers from poor organization and a dearth of depth
  
  
• OBP: The On-line Books Page at The University of Pennsylvania
  1. search OBP by author or title
  2. OBP List of Authors
  3. browse OBP by first letter of title
  4. OBP's subject listing
  5. OBP's new book listings
  6. books in progress or which have been requested at the OBP
  7. OBP's freely accessible archives of serials (such as magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals)
  8. Banned Books Online
  9. Prize-Winning Books Online
  
  
  
• The Oxford Text Archive (OTA), whilst an accessibility nightmare does contain electronic versions of standard reference works, as well as copies of texts and corpora prepared by individual scholars and major research projects
  1. Browse OTA by Author
  2. Browse OTA by Language
  3. Browse OTA by Title
  4. Search OTA's Catalog (simple search)
  5. Advanced Search Interface for the OTA Catalog
  6. Full Text Search of Titles in the OTA
  
  
  
• The Wiretap Internet Electronic Text Archive is a former gopher server which contains a wide variety of plain text documents (historical, pedagogical, polemic, and legal), as well as a large collection of complete works of literature in the public domain.
  1. Electronic Books at Wiretap
  2. Wiretap's Collection of Government Documents (US and International)
  3. The Complete Wiretap Library
  
  
  
• French and Latin Etexts from the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago
  1. Search ARTFL's full text databases
  2. Verb Conjugation Form
  3. Morphological Analysis
  
  
  
• Classiques des sciences sociales (etext en français)

• return to the Topical Etext Index or consult:
  1. an index of Poetry and Poetic Resources
  2. an index of Pages Dedicated to Individual Authors

Linguistics

• The Virtual Library Languages Page at Williamette University
  
  
• Ehtnologue: Languages of the World
  1. Ethnologue's Language Name Index
  2. Ethnologue Language Code Index
     1. Ethnologue's Three-Letter Language Code Index
  3. Ethnologue Language Family Index
• The Human Languages Page
  
  
• Indo-Euorpean Home Page
  
  
• Rice University CWIS Language Tools
  
  
• Less Commonly Taught Languages Project
  
  
• Phraseology is a catalog of online linguistic resources maintained by the University of Tasmania, which also publishes De Proverbio, an electronic journal devoted to the study of proverbs
  
  
• Etymology of Names
  
  
• The Logical World of Etymology
  
  
• Ethnologue Database
  
  
• WordNet
  
  
• Havelokk's Linguistics Info and Links
  
  
• conjugate French verbs

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Literature

• Jack Lynch's On-Line Literary Resources is the master list of online literary information.
  1. Classical and Biblical Literary Resources
  2. Medieval Literary Resources
  3. Renaissance Literary Resources
  4. Eighteenth-Century Literature
     1. Electronic Texts
  5. Romantic Literary Resources
  6. Victorian Literary Resources
  7. Twentieth-Century Literary Resources
  8. American Literary Resources
  9. Women's Literature and Feminism
  10. Ethnicities and Nationalities
  11. Other National Literatures
  12. Theatre and Drama
  13. Bibliography and the History of the Book
  14. Literary Hypertext
  15. Literary Theory
  16. Miscellaneous Online Resources
  
  
  
• English Literature (The Voice of the Shuttle)
  
  
• English Literature on the Web
  1. British Authors
  2. General
  3. E-text Archives
  4. Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Authors/Works
  5. 17th Century and Renaissance) Authors
  6. 18th Century and Restoration Authors
  7. 19th Century (Romantic and Victorian) Authors
  8. 20th Century Authors
     
     
• Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between 1477 & 1799

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This page was created on September 26, 1996
contents of this page last modified on March 24, 2006