English & Scottish Literature & Language Links

STELLA Links Index

Organisations | Gateways and Humanities Tools & Resources | Text Archives & Corpora
English Language | Linguistics, Phonetics and Speech | History of the Language and Literature
English Literature | Scottish Literature and Language | STELLA programs


Organisations
  • Association for Computers and the Humanities
  • Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
  • Association for Scottish Literary Studies
  • Computers & Text, CTI Newsletter
  • Council for College & University English
  • English Subject Centre, Learning & Teaching Support Network
  • ESSE: European Society for the Study of English
  • Institute of English Studies at London University
  • International Phonetic Association
  • Literary and Linguistic Computing journal, OUP
  • The Philological Society

    • Gateways and humanities tools & resources
  • Arts and Humanities Data Service
  • Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
  • Conferences in English Studies
  • Bookmarks for Corpus-Based Linguists
  • Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
  • Human Languages Page - a catalogue of language-related Internet resources.
  • Intute: Arts and Humanities "tool for discovering the best Internet resources for education and research"
  • Joint Information Systems Committee, (JISC) Copyright Guidelines
  • Oxford Humanities Computing
  • Resource Guide for the Arts and Humanities from the Joint Information Systems Committee
  • Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
  • TACT Text Analysis Computing Tools download from CTICH, University of Glasgow

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    Text Archives and Corpora
  • Bookmarks for Corpus-Based Linguists - by David Lee, University of Michigan
  • British National Corpus
  • BUBL A catalogue of Internet resources for Language, Literature and Culture from the UK National Information Service.
  • COMET COMputerized English Texts in STELLA, including the Glasgow Review.
  • Corpus Linguistics - a general overview of the field from W3C; with links to material available on the Web.
  • Ecola Directory of Newspapers Online  - a useful list of UK newspaper sites, with links to newspapers and magazines worldwide.
  • English Server  - thousands of humanities texts at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • EUSTACE: Edinburgh University Speech Timing Archive and Corpus of English
  • Galaxy  - Internet information servive with links to literature (including hypertext fiction).
  • ICAME  - International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English at the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (NCCH) in Bergen, Norway.
  • International Corpus of English (ICE)
  • King's College London Text Analysis Methods
  • Language Learning & Technology - special Issue, Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning.
  • Lancaster University links to Corpora, Collections, Data Archives
  • LION: Literature Online  - hundreds of thousands of fully-searchable texts, with reference works, bibliographies and catalogues.
  • Middle English Text Archive -  a collection of on-line Medieval Texts at Virginia University.
  • On-Line Books by Author or by Title at the Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Oxford Text Archive
  • Project Gutenberg - free electronic books
  • Renaissance Electronic Texts  - editions of early English Renaissance books and manuscripts at the University of Toronto.
  • SCOTS - the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
  • Shakespeare - the complete works from MIT
  • Text Encoding Initiative
  • TEI Teaching Materials
  • The Tuscan Word Centre
  • University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language, University of Lancaster
  • A Web Course in Corpus Linguistics
  • CLAWS part-of-speech tagger
  • University of Virginia Electronic Text Centre
  • Voice of the Shuttle  - this is a large collection of humanities resources from the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • XML information from WC3
  • XML Tutorial from WC3
  • XML FAQ : by Peter Flynn, University College, Cork


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    English Language Index

    Fonts | Grammar | Dictionaries & Thesauri | EFL & Varieties of English | Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech & Hearing | Natural Language Processing

    Fonts
  • Summer Institute of Linguistics fonts page, at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas.

    • Grammar
  • ARIES: Punctuation and Spelling
  • English Usage  - survey of English Usage (SEU) at University College London.
  • Grammar and Style Notes  - from the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Leicester English Grammar Project
  • Languages into Language Teaching (LILT)
  • On-line English Grammar  - at the Hampstead School of English - with sound files.
  • Yahoo Web Links  - for grammar, usage and style.


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    Dictionaries
  • Collins COBUILD  - dictionary for English learners (HarperCollins Publishers & University of Birmingham)
  • Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)  - from the University of Toronto.
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary  - searchable on-line dictionary.
  • Online Dictionaries - an Index of On-Line Dictionaries.
  • OUP Oxford English Dictionary  - Oxford University Press online search.
  • OUP English Dictionaries and Thesauruses - online search of American Dictionary of Current English, Concise Oxford Dictionary, American Thesaurus of Current English, and Paperback Thesaurus
  • Oxford Reference Online
  • Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus  - from Plumb Design Inc., New York.
  • Roget's Thesaurus  - from City University, London.
  • THOR: Virtual Reference Desk  - dictionaries, thesauri, acronyms and quotations from Purdue Univ. Libraries, USA.
  • Virtual Facts on file  - on-line dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedia etc. from Refdesk.com.
  • WordNet - a Lexical Database for English from Princeton University. "WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept."
  • Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus  - from Elmira College, New York.


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    EFL & Varieties of English
  • English as a Foreign Language Unit  - at the University of Glasgow
  • English Around the World
  • ESSE: European Society for the Study of English
  • Language Learning and Technology - a journal for second and foreign language educators
  • Language Varieties Web Site  - from School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at the University of New England, Australia
  • Internet TESL Journal  - from Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Japan.


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    Natural Language Processing
  • BabelFish - machine translation by AltaVista.
  • The Dialect Translator - a not too serious translator from English into various American dialects
  • InterTran (tm) -  Internet Translator, is a free web translation service that can translate single words, phrases, sentences and web pages.
  • Natural Language Software Registry - capabilities and sources of natural language processing (NLP) software available to the NLP community
  • Eliza - one of many implementations of the virtual psycotherapist.


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    Language & Literature - Historical

    The following links are organised to give a historical perspective. Each should lead to something more than a simple text or collection of texts. Some include collections of images of early manuscripts on line: both plain text and illustrated and/or illuminated. Because this is a lengthy section, a sub-index follows which allows you to go directly to the appropriate period by clicking on the link.

    Historical Index

    Germanic and Pre-History | Early English Links | Elizabethan Language & Literature | Early Modern to 18th century
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    Germanic and Pre-History Background
  • Fornfræði á Vesturlandi This site has information on Snorri Sturluson, the Edda and some of the sagas.
  • Viking Home Page. Non-Academic page but good links, particulary on Edda and Runes


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    Early English Links
  • Aberdeen Bestiary  - collection of medieval texts and images at Aberdeen University Library
  • Anglo-Saxon bibliography  - by Dr Carole Biggam. Second edition.
  • Anglo-Saxon World  - Internet Resources by the Trent & Peak Archaeological Unit, University of Nottingham.
  • Bede Net  - a site devoted to the Venerable Bede - by Stephen Harris and Scott DeGregorio.
  • Bodleian Library  - WWW projects at the Oxford libary.
  • Dictionary of Old English project  - at the Centre for Medieval Studies University of Toronto.
  • Dictionary of Old English and the Old English Corpus  - at the University of Michigan.
  • DSCRIPTORIUM  - a site devoted to collection and distribution (on the web) of manuscripts.
  • Dutch National Library  - contains many images of manuscript books and text: some in English.
  • Digital Library  - of the British Library. Includes the 'Electronic Beowulf'.
  • Hwæt! The Old English in Context  - site at Georgetown, USA, has in depth coverage of the subject.
  • Medieval Labyrinth  - resources for Medieval Studies at Georgetown University.
  • Middle English Dictionary  - a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500 plus the HyperBibliography of Middle English. University of Michigan.
  • New Chaucer Society  - a forum for teachers and scholars, from Rutgers University.
  • Learning with the online Thesaurus of Old English (TOE)
  • Old English Pages  - at Georgetown University have valuable background material and links.
  • Old English at the University of Virginia
  • ORB - Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  • Ormulumproject - a new text edition, presenting the entire text of the Ormulum.
  • Rawlinson Center for Angl Saxon Studies
  • StudyWeb - Old English Period.
  • TOEBI - Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Old and Medieval English


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    Elizabethan Language & Literature Links
  • Edmund Spenser Homepage.
  • International Shakespeare Globe Centre.
  • Proper Elizabethan Pronunciation  - and other information about the age of Shakespeare.
  • Shakespeare in Quarto - The British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.
  • Shakespeare on the Internet  - Shakespearian links from Yahoo.
  • Voice of the Shuttle: The English Renaissance


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    Early Modern Literature (to 18thC)
  • Early Modern Literary Studies  - a refereed journal for scholarly discussion.
  • Milton Home Page  - at the University of Richmond.
  • 18th Century web links  - overspills a bit either century.
  • 18th Century Studies  - links maintained by the 18th-century studies group at CMU.


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    English Literature Links

    General English Literature Links
  • British Comparative Literature Association  - mainly conferences, resources and papers.
  • BUBL - catalogue of literature links from the UK National Information Service.
  • Carcanet Press - "Carcanet publishes the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation."
  • Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe (CHILDE Project)
  • Children's Literature Web Guide  - with a wide range of material on the subject. From the University of Calgary, Canada.
  • Elisor Department of English Language and Literature of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam resources in literary history.
  • Internet Poetry Archive  - from the University of North Carolina Press and the UNC Office of Information Technology, selected poems from a number of contemporary poets.
  • LION: Literature Online  - hundreds of thousands of fully-searchable texts, with reference works, bibliographies and catalogues.
  • Literary Resources on the Net - collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, from Rutgers University.
  • The Luminarium  - medieval, renaissance and 17th century literature. The works, critical articles, bibliographies, pictures and music.
  • PN Review - "(originally Poetry Nation) is widely regarded as a magazine in which things happen: poetic innovation and invention are celebrated, literary and political clashes occur, imagination and critical intelligence are tested, teased and rewarded."
  • POETICA  - course material for teaching poetry.
  • On-Line Books  - An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Web
  • Oxford CTI Centre English Literature index  - a list of web sites with English Literature materials.
  • Shakespeare - the complete works from MIT.
  • The Fiction Factory a resource for readers and writers.
  • The Victorian Web - at Brown University.
  • Victorian Women Writers Project - at Indiana University.
  • Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature - from Oxford University.
  • Women Writers Project - early modern women's writing at Brown University.

    • Writers World - articles on the business of writing, on writing skills and techniques, on reaching specific markets, on writing for particular genres, etc..

    Romanticism Links
  • Eighteenth-Century Resources - invaluable website offering background on the Romantic Period and earlier: art, literature, music, philosophy, and more.
  • Major Romantic Criticism - bite-sized extracts from the work of major Romanticists.
  • The Romantic Poetry Site - tips on reading and textual explication useful site with lots of tips on how to read poems.
  • Romantic Chronology - a great resource if you’re hazy on when Wordsworth published Poems in Two Volumes or The Excursion. It contains a search engine for ease of use.
  • Romantic Circles  - romantic-period literature and culture from the University of Maryland. A superb scholarly and critical resource: it contains texts, factual data, articles by various scholars, and other things - a great website for browsing.
  • Romantic-Era Women Writers - mine of information on women writers of the Romantic period, including many known personally to Wordsworth.
  • Romanticism on the Net - electronic journal devoted to study of the Romantics edited from Oxford, England. Contains articles, reviews, and links to other sites.
  • The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive - a collection of electronic texts by Coleridge, and portraits of the great man.
  • Wordsworth Archive - texts of Wordsworth - old ones!
  • Wordsworth Trust - beautifully designed website that enables you to see photographs of Dove Cottage as it is today online. You can go on a guided tour of the cottage over the internet. Highly recommended.
  • West Cumbria Tourist Initiative - website run by the West Cumbria tourist board. Useful because it contains photographs of the lake District. The next best thing to being there!
    • Twentieth-Century Literature, Modernism & Theory

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    Scottish Language and Literature

  • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • Association for Scottish Literary Studies
  • Bibliography of Scottish Literature - from the Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
  • Biographies of Edinburghers - by City of Edinburgh Council
  • Bibliography of the Scots Language - a selected, classified bibliography compiled by Caroline Macafee, University of Aberdeen and maintained by Marina Dossena, Università degli Studi di Bergamo.
  • Bloomsbury Magazine - September 2001 issue on Alistair Gray.
  • Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation BOSLIT - a National Library of Scotland site with over 20,000 foreign translations of literary works by a wide range of Scottish authors (Available under Additional Online Resources)
  • BUBL - catalogue of Scottish Literature links from the UK National Information Service.
  • Chapman  - Scottish literary magazine
  • Dictionary of the Scots Language
  • Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST)
  • Female Characters in the Waverly Novels - text portraits from the critical series of 26 separate essays on the female characters in Scott's novels by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a mid-19th century English author.
  • First Scottish Books - a National Library of Scotland site, dedicated to the nine earliest books printed in Scotland.
  • Gaelic and Scots Language and Celtic Culture  - pages from Rampant Scotland! Ltd.
  • Robert Henryson Society and links
  • James Hogg -  Extemporary Effusion on the Death of Hogg by Wordsworth (at the University of Virginia)
  • Lowlands-L -  Online Presentations in and about Lowlands Languages
  • Mitchell Library, Glasgow
  • National Library of Scotland
  • Rampant Scotland!  - links to Scottish literature sites
  • Robert Louis Stevenson Homepage  - from the Università di Bergamo, Italy
  • School of Scottish Studies - University of Edinburgh
  • Scots Language Resource Centre
  • Scott on the Net - Links to over 100 websites or pages devoted to aspects of the life and work of Sir Walter Scott, from Edinburgh University Library.
  • Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) - "The project aims to revolutionise access to Scotland's archives by providing a single electronic catalogue to the holdings of more than 50 Scottish archives."
  • Scottish Bibliographies Online - a National Library of Scotland site listing bibliographic databases containing details of publications relating to Scotland or held in Scottish Libraries. (Available under Additional Online Resources)
  • Scottish Books 1505-1600 - a National Library of Scotland site. "The standard checklist of early Scottish books is H.G. Aldis, A List of Books Printed in Scotland before 1700, (Edinburgh: NLS, 1970)." (Available under Additional Online Resources)
  • Scottish Institute for Northern Renaissance Studies
  • Scottish Language Dictionaries (SLD) - a new body established to develop dictionaries and to promote the languages of Scotland.
  • Scottish Poetry Library
  • Scottish Studies International - the Scottish Studies Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germersheim.
  • Scottish Text Society
  • Scottish Writers Exhibition
  • Scuil Wab - a web site for schools, written in Scots and about Scots.
  • STARN: Scots Teaching And Research Network.
  • Studies in Scottish Literature  - at the University of South Carolina
  • The Scottish Storytelling Centre
  • The Seeker: A Glasgow Literary Review
  • The Victorian Web
  • Writing Scotland - Scottish Literature from the BBC.

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