Literary Research: Resource Guide

Literature Resources

General Resources

• Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research 
• MERLOT II: Literature

Writing About Literature

• Writing a Literary Analysis Presentation (Purdue OWL)
• Writing in Literature (Purdue OWL) 
• Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
• Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism 
• Literary Theory 

American Literature

• American Memory - Arts and Literature
• Survey of American Literature II 
• American Literature Classics Library
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
   

World Literature

• Invitation to World Literature 
   

Early Modern Literature

• Early Modern Literary Studies
   

Poetry

• The Poetry Archive
• Poets.org
• The Poetry Center Digital Archive
• PoetrySociety.org
• Poetry Likeness: Modern American Poets
• Poetry Foundation
• PoemHunter.com

Individual Authors
 

• Center for Faulkner Studies
• The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive
• Digital Thoreau
• Edith Wharton Society
• Emily Dickinson Archive
• Dickinson Electronic Archives
• The Ernest Hemingway Collection
• Langston Hughes National Poetry Project
• Mark Twain Project
• The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies
• The Walt Whitman Archive
• The Willa Cather Archive

Library Shelf Locations

• PE - English Language
• PN - Literature (general)
• PR - English Literature
• PS - American Literature
• PZ - Fiction

Collection Highlights

Click through to see some of the literature and literary analysis books at the library.

Related Topics

You can find more information in these guides about related subjects:

• English 101
• Anthropology
• American History
• World History

WNC Links

• Find Academic Coaching help with literary research
• Log into the Library Catalog 
• Full Research Guide list
• Library Homepage
• WNC Homepage

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