Web Resources for Literary Studies: Bibliographies
This is a selective listing of what I consider to be high-quality bibliographies of interest to literary studies students available on the web. It is limited to material that is freely available to all users. Additional suggestions and reports of dead links are, of course, welcome (Contact me). URLs were correct as of the date cited (in month/year format) with each item. |
I’ve categorized bibliographies according to the scheme that I use in other parts of this web guide, starting with English-language dominated literatures and cultures: |
Australian & New Zealand Literature and Culture (Go) |
British & Irish Literature and Culture (Go) |
Canadian Literature and Culture (Go) |
Caribbean Literature and Culture (Go) |
U.S. Literature and Culture (Go) |
Other English-Language Literatures & General Anglophone Literary Culture (Go) |
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Next, I list some bibliographic web resources for European literatures (including, for instance, the literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity): |
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European Literature and Culture (Go) |
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Next, I list bibliographic web resources addressing World Literature (in general) and literatures of other regions of the world, beyond Europe and the English-speaking world: |
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World Literature and Culture (Go) |
East Asian & Southeast Asian Literature and Culture (Go) |
South Asian Literature and Culture (Go) |
North African & Middle Eastern Literature and Culture (Go) |
Sub-Saharan African Literature and Culture (Go) |
Latin American Literature and Culture (Go) |
Other Particular Literatures and Cultures of the World (Go) |
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Finally, I include various miscellaneous categories: |
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Criticism and Theory (Go) |
Australian & New Zealand Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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British & Irish Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Eighteenth-Century Bibliographies Online |
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Bibliographies for more than 35 eighteenth-century authors, mostly British and a few French figures. Edited by Jack Lynch. [03/2005] |
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Electronic Irish Records Dataset |
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Online bibliographic project, produced by the Univ. of Ulster for the Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). Contains rich bibliographic sources for Irish literary figures. [03/2005] Now closed, while being reconfigured to require a password for access, though there seems to be an application process available to acquire one. [04/2005] |
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Indices to Seventeenth Century Poetry |
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Indexes (so far) poems found in 25 seventeenth-century anthologies. By Mark McDayter at Univ. of Western Ontario. [03/2005] |
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Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line |
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Compiled by Ian Lancashire: an excellent guide to English-language poetry primary text resources on the internet. At Univ. of Toronto. [03/2005] |
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Canadian Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Caribbean Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Despite my placement of Caribbean literature among the English-language dominated literatures, this section is not meant to be limited to the English-speaking Caribbean. Writers who are of Caribbean background, but who have subsequently moved elsewhere—often to Britain, the United States, or Canada—are also included here. |
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Harris: Wilson Harris Bibliography |
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Website, with full bibliography, and links to texts available online for this writer. Produced by Hena Maes-Jelinek at the Univ. of Liège. [03/2005] |
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Phillips: Caryl Phillips Bibliography |
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Website, with full bibliography, and links to texts available online for this writer. Produced by Bénédicte Ledent at the Univ. of Liège. [03/2005] |
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U.S. Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Other English-Language Literatures & General Anglophone Literary Culture (table of contents)
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Ewick, David: Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse |
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References works by 182 poets from 1744 to 2003, including excerpts from 140 poems by 87 authors. [03/2006] |
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Ewick, David: Japonisme, Orientalism, Modernism: A Bibliography of Japan in English-Language Verse of the Early 20th Century |
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Contains “bibliographical notes for more than 4,000 works, something like 1,100 images of book covers, and 45,578 hyperlinked cross-references,” along with an introductory essay. [03/2006] |
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European Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Graffigny, Françoise de http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/graffigny/bibliog/bib1etu.htm |
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Bibliography of writings on Mme de Graffigny, by the editors of the modern scholarly edition of her correspondence; this is the first of four web pages on this topic. [04/2005] |
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World Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Note: Many of the links in this and the following sections on extra-European literatures and cultures result from the work of students in my English 350 class (Spring 2005): many thanks to them for their contributions, which carry a generic credit at the end of the site description: “[English350].” |
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Index Translationum http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |
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A bibliographic database of translations, since 1979, maintained by UNESCO, with more than 1.5 million entries. [03/2005] |
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Modern Poetry in (English) Translation |
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A bibliography of modern poetry translations from more than 90 languages into English. [03/2005] |
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East Asian & Southeast Asian Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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South Asian Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Bibliographic Resources |
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Index page to the bibliographic resources included in the Digital South Asia Library project. These consist of searchable databases, but the bibliographic lists cannot be browsed as such. There are 7 bibliographies included: National Bibliography of Indian Literature (55,000 items from the period 1901-1953); Official Publications of India (government documents from pre- and post-Independence South Asia); 19th-Century Holdings of the British Library’s Oriental and Indian Office Collections; Urdu Research Library Consortium (6,000 of the 26,000 monographs in the collection are included in the bibliographic database); Roja Muthiah Research Library (contains over 100,000 volumes in Tamil studies); International Union List of South Asian Newspapers and Gazettes (database compiled by Irene Joshi listing 3,000 newspapers and gazettes serving South Asia and the diaspora communities worldwide; there is a bibliography listing the sources used to compile the database); Library of Congress South Asia serials database (from 1998). |
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Bibliography of Hindi Literature in English Translation http://www.lib.washington.edu/southasia/guides/hindilit.html |
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Bibliography compiled by Irene Joshi, University of Washington Libraries, in 1997. Includes sections on autobiography, drama, essays, fiction, and poetry, including anthologies, plus a section on “background materials” (i.e., English-language criticism on Hindi literature). [03/2005] |
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Bibliography of Malayalam Literature in English Translation http://www.lib.washington.edu/southasia/guides/malayalam.html |
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Bibliography compiled by Irene Joshi, University of Washington Libraries, in 1998. Includes sections on classical works, autobiography, drama, essays, fiction, and poetry, including anthologies, plus sections on English-language criticism on Malayali literature. [03/2005] |
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North African & Middle Eastern Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Sub-Saharan African Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Adichie: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Website |
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Website, with full bibliography, and links to texts available online for this Nigerian author. Produced by Daria Tunca at the Univ. of Liège. [English350] [03/2005] |
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Africabib.org |
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Bibliographic resource that indexes over 51,000 items from 440 journals that address the African scene. [English350] [03/2005] |
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Africa Resource Center |
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Online bibliographic list for African writers and other resources. Maintained by the Africa Resource Center, at Binghamton University. [03/2005] |
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Africana Collection |
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Univ. of Florida library website: primarily a bibliographic resource, but also contains other materials: e.g., brief extracts, in English translation, from Francophone African poets. [English350] [03/2005]
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Anglophone & Lusophone African Women’s Writing |
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“[O]ffers detailed bibliographies, biographies of selected figures in both areas, as well as a number of useful links for anyone researching African Women's writing.” Complements the resources on Francophone African women writers at the “In the World of African Literatures” website (see below). [English350] [03/2005] |
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In the World of African Literatures |
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Provides an “overview of texts written in French by women writers of African origin and others who have lived or continue to live in Africa.” At the Univ. of Western Australia. Complemented by the site on Anglophone & Lusophone African Women’s Writing (see above). [English350] [03/2005] |
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Okri: Ben Okri Bibliography |
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Website, with full bibliography, and links to texts available online for this Nigerian author. Produced by Daria Tunca at the Univ. of Liège. [03/2005] |
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Latin American Literature and Culture (table of contents)
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Other Particular Literatures and Cultures of the World (table of contents)
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Criticism and Theory (table of contents)
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Said, Edward: The Edward Said Archive |
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No authorship indicated, but a rich source of links to Said’s journalistic writings, especially since the late 1990s. [03/2006] |
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Said, Edward: Truth to Power: A Bibliography of Edward Said Online |
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Site created by David Ewick, with links to (mostly) freely accessible online pieces by Said. [03/2006] |
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Last modified: 11 March 2006 (originally created mid-March 2005)