Link Index

These selected resources are grouped under the following headings:

1. Basic Writing and Research (guidelines for undergraduates)
2. Victorian Literature and Culture
3. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer Literature and Culture
4. The History of the Book
5. Electronic Texts, Editions and Archives
6. Advanced Research and Writing (guidelines for graduate students)

Basic Writing and Research

Format/Citation Style

• My Guidelines for Written Assignments handout
• Purdue's OWL Guide to Using MLA Format
• Bedford St Martin's Guide to citing online/internet sources in MLA style

Basic Research/Writing

• Purdue's OWL resources for researching and writing papers
• Purdue's OWL handout on Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
• Purdue's OWL handout on Grammar and Punctuation

Victorian Literature and Culture

General Victorian Resources

• Victoria Research Web: includes the archives of the VICTORIA listserv and resources for advanced researchers
• The Victorian Web: Introductory information on many aspects of the Victorian period
• Dictionary of Victorian London: browse extracts from Victorian newspapers and books on a variety of topics
• Victorian Britain -- BBC History Trails
• Victorian Britain

Authors

• The Rossetti Archive: hypermedia research archive of the writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti Exhibition: Walker Museum, Liverpool
• William Morris and His Circle: an online exhibit from the Harry Ransom Center (UT)
• Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892:an online exhibit from the Thomas Cooper Library, U. of South Carolina
• Wilkie Collins pages (by Paul Lewis)
• The Dickens Project

Specialized Victorian Resources

• Power, Politics & Protest (National Archives-- Learning Curve)
• Design Registers (19thc ceramics) (National Archives)
• Gallery of Victorian Photographs (Roger Vaughan)
• Victorian art and artists (Bob Speel)
• Virtual Exhibitions -- Victorian art and photographs (City of London Collage project)
• Gender, Health, Medicine & Sexuality in Victorian England (V&A)
• Steam & Speed: Industry, Transport, & Communication (V&A)
• Pre-Raphaelite Collection: Walker Museum, Liverpool
• The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: parodies and streaming audio of Pre-Raphaelite poems
• The Victorian Women Writers Project: primary texts by women writers

Victorian Print Culture

• The Internet Library of Early Journals (digital reproduction of selected 19thc periodicals)
• The Germ: a Hypermedia Critical Edition
• The Penny Magazine Online (selected issues from 1832-35)
• Discovering Dickens (Stanford U.):Sign up to receive facsimiles of serial installments of a Dickens novel (in newsprint or PDF format)
• Isabella Beeton's The Book of Household Management

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer Literature and Culture

General GLBQ Resources

• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• Human Rights Campaign
• Marriage Equality
• Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
• Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
• Lambda Legal Defense Fund

Houston GLBQ Resources

• Pride Houston
• Houston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• Houston GLBT Community Center
• OutSmart Magazine
• Montrose Clinic
• Lesbian Health Initiative

Lesbian and Gay History

• GLBTQ Encyclopedia
• Timetable of gay/lesbian history (The Knitting Circle)
• People with a History: an Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History (Paul Halsall)
• Gay & Lesbian History in the US: a Snapshot
• Stonewall & Beyond (Columbia U. online exhibit)
• Bibliography of Gay & Lesbian History (Rictor Norton)
• Lesbian Hirstory (Swade's Tribal Chant)
• HIV/AIDS Timeline (Gay Men's Health Crisis)

GLBQ People

• GLBTQ Encyclopedia
• Famous GLB People (lambda.org)
• Famous GLBT People (Stonewall Society)
• GLB Famous and Celebrity Figures (David Wyatt)

GLBQ Culture

• GLBTQ Encyclopedia
• Gay Symbols
• Stonewall & Beyond (Columbia U. online exhibit)
• Lesbian Pulp Fiction (Duke U.)

Literature and Literary Studies (Resources for ENGL 3396)

• Reflections on Camp (Warren Hedges)
• Identity Politics and Queer Theory (Warren Hedges)
• Kate Bornstein's Gender Aptitude Test; Amazon link to her book
• For Oranges: Summaries of the Old Testament; Jeanette Winterson's website
• For Stone Butch Blues : Leslie Feinberg's website;
• For Swimming Pool Library : HIV/AIDS timeline from Gay Men's Health Crisis

The History of the Book

• The Cuneiform Digital Palaeography Project
• Write Like a Babylonian
• The Book of the Dead (Egypt Archive)
• Gutenberg Bible (British Library)
• Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (first published July 1945 Atlantic Monthly)

Electronic Texts, Editions and Archives

Hypertexts

• Beehive Hypertext/Hypermedia Literary Journal
• Stuart Moulthrop's Hypertexts and Cybertexts
• Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer, Michael Joyce, Sister Stories
• Curtis Harrell, Turning Away
• Michael Joyce, Matthew Hanlon, Andrea Morris, Carolyn Guyer, The Sonatas of Saint Francis
• Shelley Jackson's writing

Electronic Editions and Archives

• Beowulf in Hypertext
• Beowulf on Steorarume
• The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
• The Perseus Digital Library
• The Electronic Canterbury Tales
• The Canterbury Tales Project
• The World of Dante
• The Philological Museum
• The Abraham Cowley Archive
• The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
• Shakespeare Quartos at the British Library
• The Bluestocking Archive
• The William Blake Archive (Morris Eaves et al)
• Lyrical Ballads: an Electronic Scholarly Edition (Romantic Circles)
• Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project
• Wordsworth Variorum Archive
• Jerome McGann's Rossetti Archive
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture (Stephen Railton)
• American Studies Hypertexts at UVA
• Making of America
• Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
• Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives (Martha Nell Smith et al)
• The Walt Whitman Archive (Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price)
• The Jack London Collection
• The Willa Cather Electronic Archive
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (U of South Carolina)

Electronic Text Coding

• The Text Encoding Initiative
• Cover Pages' resources on TEI

Advanced Research and Writing

Academic Research On Line

• Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
• Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net
• Archives of the Calls for Papers (CFP) mailing list (and info on subscribing)

Using Google

• How Google Understands your Search Query
• Special Search Characters in Google
• Using Google's Advanced Search Form

Bibliographic Management and Note-Taking Software

• Endnote
• Biblioscape
• Citation
• Procite
• Take Note
• ndx Cards
• Shadowplan
• Evernote
• Zotero extension for Firefox (CHNM)
• Scribe (CHNM)

Research and Writing Guides

Note: the public library has many of these books

• Wayne Booth, The Craft of Research
• Joseph Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
• Eviatar Zerubavel, The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books
• David Sternberg, How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation
• Joan Bolker, Write Your Dissertation in 15 Minutes a Day

Organizing Your Research Materials

Note: the public library has many of these books

• David Sternberg, How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation (excellent chapter on setting up and maintaining research files)
• Julie Morgenstern, Organizing from the Inside Out (good section on filing systems)
• David Allen, Getting Things Done (an excellent book for overall task and time management)