Electronic Resources

Reference Sources

• The Modern Language Association
• The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University
• The HELIN Library Search Page
• HELIN / OCLC First Search Databases (Includes the full MLA bibliography)
• The Bodleian Library, Oxford University
• The Library of Congress

Online Collections of Texts

MOA Texts: Here you can search through dozens of early American periodicals - among them the Southern Literary Messenger and the American Whig Review - and retrieve actual images of full pages with illustrations. A limited number of books are also included, and all texts are keyword-searchable. The collection is split between Cornell University and the University of Michigan:

• The Cornell University Library Making of America (MOA) Collection
• University of Michigan Making of America (MOA) Collection

The American Memory Collection is the premier online amalgamation of materials (including artwork, photographs, sound recordings, and early motion pictures) from American history and literature:

• Library of Congress: American Memory Collections

The University of Virginia has a wonderful collection of online texts, many of which can be searched from its public site:

• Search the Publicly Accessible Texts at the Electronic Text Center at UVA

The Labyrinth website is one of the earliest and best online collections of online texts; its focus is on medieval literature:

• Labyrinth: An Online Collection of Medieval Texts

For those who 'prefer not to,' Project Bartelby offers a variety of canonical texts online:

• The Oxford book of English Verse (1919)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21)
• The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (1875)