Liberal Arts and the Humanities
112 English Literature and Writing
Anthologies
88 Open Essays (CC BY-SA)
These essays were collected from online magazines that offer their articles under Creative Commons licenses. A few are from individual authors who generously agreed to give their work an open license in order to share it for this collection.
My Slipper Floated Away: New American Memoirs (CC BY-NC-ND)
An anthology of fresh, compelling essays written by students at Lehman College in the Bronx. The writers are immigrants or the children of immigrants and/or POC.
Collections
Digitized Shakespeare (CC BY)
A library’s rich holdings of early English drama include the majority of editions of William Shakespeare published before 1660
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (CC0)
A collection of over 25,000 XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books produced by The Text Creation Partnership. They transcribe and mark up the text from the millions of page images in ProQuest’s Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex’s Evans Early American Imprints.
Making Nineteenth-Century Literary Environments (CC BY-NC-ND)
A collection of student papers from the Simon Fraser University course English 435: Topics in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century. All papers have been peer reviewed by the students, received instructor feedback, and revised for publication.
Project Gutenberg (Public domiain)
A collection of public domain literature available in multiple formats.
Thomas Raddall’s Short Stories (CC BY-NC-SA)
This digital edition contains five short stories by Thomas Raddall from unpublished and undated typescripts held in the Dalhousie University Archives.
The Victorian Web (Various CC licences)
A collection of primary and secondary materials (books, articles, images) in British Victorian economics, literature, philosophy, political and social history, science, technology, and visual arts. Although the site concentrates on Great Britain in the age of Victoria (1837–1901), it includes much material before and after those years, particularly in sculpture and architecture, and the site also has a good deal of comparative material.
Monographs
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives (CC BY)
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world — mechanistic materialism and vitalism — in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot.
Writing Boxes: The Reading/Writing Connection in Libraries (CC BY-NC)
A guidebook and source of programming inspiration for all librarians working with early to young adult readers. Librarians will find thematic, easy to implement, hour-long writing workshops that require only paper, markers, and excited young writers.
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