American Literature Studies Online

1. Internet Public Library's Literary Criticism Collection

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. The collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be. The sites are selected with some thought to their overall usefulness.

#1 recommended source

2. Info USA's Links to Literary Criticism

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/critics.htm

Info USA provides 15 links to sites of descriptive criticism of American literature.

3. Literary Criticism Links from Library Spot

http://www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm

The Library Spot offers a web gateway for studies in literature classified in 10 categories.

4. Literary Criticism Study Guide

http://www.literatureclassics.com/ancientpaths/litcrit.html

Literary critics write for other literary critics and hold different theoretical beliefs in matters of aesthetical acclaim. This study guide provides an outline of diverse studies in literature and the leading practitioners of each discipline in literary scholarship with representative papers.

5. Literature and Literary Criticism Internet Search Engine

http://www.stcc.cc.tx.us/main/litsearch.html

This meta-search engine for literature and related studies allows the user to seek titles, names or literary terms from a selection of 32 databases. The site also recommends 8 web databases for biographies about authors and interpretive and analytic studies of prose works and poems.

A. Martha, 01/12/2004