Emily's humanities page

• Art (on its own page)
• History (on its own page)
• General humanities resources online
• Texts online
• Medieval and Renaissance links
• Journals
• Booksellers with Web pages

General humanities resources online

• The HUMBUL Gateway is a great resource for people in the humanities. (I miss being a student.)
• The English Server is the humanities geek's dream. There are primary sources in just about every area of the liberal arts, plus collections of links to related sites for each area, and they even threw in a recipe archive.
• Voice of the Shuttle's English literature pages have a tremendous amount of information grouped by time period.
• One more page to find humanities information is Infomine: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Resources.
• Chorus: Academic and Educational Computing in the Arts and Humanities is a site dedicated to exploring the relationship between technology and the liberal arts.
• Humanities Canada has a lot of information and links, useful even if you're not in Canada.
• The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities maintains a Web site with a number of links and online resources, and also offers a graduate fellowship to a student at the University of Virginia who does outstanding research on technology in the humanities.
• One more place to look for information about the arts' meeting with technology is the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at the University of California at San Diego.
• The Human Languages Page contains links to a number of searchable dictionaries, as well as to a whole bunch of information in and about different languages.
• Jack Lynch, at the University of Pennsylvania, maintains a page of On-Line Literary Research Tools.
• There's a listing of literary mailing lists at the U. Penn gopher site.

Texts online

• If you want to see what books are available online, and find out how the Gutenberg project is doing, try the Online Books Page. This page also contains the text for a number of banned books, plus descriptions of when, where, and why they were censored.
• A Lewis Carroll fan out there has put up slightly hypertexted versions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
• Rice University has a large number of books online through a gopher server.
• The WWW Virtual Library has the Internet Book Information Centre. The IBIC page contains a virtual review of books.
• The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet is another great place to look for online books, plays, and poetry.
• Carrie: An Electronic Library is exactly what it says it is. Poke through it as you would a regular library, and see what's around.
• The Bodleian Library at Oxford University has a Web server.
• I've got a couple of papers online that I wrote at school. One is a comparison of Ian Maclean's and Thomas Laqueur's studies of the Renaissance and Enlightenment notions of woman, and the other is a discussion of the similarities between the treatment of women and Jews during the Enlightenment. They're both pretty long, but I think they establish a good framework for the kind of work I may want to do when I get back to school.

Medieval and Renaissance links

• You can find the complete works at the Shakespeare Home Page.
• The University of Münster is the site for the Shakespeare database project -- this site is even better if you read German.
• The Shakespeare Web is aiming to be an interactive site for scholars and fans.
• The International Shakespeare Globe Centre in Köln, Germany, was linked here originally because it was a good source of information for what's happening with the reconstruction of the original Globe Theatre in London. (Interesting tidbit: archaeologists discovered the original site of the Globe because the area they dug in had a thick layer of nut shells. "Groundlings" (people who watched the three- or four-hour plays from the dirt floor of the theatre) munched on nuts the way many of us munch on popcorn at the movies today.) The Centre is now yet another good resource for Shakespeare scholars.
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet is also excellent.
• Georgetown University has put together a Medieval Studies page. It's even better if you can read Middle English.
• The Medieval Woman Home Page is a project at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario.
• Voice of the Shuttle's English Renaissance and seventeenth-century page is a thorough, extensive collection of links and resources.

Journals

• The Chronicle of Higher Education sponsors the online publication Academe This Week.
• A journal about literature in the Renaissance (my cup of tea) is Early Modern Literary Studies.
• The University of Florida offers Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
• The Modern Humanities Research Association publishes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature.

Booksellers with Web pages

• Probably the biggest and most well-known bookseller on the Web is now Amazon.com.
• For reviews of current books (and the chance to order them if you're in Canada or the US), check out Duthie Books, a very cool bookstore in Vancouver. Their online magazine The Reader is worth the visit.
• Bookwire is said to be a great way to order books, especially if you're in the States.
• The Internet Book Shop is in the UK, and sells a lot of books too. ("We've got a lot of books here. It's a bookshop.")
• You can order books from the comfort of your own Web browser by visiting Book Stacks Unlimited, Inc, which is a great site to visit in any case.
• WordsWorth Books, an independent bookstore that's one of the things I miss most about the Boston area, has its own home page.
• The WWW Virtual Library has a list of publishers' home pages.
• Those with subversive streaks will enjoy the online catalog for Loompanics Unlimited, which sells (among other things) the Principia Discordia. Not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
• BookServe is yet another place to order just about any book you can think of.
• If you know the name of a bookstore that you want to order a book from, but they don't have a Web page and you don't have the phone number handy, try AT&T's listing of 1-800 numbers for bookstores. (I think that most of these will only work from inside North America, though.)