Università degli Studi di Trieste

Corsi di Laurea in Scienze e Tecniche dell’Interculturalità e in D.A.M.S.

Letteratura Inglese e Letteratura dei Paesi di Lingua Inglese

A.A. 2007-2008

Prof. Mario Faraone

Ultimo aggiornamento: 14 aprile 2008

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• Create nuove sezioni.

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General Reference

Università

Cataloghi e OPAC

Biblioteche

Siti per ricerche letterarie

Risorse generali

Risorse specifiche

Reference e Strumenti

A) Antologie, Enciclopedie e Storie della Letteratura

B) Dizionari e Glossari

C) E-Text

Siti specifici su autori e periodi

Renaissance and Elizabethan Period

William Shakespeare

Othello

The Tempest

Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet

Macbeth

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Siti con immagini

Eighteenth Century

William Beckford

Jonathan Swift

Samuel Johnson

The Age of Sensibility

Gothic

Romanticism

Victorian Age

E.M. Forster

George Orwell

Guerra di Spagna (1936-1939)

Postmodernism and Contemporary

Children Literature
Travel Literature and Travel Studies

London

Siti sulle letterature dei paesi di lingua inglese

Risorse generali

Africa

Caraibi

Sub-Continente Indiano

Bollywood e Cinema Indiano

Diaspora

Siti su arti grafiche, drammaturgia, cinema e televisione

Arti grafiche

Cinema

Drammaturgia e Teatro

Televisione

Link utili e risorse

Per facilitare la navigazione sul web e la ricerca in ambito letterario, ritengo opportuno offrire una scelta di link utili e di indirizzi di risorse. Ovviamente, molti altri sono gli URL di uguale interesse, ma dimensioni e finalità del presente sito rendono necessario effettuare una selezione che tenga conto della praticità e dell'effettiva utilità.

Questa selezione eterogenea è destinata:

• agli studenti che debbono sostenere l'esame con la mia cattedra e vogliono approfondire gli argomenti secondo un personale percorso culturale;

• agli studenti che intendono produrre un elaborato scritto ("tesina") su un argomento/approfondimento concordato con il docente;

• agli studenti laureandi che necessitano di strumenti di ricerca per i materiali critici necessari per l'ideazione, lo sviluppo e la stesura del proprio progetto.

General Reference

Università

MIUR - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca

Sito ufficiale del MIUR (ex MURST). Da qui è possibile fare ricerche sia nell'ambito del Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, sia in quello del MInistero dell'Università e della Ricerca. E' anche possibile raggiungere i siti di tutte le università italiane.

Università degli Studi di Trieste

Il sito è ovviamente accessibile da qualunque punto Internet dell'università. Per comodità, ritengo utile inserire il link anche in questa mia pagina di ricerca. E' inoltre possibile accedere alla homepage del sito di Scienze e Tecniche dell'Interculturalità, gestito dalla Prof. Monique Gradolato, e al sito del D.A.M.S., gestito dal Prof. Paolo Quazzolo.

Università degli Studi di Roma

Presso il sito del dipartimento di Anglistica, è presente una selezione più ampia di link utili per la ricerca letteraria, sempre da me curata.

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Cataloghi e OPAC

ACNP - Catalogo Nazionale dei Periodici

Sito ospitato dal CIB Centro Inter-Bibliotecario Università di Bologna. Permette di individuare in quale biblioteca pubblica italiana si trova una determinata rivista.

ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico

Sito ufficiale dell'Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico. Contiene l'OPAC dell'Indice SBN (maschera di ricerca).

MAI – Metaopac Azalai Italiano

Dalla homepage del sito: Questo metaOPAC è indicato per la ricerca di documenti poco comuni non trovati in altri cataloghi italiani. Poiché il MAI interroga contemporaneamente molti cataloghi, conviene utilizzarlo per cercare documenti posseduti da poche biblioteche, che non si è riusciti a trovare in altri cataloghi di biblioteche vicine al luogo dove ci si trova, o in grandi cataloghi collettivi italiani come SBN (Servizio bibliotecario nazionale) e ACNP (Catalogo nazionale dei periodici). Cercando nel MAI documenti comuni, invece, si otterrebbero molte risposte, che risulterebbe scomodo esaminare.

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Biblioteche

Polo delle Biblioteche dell'Università di Trieste

Sito ufficiale del polo bibliotecario dell'università di Trieste. E' possibile ricercare anche nelle biblioteche aderenti all'OPAC del Polo SBN della Venezia Giulia.

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma "Vittorio Emanuele II"

Sito ufficiale della biblioteca nazionale italiana (maschera di ricerca).

Biblioteca di Teatro e Spettacolo "Burcardo"

La Biblioteca e Raccolta teatrale del Burcardo, di proprietà della Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori, è aperta al pubblico dal 1932. Negli anni, ha costantemente arricchito le sue raccolte con nuove acquisizioni.

The British Library

Sito ufficiale della biblioteca nazionale inglese (maschera di ricerca).

University of London Library "Senate House"

Sito ufficiale della biblioteca dell'università di Londra.

Biblioteca Nacional de España

Sito ufficiale della biblioteca nazionale spagnola.

The Library of Congress

Sito ufficiale della biblioteca nazionale americana.

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Sito ufficiale della biblioteca nazionale francese.

National Library of Canada / Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada

Sito ufficiale della biblioteca nazionale canadese.

Die Deutsche Bibliothek

Sito ufficiale della biblioteca nazionale tedesca .

 

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Siti per ricerche letterarie

Risorse generali

Anglophile.org and Britishliterature.com

British Literature and Anglophile Resources

Annotated Webliography of Literary Resources

[Momentaneamente off-line]

Bbc.co.uk/history

Dalla Homepage del sito: Make Sense of the Past. This site is dedicated to bringing history to life, for the casual browser and the total enthusiast. Experience history through animations, games, movies and virtual tours, or delve into more than 450 feature articles by leading writers.

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Dalla Homepage del sito: La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (BVMC), inaugurada en julio de 1999, es un amplio proyecto de edición digital del patrimonio bibliográfico, documental y crítico español e hispanoamericano, que pretende potenciar la expansión universal de las culturas hispánicas a través de la utilización y aplicación de los medios tecnológicos más avanzados.

Britannia British History

The English Server (EServer) Iowa State University

Dalla Homepage del sito: The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.

IPL - Internet Public Library

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information

Literary History

Dalla Homepage del sito: Literaryhistory.com is an index to free internet articles on topics in English and American literature. It is designed to be convenient and useful for students, scholars, writers, teachers, reading groups, and general readers. All links lead directly to articles, and articles must meet basic academic standards to be included. Literaryhistory.com is edited by Jan Pridmore and has been online since 1998.

Literary Resources on the Net – Rutgers University

Dalla Homepage del sito: This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics — I've excluded most poetry journals, for instance. 

The Media History Project

Dalla Homepage del sito: Promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels. This site is hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, with additional support from the CLA Infotech Fees Committee.

Research and Documentation Online

Un ottimo sito gestito da Diana Hacker (Prince George’s Community College), con le indicazioni su come “citare” in tesine, elaborati, paper e tesi di laurea. Basato sul MLA (Modern Language Association) Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, fornisce indicazioni su come organizzare la tesi, le note e la bibliografia finale. Molto utile, soprattutto per la presenza di numerosi esempi e della possibilità di scaricare un “sample paper” in formato “.pdf”.

The Royal Anthropological Institute

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The Institute is a non-profit-making registered charity and is entirely independent, with a Director and a small staff accountable to the Council, which in turn is elected annually from the Fellowship. It has a Royal Patron in the person of HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO.

SAC LitWeb

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to the San Antonio College LitWeb, From The Department of English at San Antonio College, Created by Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D.

SCHOLARS' GUIDE TO WWW – compiled by Richard Jensen

Una raccolta davvero notevole di links per “references” nei vari campi delle “Umanities Sciences”. Utilissima per qualunque tipo di ricerca, Richard Jensen la tiene aggiornata con frequenza.

Dalla Homepage del sito: Jensen is a scholar with many books and articles; he was professor of history for over 35 years at several schools, including the University of Illinois, Harvard, Michigan, West Point, and Moscow State University. This Guide was prepared with support from the National Endowment for Humanities, the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation, the University of Illinois, RPI, the Gilder-Lehrman Foundation, the Luce Foundation, and the Robert H. Michel Civic Education Grants sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center. Scholars are invited to post the complete Guide to campus WWW sites and distribute it to students.  

Stmoderna – Risorse online per la storia moderna

Dalla Homepage del sito: Stmoderna ha due finalità strettamente connesse. Intende offrire agli studiosi che praticano la storia moderna o discipline che si collocano in questo settore alcuni strumenti primari di informazione e di orientamento. Vuole aprire in questo modo una possibile via di comunicazione e di scambio tra gli addetti ai lavori. Esso si rivolge in primo luogo agli studiosi italiani che trattano di tematiche modernistiche, quali che siano gli ambiti nazionali toccati, e agli studiosi stranieri che si occupano di storia italiana.

Voice of the Shuttle

Database articolatissimo e molto ben organizzato. Offre migliaia di link a fonti critiche e secondarie nello studio delle "Scienze Umane". La sezione dedicata alla Letteratura di Lingua Inglese è, ovviamente, ricchissima.

Dalla Homepage del sito: The mission of Voice of the Shuttle has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media. (See such pages as Cultural Studies, Sci-Tech and Culture, Cyberculture, and Technology of Writing.) VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities (which in practice has included students and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and general population sectors).

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Reference e Strumenti

A) Antologie, Enciclopedie e Storie della Letteratura

The Bible Gateway

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to BibleGateway.com, a free service for reading and researching Scripture online--all in the language or translation of your choice! We provide advanced tools you can use to search the Bible by keywords or verse, as well as other tools to enhance your study of the Bible.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Versione informatizzata dalla Bartleby.com e di pubblico accesso della celebre storia letteraria in 18 volumi. Ancora scientificamente valida, seppure un po' datata: ignora del tutto il mondo delle letterature dei paesi di lingua inglese.

Classics in the History of Psychology

Dalla Homepage del sito: Classics in the History of Psychology is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.

The target audience is researchers, teachers, and students of the history of psychology, both for use in their courses on the history of psychology, and for the purposes of primary academic research.

The Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74. […]However, the DHI has been out of print for many years. Aware of the new potential offered by electronic access to texts, the Directors and Board of Editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas authorized a grant to support digitization of the DHI. Substantial support has also been provided by the University of Virginia Library through its Electronic Text Center. The project has been undertaken with the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons and of The Gale Group, of which Scribner's is a part. We invite those whose curiosity is stimulated by the Dictionary of the History of Ideas to investigate the Library of the History of Ideas (University of Rochester Press), which is made up of topical volumes containing articles previously published in the Journal of the History of Ideas; or to browse in the JHI itself.

Encyclopedia.com

Una delle molte enciclopedie consultabili tramite web. Questa è però molto completa e frequentemente aggiornata.

Dalla Homepage del sito: Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research.

The Encyclopedia Mythica

Dalla Homepage del sito: Please enter the award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between. […] The encyclopedia will serve the serious researcher, the student, and the casual reader with equal success. Come in and enjoy!

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy was founded in 1995 for the purpose of providing detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The IEP is free of charge and available to all internet users world wide.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook Main Page

Dalla Homepage del sito: the Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in  modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.

The Literary Encyclopedia

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Literary Encyclopedia is an authoritative, up-to-date reference work written by named scholars, most of whom are current university teachers. Its entries represent the state of the art in scholarly understanding and it grows in scale every week. Our aspiration is eventually to provide a scholarly description of every author and text read in the English-speaking world.

The Oxford Book of English Verse (1250–1900) Chosen and Edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch (1919)

Dalla Homepage del sito: From Arthur Quiller-Couch’s 1919 Introduction to this extensive collection: “For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse. [..] To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated. […]My wish is that the reader should in his own pleasure quite forget the editor’s labour, which too has been pleasant: that, standing aside, I may believe this book has made the Muses’ access easier when, in the right hour, they come to him to uplift or to console.”

 

The Perry Castañeda Library - Maps Collection

Una ricchissima collezione di mappe e carte geografiche appartenenti a diversi periodo della storia dell'umanità. Molto utile per le ricerche, le mappe possono esere scaricate e salvate per futura consultazione.

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Perry-Castañeda Library is named for two former University professors, Ervin Sewell Perry and Carlos Eduardo Castañeda. The Perry-Castañeda Library is one of the largest academic library buildings in North America and is a major research center in Texas. Three years under construction, the six-level, open-stack facility was designed to serve as the main library of UT Austin.

B) Dizionari e Glossari

Acronyms and Initialisms

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary Online

Il leggendario CALD, consutabile Online. [al 30 novembre 2006; non è possibile garantire che lo sarà sempre: il sito commercializza il dizionario stesso per la Cambridge University Press; siete pregati di avvisarmi per mail se il link venisse dismesso, grazie!]

Dict.org

Un buon sito che permette di consultare online ben 77 dizionari monolingue, bilingue, etimologici, nonché enciclopedie e repertori vari. Utilissimo per ricerche linguistiche ma anche letterarie.

Dizionario De Mauro Paravia on-line

Dalla Home page del sito: Benvenuti al dizionario De Mauro Paravia on-line! Questa è la versione on-line del noto dizionario cartaceo. Presenta solo alcune delle caratteristiche del dizionario originale che è ricco di approfondimenti come la fonetica, l’etimologia, la grammatica, i sinonimi e i contrari.

Nel campo in alto a destra potrete inserire i lemmi per effettuare le vostre ricerche; è possibile effettuare nuove ricerche facendo doppio clic su qualsiasi parola.

Figure Retoriche

Solo uno dei tanti link possibili per illustrare il concetto di "figura retorica". Offre la definizione e la spiegazione di moltissime figure, pur non  coprendo la totalità dei termini. Per una panoramica ben più vasta (anche se quasi mai esaustiva), è necessario ricorrere a un dizionario specifico, consultabile praticamente in qualunque biblioteca.

The Forest of Rhetoric - Silva Rhetoricae

Un sito notevole! Un pratico motore di ricerca permette di individuare la definizione di centinaia di termini comuni e non della retorica classica. Inoltre, due menù "ad albero", uno a sinistra e uno a destra, permettono di analizzare termini singoli e gruppi di termini affini tra loro.

Dalla Homepage del sito: This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and

renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.

This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).

Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms

Un’altra notevole pagina web gestita da Jack Lynch, della Rutgers University. Il glossario non è esaustivo, come mai può esserlo un qualunque dizionario che esamina la struttura retorica del discorso e del linguaggio. Ma è molto ricco e decisamente esauriente per gli studi universitari.

Jack Lynch è un eminente studioso di letteratura inglese, autore di moltissimi studi approfonditi soprattutto sul XVIII secolo, ma anche di un numero impressionante di pagine web dedicate allo studio della letteratura inglese, pagine che ospitano molti dei suoi scritti e parecchi strumenti di ricerca molto utili per gli studi letterari. La sua Homepage, ospitata dalla Rutgers University, è consultabile a questo link.

Glossary of Poetic Terms

Un sito ricco e molto articolato, gestito con competenza da Robert G. Shubinski

Dalla Homepage del sito: This site features a unique Glossary of Poetic Terms, plus Examples of Poetic Terms from the works of prominent poets, Tips for the Enjoyment of Poetry and A Selection of Bob's Poems. Also, you will find helpful links to relevant poetic, literary, and reference websites.

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

Sito a cura della Division of Classics, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, University of Kentucky at Lexington.

Dalla Homepage del sito: This glossary came my way in graduate school at the University of Texas. Chris Renaud gave it to me, and she tells me it originated with Ernest Ament of Wayne State University. I have since used it from time to time in classes and I have added a couple of examples. -- Ross Scaife

Introduction to Modern Literary Theory

Il sito è gestito dal Dr. Kristi Siegel, Associate Professor, English Dept., Mount Mary College, Milwaukee. Si tratta di un breve ma articolato sito web nel quale vengono esposte le basi principali delle maggiori scuole di approccio critico ai testi letterari e ai fenomeni culturali. Ogni singola voce, inoltre, offre links e testi di “reference” per un ulteriore approfondimento.

Key Terms in Literature - A Brief List

Dalla Homepage del sito: The following list of key terms in literature is intended primarily for students who do not do literature at university level. Those of you who did or are doing literature, should be familiar with the terms, although you may be interested in looking at some of the items or exploring the hypertext links indicated in the document, including links to some of Prof Talib's lecture notes on the Web. The list is not exhaustive, and there may also be additional and/or slightly different definitions of the terms in my own lectures (or, for that matter, in the lectures of other teachers). Compiler: Associate Professor Ismail S. Talib; e-mail: ellibst@leonis.nus.edu.sg.

Literary Terms and Their Definitions

Dalla Homepage del sito: This webpage contains alphabetical lists of literary terms and their definitions. Because the list is fairly lengthy, I have subdivided it into several pages. Hunt for the term you want alphabetically within each letter's webpage. You can supplement this knowledge by looking in the glossary in the back of your literature books, in dictionaries, and online more generally. Do note that entries marked with a tiny construction barrier () or the abbreviation TBA ("to be announced") are still in the process of being written or revised, so these entries may change as I polish them.

One Look. Dictionary Search

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to OneLook® Dictionary Search. Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.

What can you do at OneLook.com?

• Define words: Type a word into the search box on the front page to retrieve a list of dictionary web sites that define that word. Be sure "Find definitions" is selected.

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• Find words: Type a pattern consisting of letters and the wildcards * and ? to retrieve a list of words matching your pattern. The asterisk (*) matches any number of letters or symbols. The question mark (?) matches exactly one letter or symbol. (More info on wildcards.)

You can explore the other links above this box for more information on OneLook.com. (Don't forget to check out our cool customization features!) Please read our FAQ or send us feedback if you have any questions. When you're ready to try it out, simply return to the front page.

WORDS OF ART: FRONT PAGE

Web page ospitata dal Fine Arts Department, Okanagan University College. Si tratta di un glossario che fornisce la definizione di moltissimi termini connessi con il mondo delle arti. Purtroppo, la pagina non è dotata di un motore di ricerca interno ma solo di una divisione alfabetica dei termini: quindi è possibile trovare la definizione del termine che si cerca solo selezionando la prima lettera del termine stesso, e visualizzando di conseguenza tutti i termini che iniziano con quella lettera! Ma è comunque uno strumento prezioso per le ricerche e gli studi artistico-letterari.

C) E-Text

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

Bartleby.com – Great Books Online

Dalla Homepage del sito: Named after the humble character of its namesake scrivener, or copyist in Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener, Bartleby.com publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant. Bartleby.com began as a personal research experiment in 1993 and within one year published the first classic book on the Web (Whitman’s Leaves of Grass). Since its incorporation in 1999 and the release of preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web, meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious.

Blackmask Online

Un sito formidabile per consultare e scaricare “full text” in “.html”, in “.mhtml” e in “.pdf”; la concezione del sito è un po’ rigida, perché i testi sono suddivisi in macrocategorie, a loro volta suddivise in molti livelli di microcategorie. Non è sempre evidente a quale categoria un testo possa appartenere. Tuttavia, un comodo motore di ricerca interno risolve il problema. Il sito è utilissimo per testi non comuni e non presenti negli altri grandi archivi di e-text comunque presenti in questa mia pagina di links.

Electronic Text Center at University of Virginia

Altro sito di e-text molto fornito. Sfortunatamente, per consultare l’intera collezione bisognerebbe essere iscritti alla University of Virginia o trovarsi in uno dei suoi punti internet! Ma anche la sola raccolta di “public accessibile texts” è imponente e molto utile.

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library has pursued twin missions with equal seriousness of purpose since its inception in 1992: to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML and XML-encoded texts and images; and to build and maintain user communities adept at the creation and use of these materials.

The Online Books Page

Dalla Homepage del sito: The index includes more than 20,000 English works in various formats, free for personal, noncommercial use.  

The Oxford Text Archive

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to the Oxford Text Archive Website. The OTA works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings.

Project Gutenberg

Una vera e propria miniera di e-texts, consultabile anche a questo link. E’ possibile consultare un catalogo per autori e un altro per opere. In entrambi i casi, l’offerta è ricchissima e copre il panorama della letteratura inglese fino al periodo tra le due guerre. Oltre no, per evidenti diritti d’autore. Ma nel Project Gutemberg of Australia, paese in cui le leggi sul diritto d’autore sono differenti, si possono trovare anche testi successivi al periodo indicato.

Dalla Homepage del sito: Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. Our collection of more than 15.000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use (for complete details, see the license page).

Il sito è consultabile anche a questo link.

D) Banche dati e Motori di ricerca "Full-Text"

Encyclopedia.com

Dalla Homepage del sito: Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research.

HighBeam Research is the comprehensive digital archive for information seekers of all ages. You can search across 35 million documents from full-text newspaper and magazine articles, television and radio transcripts, international newswires, classic books, maps, photographs, as well as major works of literature, art and reference books. You'll find both current and historical events within the diverse HighBeam Research archive. Learn more about how HighBeam Research can work for you.

LookSmart's FindArticles

Un motore di ricerca per trovare articoli “full text”. Una sezione è "free access" e fornisce moltissimi articoli da un gran numero di riviste. Un'altra sezione, "pay per view", ricerca articoli e saggi anche in molte riviste scientifiche e accademiche, fornendo i risultati "a pagamento".

Dalla Homepage del sito: "Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications. We give you free access to information you can trust, from a collection you'll only find here."

Scribd

Dalla Homepage del sito: Who we are. Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you! Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. We make use of a custom Flash document viewer that lets you display documents right in your Web browser. There are all sorts of other features that make it easy and fun to publish, convert, embed, analyze, and read documents.

Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web.

The Free Library

Dalla Homepage del sito: Since 2003, The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily.
The Free Library is an invaluable research tool and the fastest, easiest way to locate useful information on virtually any topic. Explore the site through a keyword search, or simply browse the enormous collection of literary classics and up-to-date periodicals to find exactly what you need.
 

 

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Siti generali su autori e periodi

British and Irish Authors

Un sito molto ben organizzato, con link per moltissimi autori e una articolata divisione in sottosezioni. Una in particolare rimanda agli autori del periodo Vittoriano.

Nobelprize.org – Nobel Laureates in Literature

Il sito ufficiale dell'accademia di Stoccolma. Il link porta direttamente alla pagina dedicata al premio nobel per la letteratura. E' possibile consultare una scheda per ogni autore / autrice che ha vinto il premio. La scheda permette di leggere la motivazione del premio, il discorso di accettazione, il discorso pronunciato in occasione del banchetto ufficiale alla corte di Svezia, e offre diversi link a recensioni accademiche e interviste ufficiali.

The Women’s Studies (University of Maryland)

Dalla Homepage del sito: The University of Maryland women's studies web site, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues. For information about the University's academic Women's Studies Department, visit their website at http://www.umd.edu/WMST/: an interdisciplinary program of study of women and men in society within both historical and contemporary contexts and from multicultural and multiracial perspectives.

 

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Siti specifici su autori e periodi

Renaissance and Elizabethan Period

CERES - Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service

Dalla Homepage del sito: CERES, the Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service, was started in October 1996 in response to the developing importance of electronic media in literary research. Aimed at those working in the area of English Renaissance literature and its environs, it offered its members a Starter Guide to help them get more from the internet, and a regular email newsletter, CERES Harvest, detailing and reviewing new developments in electronic resources for research in the Renaissance, as well as relaying calls for papers and conference programmes.

Elizabethan England

Project Description: This site was created by senior English Literature/Composition students at Springfield High School (IL) as part of an introductory study of the Elizabethan Period of English history and literature. The project focuses on important figures, events, and cultural trends of the time.

Objectives: The objectives of this project were to increase students' knowledge of the Elizabethan period in general and to enhance their skills in several other important areas of learning:

• research and critical review of resources

• preparation of a briefly annotated bibliography according to MLA style specifications

• preparation and revision of an original report incorporating source material

• identification of appropriate visuals to accompany the written report

• use of technological resources to write and revise the bibliography and report, to scan visual images, and to create a web page incorporating the three components

The Elizabethan Costuming Page

Un sito molto ben organizzato sull’arte del vestire e sui costumi del periodo Elisabettiano. Gestito da Drea Leed, studiosa di storia del costume e autrice di diversi studi approfonditi sul periodo elisabettiano, il sito è il centro di un cospicuo web-ring sull’argomento, certamente molto utile per chi si occupa di vestiario scenico.

The Elizabethan Theatre

Sito molto ben organizzato, ricco di dettagli e di immagini. Contiene il testo completo e le immagini di una nota conferenza del Professor Hilda D. Spear (University of Dundee) tenuta alla Cologne University, nell'ottobre del 1989. Il sito è scritto e gestito da Andreas Schlenger, della Università di Colonia.

E.M.L.S. - Early Modern Literary Studies

Dalla Homepage del sito: Early Modern Literary Studies (ISSN 1201-2459) is a refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum. Reviews evaluate recent work as well as academic tools of interest to scholars in the field. EMLS is committed to gathering and to maintaining links to the most useful and comprehensive internet resources for Renaissance scholars, including archives, electronic texts, discussion groups, and beyond.

Life in Elizabethan England

A Compendium of Common Knowledge, 1588-1603. Un progetto straordinario, continuamente "in fieri". Pagine e notizie si aggiungono di continuo. Una specie di bibbia del mondo elisabettiano. E' anche possibile scaricare l'intero progetto in formato PDF per poi stamparlo e consultarlo più facilmente.

LUMINARIUM - 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1425-1603)

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William Shakespeare

Bardware

Everything by, about, and for William Shakespeare, the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon

The Plays of William Shakespeare

Dalla Home page del sito: Welcome to the Electronic Literature Foundation's presentation of the Plays of William Shakespeare. Select the play you are interested in below. Each play has its own search engine, concordance, quotes, and other information.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

Dalla Homepage del sito: From the beginning these pages have been an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet. By 'annotated' I mean I give my opinions about the sites and try to indicate what their strengths may be. This is the fourth edition of these pages. It is hard to believe, but once again they are new and improved. My motive in publishing these pages remains to help and stimulate others in Shakespeare studies, and especially those who might contribute their work to the Internet. The spirit of altruism that originally built the Internet is not quite gone, though, sadly, through the pressures of time and profit has diminished. If you find links which would be a good addition to these pages, please write so that I might add them.  

Siti con immagini

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs, 1870-1982

Dalla Homepage del sito: "Guidelines issued by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the National Council of Teachers of English encourage the use of a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach to the language arts--an approach which utilizes the new technologies to enhance students' appreciation of literature. […] The CSU Library is delighted to make its resources available to secondary school and college students and instructors and everyone who enjoys the works of William Shakespeare." [Sito che offre moltissime immagini di scena, di allestimenti e produzioni di compagnie teatrali nordamericane].

Folger Shakespeare Library

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, is a world-class research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. It is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art.

RSC - Royal Shakespeare Company

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to the website of the Royal Shakespeare Company. You can book tickets for RSC productions, tour our digitised archive, and find out more about Shakespeare's life and work. Our mission at the RSC is to keep audiences in touch with Shakespeare - understanding his work through today's artists, actors and writers.

[Per accedere alle immagini: selezionare “Learning” e da qui scegliere una delle diverse opzioni; la più diretta alla ricerca di immagini è  “Pictures and exhibition”: poi selezionare “Plays and Productions” e da qui scegliere o “Browse Exhibitions” o “Quick Picture Search”.].

Shakespeare’s World at Emory University

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to Shakespeare's World at Emory University. Shakespeare's World is a collection of two sites created and maintained by Harry Rusche of the Emory College English department: Shakespeare and the Players and Shakespeare Illustrated.

Shakespeare and the players

Shakespeare and the Players is a survey through postcards of the many now unfamiliar English and American actors who played Shakespeare's characters for late Victorian and Edwardian audiences.

Shakespeare Illustrated

Shakespeare Illustrated, a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another.

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Eighteenth Century

C18-L

Forum elettronico internazionale sugli studi multidisciplinari riguardanti il secolo XVIII. Una comunità internazionale di studiosi che si scambia informazioni e notizie a proposito di uno dei secoli più stimolanti e vitali della letteratura inglese in particolare ed europea in generale.

Dalla Homepage del sito: Founded in early 1990, C18-L is an international, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of 18th-century studies -- that is, the "long 18th century," which extends roughly from 1660 to 1830. C18-L is a virtual forum that works by circulating posted messages via e-mail to all subscribers.

Eighteenth-Century Resources

Sito organizzato e gestito da Jack Lynch, Rutgers University, Newark. Forse la maggiore collezione di link e risorse sul XVIII secolo oggi disponibile su Internet.

Eighteenth-Century English Novel Research Guide

Sito gestito da Beth Jane Thoren: "A good collection of electronic and print resources useful in research on the novel. Links to Web resources."

The Novel in Europe, 1670-1730

Rethinking Literary History: The Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Sito Web gestito da Laura Mandell, http://www.users.muohio.edu/mandellc/, Associate Professor del Dept. of English, Miami University. Si tratta di pagine prodotte nell’ambito di un corso universitario tenuto da Laura Mandell, contenenti materiali eterogenei, come saggi degli studenti, approfondimenti critici, bibliografie dettagliate e links esterni. Nel complesso, costituisce una risorsa utile, anche se limitata all’aspetto specifico del corso.

The Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of Eighteenth-Century Periodicals

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Spectator Project is an interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general. The most innovative feature of the project developed out of the object of study itself. The format, style, and even the content of The Tatler and the Spectator were immediately and closely imitated in hundreds of periodicals in Europe and the Americas. The Spectator Project will allow users to compare imitated and imitating formats and passages of text through the means of hyperlinks. A footnote will appear, for example, in the text of Marivaux's Le Spectateur français or Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator, and the user will click on it to bring up the passage in the Spectator that it derives from. While there are editions of eighteenth-century periodicals on-line and in CD-ROM format, none have linked multiple periodicals together for the purpose of studying their complex interrelation. While many scholarly web projects simply make their material more widely available--in itself, a laudable goal--this feature makes our project an interpretive editorial apparatus, and one which is based on the special capabilities of the digital environment.

The limits imposed on the study of periodicals through reprint editions and even through primary documents are extensive. Reprint editions, including the definitive edition of The Spectator (ed., D.F. Bond, 5 volumes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965)), are generally hardcover, multi-volume series, and are often out-of-print, so they are rarely owned by scholars. (Versions of The Tatler and The Spectator currently in print are selected editions, and include less than one-fifth of the entire series.) Consequently, simply making The Spectator accessible in its entirety will provide a useful resource.

The obstacles to scholarly study of the eighteenth-century periodical in book form, however, extend far beyond their availability. Book editions of periodicals are limited in precisely those ways that inhibit the most innovative aspects of the scholarly work that is currently being done on them. Since very few are facsimile editions, they do not reproduce the periodicals' format or typography, and they exclude elements of the originals (such as advertisements) regarded as extra-textual. Most importantly, the kind of editorial apparatus that is possible in a book cannot demonstrate the level of imitation and appropriation that takes place between the periodicals of Addison and Steele and those periodicals that follow. Scholars studying original documents or microfilms of eighteenth-century periodicals (and particularly those working in languages other than English) may not be aware, for example, that a given passage imitates and alters a passage from the Spectator, and, of course, will not have the guidance of an editorial apparatus. This last point is particularly important, as the reprinting of periodical essays in modern editions lags far behind scholarly interest in the periodical. Even in scholarly editions, footnotes are limited in their capacity to document the passages imitating Addison and Steele beyond reproducing a few lines of the Tatler or the Spectator.

While the Spectator Project will assuage all of these difficulties, it will also allow the user to manipulate the texts. Users can conduct complex structured searches of this large corpus and to access critical materials that elucidate both the periodicals and the contexts of their production and reception. Researchers working on topics ranging from the history of literary criticism to the consumption of snuff and caffeine in the Augustan era can search hundreds of issues of The Spectator in a matter of seconds, producing a ranked survey of every mention of their topic of study. Soon, users will be able to consult maps of Queen Anne's London (with special sections on both the London book trade and the haunts of Addison and Steele's persona, "Mr. Spectator," glossaries of terms from eighteenth-century dictionaries, formats of both the original periodicals and bound volumes through the nineteenth century, and other ancillary materials.

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William Beckford

Beckfordiana - The William Beckford Website

A cura di Dick Clésson, per il Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire, presenta la collezione più aggiornata e scientificamente valida di link su Beckford e la sua opera.

The History of the Caliph Vathek

Il testo intero del romanzo, dall'edizione Cassell Company del 1887. E' possibile consultare il testo, "sfogliandolo" pagina per pagina. Ovviamente, per la grafia settecentesco/ottocentesca dell'inglese, questo testo costituisce una preziosa fonte filologica, ma non può sostituire le edizioni attualmente in commercio, dotate inoltre di ottimi apparati critico interpretativi.

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Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe, University of Miami Libraries

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Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Bibliography

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Un sito ricchissimo, creato e gestito da Henry e Lee Jaffe. Oltre il testo integrale dell'opera, presenta risorse multimediali di vario tipo e una cospicua raccolta di links esterni.

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Samuel Johnson

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Il testo intero del romanzo, dall'edizione Oxford del 1825, curato da Jack Lynch. Il testo è contenuto tutto in una pagina, ma una lista di rinvii permette di posizionarsi all'inizio di ogni singolo capitolo.

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The Age of Sensibility

A Dictionary of Sensibility

This hypertext offers a new approach towards understanding the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. It provides an atmospheric view of the multiple connotations of the terms of that language. Rather than attempting strict definitions, this project offers a tool for recognizing the multivalence of such words as "virtue," "enthusiasm," and "community." Our hypertext collects excerpts from primary texts of sensibility and scatters them among twenty four key terms. We imagine the sensible reader exploring these passages to understand the different vocabularies of the period.

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Gothic

The Gothic Literature Page

Sito dedicato allo studio del genere gotico in Inghilterra, dal 1764 al 1840.

The Literary Gothic Page

"A Web site for all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, 'classic' Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related Gothic, supernaturalist, and 'weird' literature prior to the mid-twentieth century." Molti i link con E-Texts del genere gotico.

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Romanticism

Centro di ricerca e di documentazione interdisciplinare sul Romanticismo

Dalla Homepage del sito: Nel giugno 1993 il Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere Moderne dell'Università degli Studi di Bologna ha approvato la nascita di un Centro di ricerca e di documentazione interdisciplinare sul Romanticismo al fine di consolidare e di rendere visibile un'area di ricerca nel cui ambito operano già da anni studiosi e docenti afferenti  a varie aree disciplinari. Una ricchezza di contributi resa manifesta da numerose pubblicazioni, da convegni internazionali, da seminari e conferenze organizzati da molti membri del Dipartimento stesso in autonomia o in collaborazione con altre prestigiose istituzioni. Una ricchezza che sottolinea la ben nota centralità che gli studi romantici hanno raggiunto in contesti nazionali ed internazionali e mettono in luce la vitalità critica e metodologica che il Romanticismo tuttora coagula intorno a sé.

L'istituzione di questo Centro prevede la promozione della ricerca di carattere specialistico e la catalogazione di tutti i materiali utili allo studio della cultura romantica con particolare attenzione alle fonti, ai contesti, ai generi, ai temi, alle idee e, più specificatamente, ai problemi linguistico-formali e teorico-estetici del periodo.

Cosa concretamente si propone di fare un Centro come questo? Il primo obiettivo, crediamo, è quello di funzionare quale momento di raccordo fra gli studiosi delle diverse aree disciplinari e di diversi contesti universitari e culturali affinché si raggiunga uno scambio scientifico sempre più intenso e qualificato e si incentivino iniziative che nascono in contesti diversificati, locali e nazionali, come pure nazionali e internazionali. Secondo obiettivo è la valorizzazione delle grandi potenzialità che i suoi membri portano all'interno del Centro, una valorizzazione che avviene sia attraverso il coordinamento di e fra singole iniziative che attraverso la promozione di progetti culturali collettivi.

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Victorian Age

19th Century British and Irish Authors

Sito che permette di accedere a moltissime "web pages" dedicate a scrittori e scrittrici del periodo vittoriano.

ENGL 5562: Victorian Literature

Sito web gestito dal Dr. Carolyn Sigler della University of Minnesota-Duluth, contenente il suo programma d'esame per il modulo offerto nella primavera del 2007. Il sito ospita una ricchissima selezione di links a pagine e risorse sugli studi vittoriani: la qualità eterogenea di queste risorse e il loro alto valore scientifico complessivo, fanno della pagina del Dr. Sigler una delle offerte più significative e stimolanti in questo campo degli studi culturali e letterari.
 

Gaslight

Dalla Homepage del sito: Gaslight is an Internet discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919. The current readings and selected ones from the past are available here. For more information about joining the discussion list, write Stephen Davies and Diana Patterson at Gaslight-Safe@MtRoyal.ab.ca Gaslight is hosted by Mount Royal College, Alberta, Canada http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel - Bibliographic Resources

Sito web con parecchi links a numerose risorse online sugli studi sul diciannovesimo secolo in generale e sul romanzo vittorianio in particolare. E' gestito da Jay Clayton del Department of English, Vanderbilt University (Personal web site - 1995-2007)

Rethinking Literary History: The Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Sito Web gestito da Laura Mandell, http://www.users.muohio.edu/mandellc/, Associate Professor del Dept. of English, Miami University. Si tratta di pagine prodotte nell’ambito di un corso universitario tenuto da Laura Mandell, contenenti materiali eterogenei, come saggi degli studenti, approfondimenti critici, bibliografie dettagliate e links esterni. Nel complesso, costituisce una risorsa utile, anche se limitata all’aspetto specifico del corso.

The Victorian Dictionary

Dalla Homepage del sito: This site is simply a resource for anyone interested in how life was lived in Victorian London.

L'autore, Lee Jackson, "an author and librarian, a little obsessed with the Victorian city", è davvero troppo modesto. Il sito costituisce una delle risorse più complete e affidabili di testi narrativi, giornalististici e saggistici prodotti dalla cultura vittoriana, attraverso i quali è possibile approfondire lo studio della vita quotidiana e della cultura stessa. Inoltre, il sito offre un numero consistente e costantemente in aumento di immagini fotografiche risalenti al periodo vittoriano.

Victorian Resources Online

An Annotated List of Scholarly Websites

Victorian Research Web - Scholarly Resources for Victorian Research

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to the Victoria Research Web, a guide to research resources written by the founder and manager of the long-running VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies. Like VICTORIA, the VRW is dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and to aiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period.

The Victorian web. An Overview

Dalla Homepage del sito: Literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria. The Victorian Web is a project funded by the University Scholars Program, National University of Singapore.

Victorian Web Sites - The Victorian Literary Studies Archive

Sito che indicizza decine e decine di risorse sul periodo vittoriano, disponibili su Internet. I campi d'interesse sono eterogenei, dalla politica alla cucina, dalla storia e letteratura al costume e alla moda.

The Victorian Women Writers Project

Dalla homepage del sito: The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them.

THE VICTORIANA.COM STUDY CENTER - 19th Century Web Sites

Dalla Homepage del sito: This Study Center page contains links to non-commercial 19th Century Web Sites. The VICTORIANA.COM "STUDY CENTER" contains a collection of articles and web site links for the 19th Century enthusiast. The Library covers a wide range of topics.

Welcome to Dime Novels

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E.M. Forster

Aspects of E.M. Forster

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to Aspects of E.M. Forster. This site has been on-line since March 2000. Our aim is to fit you out with information about E.M. Forster, his life and literature.

Only Connect... The Unofficial E.M. Forster site

Organizzato e gestito da Jennifer Y. Whang, la quale afferma "I am not an authority on E. M. Forster, and I don't claim to be one". Tuttavia, si tratta di un sito che offre molto materiale e una buona raccolta di link esterni.

 

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George Orwell

The Political Writings of George Orwell

George Orwell, 1903-1950

Sito molto ricco, presenta testi "on-line" di moltissimi dei saggi scritti dall'autore.

 

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Guerra di Spagna (1936-1939)

Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales

Dalla Homepage del sito: El principal objetivo de la Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (A.A.B.I.) es recoger el legado histórico de las Brigadas Internacionales.

La A.A.B.I. es una asociación pluralista, no lucrativa, participativa y abierta en la que tienen cabida cuantas personas se interesen por colaborar en mantener y difundir la memoria de los Voluntarios de la Libertad y actualizar su ejemplo solidario.

Una de las tareas prioritarias de la A.A.B.I. es la localización de archivos y materiales documentales sobre los brigadistas con el fin de reunirlos en el Centro de Documentación de las Brigadas Internacionales, situado en el Archivo Histórico Provincial de Albacete y abierto a particulares, historiadores e investigadores interesados en el tema.

Ian Aitken, "Last of the Brigade"

Guardian Unlimited – Friday November 10, 2000

Sito testimonianza: Ian Aitken intervista gli ultimi sopravissuti della sezione inglese della "International Brigade", il reparto di volontari che parteciparono, con varie mansioni, alla guerra di Spagna, combattendo a fianco della repubblica.

IBMT the international brigade memorial trust

Dalla Homepage del sito: Welcome to the website of The International Brigade Memorial Trust. The IBMT is formed from the veterans of the International Brigade Association, the Friends of the I.B.A., representatives of the Marx Memorial Library, and historians specialising in the Spanish Civil War.

Novecento: tra due guerre, 1917-1939

Dal sito: Antenati Europa - la storia della letteratura europea online.

Dalla Homepage del sito: Antenati è un'opera consultabile gratuitamente. Chi collabora a Antenati lo fa a titolo gratuito e volontario. I materiali pubblicati diventano patrimonio della "community" di Antenati e sono sottoposti alle regole di tutela dell'open-source. L'utilizzo dei materiali presenti su Antenati non è possibile a fini commerciali o di lucro. La circolazione dei materiali è libera. I contenuti di questo sito vanno fatti circolare citando la fonte (cioè Antenati, l'indirizzo web e l'eventuale autore della scheda) e in forma opensource/opencontent.

The Visual Front – Posters of the Spanish Civil War

Dalla Homepage del sito: All the posters from the Spanish Civil War in the Southworth Collection belong to the Republican side. The selection of forty-two posters presented here constitutes a representative sample of Republican propaganda. It includes images that deal with most of the themes that dominated the minds of contemporaries. Many of the posters were produced by some of the most important organizations and institutions active in the war, and they were designed by some of the leading artists of the era.

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Postmodernism and Contemporary

Chomsky.info

The Official Noam Chomsky Website.

Un sito ricchissimo, per tutti coloro che conoscono Chomsky! E anche, e soprattutto, per tutti coloro che ancora non conoscono questa voce fina, integra e lucidissima della coscienza umana a cavallo del terzo millennio.

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Children Literature

Children's Literature

Picturing Childhood The Evolution of the Illustrated Children's Book

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Travel Literature and Travel Studies

The Grand Tour

Internet History Sourcebooks Project – Traveler’s Accounts

Traveler's accounts of their journeys and the lands they visit are important sources in understanding the past. 

As outsiders, travelers often note aspects of a culture that are too commonplace for local commentators to mention. More than this, travelers often provide some insight into how their own society understood itself in relation to other cultures.

Throughout the Internet History Sourcebooks Project, there are a large number of travelers' accounts. The goal of this page is simply to bring them together. Since I expect users to be interested in the more general phenomenon of outsider descriptions, some other accounts that are not strictly traveler's accounts have have been included.

 Travel Literature: book reviews, interviews, comment

Dalla Homepage del sito: WELCOME to Travel Literature - the place to read (and write) about travel writing. From classics of the genre to less well-known works; from guidebooks to journeys of self-discovery, Travel Literature aims to cover them all. And look out for our upcoming series of articles on some of the great travel writers of our time.  

The Gertrude Bell project

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Gertrude Bell Project: The University of Newcastle upon Tyne Library has undertaken a 4 year project to check and complete the transcription of the manuscripts, to recatalogue and digitise the photographs, and to build a WWW for the finished archive. The Gertrude Bell papers consist of about 1,600 detailed and lively letters to her parents, of her 16 diaries, which she kept while she was travelling, and of c.40 packets of miscellaneous items. There are also about 7000 photographs, taken by her c.1900-1918. Those of Middle Eastern archaeological sites are of great value because they record structures which have since been eroded or, in some cases, have disappeared altogether, while those of the desert tribes are of considerable anthropological and ethnographical interest.

The letters and diaries, but not the miscellaneous material, were transcribed in automated form between 1982 and 1988, and a catalogue of the photographs was published in 1982, with a second edition in 1985.

SAUDI ARAMCO WORLD

Dalla Homepage del sito: Saudi Aramco, the oil company born as an international enterprise 75 years ago, distributes Saudi Aramco World to increase cross-cultural understanding. The bimonthly magazine's goal is to broaden knowledge of the cultures, history and geography of the Arab and Muslim worlds and their connections with the West.

 

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London

Literary London Website

Dalla Homepage del sito: “Literary London: Interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London is the first and only journal to provide a common forum for scholars and students engaged specifically in the study of London and literature. It is dedicated to fostering an intellectual community that will facilitate interdisciplinary exchange. While the editorial focus of the journal will be on representations of London in literature, articles in cognate disciplines that will contribute to readings of London are very much encouraged. These subject areas might include readings of London in history, drama, film, geography, art history, architecture, urban sociology, painting and engraving, etc.”

The Victorian Dictionary – The Social History of Victorian London

Dalla Homepage del sito: This site is simply a resource for anyone interested in how life was lived in Victorian London. I am an author and librarian, a little obsessed with the Victorian city. Perhaps that explains why I have started on this rather vast project. Of course, it will never approach being a comprehensive resource, but I think it will still be interesting and useful, especially as it grows bigger. If you have any suggestions, questions or offers of help (!) ... please contact me. Lee Jackson  lee@victorianlondon.org

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Siti sulle letterature dei paesi di lingua inglese

Risorse generali

Black British Literature

Seminario condotto dal Prof. Patrick K. Muana, Assistant Professor & Coordinator, Africana Studies, Dept. Of English, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. Il seminario, tenuto nel corso di anni accademici del passato, è una risorsa importante di materiali testuali e critici “full-text”, scaricabili on-line da qualunque utente. Saggi, racconti, capitoli di romanzi, recensioni, interviste, analisi critiche, sociologiche e letterarie di alcuni autori della diaspora indiana in Inghilterra.

The British Empire

Dalla Homepage del sito: This site is dedicated to analysing the history of the British Empire: The triumphs, the humiliations, the good that it brought and the bad that it inflicted. For better or worse the British Empire had a massive impact on the history of the world. It is for this reason that this site tries to bring to life the peoples, cultures, adventures and domination that made the Empire such a powerful institution. It is neither an apology for, nor a nostalgic reminiscince of the institution that so dominated the world for over a century. Rather, it analyses and describes the vast institution that so influenced the shape of the world that we see today.

Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature An Overview

Il sito più aggiornato e più ricco d'informazioni sulle letterature dei paesi di lingua inglese. Tramite una cartina geografica e un menù molto dettagliato, è possibile accedere a pagine dedicate alle singole letterature e culture dei paesi "anglofoni" o post-coloniali di lingua inglese.

Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Dialogues

A resource for students, scholars, and teachers of postcolonial and multicultural approaches to British and world literature.

Theme pages and text pages explore the rich dialogues between colonial and postcolonial perspectives. You will find analysis, links, and resources for colonial and postcolonial literature, history, and theory. The links page connects this site to other postcolonial studies resources on the web. Clicking on artwork and images may take you to further information, links, or on-line texts. A non-profit site created by students and faculty at Western Michigan University.

IRR - Institute of Race Relations

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) was established as an independent educational charity in 1958 to carry out research, publish and collect resources on race relations throughout the world. In 1972, the IRR's membership backed the staff in a radical transformation of the organisation from a policy-oriented, establishment, academic institution into an anti-racist 'thinktank'. The IRR began to concentrate on responding to the needs of Black people and making direct analyses of institutionalised racism in Britain and the rest of Europe. Today, the IRR is at the cutting edge of the research and analysis that inform the struggle for racial justice in Britain, Europe and internationally. It seeks to reflect the experiences of those who suffer racial oppression and draws its perspectives from the most vulnerable in society.

The Imperial Archive

A site dedicated to the study of Literature, Imperialism, Postcolonialism

Dalla homepage del sito: This site provides resources for all those interested in the influence of the British imperial process on literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries. Using colonial discourse and post-colonial theory as a point of departure, some pages examine the British idea of 'Empire' and the colonial enterprise in a selected range of 19th-century authors and their work; others consider 20th and 21st-century texts, in an attempt to understand how imperialism affected literary texts produced in Britain's former colonies.

Life and Society in Kipling's British India, 1757-1905

Dalla homepage del sito: Welcome to THE AGE OF KIPLING. History 241/341. This unit studies the British occupation of India, from the time of conquest in the mid-eighteenth century to the height of empire at the end of the Victorian era in the beginning of the twentieth century (1757-1905).
Attention will focus on the phenomenon of British imperialism within the particular context of India, on the development of imperial attitudes to India and Indians, on the changing goals and methods of British rule, and on the social life of a community in exile.
Imperialism is one of those developments, which although shaping and still influencing the modern world, is not well comprehended.
 

Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Colour – University of Minnesota

Dalla Homepage del sito: a great place to learn about the lives and works of North American women writers of color.

 

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Africa

African Fiction in English

A cura del Department of English (Institut für englische Sprachen und Literaturen) dell’Università di Berna.

African Literature and Writers on the Internet

Dal sito: Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford University).

 

HUM 211: Culture & Literature of Africa (including African Orature & Film )

Sito Web gestito da Cora Agatucci, http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/index.html Professor of English & Chair, Humanities Department, Central Oregon Community College.

Dalla Homepage del sito: Introductory study of representative oral arts, literature, film & related creative arts, in English or in translation, of sub-Saharan African peoples, examined in context of their histories and cultural traditions.

The Royal African Society

Dalla Homepage del sito: Now more than 100 years old, the Royal African Society today is Britain's primary Africa organisation, promoting Africa's cause. Through its journal, African Affairs, and by organising meetings, discussions and other activities, the Society strengthens links between Africa and Britain and encourages understanding of Africa and its relations with the rest of the world. This website is a portal to Africa on the web leading you to the best websites on Africa. Whether you are looking for the latest news, detailed information on anything African from Cairo to Cape Town, from debt to dance, or just searching for a African holiday destination, this website is your starting point. You can go country by country or topic by topic.

 

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Caraibi

Anthurium -  A Caribbean Studies Journal

Dalla Homepage del sito: Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original works by Caribbean writers and scholars worldwide exclusively in electronic form. The journal promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on Caribbean literature and culture and offers a mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art. Book reviews and bibliographies, special thematic issues, and original art and photography are some of the features of this international journal of Caribbean arts and letters. Anthurium is a non-profit publication and project of Caribbean Literary Studies in the Department of English at the University of Miami. It is published in association with the University's Richter Library Digital Media Lab, supported solely by the University of Miami.

Calypso, a World Music

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Sub-Continente Indiano

Digital South Asia Library

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This project builds upon a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia.

East Meets West

Harappa - Glimpses of South Asia before 1947

Dalla Homepage del sito: Harappa.com is a media spigot to South Asia's past. The objective is archaeological: literally in the case of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, metaphorically in the excavations of early modern media from the Raj period. Ancient Harappa, founded over 5,000 years ago, was one of the world's first cities. Today it is the first ancient Indus urban center being researched with modern scientific and multi-disciplinary tools. We are grateful to a number of the world's leading Indus scholars, particularly those working at Harappa, for sharing their work on this website. The goal is to make this little known civilization's rich heritage and new discoveries accessible to a wide audience. The other half of the Website deals with the other end of Indian and Pakistani history, the Raj, through early media - especially photographs and film as well as lithographs, engravings, postcards and other paper ephemra. Some of this media is outside the subcontinent today. Much, like archival film, has already been lost. This site's objective is to bring these long lost images from obscurity into the daylight of the web.

INDIAN ROUTES:  SOME MEMORABLE VENTURES, ADVENTURES, AND OTHER HAPPENINGS,IN AND ABOUT SOUTH ASIA

Una delle molte pagine gestite dal Prof. Frances Pritchett, Columbia University.

IndiaStar Review of Books

Un sito che ospita recensioni e riflessioni critiche su testi scritti e pubblicati nell'ambito delle culture del sud-est asiatico.

The SALIDAA digital archive

Dalla Homepage del sito: The SALIDAA digital archive covers South Asian literature, art, theatre, dance and music in England and features collections of materials by individual artists and organisations. Collections include creative writings, images of art works, photographs, leaflets, programmes of events, stage and costume drawings of theatre and dance performances, press releases, CD and record covers, and more.

The SASIALIT mailing list: Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora

Dalla Homepage del sito: The SASIALIT mailing list is for the discussion of contemporary literature of South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), including works by authors of South Asian origin throughout the world.

SawNet Bookshelf

Dalla Homepage del sito: Sawnet (South Asian Women's NETwork) is a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues. It deals wuth writers from ~ Bangladesh ~ Bhutan ~ India ~ Maldives ~ Nepal ~ Pakistan ~ Sri Lanka ~

 

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Bollywood e Cinema Indiano

Upperstall.com – A Better View to Indian Cinema

Dalla Homepage del sito: Launched July 7, 2000, upperstall.com heralding the 104th anniversary of the first ever motion picture screenings in India. Looking into sections wholly missing from the web - that of analytical write-ups of Indian cinema's classics and their luminaries, the documentary and a "serious" side of Bollywood's latest; upperstall.com aims to satiate the serious film buff.

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Diaspora

Moving Here – 200 years of migration to England

Dalla homepage del sito: The vision of Moving Here is to explore, record and illustrate why people came to England over the last 200 years, and what their experiences were and continue to be. The site mainly looks at the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities.

This web site offers free access, for personal and educational use, to online versions of original material related to migration, including photographs, personal papers, government documents, maps and art objects, as well as a collection of sound recordings and video clips.

South Asian Diaspora Bibliographical Guide - Berkeley University

Consultabile dalla Homepage del Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. 

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies offers programs of both undergraduate and graduate instruction in the languages and cultures of South and Southeast Asia. It offers opportunities to explore the rich cultural, social, and religious histories as well as the living contemporary cultures of these areas. The curriculum covers the classical literary canon, religious literature, folk and popular works, oral traditions and performance media (including recitation, musical and dramatic performance, dance, media, and film), and modern literatures of the colonial and post-colonial period. [Per consultare la bibliografia sulla diaspora asiatica, selezionare “Research Tools” e poi consultare la sezione “Bibliographies and Subject Guides”; ma sono molti gli strumenti informatici utilizzabili dalla sezione “Research Tools” stessa]

South Asian Diaspora literature in English – University of Washington

Dalla Homepage del sito: a bibliography compiled by Irene Joshi University of Washington Libraries (Last updated 29 December 1998).

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Siti su arti grafiche, drammaturgia, cinema e televisione

Arti grafiche

Artcyclopedia - the guide to great art on the Internet

Dalla Homepage del sito: Our mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet: we only provide references to sites on the World Wide Web where artists' works can be viewed online. For calendars of real-world museum exhibits, try a resource such as Gallery Guide Online, or Traditional Fine Arts Online, or the Art Museum Network's ExCalendar, all of which seem to do an excellent job. We have compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. We have started out by covering the biggest and best sites around, and have links for most well-known artists to keep you surfing for hours. Update September/2004: We have now indexed 1800 art sites, and offer over 60,000 links to an estimated 150,000 artworks by 8,100 renowned artists.

The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) at the National Congress Library

Dalla Homepage del sito: The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to about 65% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all.                            

Unique in their scope and richness, the prints and photographs collections today number more than 13.7 million images. These include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! Not all images displayed in this catalog are in the public domain. The Library offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations. See the Library's Legal Notices for more information            

[Per accedere alle immagini: cliccare su “Trying to Find a Picture? Prints & Photographs Online Catalog”; poi cliccare sul pulsante “I understand; I’m ready to search the catalogue” e da qui utilizzare la maschera di ricerca applicando I vari parametri necessari per i propri “desiderata”.]

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Cinema

British Documentary Films 1940-1947

Film Theory

Dalla Homepage del sito: This list, film-theory@lists.village.virginia.edu, is a forum for the discussion of the theory of film and cinema in all its aspects: aesthetic, artistic, cultural, social, philosophical and political.

Internet Movie Database

Una vera e propria "Bibbia" dell'arte cinematografica su Internet. Il sito permette di consultare un ricchissimo database, con schede molto dettagliate su decine di migliaia di realizzazioni cinematografiche, dalla nascita del cinema ai tempi attuali. Moltissimi i link esterni per approfondimenti.

Tempi Moderni

Sito web dedicato al cinema. Offre recensioni e schede tecniche, anche se solo dell'ultimo ventennio. Discretamente utile, uno dei migliori siti italiani dedicati alla cinematografia.

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Drammaturgia e Teatro

British Literature - History of the Drama in England

Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia

Dalla homepage del sito: The Encyclopedia collects and disseminates information on plays, playwrights and theatre practitioners. It does not respond to requests for information, auditions, bookings, or tickets.

The Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre web site was originally conceived and developed in 1996 by Gaetan Charlebois—theatre critic, playwright, and actor.

Drama Workshop - Dramatic Structures

Pagina web del sito Drama Workshop, dedicata a indicare, seppure per sommi capi, le caratteristiche che contraddistinguono varie forme drammaturgicche.

Dalla homepage del sito: What is a 10-minute play? Ever wonder about the difference between a one act & a three act play? Are musicals strictly three acts? What is the structure of a three act play? If you've ever asked yourself these questions, or you just have a question about the basic concepts of dramatic structures, then all you have to do is click HERE for the answers
 

PeoplePlay UK – Theatre History Online

Dalla Home page del sito: PeoplePlay UK aims to bring theatre history to life on the web and increase access to the Theatre Museum’s collections for the non–specialist user. The site contains 1500 digitised images as well as structured learning packs offering guided tours through the collection and timeline histories. The site has been funded by the New Opportunities Fund and is part of the EnrichUK portal.

The Theatre Collections Online at Victoria and Albert Museum

Dalla Home page del sito: The Theatre Collections Online. This is just the beginning. In the future Theatre Collections Online will develop into a major resource celebrating the UK’s unique performance heritage.

Theatre History

The WWW Virtual Library Theatre and Drama

"This site really does come close to having everything you ever wanted to know on the subject under a single umbrella. A good place to start any bibliographic search and a gateway to on-line journals and discussion lists." (da una presentazione del sito su Centre for Research in Early English Drama | Records of Early English Drama (REED), sito gestito dall'Università di Toronto).

 

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Televisione

Memorable Television: The Golden Age of TV

Link che permette di effettuare ricerche su spettacoli, programmi e serie televisive del passato ma anche del presente. Ottima indicizzazione.

Dalla Homepage del sito: Find your way around the net's most comprehensive television resource. Divided into easy to navigate sections Memorable TV contains details of thousands of TV shows from around the world, from the golden age of Television to today's hit shows.

Home Page Letteratura Inglese per Interculturalità

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Avvertenza importante!!!

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Questa collezione di links utili, ben lungi dall'essere esaustiva o anche solo esauriente, è piuttosto una "collazione" di URL tra le migliaia incontrate nel corso della mia ricerca. Per quanti sforzi si facciano per assicurare la continua fruibilità di un sito, non è possibile garantire che questa fruibilità sia eterna.

Chi dovesse incontrare difficoltà  ad accedere a uno o più di questi links, è pregato di comunicarlo scrivendo al mio indirizzo, in modo che io possa, dopo una qualche ricerca approfondita, risolvere il problema o, molto più frequentemente, togliere il link e sostituirlo con altro similare se esiste.

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Ultimo aggiornamento: 14 aprile 2008