Beeghly Library Heidelberg's library provides search capability for books and journals.  The library has connections (through OPAL and OhioLink) to millions of volumes in academic libraries across the state of Ohio. 

Tiffin-Seneca Public Library Tiffin's local library collections contains a good number of biographies and some general-interest works on literary history.

Lists of Databases

OhioLINK Databases in English lists databases relevant for English studies.

OhioLINK Databases in Language and Literature lists databases relevant for English studies.

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center Electronic versions of journals in language and literature.

Specific Databases

Biography Index

Book Review Digest

Essay & General Literature indexes articles & essays in books.

MLA Bibliography should be your first stop for scholarly sources; indexes all scholarly articles and books published each year.

General

Literary Resources on the Net allows you to conduct a keyword search or to browse for information on literary subjects.

English Literature

Voice of the Shuttle has a thorough list of links to a wide range of literature in English.

Luminarium contains an Anthology of Middle English Literature .

American Literature

The Heath Anthology page provides an extensive list of links to American literature sites.

Volume One
Volume Two
Texts and Contexts: Thematic Groupings

American Literature on the Web, maintained by a professor at Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages in Japan, provides links to web pages on over 300 American authors, along with a wide range of general topics related to American literature.

The American section of Jack Lynch's Literary Resources site provides a well-organized, comprehensive list of web sites; organized by subjects and individual authors.

American Studies

American Studies @ University of Virginia contains information and images from Virginia's American Studies museum, a set of hypertext projects, and much more.

Georgetown's American Studies Crossroads Project includes links to a large number of American Studies resources.

American History (Primary Sources)

American Memory, produced by the Library of Congress, provides digital versions of many historical documents.

Library of Congress Research Centers  includes links to a number of special collections in the LOC. 

Linguistics

Beeghly Library also provides access to the Oxford English Dictionary, the source for the etymology and history of words.

Ask-A-Linguist, sponsored by The LINGUIST List, an Internet discussion list for professional linguists, allows users to submit questions about language and words to a panel of linguistic experts.

Literary Theory

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory at Iowa State University's EServer, "an arts and humanities e-publishing co-op," has sections devoted to 15 different areas of cultural studies and critical theory. 

Glossary of Literary Theory from the University of Toronto covers basic theory terms.

Introduction to Modern Literary Theory from Mount Mary College has a good general overview (with web links) of the main theories.

Literary Resources from Rutgers-Newark has an excellent set of links, by topic and by theorist. 

Rhetorical and Cultural Studies: Critical Theory from the University of Iowa has a large collection of links, organized by theorist. 

Semiotics from the University of Colorado at Denver contains a long list of links, organized by topic and theorist.

Sites of Significance for Semiotics has a massive annotated list of links, organized by topic.

Electronic Texts

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of electronic documents in literature and Western philosophy.

The Academy of American Poets site includes, among other things, a set of poetry texts, many of which include audio files of the poets reading their own poems. Requires a RealPlayer to hear the clips.