Digital Humanities: Language & Literature

Digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. This collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.

Listen to William Faulkner’s sessions with audiences at the University of Virginia in 1957 and 1958, during his two terms as UVA’s first Writer-in-Residence.

The Mark Twain Project Online applies innovative technology to more than four decades' worth of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project.

A project of Hofstra University, the Melville Electronic Library is committed to making reliable texts of all versions of Melville’s works available to all readers in an interactive and collaborative environment.

The Whitman Archive is the most comprehensive record of works by and about Whitman.

18th Century Connect is a search portal and a peer-reviewing organization, as well as an online community.

The Carlyle Letters Online is a digital archive based on the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

Complete online edition of Dickens's weekly magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round.

From Grinnell College, this is a student-faculty collaboration that created a digital, fully searchable, annotated, translated edition of Beowulf.

Read Ulysses, annotate the text, and read others' annotations and interpretations.

The complete poetry and selected prose of John Milton, with introductions, research guides, and hyperlinked annotations.

Milton Revealed is a collaborative project to collect audio-visual materials related to John Milton and his work, to re-examine his relation to theatricality, and to develop teaching approaches to Milton that use performance across a variety of media.

This project showcases the ways Shakespeare’s tragedies are structured, and the ways characters are isolated, grouped, and connected.

The Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator.

Shakespeare's Staging explores the history of Shakespeare performance through images, videos, essays and bibliographies.

The Shelley-Godwin Archive provides the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

A collection of the prints, paintings, and poems of William Blake (1757-1827).

Links to a variety of texts written around the 18th century, in English and other languages.

The Metaphor Map of English shows the metaphorical links which have been identified between different areas of meaning. These links are from the Anglo-Saxon period right up to the present day so the map covers 1300 years of the English language.

This collection of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind serves as the basis for a scholarly study of the metaphors and root-images appealed to by the novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle-lettrists, preachers, and pamphleteers of the long eighteenth century.

The Princeton Prosody Archive (PPA) is a full-text searchable database of thousands of digitized prosodic works published between 1569 and 1923.

Dante Lab is an online application that allows students and scholars of the Divine Comedy to read and compare up to four text editions from the site’s database simultaneously.

Decameron Web provides the reader with an accessible and flexible wealth of information on the literary, historical and cultural context of the Decameron.

The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings, including an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations.

This digital edition of the Codex Mendoza represents the first attempt in the world to create a digital resource that permits in-depth study of a Mexican codex.

Diversifying the Classics is a project to bring the Comedias of the Hispanic Golden Age to modern audiences. Includes translations of the plays.

A project of the Agencia Nacional de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnológica de Argentina, this project has developed a database of medieval Spanish dialogue poetry. It deals with a corpus which covers texts from the late twelfth century to the fifteenth century.

The Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library covers public domain Hispanic classics written or published between the twelfth century and the nineteenth century.

This site disseminates French heritage documents and pursues research combining skills in the humanities and computer science.

cultureGnum aims to promote the concepts of education in the humanities and general culture, in the form of videos of speakers (filmed in close-up), lasting 35 to 55 minutes on a variety of subjects, including arts and letters, civilizations, social sciences, and much more.

This digital resource provides a set of self-help tools to assist students, researchers, librarians, calligraphers, and designers with reading French manuscripts dating from 1300 to 1700 and understanding their contexts.

Digital library of the French National Library (BNF), which includes a wide array of French digital images and documents.