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Hispanic Studies: Literature

Web Resources for Literature

  • Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes  
    This project hopes to digitize, catalog and place online thousands of literary works in Spanish. Some of the many authors included are Miguel de Cervantes, Garcilaso de la Vega, San Juan de la Cruz, Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, and Lope de Vega
  • Centro Virtual Cervantes  
    Provides information on Iberian and Latin American culture and language.
  • The Cervantes Project  
    Full-text searchable versions of his complete works including Spanish and English language versions of Don Quixote.
  • Dialnet  
    Provides access to tables of contents of more than 3,000 journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences published in Spain and Latin America.
  • Ibero-American Electronic Text Series  
    Electronic versions of works by important Ibero-American writers, such as Miguel de Cervantes, Hernán Cortes, Esteban Echevarría, Eugenio María de Hostos, and Juana Inés de la Cruz.
  • Iberian Studies Web  
    A website designed by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies (specifically Spain, Portugal and Andorra).
  • Literature in Latin America - LANIC  
    Part of the University of Texas' enormous Latin American website. Some of the links are limited in scope, but there is a wealth of information available here.
  • Palabra Virtual- Antología de Poesia Iberoamericana  
    A large collection of works from some of the most noteworthy poets from Latin American and Spain.
  • Project Gutenberg  
    Titles available in Spanish online

Library of Congress Classification

PC Romanic Languages

Catalan Literature, PC3900-3976 
Spanish Philology, PC4001-4071 
Spanish Language, PC4073--4977
Portuguese Philology, PC5001-5041 
Portuguese Language, PC5043-5498

PQ Spanish LiteraturePQ6001-8929

Spain, PQ6007-PQ7011 
US and Canadian authors of Spanish works, PQ7070-7079

PQ Literature of Spanish AmericaPQ 7081-8560

Mexico, PQ7100- 
West Indies, PQ7361- 
Cuba, PQ7370- 
Dominican Republic, PQ7400- 
Jamaica, PQ7410 
Puerto Rico, PQ7420- 
Other islands, PQ7450- 
Central America, PQ7471- (General) 
Costa Rica, PQ7480- 
Guatemala, PQ7490- 
Honduras, PQ7500- 
Nicaragua, PQ7510- 
Panama, PQ7520- 
El Salvador, PQ7530- 
South America, PQ7551- 
Argentina, PQ7660- 
Bolivia, PQ7880- 
Brazil (Spanish language literature in), PQ7880- 
Chile, PQ7990- 
Colombia, PQ8160- 
Ecuador, PQ8200- 
Guiana, PQ8230- 
Paraguay, PQ8250- 
Peru, PQ8300- 
Uruguay, PQ8510- 
Venezuela, PQ8530-

Spanish American authors not identified with any country, PQ8560