The Voice of the Shuttle. This site offers catalogs of links to electronic resources across the broad spectrum of the humanities and related social sciences. It has more topics and subtopics than your average dissertation, but the whole is helpfully arranged by discipline, and fully searchable. VOS is universally considered the best and most comprehensive catalog of virtual resources in the humanities.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
More specifically, the VOS "Literature in English" page offers the most and best-organized resources for literary study. This page’s categories are arranged chronologically and by nation of origin. As an example, the 19th Century American Literature page offers about two hundred links arranged by author. Many link to primary texts that can be downloaded, searched, etc.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Jack Lynch of Rutgers University offers another portal to literary and writing resources. Not as comprehensive as the Voice of the Shuttle, it might be easier to navigate just because of its smaller size. If you can’t remember where to find the Chronicle of Higher Education, the electronically-posted "Calls for Papers," or the list of Literary Mailing Lists on the Internet, then you should bookmark this site.
As well as resources for studying and appreciating literature, Lynch also offers a selection of literature classes that supplement classroom instruction with a web component. Because one can now find thousands of literature courses on the web, Lynch calls this list "woefully incomplete," but it’s still a good place to begin investigating how other instructors are teaching with the web. The literature syllabi and class pages can be found at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/syllabi.html, while Lynch’s Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors can be found at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html.
http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex
This site connects to the tables of contents of books published by The Gale Group, known for their collections of criticism on most major authors, works, and literary movements. To read the actual contents, you’ll have to stroll over to the second floor of Shields Library.
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html
Housed in Japan, these two sites will take longer to load up than most, but they are both worth the wait, for each collects seemingly all the relevant sites devoted to American and British authors, respectively. The best way to use these resources is to call up the pertinent site, stretch and get a snack while it loads, and then use your browser’s "find" function to locate the exact author or text you need.
http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/pwillett/english-www.html
Created by the Subject Librarian for English and American Literature at Indiana University, this site focuses on the web sites of prominent print journals in each genre of literary study.
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
As the introduction to this website says, "The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 2662 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period." A few searches reveal that this site calls upon less trustworthy commercial sites as well as the educational sites I’ve been recommending, so after browsing here you may feel tempted to get out your credit card and buy a book or two.
http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html
John Lye of Brock University has web-published this "Critical Reading" as a supplement to his Introduction to Literature seminar. He offers sound advice on analyzing poetry and fiction.
http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/works.htm
A great Shakespeare site.
http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/world/lecture/e/
I quote: "The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver university-level academic courses in any language." The "English, Writing, and Rhetoric" section of this site organizes the web sites of more than 200 writing and literature classes. Some of the literary titles include "American Literature: Crane through Present," "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," and "Literary Narrative in an Information Age."
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/teaching/syllabi_lib.html
The useful "Library of Syllabi for Teaching the American Literatures" can be found at Georgetown University, also home to the Teaching American Literature" mailing list.
http://cai.ucdavis.edu/onlineenglish/Shakespeare.html
The Hamlet Module of the Online English Project. I've collected here many handouts pertaining to teaching and writing about literature, and especially writing about Hamlet.