through the art objects that are exhibited and preserved in our museums. Whereas men experience presence in our art institutions, women experience primarily absence, except in images that do not necessarily reflect women's own sense of themselves." Sources containing canonical lists English literature Modern Library 100 Best Novels – English-language novels of the 20th century Library of America, classic American literature International literature Bibliothèque de la Pléiade Everyman's Library (Modern works) Great Books of the Western World História da Literatura Ocidental (in Portuguese) by Otto Maria Carpeaux Le Monde 100 Books of the Century – books of the 20th century Modern Library Oxford World's Classics Penguin Classics John Cowper Powys: One Hundred Best Books (1916) Verso Books' Radical Thinkers – Die Zeit list of 100 books American and Canadian university reading lists Brigham Young University's Honors Program's Great Works List St. John's College Great Books reading list (established by Scott Buchanan and Stringfellow Barr) Baylor University's Great Texts Reading List The Harvard Classics Contemporary anthologies of renaissance literature The preface to the Blackwell anthology of Renaissance Literature from 2003 acknowledges the importance of online access to literary texts on the selection of what to include, meaning that the selection can be made on basis of functionality rather than representativity". This anthology has made its selection based on three principles. One is "unabashedly canonical", meaning that Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson have been given the space prospective users would expect. A second principle is "non-canonical", giving female writers such as Anne Askew, Elizabeth Cary, Emilia Lanier, Martha Moulsworth, and Lady Mary Wroth a representative selection. It also includes texts that may not be representative of the qualitatively best efforts of Renaissance literature, but of the quantitatively most numerous texts, such as homilies and erotica. A third principle has been thematic, so that the anthology aims to include texts that shed light on issues of special interest to contemporary scholars. The Blackwell anthology is still firmly organised around authors, however. A different strategy has been observed by The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse from 1992.<ref>David Norbrook & H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.): The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse. London: Penguin Books, 1992, </ref> Here the texts are organised according to topic, under the headings The Public World, Images of Love, Topographies, Friends, Patrons and the Good Life, Church, State and Belief, Elegy and Epitaph, Translation, Writer, Language and Public. It is arguable