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Biography Resource Center
Biographical articles on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas from multiple Gale reference publications, such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, and Directory of American Scholars. (Updated continuously, Gale)
Cambridge Collections Online
Full-text collection of over 260 titles from the Cambridge Companions series covering literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies. (New titles are added as published, Cambridge University Press)
Literary Reference Center
Database made up of the full text of a number of Salem Press publications, most notably Masterplots, Magill's Literary Annual, and Cyclopedia of World Authors. It reproduces plot summaries, and biographical and critical articles, both literary criticism and book reviews. (Updated quarterly, EBSCO)
Literature - Oxford Reference Collection
Searches simultaneously multiple Literature titles in Oxford Reference Online, many of them Oxford Companions to the literatures of English speaking countries.
Literature Resource Center
Full-text journal articles, criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world. (Updated continuously, Thomson Gale)
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Lengthy articles, with bibliographies, on literary critics, schools, theories, and movements. (2nd ed. expanded, 2005, Johns Hopkins University Press)
MLA Directory of Periodicals
List of periodicals in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. (EBSCO)
Scribner Writers Series
A collection approximately 1,600 full-text articles on world writers from ancient Greece and Rome to the present, drawn from 13 series published by Scribner 1974-1998. (Thomson Gale)
African-American Poetry 1760-1900
Full text of poems by African-American poets in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
African-American Writers: A Dictionary
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
American Drama
Texts of 548 plays written by American dramatists from 1714 to the late nineteenth century. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
American Film Scripts Online
Contains 823 scripts by 969 writers. When it is complete there will be 1000 scripts. Most of them have never been published before and appear through arrangements with major film studios. (Alexander Street Press)
American Periodical Series Online
Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published between 1741 and 1900. (ProQuest)
American Poetry 1600-1900
Collection of 1200 books and anthologies of early American poetry, containing more than 40,000 works from over 200 poets. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
Asian American Drama
Contains 252 full-text plays by 42 playwrights. In addition to well-known works, the collection includes items by emerging and less familiar playwrights. (Alexander Street Press)
Black Drama 1850 to the Present
Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with related information on productions, theaters, and production companies. (Alexander Street Press)
Black Short Fiction
Contains approximately 4,919 stories and folktales by 435 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8,000 works of short fiction. (Alexander Street Press)
Early American Fiction
Full texts of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
Early American Imprints: The Digital Evans
Provides the full text of most printed matter issued in the United States and Canada from 1639-1800, including books, pamphlets, and broadsides. (Readex)
Early English Books Online
Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work (books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other matter) printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. (Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Digital images of every page of 150,000 English-language titles covering all subjects, published between 1701 and 1800 in the United Kingdom and the Americas (including foreign-language titles printed in the U.K.). (Thomson Gale)
Eighteenth Century Fiction
Provides the complete text of 96 works of prose fiction written in the British Isles between 1700 and 1780. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature
(1998, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Encyclopedia of Travel Literature
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
English Poetry 600-1900
Archive of English verse written from the 7th century to the early years of the 20th; full text of poems by over 1,400 poets from the British Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
English Prose Drama
Full text of over 1600 plays listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature that were written or intended for the stage and wholly or primarily in prose; English Prose Drama complements English Verse Drama. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
English Verse Drama
Full text of over 2200 plays by more than 500 named authors and 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late 13th Century through the end of the 19th Century. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
English Language Reference - Oxford Reference Collection
Searches simultaneously in multiple reference works about English language, usage, and linguistics published by Oxford University Press. (Oxford Reference Online)
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
Contains approximately 380 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. (Alexander Street Press)
Mark Twain Project Online
Joint project of the Mark Twain Papers and Project (based at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley), California University Press and the California Digital Library.
This site is intended to offer "unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents" for Mark Twain scholarship. "Its ultimate purpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote." Site includes a personal citation gathering utility
Native American Literatures: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes
(1999, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
North American Women's Drama
Full text of over 1,500 plays by more than 300 playwrights, beginning with colonial times and spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. A third of the plays have never been published before. (Alexander Street Press)
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
"Orlando" is a reference database that provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. (Cambridge University Press)
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
Digital images of books about the Americas published 1500-1926 and covering history, social and political issues, science, religion, slavery, emmigration, women, and many, many other subjects. (Gale Cengage)
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars. (Alexander Street Press)
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry
Collection of essays by Shakespeare scholars. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, character list, discussion of principal themes and historical context, and a critical overview for 27 plays and the sonnets. (2nd ed., 3 v., 2007, Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
Complete digital edition of The Times (London) including all articles, advertisements and illustrations, and photos. (Gale Cengage)
20th Century African-American Poetry
Full-text collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the twentieth century. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
20th Century American Poetry
Collected works and individual volumes of poetry covering the works of most major 20th-century American poets. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
Women Writers Online
"Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience." Texts cover a period from 1400 to 1850. (Brown University Women Writers Project)
Writers Directory
Bibliographical, biographical and contact information for living authors worldwide who have at least one English publication. (23rd ed., 2 v., 2007, Gale Virtual Reference Library)
William Butler Yeats Collection
Contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, collected in 22 volumes. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
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