English Language Literature
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Primary Documents & Full Text Sources
EEBO - Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Covers many subject areas, including English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Includes every significant monograph published between 1701 and 1800 in the English language and also every significant monograph in any language printed in the British Empire during this period, all first editions published during the period 1701-1800
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
Middle English texts assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive.
Evans Digital Edition
A searchable bibliography with full text of American publications, based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century.
Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875
A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Fully edited and encoded texts are continuously being added to the collection.
Bibliography of American Literature
Bibliographic information on the most important American literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. More than 37,000 works are listed, essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Arizona Archives Online (AAO)
Full-text finding aids to manuscript collections at the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, and Arizona State University.
In the First Person
Ability to search accross collections of
letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases. Note that the library may not subscribe to some of the collections.
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
Latino Literature is the most comprehensive collection of Latino Literature yet created. When complete it will include 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 450 plays, so representing the Chicano culture and all the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States
Romantic Circles - Electronic Editions
A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Includes full text books by and about writers of the Romantic period. Published by the University of Maryland.
Literature Online
Contains more than 260,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose in full text.
Project Gutenberg
Over 12,000 eBooks that are older literary works in the public domain.
Short Story Index
1982-present Short Story Index Electronic Edition is the electronic version of the standard reference work Short Story Index. It is an index to short stories written or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. There are some full text stories and links to short stories available in library subscribed periodicals. The periodicals are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.
Granger's World of Poetry
Index to poetry. Searchable by author, title, line, subject area, or anthology. Contains all the information of the The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, 11th edition. Holds approximately 27,000 full-text poems, as well as over two hundred author biographies. New entries made to subsequent editions will be added to this database.
Plays (in the Drama/Theatre Arts Subject Guide from the UA Library)
Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA)
The DEA is devoted to Emily Dickinson’s writings. You will find correspondence, writings by the Dickinson family, and responses to Dickinson’s writings with audio featuring writers like Denise Levertov and Joyce Carol Oates. Please contact the editors concerning access to restricted areas.
This online collection brings together full-text annotated works from the Arden Shakespeare series, primary source editions of Shakespeare’s works, full-text scholarly journal articles, literary criticism and entries from two multivolume reference sets. This online collection complements the World Shakespeare Bibliography and theatrical productions of many of Shakespeare’s plays through the Theatre in Video collection.
Shakespeare's Plays on Google Book Search
View scanned images of Shakespeare's plays.
William Blake Archive
Searchable database of William Blake's work.
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