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Modern Language Association International Bibliography includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, film, and folklore.
Go to this DatabaseIndex to English language literature and criticism from 1921, international in scope.
Go to this DatabaseInterdisciplinary collection on medieval studies combines primary sources and interdisciplinary scholarship from a global perspective.
Go to this DatabaseEbook guides to writers, composers, philosophers, genres, and literary fields with context and analysis.
Go to this DatabaseMultimedia collection designed to support literature and drama courses; contains playtexts, audio plays, streaming video, and ebooks from theatre publishers and companies.
Go to this DatabaseReference tool supporting the study of literary theory and discourse; contains a comprehensive historical survey of important figures in the field, critical schools and movements; updated annually.
Go to this DatabaseArchive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (embargo period varies by title).
Go to this DatabaseReference resource for literature, authors, literary criticism, and literary works across disciplines and timeframes.
Go to this DatabaseModern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including materials from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.
Go to this DatabaseInformation on a large number of authors and literary works.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements.
Go to this DatabaseModern Language Association International Bibliography includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, film, and folklore.
Go to this DatabaseSubject-based research guides containing in-depth, high-level articles by scholars in the field. Handbooks contain topical introductions and reviews of the key issues and major debates.
Go to this DatabaseJournals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage in art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, history, ethnic and cultural studies, music, philosophy, religion, psychology, sociology and women's studies.
Go to this DatabaseFull text archive of the Times Literary Supplement, which contains reviews of books, theatre and musical performances, art exhibitions, film, and other cultural events.
Go to this DatabaseThe early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American to the major poets of the nineteenth century.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of printed works providing insight into African-American culture and life from the beginning of Jim Crow to World War I and beyond. Capturing voices of, by, for, and about African Americans.
Go to this DatabaseArchive of documents about African American life from post-Civil War years to the beginning of Jim Crow. Includes works of individuals and organizations, works of fiction, poetry and drama.
Go to this DatabaseWorks by authors of African or African-American descent, 1556-1922. Personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, musical compositions.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of plays written between the 1850s to present by Black dramatists from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora, compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors.
Go to this DatabaseCross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by Black women from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and the rest of the African Diaspora.
Go to this DatabaseDigital archive of magazines and journals from nineteenth century Britain and its colonies, with particular focus on Victorian age lifestyle publishing and the British Empire.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of primary source materials related to the British Indian Empire and the colonial history, culture and literature of the Indian subcontinent from 1712 to 1942.
Go to this DatabaseThis searchable database lists information about Victorian (nineteenth century British) fiction, including serialization. You can also browse a list of authors, titles, publishers, years, genres (n...
Go to this DatabaseCollection of the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare, as presented on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Go to this DatabaseDiaries and letters of British and Irish women from 1500-1900.
Go to this DatabaseThis database is searchable full text resource and contains approximately 500 journals from the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. Topics covered include ...
Go to this DatabaseThe Online Edition presents a fully searchable version of the Print Edition, including all the original introductions, collations, and commentary, but it complements, develops, and vastly extends t...
Go to this DatabaseOnline dictionary of the vocabulary of the English language of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.), with references to the source texts.
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Go to this DatabaseThis database includes the complete text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66. It also includes 24 separate contemporary printings o...
Go to this DatabaseArchive of play manuscripts submitted for license in the United Kingdom (1737-1824); related documents and visual materials; London Stage list of performances (1660-1800); biographical dictionary.
Go to this DatabaseA collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift.
Go to this DatabasePlays in verse and prose from the late 13th century to the early 20th century.
Go to this DatabaseHigh-quality, downloadable digital texts of Shakespeare's plays, based on source texts taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions (using the same page numbers and layouts as in the Folger p...
Go to this DatabaseHumanities journals, weekly magazines, and limited newspapers published in the UK and other English speaking countries.
Go to this DatabaseDigital newspaper archive of the Illustrated London News from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003.
Go to this DatabaseArchive of UK and US periodicals published between 1919-1939, on arts and culture, fashion, family life, travel, current affairs, social and welfare issues, and writing of prominent literary figures.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of printed ephemera (Bodleian Library in Oxford, England), documents various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century manuscript publications containing over 6,600 poems and other text; Verse index allows searching by first and last lines, author, date, and verse form.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of unique manuscripts and associated rare, printed materials related to fifteen authors recognized for the importance of their contribution to Victorian literature.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized primary source collection of documents related to the early history of the printed book in England, the development of copyright and the British publishing industry.
Go to this DatabasePrimary source collection of British and American literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of literary figures.
Go to this DatabaseTaking as its subject Victorian London, the content ranges from salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thor...
Go to this DatabaseOriginal manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organization which studied the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain from 1937 until the mid-1950s.
Go to this DatabasePrimary source collection on life in medieval and early modern Europe and the Americas.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of three Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary, a Bibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized literary archive of 19th century publisher, includes Lord Byron’s archive, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Jane Austen correspondence, travel writing of Isabella Bird, and more.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Go to this DatabaseWorking notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized archives of Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) document the history of theater performance, set and costume designs, prompt books, music, props, photographs, production records, and more.
Go to this DatabaseAnnual yearbook of Shakespeare studies and productions (1948-present), includes reviews of the year’s textual and critical studies and major British performances.
Go to this DatabaseArchive documenting 200 productions (1997-2016) in the reconstructed Globe Theatre, including architectural plans, costume designs, prompt books, music, interviews, performance photographs, and more.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of manuscripts, printed text, illustrations, and maps that document travel to and daily life on the European continent, as seen and experienced by many wealthy Britons of the 18th century.
Go to this DatabaseMultidisciplinary resource for Victorian studies and culture, with primary and secondary texts.
Go to this DatabaseThe Wellesley Index identifies the authors of articles within major Victorian periodicals and provides a bibliography for each contributor. (The vast majority of articles written for Victorian peri...
Go to this DatabasePrimary source collection of diaries and oral histories of women in the UK and Ireland offers contemporary views of conditions in which women have lived, in their own words, over four centuries.
Go to this DatabaseBibliography of international Shakespeare scholarship including articles, books, chapters, dissertations, editions, adaptations, and digital projects.
Go to this DatabaseOver 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
Go to this DatabaseThe Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) has assembled an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early ...
Go to this DatabaseEmily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson's surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscr...
Go to this DatabaseEnglish Poetry, Second Edition contains 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th, and representing more than 2,700 poets.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of literary works and authors throughout history, with full-text poems and poetry citations, short stories, speeches, and plays; Includes secondary materials like biographies, and images.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century manuscript publications containing over 6,600 poems and other text; Verse index allows searching by first and last lines, author, date, and verse form.
Go to this DatabasePrimary source collection of British and American literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of literary figures.
Go to this Databaselyrikline is an international website for experiencing the diversity of contemporary poetry. Here you can listen to the melodies, sounds, and rhythms of international poetry, recited by the authors...
Go to this DatabaseThis Encyclopedia assesses 106 national poetries, with coverage of every significant poetry tradition in the world. Updated for the times, gone are such entries as Negro poetry American; Afro-Ameri...
Go to this DatabasePennSound is a Web-based archive and distribution site of more than 1,500 digital recordings of poets and others reading and discussing poetry. There are interviews with poets and writers also. It ...
Go to this DatabaseThe Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work easily and conveniently accessible. It contains multiple U.S. and foreign editions of ...
Go to this DatabaseCollection of primary source materials related to the British Indian Empire and the colonial history, culture and literature of the Indian subcontinent from 1712 to 1942.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by Black women from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and the rest of the African Diaspora.
Go to this DatabaseDiaries and letters of British and Irish women from 1500-1900.
Go to this DatabaseArchived dataset of author names associated with the William B. Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1930 (not searchable, not updated).
Go to this DatabaseDefining Gender contains some 50,000 images of original documents from five centuries of advice literature and related material, from diaries, advice and conduct books, as well as articles from med...
Go to this DatabaseUnpublished in book form during her lifetime, the poems of Emily Dickinson were nonetheless shared with those she trusted mostthrough her letters. This XML-based archive brings together seventy-fou...
Go to this DatabaseEveryday Life is a digital collection comprising thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th ...
Go to this DatabaseSearchable collection of publications dating from 1543 to 1945 documenting the condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights.
Go to this Database19th century women's magazine on American life and culture, including fashion, entertainment, health recipes, morality, handcrafts, marriage, education, suffrage, and literature in its later years.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of literary works, memoirs and essays, in their original language, by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century to the present.
Go to this DatabasePrimary source collection of British and American literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of literary figures.
Go to this DatabaseA collection of published and unpublished women's diaries and correspondence, drawn from more than 1,000 1,300 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conferenc...
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of Queen Victoria's diaries, with full transcriptions and searching of the journal entries covering the period from the first diary entry in 1832 to her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840.
Go to this DatabaseThis release includes some 60 volumes from 47 poets. The critical and biographical essays for some poets will be added in a future release, as will selected criticism from printed works. In additio...
Go to this DatabaseFull-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.
Go to this DatabaseContains digitized images and sounds related to Africa studies contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Useful for finding primary sources.
Go to this DatabaseAustrian Literature Online (ALO), despite its English-language title, is a German-language site offering digitizations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary and cultural works from Au...
Go to this DatabaseThe dramatic, poetical and theoretical texts of Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956).
Go to this DatabaseThe Bibliographie der deutschen Sprache- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) is a German-language periodical index and bibliography of other publications in all aspects of German language and literatu...
Go to this DatabaseBiblioteca dei Classici Italiani is an Italian-language site featuring searchable texts (derived from older, public-domain editions) of writings in Italian by major literary authors. The site inclu...
Go to this DatabaseThe Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes features Renaissance titles from various European libraries. To search the French-language interface and see which titles are included, click on Fac-similés....
Go to this DatabaseWorks by authors of African or African-American descent, 1556-1922. Personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, musical compositions.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of primarily French language journals in the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Go to this DatabaseFull-text, searchable database that includes books, journals and government publications documenting Canadian History.
Go to this DatabaseCorpus of French-speaking literature from the Indian Ocean from the origins to the Independence (18th century - 1960).
Go to this DatabaseThe Dartmouth Dante Project contains searchable full-text versions of Dante's Commedia and of close to 50 commentaries on it from the 14th century to the present. A few files are in English; most a...
Go to this DatabaseBibliographic database of plays in sixteen Indian languages, published in India from the 1840s to the present.
Go to this DatabaseThe Decameron Web is an archive of information pertinent to the reading and studying of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It was assembled by students at Brown University under the direction of M. Ri...
Go to this DatabaseThis Dutch-language site, sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, offers literary texts (and some literary history) from the Dutch Mid...
Go to this DatabaseMultimedia collection designed to support literature and drama courses; contains playtexts, audio plays, streaming video, and ebooks from theatre publishers and companies.
Go to this DatabaseAn Italian-language text archive of some 2400 texts of approximately 200 Italian poets from the beginnings of the literature through Dante. It is searchable by individual words and by poetic school...
Go to this DatabaseGerman studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. The German Studies Collection brings to...
Go to this DatabaseThe definitive, Weimar edition of the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), originally published between the years 1887 and 1919, together with separately-published supplements of Goethe's letters and conversations.
Go to this DatabaseIcelandic Online Dictionary and Readings is a free-access, Web-based resource developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison which complements the University of Iceland's Internet course Icelandi...
Go to this DatabaseItalianemo (an acronym for "Italianistica nel mondo") analyzes and indexes articles in Italian Studies appearing in journals published in or after the year 2000. It has versions in Italian and in E...
Go to this DatabaseA critical edition of the complete works of Franz Kafka (1883-1924).
Go to this DatabaseAnnotated bibliography of French literature, covering journal articles, books, and reviews, from 1956 to present.
Go to this DatabaseA bio-bibliographical database containing detailed information on writers of contemporary German literature.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of more than 100,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, novels, and more than 450 plays by people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, and South American heritage.
Go to this DatabaseH. P. Karr's Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren: Internet-Edition is a German-language bio-bibliography of over 120 German-speaking writers of mystery and detective fiction. The database includes ...
Go to this Databaselyrikline is an international website for experiencing the diversity of contemporary poetry. Here you can listen to the melodies, sounds, and rhythms of international poetry, recited by the authors...
Go to this DatabaseCollection of original Latin and Greek texts with English translations, commentaries, and research tools; Modules cover Greek and Latin Poetry, Prose, Drama, History, Homer, Herodotus, Plato and more.
Go to this DatabasePerspecuitas is a German-language collection of articles, bibliographies, reviews, project announcements, and other scholarly material dealing with medieval German language, literature, and culture...
Go to this DatabaseThis scholarly site is devoted to the works of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). It contains searchable files of his writings in the original Italian (including the Petrocchi text of th...
Go to this DatabaseComplete works of Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805), including his poetry and plays, the translations, minor prose works, historical and philosophical writings, letters to and from Schiller and the Conversations.
Go to this DatabaseText-based collection of fiction, short fiction, and poems in English by South Asian and Southeast Asian writers, from the end of the colonial era to the present.
Go to this DatabaseDigital version of the so-called Grosser Stuttgarter Ausgabe of writings by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. The works are searchable once downloaded via the "DFG-viewer" (click on "ganzes Werk...
Go to this DatabaseThis cooperative project of Cologne University, Cologne University and Municipal Library, and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel, has as its aim the digitalization of incunables, representing bo...
Go to this DatabaseAn ongoing German-language bibliography of published scholarship on the German literary and scientific author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, this continues Siegfried Seifert's printed Goethe-Bibliogra...
Go to this DatabaseThe World of Dante offers a hypermedia environment for the study of the Inferno. This project is designed to appeal to the different purposes of a wide range of readers, not simply those with schol...
Go to this DatabaseCRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, dissertations from outside of the U.S., with content from Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.
Go to this DatabaseThe National Yiddish Book Center is proud to offer online access to the full texts of nearly 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, f...
Go to this DatabaseA standard resource that offers articles on the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to today.
Go to this DatabaseManuscripts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) of New York. This site includes an invitation to other libraries to submit manuscripts for digitization for Jewish c...
Go to this DatabaseOngoing Yiddish language bibliographical project that records the contents of nearly 1000 periodicals published worldwide from 1862 onward.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of Yiddish books printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe, from 16th century to early 20th century.
Go to this DatabaseThe Jewish National and University Library is proud to announce the first stage of a project to digitize rare and out-of-print monographs from its collection. The aim of this project is to make the...
Go to this DatabaseA general gateway to Yiddish-language resources including some Yiddish books. (Updated irregularly)
Go to this DatabaseYiddish Sources is a portal for Yiddish and Yiddish Studies and offers up to date and comprehensive information including digitized collections. (Updates ongoing)
Go to this Database18thConnect is an aggregator of digital resources that provide a comprehensive research environment for scholars working on the literature, history, the fine arts, and philosophy of the long eighte...
Go to this DatabaseDigitized images of American magazines and journals published in the United States from 1740-1940.
Go to this DatabaseThis Danish-language guide to Danish literary authors offers multi-page entries on individual authors usually consisting of a brief overview, a biography, surveys of the author's literary activity,...
Go to this DatabaseExtensive bibliography of composition and rhetoric resources, with information about rhetorical history, curriculum, literacy, course development, teaching of writing and communication styles.
Go to this DatabaseWorks by authors of African or African-American descent, 1556-1922. Personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, musical compositions.
Go to this DatabaseOnline bibliography of book and library history from scholarly publications written from a historical perspective; covers papermaking, bookbinding, book illustration, type design, libraries, and more.
Go to this DatabaseOnline reference collection covering the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.
Go to this DatabaseChildren's book reviews, reading lists, award information, and reader's advisory.
Go to this DatabaseCompPile is a composition studies resource and an ongoing, searchable inventory of publications, blogs, new books and other resources in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical wri...
Go to this DatabaseArchive of primary source materials related to criminal history, law, literature, and justice in nineteenth century Europe, North America, India and the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand).
Go to this DatabaseMachine-readable texts of classics of Danish literature ("literature" broadly defined; the collection includes the Gesta Danorum of the medieval Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and the Astronomia...
Go to this DatabaseAudio clips, examples of use, and maps for regional American English.
Go to this DatabaseStreaming video collection of films of current, leading British theatre productions, musicals, and operas. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources.
Go to this DatabaseProvides digital access to a large part of the extensive correspondence of translator, critic, and poet August Wilhelm Schlegel, a significant figure in the German Romanticism movement. Currently t...
Go to this DatabaseDRAM is an online music database offering on-demand, streaming access to an extensive and ever-growing catalog. A primary focus of the collection is the preservation and dissemination of hard-to-fi...
Go to this DatabaseThis collection contains digital editions of all titles in the Evans microform editions; more than 36,000 items and over 2,400,000 images, all with searchable OCR-created ASCII text. Both the digit...
Go to this DatabaseEarly English Books Online (EEBO) provides full-text images of almost all the books printed in England and her colonies from the beginning of printing to 1700 (about 125,000 titles). You can search...
Go to this DatabaseThe University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an exceptional partnership to cre...
Go to this DatabaseEbook collection traces history of printing in Europe from its origins to the close of the 17th century; with full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
Go to this DatabasePart of the Internet Archive, this comprehensive clearinghouse of ebooks and online texts is a vast collection of freely available, full text materials in many languages and from many sources. It c...
Go to this DatabaseFull text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800 that were catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC).
Go to this DatabaseDigital archive of rare journals printed between c.1685 and 1835 document all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life of the time.
Go to this DatabaseSearchable, browsable, and with more than 300 entries, this work provides a comprehensive overview of communication theories based in a variety of disciplines. Current descriptions of theories are ...
Go to this DatabasePlays in verse and prose from the late 13th century to the early 20th century.
Go to this DatabaseReference database of records contained in collections of essays and anthologies published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, in the humanities and social sciences.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of literary works and authors throughout history, with full-text poems and poetry citations, short stories, speeches, and plays; Includes secondary materials like biographies, and images.
Go to this DatabaseThis fully searchable and sortable database includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information. It contains non-English language comics and English language comics. It is...
Go to this DatabaseH-Net Reviews publishes reviews of books and multimedia materials. While the focus is on history, many reviews of current and contemporary topics are also included. Reviews are written by academic ...
Go to this DatabaseHandrit.is formerly Saganet aka Sagnanet is an ongoing scholarly project that digitalizes, stores, and makes available, page by page, images of works of Old Icelandic literature in the original lan...
Go to this DatabaseDigital magazine archive (1850 to present) covers literature, politics, culture and the arts.
Go to this DatabaseBased on the OED, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED (HTOED) contains almost every word in English from Old English to the present, allowing users to explore words connected in meaning throughout ...
Go to this DatabaseHumanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin is a searchable database of scholarly editions of Latin verse written in Italy in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth-centuries. It...
Go to this DatabaseEBSCO database of journal articles, books, essays, and reviews covering all aspects of the humanities, with a focus on literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Go to this DatabaseInternational database of 15th-century European imprints for nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501. Includes some 16th-century items previously assigned incorrectly to the 15th ce...
Go to this DatabaseThe IZA is a searchable, full-text German-language archive of more than 800,000 newspaper and journal articles bearing on German literature (including film and theater) or on the German language. I...
Go to this DatabaseThe selected works compiled in the James Joyce Scholars' Collection (JJSC) all share two characteristics: 1) all the books are currently out-of-print and 2) they are valuable, perhaps indispensable...
Go to this DatabaseThe Liberation Journals Index is an analytic, searchable, online index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques...
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of unique manuscripts and associated rare, printed materials related to fifteen authors recognized for the importance of their contribution to Victorian literature.
Go to this DatabaseMultilayered grouping of digitized works in literature and the humanities, from medieval to modern, scholarly to satirical.
Go to this DatabaseThis annual publication contains reviews of the 200 most notable books published in the previous year. Works reviewed include both fiction and non-fiction, English-language and non-English-language...
Go to this DatabaseA database of medieval manuscripts (mostly in Greek or Latin) from the German-speaking areas of Europe. (Updated regularly)
Go to this DatabaseDirectory journals and book series on literature, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, language, linguistics, pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and the history of printing and publishing.
Go to this DatabaseThe Modernist Journals Project provides fully-searchable online editions of the English-language journals and magazines that were important in shaping those modes of literature and art that came to...
Go to this DatabaseDigital magazine archive of The New Yorker (1925-present), covers politics and culture, people, humor, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism of literature, the arts, and fashion.
Go to this DatabaseNINES is a searchable and tagged site linking the material, cultural and literary archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. The NINES site is a sou...
Go to this DatabasePrimary source collection of 19th century books, newspapers and periodicals, diaries and personal letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, and maps sourced from world libraries and archives.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of plays representing the stories and diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century.
Go to this DatabaseNoveList is a source for assisting fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. It includes information on more than 150,000 titles, including authors, publication information, subjects, book...
Go to this DatabaseHistorical dictionary of the English language; includes present-day meanings, history of individual words, and usage through quotations from classic literature, film, scripts, and other sources.
Go to this DatabaseThe Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books. Major parts of the si...
Go to this DatabaseThe Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) is a searchable database of 22.3 million words (456,000 unique forms) in nearly 2000 texts in early Italian by medieval writers (mostly prior to 1375). Laid...
Go to this DatabaseReference tool of authoritative research guides on Literary and Critical Theory that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.
Go to this DatabaseOnline encyclopedia of everything relating to ancient Greece and Rome, with updated and expanded content beyond the print edition of the OCD.
Go to this DatabaseCollection of authoritative editions of the writings of the ancient Greek poet Homer in original Greek text and English translations; includes commentaries and research tools.
Go to this DatabaseArchive of primary works, letters, journals, and notebooks from important philosophers and women writers, based on authoritative editions from academic and university publishers and organizations.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized, full-image journal articles from hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences disciplines, published from 1802 to 2005.
Go to this DatabaseThis is an ongoing bibliography of writings in Latin in all disciplines from the fourteenth century onward whose digitizations are freely available on the Web. Entries are arranged alphabetically b...
Go to this DatabaseArticle database for social science and humanities journals published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Germany.
Go to this DatabaseThe Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books, and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs, and people can easily read, ...
Go to this DatabaseProject Runeberg is a Swedish-centered, volunteer-based project that offers in HTML format more than 200 original-language classic works of Nordic literature, music, and the history of science, plu...
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of Queen Victoria's diaries, with full transcriptions and searching of the journal entries covering the period from the first diary entry in 1832 to her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840.
Go to this DatabaseWorks about the Americas published around the world from 1476 to 1926, based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time.
Go to this DatabaseDigitized collection of newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets from 1672-1737 held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, UK.
Go to this DatabasePrompt books for performances of Shakespeare’s plays between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, and supporting material for 17 selected plays. Documents are indexed by genre, country, theatre...
Go to this DatabaseIndex to more than 150,000 short stories from 1915 to 1983. Sources include periodicals and collections of short stories, with extensive subject indexing.
Go to this DatabaseStreaming video collection of distinguished plays, video documentaries, and interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors.
Go to this DatabaseThis is a thesaurus of Old English, searchable by either modern or Old English terms. There is also a Browse feature. An Old English phrase search is included. TOE Online is an electronic version o...
Go to this DatabaseOpen access archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music.
Go to this DatabaseScholarly primary-source collection of adult comic books and graphic novels covers the full spectrum of this visual art form from around the world; with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism.
Go to this DatabaseVoltaire électronique is based upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete works of Voltaire. It includes all of Voltaire's literary works. Texts which have not yet been published i...
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Go to this DatabaseReference source covers all aspects of traditional cultures around the world as presented through myths, folktales, language, and traditions.
Go to this DatabaseThis is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,987 unedited, 900 fully edi...
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