Literature Databases

Provides a subject index for discovering books, chapters, and journal articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, linguistics, literary theory & criticisms, dramatic arts, and the historical aspects of printing and publishing. EBSCOHost Tutorial

Online access to the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817), representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.

Full text scholarly literary criticism, popular commentary, and reviews of thousands of authors, both well-known and obscure. A good, comprehensive starting point for literary research. Gale Literature Criticism Tutorial

Full text biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from all over the world. Gale Literature Resource Center Tutorial

Full-text, comprehensive reference resource indexing books, major literary encyclopedias, reference-works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

Full text access to all volumes of Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. A good starting point for literary research.

Comprehensive access to research articles on film and television. EBSCOHost Tutorial

Contains full-text poems of over a hundred writers.

Contains full text poems of most major twentieth-century American poets from all major movements and schools.

Contains full text poems as well as introductions, prefaces, and notes from poetry collections

Full text and linked full-text poems from before the 20th century.

Full text collection of American dramatic literature, including works of poetry, drama, and prose, from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Provides access to special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and trade magazines. Especially helpful for historical research into 18th and 19th Century America.

Full text poems by all major American poets, as well as entire poetry books and anthologies.

Full text access to historical American newspapers, books, broadsides, ephemera, government documents, and more. Coverage from 1639 to 1819.

Full text works of every major American writer before the Civil War, including short stories and entire novels.

Contains titles from the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare.

Full text and linked full text of various editions of Shakespeare's plays.

Full text access to 18th Century books in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science, and more.

Full text of works of prose fiction written in the British Isles. Includes or has links to full text.

Full text or linked full text poems from British Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries.

Full text or linked full text of plays written in verse for the stage from the time of Henry IV to the end of the 19th century.

Provides detailed information about the journals and series indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. This resource is best utilized by collection managers and scholars seeking venues to publish their research. EBSCOHost Tutorial

A database of full text books, largely in the public domain, provided in a wide variety of formats and languages, including audio books. An excellent resource to find classic books online.

Database of books, articles, dissertations, and manuscripts. Covers Slavic studies and social science with most content originally published in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern European countries. EBSCOHost Tutorial

Enables users to full-text search every page of every issue of the TLS. The Historical Archive offers coverage of the latest and most important publications in multiple languages, across all areas of the humanities and social sciences.

William Butler Yeats Collection is a complete electronic edition of Yeats's work, bringing together 22 printed volumes and including critical and fictional prose, poetry, plays, and autobiographical works.

This bibliography is the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide since 1960.