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Literature and Language
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MLA International Bibliography
Index to books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Includes or has links to full text.
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Humanities International Complete
Comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
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Literary Reference Center
Provides author biographies and interviews, articles of literary criticism, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, and plot summaries, synopses and work overviews.
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Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature
Index to books, articles, reviews, collections, and dissertations in English studies.
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Iter (Middle Ages & Renaissance)
Iter, meaning "a journey" or "a path" in Latin, is a non-profit research project with the goal of increasing access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the creation of bibliographic databases.
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is compiled by specialists and presents a comprehensive Historical survey of the fields most important figures, schools and movements. It has alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, schools and movements as well as new developments in specific countries and historical periods.
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Women Writers Online
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a collection of early modern women's writing. It contains the fulltext of hundreds of little known, women-authored documents from the 16th through the 19th century. Includes or has links to full text.
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FRANCIS (international humanities and social sciences)
Index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics.
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Bibliography of American Literature
The Bibliography of American Literature is a comprehensive bibliographic guide, providing nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the American Revolution to 1930.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals

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Play Index
Provides the full publication details needed to locate plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present
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African-American Poetry
3000 poems by African-American poets in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Includes or has links to full text.
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English Poetry (600-1900)
Full text of over 160,000 poems written in English 600-1900. Includes or has links to full text.
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Twentieth Century American Poetry

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Twentieth Century English Poetry

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American Drama

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English Verse Drama
Full text of over 2200 works of poetry intended for the stage. Includes or has links to full text.
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Editions & Adaptations of Shakespeare
Full text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare?s works, and related works. Includes or has links to full text.
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English Prose Drama
Full text of over 1800 plays written in prose for the stage, from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Includes or has links to full text.
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Yeats, William Butler Collection

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British Periodicals Online
Coverage dates: 1680s to 1930s. Full-text of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian age of periodicals and beyond.
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Early American Fiction

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Early English Books Online
Coverage dates: 1473-1700. Full text of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, starting from the first book printed in English, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, and up to the English Civil War.
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Eighteenth Century Fiction
Full text of 96 works of prose fiction written in the British Isles, 1700-1780.
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LexisNexis Academic
Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
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CompPile (composition)

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. It includes most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.
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