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Literature

 INDEXES & REFERENCE BOOKS
  • MLA International Bibliography
    •   Index to journals on world language and literature since 1926 with many links to full text, includes MLA Directory of Periodicals.
     
  • Humanities International Index   Comprehensive database covering over 2000 journals, books and other important reference sources.

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  • Hispanic American Periodicals Index    Index to over 500 journals covering political, economic, social, and artistic topics. Full text is provided when available.

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  • Short Story Index
    •   Index of over 100,000 short stories. Includes the full text of over 3,400 stories.
     
  • Credo Reference - Literature    Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of literature.

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  • Literature Criticism Online    A comprehensive collection of literary criticism from classical to modern times.

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  • Literature Resource Center   Literature reference database. Includes information on literary figures from all time periods writing in all genres; thousands of overviews of literary works; links to hundreds of websites focusing on major authors and their works; Literary-Historical timeline to help place literature in its historical and social context; thousands of author portraits; Encyclopedia of Literature; access to numerous literary journals; some literary criticism (see Literature Criticism Online for comprehensive coverage).
     
  • Victorian Fiction Online    Lists of editions of Victorian fiction published from 1830 to the present. No full text is provided.

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  • Shakespeare Survey Online    Full text of articles from Shakespeare Survey, an annual journal published since 1948.

    •   ELECTRONIC TEXTS
     
  • Early English Books Online, 1475-1700
    •   Full texts of books and pamphlets printed in English in the British Isles and other countries. When complete it will contain over 125,000 titles. Presently it contains over 100,000.
     
  • Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
    •   Full texts of all the books published in America from 1639 until 1800.
     
  • Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819  Full texts of all the books published in America from 1801 until 1819.

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  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online
    •   Full texts of over 136,000 books published mostly in the UK from 1700 to 1799.
     
  • Gallica: La Bibliotheque Numerique
    •   Full texts of French books in the public domain.
     
  • La Biblioteca de las Culturas Hispanicas
    •   Full texts of Spanish books in the public domain.
     
  • ARTFL project
    •    Over 2,600 French texts, from medieval to 20th century.
     
  • LIT FINDER
    •   Full texts of poems, stories, plays, essays, and speeches.
     
  • Oxford Scholarship Online: Literature
    •   Full text of recently published books on literature.
      PLOT SUMMARIES
  • Magill OnLiterature Plus
    •   Complete Masterplot series giving plot summaries of fiction, drama, and epic poetry, as well as biographies of authors.
      AUTHORS
  • Contemporary Authors & Dictionary of Literary Biography
    •   Biographical and critical information about living and deceased authors from all over the world.
     
  • Twayne's Author Series
    •   Biography and criticism of over 600 well-known authors.
     
  • John Milton: A Bibliography
    •   A bibliography of Milton's works and critical studies of his life and works, 1624-1799. Contains over 13,000 entries.
     
  • Shakespeare's Words
    •   A concordance to Shakespeare's works as well as synopses and commentary. 
           LIBRARIES
  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery
    •   Over 700,000 digital images of posters, prints, dust jackets, maps, photographs, etc.
      THEATRE
  • Theatre in Video
    •   Over 250 plays on video viewable online.

    Classics

     INDEXES
  • Database of Classical Bibliography
    •   L'Annee philologique online. Index of books and articles on ancient Greece and Rome.
     
  • Dyabola
    •   German Archaeological Institute database of classical archaeology books and articles from 1956 to the present. Chech the IP box and click on Start.
      ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES
  • The New Pauly Online
    •   Full text of the Pauly encyclopedia of classical studies.
     
  • Database of Latin Dictionaries
    •   Classical and Medieval Latin dictionaries.
     
  • Brill's New Jacoby
    •   Biography and criticism of hundreds of classical historians.
      ELECTRONIC TEXTS
  • PHI - Latin Texts, Bible Versions
    •   Full texts of Latin literature, bible versions and selected works.
    (CD-ROM, only available at Walsh Library Reference Desk.)
     
  • Perseus
    •   Resources for studying Greek and Roman literature including full text.
     
  • Aristoteles Latinus Database
    •   Full text of Aristoteles works.
     
  • Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
    •   Full text of Latin texts from Medieval Ireland.
     
  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae   Complete text of all classical Greek literature.
    (Only available on dedicated workstations in Walsh and Quinn Libraries, ask Reference Librarian)

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  • Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies
    •   Full text of recently published books on classical studies.
            INTERNET GUIDE
  • Classical Studies on the Web
    •   Internet sites on all aspects of classical studies.


      Language

  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
    •   Index to journal articles, books, and book reviews with some links to full text.
     
  • Atlas of North American English
    •   Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change.

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