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Early English books online (see EEBO : Early English books online)
  
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English
printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
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Eighteenth Century collections online (see ECCO : Eighteenth Century collections online)
A comprehensive searchable digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language
title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
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17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers (see Seventeenth-eighteenth century Burney Collection newspapers)
Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)--the
largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included. gkldjgl;kj;l
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18th century collections online (see ECCO: Eighteenth Century collections online)
A comprehensive searchable digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language
title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
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18th century fiction (see Eighteenth century fiction)
Provides the complete text of 96 works of prose fiction, written in the British Isles between 1700 and 1780, including Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Richardson's
Clarissa and Pamela, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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18th century: correspondence of important figures in England (see Eighteenth century: correspondence of important figures in England )
The Eighteenth Century contains 48 volumes of correspondence of important figures in eighteenth century England, all from Oxford University Press.
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19th century fiction (see Nineteenth-century fiction)
Provides access to full text of 250 novels by more than 100 authors from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by major Victorian novelists such as
Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Eliot and Hardy, as well as Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.
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19th century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
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20th century African-American poetry (see Twentieth century African-American poetry)
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century; complete text of each poem with any integral
textual images or illustrations.
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20th century American poetry (see Twentieth century American poetry)
Full text of more than 50,000 poems from hundreds of important and influential American poets of the 20th century.
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20th century drama (see Twentieth-century drama)
When complete, will contain 2,500 plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present.
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20th century English poetry (see Twentieth century English poetry)
Contains poetry of nearly 300 poets, including poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles, since 1900. When available, a poet's collected
edition has been keyed.
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20th century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
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20th century North American drama (see Twentieth century North American drama)
Contains more than 1,500 full-text plays by more than 200 playwrights. Includes selected playbills, production photographs, information on related productions,
theaters, and production companies.
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African writers series
Key texts of modern African literature, published under the Heinemann African Writers Series imprint, including fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional
prose.
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African-American poetry
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Alexander Street literature
A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. Includes the collections: Black Short Fiction and Folklore,
Black Women Writers, Caribbean Literature, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature, Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, and South and Southeast Asian Literature.
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American broadsides and ephemera. Series I
"Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection ... offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed
between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900."--Product description.
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American drama
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American film scripts online
Full-text searchable database containing more than a thousand scripts for feature films. Most never before published and otherwise unavailable online.
Provides details on scenes, characters, and writers.
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American poetry
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Asian American drama
Full-text, searchable database of more than 250 plays representing various ethnicities within the Asian American community. Includes related biographical,
production, and theatrical information. Selected playbills and production photographs.
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Bacon: The letters and life of Francis Bacon
Contains Francis Bacon's occasional works, namely letters, speeches, tracts, state papers, memorials, devices and all authentic writings not already printed
among his philosophical, literary, or professional works.
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Bartleby.com: Great books online
Provides a free-of-charge, full-text collection of selected literature, reference and verse. Includes works such as the Oxford Shakespeare, Columbia encyclopedia,
Roget's Thesaurus, the Harvard classics, Bartlett's familiar quotations, and Columbia gazetteer.
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Bayeux Tapestry
"The Bayeux Tapestry presents its story of the Norman Conquest of England in words of such simplicity and in images of such power that is has long determined
the view we take of the momentous events of 1064-66. This digital edition creates new and exciting ways of viewing the tapestry, with additional features in the form of a brilliantly-conceived array of supporting material. It transforms the way in which students and teachers alike will be able to approach, to use and to enjoy one of the most remarkable of all our sources for the Middle Ages" --Jewel case.
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Black drama
Coverage: 1850-present
Contains the full text of more than 1,400 plays, written from the 1850s to the present, by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking
Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes information on productions, theaters, and production companies. Also included, selectively, are production photographs, as well as images of playbills and other ephemera.
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Black short fiction and folklore
Contains thousands of stories, folktales, and works of short fiction by African, African American, and Caribbean authors.
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Black women writers
Literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora. A tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and
development of black people in the Diaspora.
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Blackwell reference online. Literature
A collection of full-text e-book reference titles covering sub-disciplines of literature: American literature, literary theory, romanticism, comparative
literature, and more. Includes many titles from Blackwell companions to ...
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British and Irish women's letters and diaries
Spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Includes approximately
100,000 pages of primary materials.
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Cambridge companions online
Offers full-text, cross-searchable collections, including Cambridge Companions Complete Collection with its three sub-collections: Cambridge companion
to literature and classics; Cambridge companion to philosophy, religion and culture; and Cambridge companion to music.
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Caribbean literature
"a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. ... numerous rare and hard-to-find works written
in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages."--Publisher's description.
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Caxton's Canterbury tales
Call Number: MEDIN 715 Electronic PR 1866 .B67 2003
"contains the first ever full-colour facsimiles of any copies of William Caxton's first and second editions of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the
first ever publication of the full text of any copy of the Caxton editions"--Container.
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Chaucer : the general prologue on CD-ROM
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868.P8 S65 2000
"Contains transcripts, descriptions, and images of all 53 fifteenth-century manuscripts and early printed editions of The General Prologue. The texts of
witnesses may be compared through full word-by-word collations in both original spelling and regularized form. Spelling databases permit the spelling of every grammatical form of each word to be examined in any manuscript, or across all manuscripts, for some 300,000 words in total. Sophisticated search tools, which make full use of SGML encoding, allow retrieval of words, phrases, and many textual features."--Container.
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Chaucer, life and times
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1851 .P75 1995
Includes the complete works of Chaucer with modern translations and glossary, critical commentary, historical information, extensive graphics, and audio
clips in Middle English.
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Clotel
"The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time together,
the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. ... biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as line-by-line annotations and textual collation."--Home page.
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Coleridge: The collected letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Past Masters The collected letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge contains the complete edition of Coleridge's letters, augmented by his early family letters
and the letters of his son, Hartley, from Oxford University Press.
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Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The 1903 edition in twelve volumes encoded by the University of Michigan.
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Contemporary authors (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Destruction of Troy
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PA 8310 .C6 D47 2002
Searchable English translation of Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido delle Colonne.
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Dictionary of literary biography (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Dictionary of Old English
The Dictionary of Old English: A to G online includes the first release of the letter G, containing some 1319 headwords, as well as revised versions of
the seven previously published fascicles (1986-2003).
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Dictionary of Old English, Old English corpus
Database consisting of over 3,000 different Old English texts; constructed from a version supplied by the Dictionary of Old English Project in 1998.
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Digital Domesday Book
Mode of access: Available only from Hesburgh Library public access computers. Path in XP: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Digital Domesday.
Call Number: LIBNT XP Electronic DA 190 .D7 D55 2002
Includes all 888 folios from the Great and Little Domesday; the Alecto line-by-line translations, matched to the original text; the Alecto indexes of people
and of places, including map references; the Farley transcription of 1783; a general introduction; the Alecto County Edition introductions to each Domesday county; 16 special studies on different aspects of medieval life; a glossary and a comprehensive bibliography.
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Digital facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Junius 11
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1601 .M85 2004
Digitized version of "... the entire tenth century manuscript [of Anglo-Saxon poetry], a searchable transcription, translation, detailed commentary, and
high resolution images of all the drawings and decorated initials."--Publisher's description.
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Early American fiction 1789-1875
"the full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe
and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period."--Home page. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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Early American imprints. Series I, Evans, 1639-1800
Covering American history and literature from the colonial period through the 18th century, this database of some 37,000 titles is a full-text digitization
of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography.
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Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this database provides full-text access to 36,000 American books,
pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the 19th century. Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
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Early English books online (see EEBO : Early English books online)
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English
printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
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Early English prose fiction
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ECCO : Eighteenth Century Collections Online
A comprehensive searchable digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language
title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
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Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
"The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty four separate contemporary
printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries."
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EEBO : Early English books online
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English
printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Access info: Content presented as images online, or can be downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line. No plugins required to view images online.
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EEBO TCP: Early English books online - text creation partnership
Subset of Early English books online. SGML/XML encoded with full text searching capabilities. 200-300 titles are added monthly. When complete, EEBO-TCP
is to contain 25,000 texts.
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Eighteenth Century : correspondence of important figures in England
The Past Masters The eighteenth century contains 48 volumes of correspondence of important figures in eighteenth century England, all from Oxford University
Press.
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Eighteenth Century collections online (see ECCO : Eighteenth Century collections online)
A comprehensive searchable digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language
title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
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Eighteenth century fiction
Provides the complete text of 96 works of prose fiction, written in the British Isles between 1700 and 1780, including Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Richardson's
Clarissa and Pamela, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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Electronic Beowulf
Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1580 .K47 1999
Contains an image-based edition of Beowulf, the greatest Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Ms. Vitellius
A. xv.
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Electronic enlightenment
Searchable and browseable database of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends,
bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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Emerging tradition, 1500-1700
The Past Masters The emerging tradition, 1500-1700 contains Oxford University Press editions of correspondence from important figures in 16th and 17th
century England.
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Emily Dickinson's correspondences
"This XML-based archive brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Emily's correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan
Dickinson. Each text is presented with a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript."--Home page.
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English drama
Provides full text access to the two databases English verse drama and English prose drama, containing 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late 13th
to early 20th centuries. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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English poetry, second edition
Contains more than 183,000 poems, comprising essentially the complete canon of poetry in English from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly
4,900 sources, the collection represents the work of more than 2,700 poets. The main bibliographic source is the New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, 1969-1977. Also includes poetry written in English by authors from Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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Exeter anthology of old English poetry
Mode of access: DVD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1490 .A2 M853 2006
Contains facsimile pages of the complete manuscript of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501 (the "Exeter Book") with Bernard J. Muir's complete critical edition
(rev. 2nd ed.). Allows comparison of original manuscript and transcripts and access to hyperlinked commentaries and bibliographies. Animated video clip recounts history of the manuscript.
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Faber poetry library
" ... contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The authors are all part of the Faber Poetry list and the database enjoys the active
support of the publisher and the poets or estates."--About page. Usage info: Limited to 4 concurrent users.
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HathiTrust Digital Library
A digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. It was initially
conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
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Hengwrt Chaucer digital facsimile
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1866 .S7 2000
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Herman Melville's Typee
"Typee exists in multiple critically diverse versions, in both manuscript and print. Based on the recently discovered working draft of Typee, this electronic
edition offers digital images, a transcription of each manuscript page, corresponding print texts, and a dynamic reading text, which allows readers to inspect the revision sequences and narratives of more than 1000 revision sites."--Home page.
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Internet Shakespeare editions
Includes a variety of scholarly Shakespeare-related resources, including fully annotated texts of his plays and poems, multimedia materials and records
of his plays in performance, and historical information about Shakespeare's life and the Renaissance.
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Irish women poets of the Romantic period
"includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. ... also offers numerous biographical and critical
essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project."--Publisher's description.
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Jack Kerouac romnibus
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PS 3521 .E735 Z633 1995
Multimedia presentation of the life and work of Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation author and poet, via text, photographs, graphics, sound, animation, and video;
complete works and excerpted writings of Kerouac, archival materials, biographical information, interviews, and bebop music.
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Johnson: The letters of Samuel Johnson & Boswell's life of Johnson
The Past Masters The Letters of Samuel Johnson & Boswell's Life of Johnson contains the Clarendon editions of Johnson's correspondence and of Boswell's
Life of Johnson.
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Latin Background, 1100-1550
The Past Masters The Latin background, 1100-1550 contains writings and correspondence by some of the most prominent men in Medieval England. From editions
published by Oxford University Press.
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Latino literature
"poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working
in the United States."--Publisher's description.
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LEME : lexicons of Early Modern English
"... a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable
treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Texts of word-entries whose headword (source) or explanation (target) language is English tell what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period served by the Short-title and Wing catalogues, from the advent of printing to about 1700."--Introduction.
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Letters of Christina Rossetti
The complete text of the 4-volume print edition. All 2124 letters may be read in chronological order or searched by full text or recipient.
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Letters of Matthew Arnold
The complete text of the 6-volume print edition from University of Virginia Press, 1996. Including nearly 4,000 letters, this digital edition is fully
searchable and includes both a linked index and a complete chronological listing of the letters from 1829-1888.
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Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Call Number: MEDIN 715 Electronic BX 4700 .W5 E3413 1998a
"This is an electronic edition of Edmer's twelfth century Vita Sancti Wilfridi. It includes a full photographic facsimile of a little known witness from
the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in Victoria, Australia -- MS Crouch 10. It considers all known manuscript witnesses in its apparatus and includes a full study of the printed tradition in its introduction and commentary ..."--Publisher's description.
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LION, literature online
A virtual library containing more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key
criticism and reference resources. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
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Literary encyclopedia
Provides profiles of the lives and works of important world authors whose works are available in English. Includes coverage of English, American, Canadian,
German and Russian literatures with growing coverage of French, Italian, Japanese, Classical Greek, Latin, Hispanic and East European literatures.
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Literature resource center
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text articles from numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Locke: The correspondence of John Locke
The Past Masters The correspondence of John Locke is the complete electronic edition of his letters as published from 1976 to 1989 by Clarendon Press.
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MagillOnLiterature (EBSCO)
Includes the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of world authors,
the Cyclopedia of literary characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's literary annual and Magill book reviews.
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Manuscript women's letters and diaries
"... brings together 100,000 pages [when complete] of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images
of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time."--Home page.
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Masterplots (see MagillOnLiterature)
Includes the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of world authors,
the Cyclopedia of literary characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's literary annual and Magill book reviews.
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Middle English compendium
Provides integrated access to three major Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose
and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources, including a large collection of Middle English texts.
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Miller's tale
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868 .M6 R623 2004
Contains full transcripts of the text of the fifty-eight pre-1500 manuscripts and printed editions of The Miller's tale, plus images of all the pages,
collations to show the differences between each version, commentary, and access to every word and variant.
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Nineteenth century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Nineteenth-century fiction
Provides access to full text of 250 novels by more than 100 authors from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by major Victorian novelists such as
Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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North American Indian drama
Full text of plays by American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century, information about the plays and their production, and biographical
data. The collection represents groups across the United States and Canada , including Cherokee, Metis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock , and others. Also includes issues of the Native playwrights' newsletter.
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North American women's drama
When complete, this collection will include more than 1,500 plays written by women, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information
spanning from the 18th century to the present.
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North American women's letters and diaries
Provides access to some 150,000 pages of letters and diaries of 1,300+ women writing from Colonial times to 1950. Writers reflect all age groups and life
stages, all ethnicities, and many geographical regions.
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Nun's priest's tale on CD-ROM
Call Number: MEDIN 715 Electronic PR1868.N8 T46 2006
Includes full transcripts and collations of the text of the tale and links in all other manuscripts, grey-scale images and descriptions of manuscripts.
A database of all spellings, stemmic analyses, and a scholarly commentary are also included to make this the ideal tool for study of both tale and manuscript.
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Old english poems, prose and lessons
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PE 137 .P655 2007
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Oxford scholarship online
Cross-searchable collection containing full text for thousands of books published by Oxford University Press. Subject areas include biology, business and
management, classical studies, economics and finance, history, linguistics, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, and religion.
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PEP archive (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing)
Coverage: 1871-
Contains digitized searchable books and journal articles on psychoanalysis. Book archive includes full text of Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological
Works of Sigmund Freud, Freud's letters to his major collaborators and full text of major works by other prominent psychoanalytic authors. Journals in the archive include full text of many premier English-language journals in psychoanalysis (archive excludes full text of most recent three years of journals' content).
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Philosophers : correspondence of 18th century philosophers
The Past Masters The philosophers contains correspondence by eighteenth-century philosophers George Berkeley, David Hume, Adam Smith, Henry Sidgwick and
others, published by Oxford University Press.
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Piers Plowman electronic archive
Call Number: HESB RES PR 2015 .P54 2000
"The long-range goal of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive is the creation of a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual
tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman."--1994 Prospectus: Archive Goals.
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Pope: The Correspondence of Alexander Pope
The Past Masters The correspondence of Alexander Pope contains the letters and correspondence of Pope as edited by George Sherburn and published by Oxford
University Press in 1956.
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Project Gutenberg
Offers access to the Project Gutenberg electronic public library, which stores and makes available, via the Internet, works of literature distributed in
the ASCII text format. Includes an overview and history of the Project, which began at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and focuses on fiction and nonfiction books, poems, and other materials, such as references, in the Public Domain. Offers a listing of works available, as well as a listing of recent releases. Contains information about making donations to the project.
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Project Muse ebook collections
Coverage: 2012-2013 complete collections
A collection of scholarly books published by University Presses in the areas of humanities and social sciences.
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Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing archive (see PEP archive (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing))
Contains digitized searchable books and journal articles on psychoanalysis. Book archive includes full text of Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological
Works of Sigmund Freud, Freud's letters to his major collaborators and full text of major works by other prominent psychoanalytic authors. Journals in the archive include full text of many premier English-language journals in psychoanalysis (archive excludes full text of most recent three years of journals' content).
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Romantic age
The Past Masters The romantic age contains correspondence of important figures of the Romantic Age in England, from editions published by Oxford University
Press.
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Romanticism redefined
A searchable collection of Romantic-era literature of canonical and previously unrecognized writers from Britain, the British Empire, and North America,
with focus on the period between 1800 and 1830. Contains numerous sets by Pickering & Chatto reprinting English texts published from the 1770s to 1830s. Also, includes full text of the journal, The Wordsworth Circle (1970- ).
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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography [Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time],
this [online] collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions ..."--Gale databases description.
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Samuel Johnson & James Boswell
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 3539 .J22 A11 1997
"... presents the complete works of Samuel Johnson in the Yale Johnson series, as well as several rare editions from the British Library. It also includes
the six-volume L. F. Powell edition of James Boswell's Life of Johnson, The Hypochondriac, additional letters, and essays."--Publisher's description.
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Scottish women poets of the Romantic period
Online full-text database of 18th and 19th century Scottish poetry by women authors, plus critical essays.
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Seventeenth-eighteenth century Burney Collection newspapers
Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)--the
largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. Includes more than 1,200 titles.
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Shakespeare collection
Brings together full-text scholarly periodicals (including Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare bulletin, Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, Medieval
and Renaissance drama in England, Early modern literary studies), reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare complete works.
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Social theory
Full-text searchable books and articles by major and minor social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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South and Southeast Asian literature
Comprises literature written originally in English during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras by writers who either were born in or identify themselves
culturally with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji.
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Twentieth century African-American poetry
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century; complete text of each poem with any integral
textual images or illustrations. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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Twentieth century English poetry
Contains poetry of nearly 300 poets, including poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles, since 1900. When available, a poet's collected
edition has been keyed. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.
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Twentieth century literary criticism (see Literature resource center)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
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Twentieth century North American drama
Contains more than 1,500 full-text plays by more than 200 playwrights. Includes selected playbills, production photographs, information on related productions,
theaters, and production companies.
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Twentieth-century American poetry
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Twentieth-century drama
When complete, will contain 2,500 plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present.
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Vernon manuscript (see Facsimile edition of the Vernon manuscript)
Provides access to over 350 Middle English texts, among them "Piers Plowman", "The Ancrene Riwle", "The South English Legendary", "The Prick of Conscience",
and " The Miracles of the Virgin". Contains a full facsimile with images of each page of the manuscript, visible at high magnification, and a complete 'live' transcription of the text with hyperlinks allowing for powerful global searches across the entire text.
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Victorian women writers project
Provides SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period, including anthologies, broadsides, and volumes
of poetry and verse drama. Access info: Click on "Proceed to Victorian Women Writers Collection" and choose your preferred mode of access.
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Virginia Woolf
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 6045 .O72 1997
"The complete works of Virginia Woolf including variant and hard-to-find editions. Over 12,000 manuscript images from the Henry W and Albert A. Berg Collection
at the New York Public Library and the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex"--Portfolio.
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W.B. Yeats collection (1885-1995)
Contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction. Where available, the scholarly editions in the Scribner/Macmillan
Collected Edition of the Works of W.B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, general editors) have been used.
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Walt Whitman archive
An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work easily accessible.
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Washington Irving
Call Number: HESB RES PS2052 .S458 2003
Fourteen books by Washington Irving, including the The Sketchbook of Goeffrey Crayon (with stories like Rip van Winkle) and the Adventures of Captain Bonneville,
plus one book about him.
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Wife of Bath's prologue
Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 1868 .W654 R63 1996
Provides a transcription of all 58 15th-century witnesses to The wife of Bath's prologue, with word-by-word collation of the witnesses, digital images
of all pages transcribed, transcriptions of glosses, descriptions of the witnesses, and spelling databases.
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Wollstonecraft: The works of Mary Wollstonecraft
The Past Masters The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (an 18th century advocate for women's rights) is based on the 1989 7-vol. British edition.
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Women writers online
Contains full-text editions of more than 100 texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830. Also includes introductory essays written
by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. Has links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi.
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World literature online (see Alexander Street literature)
"... a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. ... features 14 collections and offers over
250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels, along with more than 5,000 full-text plays and film scripts."--Home page.
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Wright American fiction, 1851-1875
"... a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1932 texts
included (1731 unedited, 201 fully edited and encoded) by 945 authors"--Title screen.
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