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1008080852.gifLiterary Reference Center (Ebsco)   Good for Basic Research   
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A comprehensive full-text database that provides users with information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes... more
1008080852.gifLiterature Resource Center (Gale)   Good for Basic Research   
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Provides information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism and more... more
1008080852.gifMLA International Bibliography   Article database with citations only   Includes Book Reviews   
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Bibliographic information (beginning in 1926) for critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, linguistics, humanities, and folklore... more
1008080852.gif20th Century American Poetry    
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Contains 52,000 poems from collected works and individual volumes of poetry covering the works of more than 300 twentieth-century American poets... more
1010158728.gifAbstracts of English Studies   Article database with abstracts   
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An index of literary journal articles from 1958-1991 by subject, arranged by literary time period and further subdivided by topic or author studied... more
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century   Full-Text   
Digital collection of roughly 52 works published by 19th century and early 20th century Black female writers... more
1008080852.gifAmerican Drama    
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Complete text of more than 700 plays by more than 300 playwrights; the database will eventually contain more than 2000 plays... more
1015341458.gifAmerican Fiction, 1774-1900     
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The Wright American Fiction (WAF) collection contains approximately 14,000 titles: novels, romances, tales, short stories, fictitious biographies, travels and sketches, allegories, and tract-like tales... more
1008080852.gifAmerican Periodical Series Online, 1741 - 1900   Full-Text   
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Searchable full-text database with digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900... more
1008080852.gifAmerican Poetry Database   Full-Text   
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American Poetry 1600-1900 is a collection of 1,200 books and anthologies of early American poetry... more
1015341458.gifAmerican Primers    
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American Primers consists of 842 titles of introductory reading materials printed from the 1711 to 1943 for children and other beginning readers... more
1008080852.gifAmerican Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present (2nd ed., 2000) , by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf, editor    
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"Provides coverage on the best-known American women writers spanning from colonial days to the present, including biography, criticism, and bibliography for each; also includes lesser-known writers whose work is found in journals, letters, stories, and even hymns... more
1013453210.gifAuthor Collections    
Listing of the 33 authors collected 33 by the Rare Books Collection of Ohio University Libraries' Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections... more
1008080852.gifBibliography of American Literature   Article database with citations only   
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A descriptive bibliography containing nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930... more
1008080852.gifConcise Oxford Companion to American Literature, by James D. Hart     
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Contains 2000 entries, including "brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era... more
1013453210.gifDave Smith Collection    
An archival manuscript collection with extensive files that document the writings and life of Dave Smith, a major contemporary American poet... more
Documenting the American South    
Collection of primary sources (images, texts, and audio files) related to southern history, literature and culture from the Colonial Period to the early 20th century... more
1008080852.gifEarly American Fiction    
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Includes the full text of 440 works of 80 novelists and short-story writers written between 1774 and 1850... more
1008080852.gifEarly American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)   Full-Text   
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Digital versions of early American books listed in the American Bibliography by Charles Evans... more
1008080852.gifEighteenth Century Collections Online    
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Searchable full text of the digital images of about 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, comprising "in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas... more
Gale Literary Index    
Index to the contents of a number of large sets of reference books which contain critical essays on world literature of all times and places... more
1013453210.gifJuvenile Literature Collection    
A collection of more than 2,000 volumes of British and American works for children and youth, mostly fiction, including many series as well as classics... more
1010158728.gifLiterature Criticism 1400-1800    
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Excerpts from criticial essays on the "greatest writers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras" which provides information on "historical periods, literary trends and topics, and the achievements of noteworthy individuals... more
1008080852.gifLiterature Criticism Online    
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Online full-text critical essays on literature of various places and times... more
1008080852.gifLiterature (Oxford Reference Online)   Full-Text   
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Full text access to some of the essential reference works in Literature, published by the Oxford University Press... more
1008080852.gifModern American Literature. (5th ed., 1999)    
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"Provides insight into the careers of nearly 500 20th-century American writers, including black and women writers... more
1008080852.gifOhioLINK Multiple Literature Collections   Full-Text   
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Full-text literature collections provided by OhioLINK... more
1008080852.gifOxford Companion to American Literature, by James D. Hart; revised by Phillip W. Leininger    
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Contains more than 5000 entries, including "over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their style, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history... more
1008080852.gifOxford Encyclopedia of American Literature    
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Includes "350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day... more
1008080852.gifOxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, by Jay Parini, editor    
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Contains "350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day... more

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