Literature & Language Databases
General databases also include literary topics and book reviews
Books in Print
Offers bibliographic information on over 5 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles--includes over 700,000 reviews, and tables of contents, cover images, author biographies and annotations for some titles.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Full text.
Critical essays on contemporary authors including biographical information, critical importance, and principal works plus additional sources.
Humanities E-Book Project (Donnelley Family Library Fund)
American Council of Learned Societies. Full text e-books. Provides the full text of over 1,000 high quality books in the humanities, including both in-print and out-of-print titles back to 1885. Powerpoint demo
Literary Reference Center (Grace M. Henry Book Fund)
Full text. Graphical version is also available.
Provides information on thousands of literary works across disciplines and timeframes--combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals plus original content from EBSCO Publishing--contains plot summaries, synopses, criticism, biographies, journal articles, book reviews, poetry, short stories, author interviews, classic texts, and more--includes the following reference sources:
- Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
- Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
- Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
- Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
- The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
- Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes)
- The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
- The Literary Encyclopedia
- The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story
- All of MagillOnLiterature PlusT
- and more
Literature Resource Center
"Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements ... content cover[s] all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world. "
Oxford English Dictionary (Grace M. Henry Book Fund)
The "accepted authority on the evolution of the English language"--includ`es meaning, usage, and pronunciation. Help website is also available.
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