Research Guides: English: Useful Databases

Databases

Complete List of English Databases can be found here

American Periodicals Series Online This link opens in a new window
American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore This link opens in a new window
British Periodicals I and II This link opens in a new window
C19: Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new window
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
The CLCD Enterprise PreK-12 dB is the premier academic resource for courses needing to locate Children’s and Young Adult books and other media. The content includes millions of fiction/non-fiction titles, thousands of awards and quality reviews including author/title links, lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers multiple options including 50 search filters to find materials for determining interest & reading levels; selecting trade books based on standards; creating thematic, annotated biographies; interpreting reviews; developing classroom collections and more.
Early American Fiction Complete This link opens in a new window
Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life This link opens in a new window
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective (H. W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Literary Manuscripts: Berg This link opens in a new window
Literary Manuscripts: Leeds This link opens in a new window
Literary Print Culture: The Stationer’s Company Archives This link opens in a new window
Literature Criticism Online Archive This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is your trusted source for the highest quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
Romantic Era Redefined This link opens in a new window
Scribner Writers Series This link opens in a new window
Theatre in Video Volume I This link opens in a new window
Theatre in Video: Volume II brings together classic and contemporary plays and documentaries. With a greater focus on contemporary and international productions, Theater in Video: Volume II offers views to the works of widely studied playwrights and theatre artists from around the globe, including many new performances from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre collection (Opus Arte), Theatre Arts Films, the BBC, and TMW Media Group.
Please note: On the Databases web page, there is a link to Theatre in Video (which is volume I). This needs to be retained. A single link to both collections is not available at this time.
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive 1902-2014 This link opens in a new window
Twayne's Authors This link opens in a new window
Twayne's is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived. It provides insightful and original commentary on the history and influence of literary movements.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels This link opens in a new window
Victorian Popular Culture This link opens in a new window

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