Index of scholarly materials for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film. Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. Coverage: early 20th century to present.
Discover information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. This full-text database includes major respected reference works, books, literary journals, study guides, and more.
Gale Literature brings together Gale's literary databases in one search interface. Currently allows for federated searching and access to Gale Literature Criticism, Gale Literature Resource Center, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors and Something About the Author.
Find primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, including full-text content and images from newspapers in urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
The collection encompasses the entire 19th century with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, and Western migration and Antebellum-era life.
Explore the African American newspaper archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society, and the Library of Congress.
Beginning with Freedom's Journal (NY), the first African American newspaper published in the United States, the titles in this resource include: The Colored Citizen (OH), Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser, Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN), and hundreds of others from every region of the U.S.
Scanned pages of more than 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers from 1740 through 1940. Articles can be searched by author, source, and words in the complete text. Updated quarterly.
550 fully searchable digitized works by Black authors from the Americas, Europe, and Africa, compiled from the Library Company of Philadelphia collection. Includes personal narratives, autobiographies, histories, expedition reports, military reports, novels, essays, poems, and musical compositions. Coverage: 1556-1922.
Full-text digitized collection of 22 regional 19th century British newspapers representing Nottingham, Bradford, Leicester, Sheffield, York, and North Wales. In addition, two major London newspapers, the Standard and the Morning Post, are included.
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages published between 1836 and 1922; some newspapers from Ohio are available. The site also includes directory information for publications.
Biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.
Learn about the lives and careers of authors from all genres, nationalities, and eras. Includes biographical and critical studies written by scholars, as well as suggestions for further reading.
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Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (C.E. 600-1150) of the English language and provides a searchable web corpus comprised of each text surviving in Old English.
Discover 440 works of 80 novelists and short-story writers, 1774-1850. Included are the full texts of the first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850.
Access more than 200 significant 18th- and 19th-century American newspapers.
Based primarily on the newspaper collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Series II also includes titles from the holdings of the Library of Congress, the Wisconsin Historical Society and other organizations.
Search the 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 to 1700.
View significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the 18th century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous 18th-century editions of the works of Shakespeare.
Search the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the largest corpora of its kind available, with over 1 billions words from a variety of texts including popular magazines, newspapers, spoken language, academic journals, and fiction. Coverage: 1990-2019.
Search and discover the full text of over 175,000 poems by over 1,400 poets from the British Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries, between the years 600 and 1900.
Find article citations from over 600 publications covering film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Full text is available for select journals.
Gale Primary Sources brings together Gale's primary source databases in one search interface. Currently allows for federated searching and access to 12 primary source collections.
Find primary source material from throughout U.S. history, including eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records.
View free films, videos, and documentaries with this by-request streaming video service for educational institutions. The Kanopy platform may not be supported on some devices, such as Chromebooks and mobile devices.
You must download the Kanopy App in order to stream videos on a mobile device.
This resource provides online access to the full-text to all 10 of the Thomson Gale Literature Criticism Reference Sets, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, etc. Provides access to criticism (excerpts or full-text) published from an author's own time to the present as well as biographical and bibliographical information.
Directory of 4400 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. Provides addresses, advertising rates, circulation stats, submission information, acceptance rates, and timelines for publication.
A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally. Currently, this resource includes the following collections: British Politics and Society; European Literature 1790-1840 : the Corvey Collection; Asia and the West : Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; and British Theatre, Music, and Literature : High and Popular Culture.
Search for both current and historical definitions of a word. Provides quotations and the ability to search for the occurrence of a word in any definition.
Contains entries from over 100 major discipline-related dictionaries and other publications from Oxford University Press. Coverage includes the sciences, foreign languages, art and architecture, politics, business, literature, and more.
Find full publication details needed to locate plays in their published manifestations. Searchable by title, author, subject, style, genre, cast type, and more.
Salem Press' Critical Insights and Critical Surveys series provides analytical essays on key literary authors and literary works written in the English language.
Search illustrated biographical profiles of over 20,000 authors and illustrators of children's and young adult literature. Digitized version of the more than 290 volume print edition.
View a library more than 20,000 licensed streaming feature films through Kent State University's Swank Digital Campus portal. Instructors must request activation of a film before use. To search available films go to: www.swank.com/digitalcampus.
Access the full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering many academic areas of study.
Areas of study include social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Search an index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from pre-history to present. Coverage dates back to 1910.
Bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. Contains citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States and Canada with expanded content from Great Britain and Australia.
Search millions of citations to dissertations and theses from around the world. Includes downloadable full text for most dissertations added since 1997 and some retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Coverage: 1861 to present.
Search the full text of over 11,000 academic journals covering arts, humanities, math, medicine, science, engineering, computer science, and social sciences.
Search the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, and more. Coverage: 1972-present.
Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues.
Electronic archive of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication.
The collections include: Arts & Sciences I-VIII, Business Collection I-III, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature.
Search the LGBT Life database as well as the full text for more than 140 of the most important and historically significant LGBTQ+ journals, magazines and regional newspapers, plus full text for 150 monographs/books. Includes an LGBTQ+ Thesaurus containing over 10,000 terms.
Discover journal articles in Women's Studies and the latest scholarship in feminist research. Scope includes sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Coverage: 1972-present.
Worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. Contains records to over 100 million items in most (if not all) subject areas.
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