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Full-text Collections
Historical full-text collections provide access to a wealth of literature published in English.
- African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth CenturyThe Schomburg Center offers full-text access to a digital collection of 52 works written by African American women during the 19th century.
- Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
- Early American Fiction 1789-1875 More than 700 first editions of American novels and short stories.
- Early English Books Online From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online Over 100,000 English-language books, tracts, and printed ephemera published between 1701-1800.
- English Short-Title Catalogue A union catalogue of monograph and serial letterpress items printed before 1801 in English
- Google Books Find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms.
- Middle English Compendium A hyperbibliography and corpus of prose and verse.
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These databases are key resources for locating journal articles and books on literary criticism, interpretation, and theory.
- Literature Resource Center
Full-text biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works - Literature Criticism Online and Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online In combination, these databases provide more than 200,000 essays with both critical perspectives and in-depth contextual information needed to understand the social, political and historical implications of a work and the career biographies of writers from all eras and genres dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.
- MLA International Bibliography Literary and language scholarship
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature Index of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.
- Literature Online (LION)
A virtual library containing over 350,000 literary texts together with full-text journals, author biographies and other critical and reference resources. - OmniFile Full Text Mega Multi-disciplinary database
- Project Muse A comprehensive full text selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals to support a core liberal arts curriculum.
- JSTOR Scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, and sciences.
- Google Scholar Scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources
- Web of Knowledge / Web of Science
Interdisciplinary database with citation tracking. - Search Everything
This powerful search reaches nearly everything owned by the Mansfield Library--books, ebooks, articles, newspapers, digital collections...and more. Refine your search to find exactly what you need. - World Shakespeare Bibliography Online Comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2011.
- WorldCat Catalog of materials in libraries worldwide.
Related Resources
These databases provide additional sources of information for literary research. Use them to locate supportive historical and related information. Review a list of all Mansfield Library databases here.
- Academic Search Complete Multidisciplinary, full-text database
- American Periodical Series 200 years of American history as recorded in magazines, journals, and newspapers.
- Chicago Tribune Historical (1849-1987) Full-text and full-image articles. Includes complete paper, cover-to-cover, with page and article images in downloadable PDF.
- Critical Survey of Poetry In-depth analysis of poets and their works.
- Dissertation, ProQuest Digital
- Essay and General Literature Index to essays in anthologies and collections in many subject areas. Access limited to 1 concurrent user.
- Google Scholar Scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.
- Humanities Full Text Art, history, literature, music, and religion
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective Humanities and social sciences journals
- MagillOnLiterature Plus Plot summaries of the most studied works in literature.
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers 19th century newspapers from urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective A record of U.S. cultural history from 1890-1982 from periodical literature
- New York Times Historical (1851-2006)
- Washington Post Historical (1877-1993)
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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Fiction Connection
- MLA Directory of Periodicals Publication details of journals and series indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
- Oxford English Dictionary Guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium Dictionary, language reference, quotation, and subject reference works from all areas.
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Provides information about journals, magazines, newspapers
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