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A full text collection of American magazines and journals.

This collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, and 1900.

Canceled due to budget cuts. Contact Ask a Librarian for assistance.

Essay and General Literature Index is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.

Full text of 1000+ core research journals from the year of their inception, many dating back to the early 1900's, JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.

Extensive directory of academic literary resources on the web. By Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.

Excerpts and full text of articles and essays providing critical discussion of authors and their works.

• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
• Contemporary Literary Criticism
• Drama Criticism
• Literature Criticism 1400-1800
• Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
• Poetry Criticism
• Shakespearean Criticism
• Short Story Criticism
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

Information on literary figures from all time periods of writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Includes the Dictionary Of Literary Biography.

Categories of sites include general guides, bibliographies, individual authors, library catalogs, dictionaries, discussions, periodicals, style guides, electronic texts, and individual authors. By Louisiana State University.

Contains Poem finder, an international collection of poetry featuring poems, poem citations, and excerpts; Story finder, an online collection of short stories from the classic to the most contemporary, featuring thousands of full-text short stories, plus explanations of stories; and Essay finder, a collection of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century. Also includes plays and speeches. Each resource contains biographies and pictures and offers multiple search options.

Critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.

See Project Muse.

The largest dictionary of word descriptions and history of usage.

Also available in print in Main Library Reference -- PE1625.M7 1989.

Database of play citations as well as literature and poems.

Indexes 800,000 well-known, anthologized poems, plays and literature.

Full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more

Full text of Pre-Victorian early modern women's writing.