African-American Poetry, 1750-1900
1790-1900
The full-text African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American
poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
American Drama
1600-present
When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American
dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic
writing. At present, American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists such as
Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.
American Poetry 1600-1900
1600-1900
American Poetry contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering
the Colonial period to the early twentieth century, and drawn from over 1,200
printed sources.
ARTFL - Textual Database of French literature
1200-present
Includes nearly 2,000 French texts ranging from classic works of French literature
to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing covering the13th-20th
Centuries. Database includes literature, philosophy, arts, sciences. The eighteenth,
nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller
selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance
texts. ARTFL is a cooperative project of the Institute National de la Langue
Française (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
and the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of
Chicago.
Asian American Drama
Asian American Drama contains more than 250 plays by over 40 playwrights, together
with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production
companies, and more. Many of the plays have never been published before. The
collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth
century and includes such contemporary playwrights as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth
Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. The database also includes selected playbills, production
photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Autour du Romantisme
1792-1886
Contains the works of Arlincourt, Borel, Chateaubriand, Dumas, Feydeau, Hugo,
Karr, Lamartine, Maistre, Nerval, Sade, Souza, Staël, and Vigny, as well as
many other French authors of the 19th century.
BASILE
1120-1989
BASILE consists of approximately 1,000 French narrative works, including novels,
tales and short stories.
Bertolt Brechts Werke
The first authorized electronic edition is based on Bertolt Brecht, Ausgewählte
Werke in sechs Bänden, Jubiläumsausgabe um 100. Geburtstag. Published in cooperation
with Suhrkamp Verlag.
Black Drama
Black Drama contains the full text approximately 1,200 full text plays plays
written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 playwrights from
North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora
countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. The collection
includes previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed
Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Canadian Poetry
1667-1937
Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of
New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection currently contains the full
text of more than 12,000 poems by 142 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella
Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman, and will soon offer a comprehensive
survey of Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
Critique Litteraire de Laharpe a Proust
1800-1899
Contains 115 works of twenty-nine French writers from Alexis and Baudelaire
to Saint-Beuve, Schlegel and Zola. In addition, works by literary critical specialists
to explore the rapid development of literary theory between 1788 and 1925.
Early American Fiction
1789-1850
Early American Fiction provides both images and text for a well-defined and
comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 440 titles
by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper,
Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick,
and Nathaniel Hawthorne. A list of the authors with brief biographical details
is included.
Early English Prose Fiction, 1500-1700
1500-1700
Early English Prose Fiction contains 211 works in English prose by writers from
the British Isles from the period 1500-1700.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1591-1911
1591-1911
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare contains eleven major editions from
the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-eight separate
contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and
related works. In addition it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels
and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including
the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774). In the great
majority of cases texts have been captured entire, with all introductions, prefaces,
appendices, indices, notes editorial and authorial, essays, tables, figures,
illustrations etc. reproduced in full. Half title pages, publisher's advertisements
and decorations have not been captured. Hypertext links have been created to
connect editorial matter to the texts whenever possible. Where omissions have
been made they are noted in the relevant bibliographic entry.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1700-1780
1700-1780
Eighteenth-Century Fiction contains 96 works in English prose by writers from
the British Isles from the period 1700 to 1780.
English Drama 1280-1915
1280-1915
English Drama, a combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English
Prose Drama full-text databases, contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from
the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
English Poetry 2nd Edition
8th to early 20th century
English Poetry, Second Edition builds on the earlier English Poetry (600-1900)
with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems from
several new categories. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets,
English Poetry, Second Edition now provides good representation both of the
literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic
legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention
during the last thirty years. Details of the works included in English Poetry,
Second Edition are given in the bibliography.
English Poetry 600-1900
600-1900
English Poetry contains over 160,000 poems essentially comprising the complete
English poetic canon from 600-1900. Drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources,
more than 1,250 poets are represented.
Faber Poetry Library
20th century
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.
The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house,
and includes the poetry of James Joyce, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes,
Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140
volumes by 50 poets.
Goethes Werke im WWW
Electronic version of Goethes Werke, Weimar: H. Böhlau, 1887-1919; Goethes Gespräche.
Leipzig: Biedermann, 1889-1896; Goethes Werke, Nachträge zur Weimarer Ausgabe,
München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990.
Kafkas Werke im WWW
The Kritische Kafka-Ausgabe des S. Fischer Verlages bei Chadwyck-Healey is the
complete critical edition published by S. Fischer Verlag digitized and encoded
in SGML. The works include Das Schloß, Der Verschollene, Der Proceß, Drucke
zu Lebzeiten, Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente I, Nachgelassene Schriften
und Fragmente II, and Tagebücher.
Literature Online
600-present
Literature Online (LION) is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000
works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 150 full-text literature
journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
North American Theatre Online
North American Theatre Online contains tens of thousands of records for people,
places, theatres, productions, production companies, and more. It also includes
more than 40,000 pages of full-text reference works and content from hundreds
of top theatre Web resources. The database will continue to grow quarterly,
aiming to cover everything related to the North American stage from the 1600s
to the present.
Romanciers Realistes et Naturalistes
1820-1910
Complete prose works of Balzac, Daudet, Flaubert, Les Goncourt, Huysmans, Maupassant,
Stendhal, Vallès and Zola plus a selection of authors such as Les Familiers
de Médan and Le Manifeste Des Cinq.
Schillers Werke im WWW
Schillers Werke im World Wide Web comprises the complete works of Friedrich
von Schiller (1759 - 1805), including his poetry and plays, the translations,
minor prose works, historical and philosophical writings, letters to and from
Schiller and the Conversations. The electronic edition of the Nationalausgabe
of Schiller's works, established in 1940 as the definitive edition of his works,
letters and conversations.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
1789-1832
This is an electronic collection of over 60 volumes of lyric poetry by about
fifty Scottish women, written between 1789 and 1832. The database also contains
critical reviews, essays and associated bibliographical and biographical material.
There are also selected pertinent web sites.
Teatro Espanol - Siglo de Oro
1500-1600
The Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro full text database contains more than 800
plays written by 16 dramatists during the sixteenth and seventeenth century
in Spain. These important dramatic works are either edited by the playwrights
themselves or by an editor "endorsed" by the playwright. The entire text of
each play is included and searchable. The coding has been especially adapted
for dramatic works, allowing you to limit your searches to specific elements
of the plays. The database can be searched using Boolean and proximity searching
and/or using a combination of the following search fields: keyword, play, title,
speaker, playwright or genre. Available in both English and Spanish.
Theatre du Grand Siecle
1600-1699
Théâtre du Grand Siécle includes the full text of seventy-seven plays by Corneille,
Molière and Racine. This constitutes the complete works of Corneille, Molière
and Racine.
Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
20th century
A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early
twentieth century to the present. Features 10,000 poems by around 70 of the
most important African-American poets of the last century.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
20th century
This collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets,
including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams,
Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy
Song.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry
20th century
A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present
day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John
Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy,
and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.
Voltaire Electronic
1694-1778
Based upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete works of Voltaire
(edited by T. Besterman et al.), this database includes all of Voltaire's literary
works, searchable by keyword, title, literary form, and date of edition. Texts
which have not yet been published in the Complete works are drawn either from
the original sources or from the nineteenth-century Moland edition of Voltaire's
works.
W.B. Yeats Collection
1885-1995
The W.B. Yeats Collection contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres,
including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, collected in 22 volumes. The
entire text of each work has been included. Any accompanying text written by
the author and forming an integral part of the work has been keyed. Indexes
of titles and first lines have been excluded. Any images appearing in the text
have been included.
Women Writers Online
1400-1850
Full-text collection of works by women writers covering a period from 1400 to
1850. All of these texts can be browsed, searched, and analyzed using tools
which provide access to the full SGML encoding. This resource includes Renaissance
Women Online.