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VALE - Virtual Academic Library Environment
Kevin Mulcahy
English and American Literature Librarian
mulcahy@rci.rutgers.edu
September 2008
Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Literatures in English:
Full-Text Literature Collections

Large collections of literary and historical texts, often representing particular periods.

These indexes/databases are available from the Libraries' Indexes and Database pages. You may find the correct index by looking in the Alphabetical lists or by looking in Arts and Humanities Indexes section under Language / Linguistics or Literature.

The Rutgers University computer network allows access, either in any of the libraries or by remote access from home or office, to an increasing number of electronic sources--including periodical indexes, catalogs, the full texts of literary works, discussion groups, electronic journals, etc. The following is a list of some of the more interesting and immediately relevant sources for students in literature. Connect through the Libraries Home Page ), and click on "Not logged in" to log in.

In many instances, the most important sources in a group are listed first (out of alphabetical order) and highlighted by two asterisks (**).

** Literature Online (LION)
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. A collection that in effect comprises a significant proportion of the corpus of English and American Literature. Also offers comprehensive cross-searching of EEBO - Early English Books Online, thus bringing together the two leading textual resources for scholars of Early Modern literature.

Black Drama
Contains the text of 207 plays by 64 playwrights, together with detailed information on productions, theaters, production companies. Featured playwrights include Amiri Baraka, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes.

Early English Books Online (EEBO).
A full-text, online image collection containing practically all books (nearly 120,000) printed in English from 1475 to 1700. Based on Pollard & Redgrave's Short Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions.

Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP).
This online structured SGML/XML text edition collection will contain 25,000 books printed in English up to the 18th century, in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts-fully searchable by words in the text. As of 8/08, more than 15,000 texts are available. In essence a subset of EEBO, with enhanced full-text search capabilities.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Digital versions of approximately 140,000 English language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, allowing full text searching of more than 26 million pages of material. In essence, every significant English language and foreign language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Includes books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera-with works by many well-known and lesser known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century. Searchable by author, title, place or year of publication, publisher, and by words in the text.

Early American Imprints, Series 1: Evans, 1639-1800.
Access to every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in the American colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1800. Among the vast range of publications included are: advertisements, almanacs, bibles, catalogs, charters and by laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, and treaties. Includes 37,000 works and 2,400,000 page images.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950
Provides full text access to the personal writings of American women from all classes and walks of life, from colonial times to 1950. When complete, the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries, plus 6,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnic groups, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Women Writers Online
Database of the Brown University Women Writers Project providing access to several hundred texts of women's writing in English from 1400-1850--with more texts to be added. So far included in the database (in addition to verse, fiction, and drama) are philosophy, religion, medical texts, letters, history, autobiography and biography, domestic manuals, education, natural history, and politics.

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