Literature & Theatre Databases
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(AVL) = Alabama Virtual Library
A library of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and criticism and reference resources.
Literature Resource Center (AVL)
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
MLA International Bibliography
Research tool for the humanities indexing international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Index of 19th century source material, including books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives.
Contemporary Authors (AVL)
Biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (AVL)
An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (AVL)
Nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
A catalogue of holdings in more than 2000 libraries world-wide, including the British Library.
Backfiles of scholarly publications including the full runs of each journal which allows viewing of the articles exactly as they appear in print.
A global literary reference work written by specialists from universities around the world, currently providing more than 4800 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics.
LitFinder (AVL)
Access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more.
Scribner Writers Series (AVL)
Essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres.
Twayne's Authors Series (AVL)
Full text of 200 frequently used books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
Web of Science (Arts & Humanites Citation Index - 1997-2009)
A multidisciplinary index to journal literature, fully indexing over 1,725 journals with selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
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