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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans
Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) is a full-text collection of thousands of books and pamphlets printed in America from 1639-1800.
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Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker
Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
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Essay & General Literature Index
Essay & General Literature Index is an index of essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Bibliographic information comes from more than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications. Subjects focus on the humanities and social sciences, with topics ranging from archeology, children's literature, and fiction to political science, religion, and women's studies.
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Gale's Literary Index
Online index to more than 130 literary criticism and literary biography reference sets. Hekman owns many of these reference sets (up to 2008) in print in the Reference Collection; read the full annotation to see a list of the sets owned by the library (with call numbers). Online full-text access is also available for a number of these titles (selected coverage from 1998-current) through the database Literature Resource Center.
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Humanities Abstracts
Humanities Abstracts contains abstracts (summaries) of feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. It indexes nearly 600 journals covering a variety of subjects in the humanities, including philosophy, film, folklore, religion, music, and the performing arts.
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Literature Resource Center (LRC)
LRC is primarily a literature criticism database, comprised of the complete Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, selected coverage from ten Gale literature criticism series, many single set literary monographs, and a large periodical file of literature titles containing biographies, criticism, essays and more. Articles and entries are all full-text. (Note that Hekman Library also owns some of these literature resources in print; see Gale's Literary Index for an index to the print materials.)
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MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books,
articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures,
folklore, and linguistics. MLA International Bibliography dates back
to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400
periodicals and 1,000 book publishers. Subscription to the MLA International Bibliography also includes access
to the MLA Directory of Periodicals database.
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Reference Materials
American Writers - PS129 A55
Each entry in this twenty-six-volume resource consists of a short biography of the featured author, a critical survey of his or her principal works, and a selected bibliography.
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Cambridge History of American Literature - PS92 .C34
An eight-volume history of American literature covering the dates 1590-1995.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography - PN451 .D5
This vast series includes over 300 volumes, with each volume focusing on a particular time period, author, or literary movement.
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Oxford Companion to American Literature - PS21 .H3 1995
This handbook contains concise entries on the major works, characters, authors, and literary movements of American literature.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature - PS21 .E537 2004
This extensive encyclopedia covers significant authors, works, literary movements, and institutions in American literature. Available both in print (four volumes) and online.
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Reference Guide to American Literature - PS129 R44 2000
Each entry includes a brief biography, a complete list of the author's published books, a selected bibliography, and a critical essay written by an expert in the field.
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Web Sources
American Literature Pages
Provides a timeline and information about major authors and literary movements and also includes a list of links to other American Literature web sites.
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PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Reference and Research Guide
This research guide is more of an online encyclopedia, with introductory notes on the major movements in American literature, and extensive bibliographies.
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