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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles published prior to 1700.
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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
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - PE279 .B52
Entries include definitions, parts of speech, etymology, and illustrative quotations.
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British Writers - PR85 B688
The coverage of this sixteen-volume resource ranges from the fourteenth century to the present.
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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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Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature - PN669 .E53 2000
Entries on significant themes, issues, works, and authors.
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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 - PN86 L53 1984
This resource provides excerpts from the criticism of the works of fifteenth- through eighteenth-century novelists, poets, playwrights, and philosophers, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.
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Middle English Dictionary - PE679 .M54
A 14-volume dictionary of Middle English from 1100 to 1475. Entries include meanings, grammatical forms, etymology, quotations, etc.
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Oxford Companion to English Literature - PR19 .D73
This companion offers brief entries on significant works, characters, and authors of English literature.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature - PR19 .O95
A comprehensive encyclopedia "covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin)."
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Reference Guide to English Literature - PR106.R44
In addition to providing entries on important authors and works, this set includes introductory essays on major periods of English literature.
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Shakespeare Criticism - PR2965 S44
Excerpts from the criticism of Shakespeare's plays and poetry, from the first published appraisals to current evaluations.
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Web Sources
Intute: Arts and Humanities
A major UK web portal for the finest Arts and Humanities web resources for education and research. More than 18,000 sites have been selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists and made available through an intuitive search interface.
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