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Ebsco Literary Reference Center Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources. MEDAILLE ONLY FULL TEXT
In the First Person Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories from hundreds of published volumes and those publicly available on the Web and held by repositories and archives around the world.
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. MEDAILLE ONLY FULL TEXT
MLA International Bibliography (Available through EBSCOhost) Index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, printing and publishing history, and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature. MEDAILLE ONLY FULL TEXT
MLA Directory of Periodicals (Available through EBSCOhost) Detailed information on over 7,100 journals, including subject coverage, contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. MEDAILLE ONLY
Twayne Authors Series: Twayne World, English, and US Authors Full text of 600 books from the Twayne Literary Masters series; includes discussions about the authors' works as well as biographical information. MEDAILLE ONLY FULL TEXT
African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers, from the Schomburg collection of the New York Public Library.
Alt-X This groundbreaking text and image site is operated by author and cultural critic Mark Amerika and features interviews with contemporary avant-garde fiction writers.
Bartleby Great Books Online Full text reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction collection.
Bartleby Verse: American and English Poetry 1250 -1920 Full text of 6 major collections of British and American poetry 1250-1920. The entire site, as well as individual collections, is searchable by poet, poem title and first line.
The Cambridge history of English and Amerian Literature Includes English literature history from the Middle Ages through the Victorian Age. Highlights colonial, revolutionary, and national American literature history.
Canadian Poetry Archive
Electronic Literature Directory An extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers, covering poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements.
Electronic Poetry Center Produced by the University at Buffalo, the EPC serves as a gateway to electronic poetry and poetics on the Web.
The Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction Seventy volumes "cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." From Bartleby.com
HumanitiesDepartment.com Medaille Humanities Department web site - information about degree programs, course webs, recommended web links by subject area, discussion forums and more.
Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Contains selected critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. Most sites are freely accessible.
Legends Explores the history, literature, and lore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur, and other legendary characters and works.
Literary Resources on the Net A very comprehensive collection of links to scholarly sources on literature. Search by time period, genre and authors' names.
MLA Style : Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web Examples of documentation authorized by the Modern Language Association (MLA)
Modern American Poetry : A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Includes : material by, on or about over 160 American poets, including analyses of poems, biographical information, bibliographies, historical background, interviews, essays about the poet, book reviews, archival resources, and study questions.
MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine Provides access to online full-text movie reviews to over 27,000 films.
National Library of Canada : Digital Library : Literature Online full-text resources on Canadian literature and authors.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery This searchable database includes digital images from the NYPL's collections, including rare prints and photographs, manuscripts, and other images.
New York Times Movie Reviews Browse or search 15,000 movie reviews. Includes all movies from 1960 - present, plus all Academy Award "Best Pictures." Requires free registration.
The Online Books Page Facilitates access to thousands of books that are freely readable over the Internet, and provides links to archives and directories of online texts.
Poetry Portal Overview and links to the Internet poetry world.
The Victorian Web Web resources on the literature, history and culture of the Victorian age.
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research A Humanities meta site providing links to scholarly Internet resources on all fields in the humanities. Click on Literature (English) for information on authors and literary criticism.
Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color An instructional Web site, focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color.
Writing: Tools and Strategies From Medaille College's Humanities Department iDiscourse.com web site. Includes citation guides, sample papers, guides to writing and other tools.