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American Literary Studies
Electronic Primary Resources: Nineteenth Century
- African American Poetry
The early history of African
American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American
(Lucy Terry Prince's
'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century,
including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
- African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
More than 2,500 poems written
by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
produced in a wide variety of types - allegories, broadsides, children’s
poems, elegiac poems, epics, hymns, odes, patriotic poems and sonnets.
The collection offers unique insights into the creative mind and reflects
the conditions of early America and the role of Black Americans during
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- American
Drama 1714–1915
Over 1,500 dramatic
works from the early eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth
century,
including works by major dramatists, such as David Belasco, Rachel
Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne,
William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.
- American Periodical Series Online
Over 1,100 periodicals that first
began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest
and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's
and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
- American Periodicals, Index to
Keyword article
level indexing to the above American Periodicals Series Online that
in most cases is
taken by the indexer from the body of the text of the article.
- American
Poetry, 1600-1914
The complete poetic works of more than
200 American writers, from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth
century,
totaling approximately 35,000 poems. It includes the works of all major
poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Phillis
Wheatley, Walt Whitman and John Greenleaf Whittier. It also covers
less familiar
names, such as Elizabeth Akers Allen, Richard Emmons, Lemuel Hopkins
and Elizabeth Townsend. A selection of key representative anthologies
of American poetry has also been included.
- American Poetry
Over 40,000
poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period
to the early twentieth century.
- Asian American Drama
When complete,
Asian American Drama will contain the full-text of more than 250
plays, along with related biographical,
production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with
the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and
is planned
to include contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth
Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.
- Bibliography of American Literature (BAL)
Contains
nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American
writers from the
period of the Revolution to 1930.
- Black Drama, 1850-Present
When complete,
Black Drama, 1850-Present will contain the full text of
1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by
more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa,
the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
- Chadwyck-Healey Individual Literature Collections
Lists
the individual literature collections available from Chadwyck-Healey.
Many of these collections are also listed separately on this page.
These collections are cross-searchable via Literature Online
(LION).
- Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
The definitive
source for locating poems in anthologies. The online version contains
a series of key Columbia poetry titles, such as The Classic Hundred
Poems, The Top 500 Poems, and The Columbia Granger's® Index
to Poetry in Anthologies.
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Original editions
of over 8000 pulp novels, boys' papers, and related paper materials
dating from 1850s into the 1910s.
- Early
American Fiction 1789–1850
Contains
facsimile page images and keyword-searchable full text for more than
four hundred works of
American prose fiction published before 1850, including key titles
such as James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans,
Edgar Allan Poe's
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and Nathaniel Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter.
- Early
American Fiction 1789–1875
Contains
the full text of more than 700 first editions of American novels
and short stories by such
authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher
Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.
- The
Gerritsen Collection
A cross-cultural resource for information on women's history. The database spans
more than four centuries and 15 languages and includes over two million pages
in full image. Users can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country,
as well as the impact of that country's feminist movement on other countries
and their movements.
- LitFinder
Contains over 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays, essays,
and speeches.
- Nineteenth
Century Short Title Catalog
Defines the printed record
of the English-speaking world from the beginning of the nineteenth
century to the end of the First World War. The project aims to
index all printed works published in Britain, its colonies and
the United
States of America, all printed works in English wherever published,
and all translations from English. In addition to providing an
exhaustive survey of the complete spectrum of monograph publications
in the
period, the catalogue indexes thousands of periodicals, directories
and other
ephemeral publications.
- 19th-Century Masterfile
Contains multiple indexes to nineteenth-century newspapers, periodicals,
books and government documents, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
(1802–1906).
- North
American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
When complete, the database will provide more than 100,000 pages
of personal narratives from 1840 to 1980, including letters, diaries,
pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories.
- North American Women's Drama
When complete,
North American Women's Drama will bring together more
than 1,500 plays, along with related
biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection
begins with the works of Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell
Rowson in colonial times and will span the 19th and 20th centuries
to the
present. It is planned to include contemporary playwrights,
such as Tina Howe, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Maria Irene Fornes,
Megan Terry,
and Paula Vogel.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Contains
the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled.
Spanning more
than 300 years, North American Women's Letters and Diaries brings the personal experiences of some 1,325 women to researchers,
students, and general readers.
- Oxford
African American Studies Center
Contains hundreds of primary source documents, images, maps, and charts, as well
as over
7,500 articles from a range of scholarly resources, including the Encyclopedia
of African American History, 1619-1895, the Encyclopedia of African
American History, 1896 to the Present, Black Women in America, Second
Edition, African American National Biography, and the Concise
Oxford Companion to African American Literature. The database offers a number
of useful search options, including full-text searching and subject category
and era filters.
- Radical Scatters
Contains full text
and facsimiles of Emily Dickinson's fragments and related texts,
1870-1886.
- Shaw-Shoemaker (Early American Imprints, Series II, 1801-1819)
Contains
the text of all books, pamphlets and broadsides published in North
America from 1801-1819. Continues Evans (Early
American Imprints, Series I, 1639-1800).
- Mark
Twain: Novels and Essays
A searchable database of the complete texts of the novels A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Huckleberry Finn, The
Innocents Abroad, Tom Sawyer, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead
Wilson, and a group of selected essays.
- Women
Writers Online
A full-text, searchable database of works
by women writers, including letters, speeches, plays, poetry and novels
from 1400 to 1850.
Last modified:
October 15, 2007
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