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Indexes journal articles, books, and other resources on folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature.
Indexing and abstracts for more than 370 publications as well as full text for more than 100 journals on all aspects of film and television theory, production, and reviews.
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 150,000 writers in all disciplines.

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A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.
Bibliographic descriptions and availability information for more than 5 million books currently in print, declared out of print, or soon to be published titles.
Collections range from digitized manuscripts (Beowulf and Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook) and illuminated manuscripts, to an extensive collection of maps from around the world.
Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works.
Materials from the annual Annotated Chaucer Bibliography.
Each Critical Companion in this collection provides author background, character, plot, theme analysis, and a complete bibliography of books, selected reviews, and criticism.
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Featuring comprehensive literary biographies, you'll find profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights.
Gives access to over 600 award-winning productions and a wealth of related study materials.
Drama productions, playtexts, audio plays, and scholarly books, introducing new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history.
Virtually every work printed before 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere.
Eighteenth century books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons, printed ephemera, and more.
Drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources, more than 1,250 poets are represented.
All recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700 are now represented in the file, as are eighty percent of the recorded serials titles for the period 1620-1800.
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Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Provides combined access to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism Online, and Something About the Author Online.
More than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Comprises 365,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records; a tool for medievalists to identify the contents of current work.
Bibliography of more than 1.45 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.
An eLearning platform that can help you prepare for success in school and the workplace. Includes practice GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, MAT, and Praxis tests.
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Contains full text for classic texts, plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, literary criticism essays, author biographies and interviews, literary journals, book reviews, and poems.
Modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
Primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary that helps students understand the historical, social, and cultural milieu associated with major literary works.
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A fully searchable, virtual library of Greek and Latin literature with English translations.
Use NoveList to find a good read. Contains reviews, annotations, readalike recommendations and more for fiction and non-fiction.
Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals, covering a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry.
Provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more, in the humanities and social sciences.
Full text literary works, along with sources such as author biographies, critical essays, reviews, and interviews.
Covers the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults.
Provides full text access to every page of every issue of the TLS from 1902 to 2012, including 300,000 book reviews, film reviews, and more.
50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including biographical information on each poet.
More than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to 2000.
Search the most comprehensive international record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions.
Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings.