The Gothic Archive is a growing digital collection of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century British Gothic chapbooks held in a variety of private and research libraries in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The chapbooks have been digitized or transcribed and linked to summaries and supplemental materials. Questions related to the Gothic Archive should be directed to Diane Long Hoeveler, Professor of English at Marquette University, at diane.hoeveler@marquette.edu.
Database and Internet Resources
Be sure to check INDY for periodicals that may be fulltext in another database in our collection. INDY will also indicate the print subscription in our library, if we have it.
When the record states that an embargo is in place for a certain length of time, the publisher has refused to allow the digitization of the articles for the current months, year or years.
If we have the print subscription, then you may photocopy or scan articles to PDF and send to your email.
If we don't have the print, then you may request articles via InterLibrary Loan from another school library by filling out the ILL form on our home page or choose the ILL tab in this LibGuide for easy access.
Every life has a story. Biography.com captures the most gripping, surprising and fascinating stories about famous people. The last fateful day. The decision that changed everything. The moment of cheating death. The biggest break. The defining opportunity. The most shattering failure. The unexpected connection. With over 7,000 biographies and daily features that highlight newsworthy, compelling and surprising points-of-view, we are the digital source for true stories about people that matter. About page
Gives biographical information on more than one million people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. Combines 250,000 biographies from Gale Group sources.
Comprehensive source for literary research features content from Facts On File’s extensive print literature collection, hundreds of Harold Bloom’s essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, and thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom’s Literary Criticism imprint. This accessible database also contains an archive of more than 46,000 characters; extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, and authors; almost 170 video segments; and more.
Bloom’s Literary Criticism eBook Collection features more than 571 titles from the following sets and series. Bloom’s Classic Critical Views, Bloom”s Guides. Bloom’s Literary Themes, Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretation, Bloom’s Modern Critical Views, Bloom’s Shakespeare Through the Ages and Bloom’s How to Write About Literature.
In addition to the standard browsing and search capabilities to be expected in a reader's advisory database, Books & Authors goes several steps further with interactive and dynamic features that allow users to store reading and search lists, create their own reviews and ratings, and generate easy-to-understand diagrams of search term relationships.
"This is an unparalleled collection of correspondence written and received by the Victorian poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Featuring materials from the collection of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University and the holdings of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the letters in this collection are browsable and searchable by date, author, and first line of text. The project is funded in part by the Bob and Anna Wright Endowed Fund." Home page
"The sole purpose of this Web site is to educate and increase awareness of Dickens' life and works to a new generation of readers. Permission to use content and images from this Web site is freely given for all non-commercial purposes. A link crediting this site is all that is required." About page
"We are now pleased to host 201 stories by Chekhov, the entire collections translated by Constance Garnett, as scanned and annotated by James Rusk." Author page
"See http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ac/jr/index.htm or http://www.freespeech.org/chekhov/ -- Chekhov readers owe James Rusk an eternal debt for this tremendous work!"
"Welcome to Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey--combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings--through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy." Home page
Doollee is an online database of playwrights and theatre plays. As an ongoing project we aim to list every play written or produced in English since 1956, the year John Osborne's seminal play Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court in London.
"Duotrope is an award-winning, free resource for fiction writers and poets. We offer:
a fully searchable database of over 4,125 active publishers
statistics on publishers' response times, acceptance-rejection ratios, etc.
the ability to track all your submissions in your own submissions tracker" Home page
In English there are many key concepts and terms that are crucial for students to know and understand. Often it can be hard to determine what the most important english concepts and terms are, and even once you’ve identified them you still need to understand what they mean. To help you learn and understand key english terms and concepts, we’ve identified some of the most important ones and provided detailed definitions for them, written and compiled by Chegg experts.
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Essay and General Literature Index, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 320 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually with more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications.
"This site contains his complete works. Summaries of his work. Free essays on his work. A history of the man himself. Links to other Shakespeare resources. We also have provided a message board for those who want to talk to others about Shakespeare." Home page
"Welcome to the Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of researchers, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers." About page
Bloom’s Literary Criticism eBook Collection features more than 545 titles from the following sets and series. Bloom’s Classic Critical Views, Bloom”s Guides. Bloom’s Literary Themes, Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretation, Bloom’s Modern Critical Views, Bloom’s Shakespeare Through the Ages and Bloom’s How to Write About Literature.
"The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience.
To do so, we create and publish works for the student, scholar, actor, and general reader in a form native to the medium of the Internet: scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays, multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance." About page mission statement
"The Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) was founded in 1996 at the University of Victoria by the Coordinating Editor, Michael Best. Its academic development has been overseen by a distinguished Editorial Board, headed by our General Textual Editor, Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, Reno). In 1999, the ISE became a non-profit corporation. The database of Shakespeare in Performance has been headed since 2006 by Paul Prescott (University of Warwick)." Brief History on About page.
"The Life and Works of Herman Melville is a publication dedicated to disseminating information about Herman Melville on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Another valuable Internet resource is Ishmail, an electronic mailing list devoted to the discussion of Melville, his works, and other related subjects." Home page
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research.
Literary Reference Center is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books and literary journals, as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios); 450 literary journals; more than 693,000 book reviews; more than 78,400 classic and contemporary poems; more than 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories; more than 6,600 author interviews; more than 8,200 classic texts; and much more.
In addition, Literary Reference Center includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™ and much more.
This site uses historical maps to organize and interpret documentary materials related to Thoreau's travels throughout Massachusetts. Clicking on the red map pins will open pages containing notes, images, quotes, and links to additional resources on Thoreau's contributions to American political, social, economic, and environmental thought. To view Thoreau's adventures in cartography, please click on Thoreau's Maps at the top of this page.
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920's and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records.
OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
The full text of more than 20,000 significant works in English is freely-available online at this site. Find everything from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to Arthur W. Pink's Gleanings from Paul. The site also contains full and partial archives of certain serials, such as the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College and the San Francisco Chronicle.
About 90 serials (magazines, journals, newspapers) from the mid-1700s to the present are accessible through this site. You may search by journal title.
"Open Folklore–now being created by the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries–is a new scholarly resource that will make a greater number and variety of useful resources, both published and unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner." Home page
"Digitized in 2011 as part of the Book Digitization Initiative offered by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), the Purple Parrot was a humor magazine published by students at Northwestern from 1921 to 1950. The Purple Parrot contains short stories, poetry, essays, jokes, and a variety of advertisements. Many pieces found in the Parrot are particular to Northwestern, Evanston, or the greater Chicago area, and so are rooted in a deeper sense of regionalism. The Parrot parodied all aspects of life at Northwestern: Greek life, notable faculty members, college romance, and even the Daily Northwestern, NU’s student newspaper (which was lampooned in the Purple Parrot as “The Dilly”)." Home page
Salem Literature is a robust online database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets. Purchasing printed reference delivers online access at no additional cost. Salem currently offers this service with our new Critical Insights series, the recently revised Critical Survey of Long Fiction, and Magill's Literary Annual. Masterplots 4th edition is also included
Masterplots provides fundamental reference data, plot synopses where applicable, and critical evaluations of a comprehensive selection of English-language and world literature that has been translated into English.
The Masterplots series is divided into two groups. The original, core series is the 12-volume Masterplots, whose second revised edition was published in 1996. It covers more than 1,800 works of literature, from the classics to the great works of modern world fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Masterplots, Fourth Edition is an expanded and updated version of 1996's Masterplots, Third Edition which was itself a culmination of the Masterplots sets published at intervals since 1949. Masterplots, Fourth Edition, in twelve volumes, retains the original purpose of the Masterplots concept.
This site provides digital editions of Shakespeare's Quarto, Caxton's Chaucer, the Gutenberg Bible, and Renaissance Festival Books (books about European festivals and ceremonies from 1475-1700). Provided by the British Library.
"Started in 1994 as a suite of static Web pages, VoS has now been rebuilt as a database that Old VoS: Dec. 1994 to Oct. 2001serves content dynamically on the Web. Users gain greater flexibility in viewing and searching, while editors are able to work more efficiently and flexibly." Home page
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