British and American Literature

Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Produces standardized, digitally-encoded editions of early print books that are indexed in Early English Books online.

Indexes publications of the Anglo-American World, 1790-1919, and provides links to the full text of many of the resources. 

Provides access to digitized documents and images regarding the American South from the first colonies in Virginia through the 20th century.

Provides access to a collection of primary source documents from the archive of The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers. Topics covered include the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. 

Provides full text of works of English, American, African-American, and Canadian poetry, English and American drama and prose, and full-text literature journals. In addition it offers some of the leading literary reference works and links to web texts. 

Provides access to the literature (poetry, prose, books, book chapters) from writers who originate geographically and culturally from South and Southeast Asian countries and migrated to western countries.

Indexes plays written in or translated into English from antiquity to the present including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

Digital library of over 25,000 scripts of more than 6,000 living playwrights.
Downloadable (PDF) scripts of contemporary drama, searchable by plays, people, and organizations. Includes filters by cast size and type, age level, genre, subject matter, production history, actor and narrative attributes, and playwright location.

Contains the full text of more than 1 500, American dramatic works from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century. Numerous other genres are represented in the collection. 

Provides full text of works of English, American, African-American, and Canadian poetry, English and American drama and prose, and full-text literature journals. In addition it offers some of the leading literary reference works and links to web texts. 

Provides a bibliographic index of short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. 

Provides a bibliographic index of short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals from1915 to 1984. 

Provides full text of thousands of American poems from 1900 to present. Searchable by poet, by first line or title, and by keyword(s)in poems.

Provides full text of thousands of British poems from 1900 to present day. Includes works in English by poets from outside the British Isles, as well as significant translations of non-English poetry. 

Contains over 250 000 poems in full text and 450 000 citations. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. 

Provides full text of works of English, American, African-American, and Canadian poetry, English and American drama and prose, and full-text literature journals. In addition it offers some of the leading literary reference works and links to web texts. 

Search the largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library and including pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers.

Provides access to full-text of British and Commonwealth magazines from the 19th century. 

Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, with high-resolution facsimile page images. 

Draws on the manuscript collections of over 25 university libraries and special collections. This resource unites “. . . scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.”

Provides a digital archive featuring literary manuscripts dating from roughly 1120 to 1900.