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Literature Online is a virtual library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose written between the eighth century and the present day. It is a full-text database: in other words, the actual text of the printed work is included in each case.

Literature Online is fully searchable. At its simplest you can search the entire database for occurrences of a particular word. More complex searches can look for particular phrases, combinations of words or variant spellings. Other criteria can also be brought to bear, such as the author's nationality or gender, literary period and movement, and publication date. Many of these criteria can be combined to build up a precise and targeted search of the texts in Literature Online.

Literature Online offers two subscription options to institutions:

Literature Online Poetry Collection: Full text of 343,000 poems including English poetry from the eighth century to the present and American, African American and Canadian poetry from 1603 to the present.
Literature Online Complete Collection: Primary texts include English poetry from the eighth century to the present, American, African American and Canadian poetry from 1603 to the present, The Faber Poetry Library, English and American drama from 1280 to 1915 and English and American prose fiction from 1500 to 1914.

Premium content modules can also be purchased with Literature Online Complete Collection.

All subscribers have access to the Criticism and Reference section in Literature Online, which includes literary reference works, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, links to other Web resources, and biographical information and lists of works for over 4,100 of the most studied authors.

Subscription options in full:

Literature Online Poetry Collection

More than 343,000 works of English, American, African American and Canadian poetry from the eighth century to the present day
The full text of 228 literature journals
845 Poets on Screen filmed readings
Over 880,000 records of articles, monographs and dissertations in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature from 1920 onward
Eight leading literary reference works:

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford University Press, 1990)
The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 1994)
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (Columbia University Press, 1995)
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
Encyclopedia of the Novel (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 1993)
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (Columbia University Press, 2001)
The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (Columbia University Press, 1980)

The King James Bible
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Concise Oxford Dictionary
OUP's A Shakespeare Glossary
Links to over 5,100 Web sites
Literature Online biographies for 4,100 of the most widely studied authors.

Literature Online Complete Collection

More than 343,000 works of English, American, African American and Canadian poetry from the eighth century to the present day
More than 5,000 works of English and American drama from 1280 to 1915
More than 2,000 works of English and American prose from 1500 to 1914
The full text of 228 literature journals
845 Poets on Screen filmed readings
Over 880,000 records of articles, monographs and dissertations in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature from 1920 onward
Eight leading literary reference works:

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford University Press, 1990)
The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 1994)
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (Columbia University Press, 1995)
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
Encyclopedia of the Novel (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 1993)
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (Columbia University Press, 2001)
The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (Columbia University Press, 1980)

The King James Bible
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Concise Oxford Dictionary
OUP's A Shakespeare Glossary
Links to over 5,100 Web sites
Literature Online biographies for 4,100 of the most widely studied authors.

Premium modules

Twentieth-Century Drama

When complete, Twentieth-Century Drama will contain 2,500 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. The majority of the plays contained in Twentieth-Century Drama are copyright works that have never before been licensed for electronic reproduction. Subscribers can access Twentieth-Century Drama as an individual collection as well as through the Literature Online interface.

MLA International Bibliography

The MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB) is a leading annual index of books and articles on modern languages and literatures, linguistics, and folklore, which has been published in print form since 1926. The electronic edition covers the Bibliography's entire print run, and comprises more than 2 million records, with more than 66,000 new records added each year. Accessing the MLAIB via the Literature Online interface allows users to cross-search the MLAIB with ABELL and Literature Online's entire full-text library.

The MLA International Bibliography is also available as a stand-alone Chadwyck-Healey collection.

African Writers Series

This addition to the Literature Collections portfolio is a digital edition of the Heinemann print series which, for more than 40 years, played a central role in the history of postcolonial literature. The African Writers Series (AWS) was established in 1962, with the aim of publishing works by black African authors for a general readership in newly independent African nations. It went on to become the principal publishing outlet for new African writing, covering mainly fiction, but also non-fiction, poetry and drama; all the major African authors of the post-independence period were published in the AWS, alongside new editions of classic earlier texts, important political writings, and new works by generations of young authors from the 1960s to the early 21st century. Subscribers can access the African Writers Series as an individual collection as well as through the Literature Online interface.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition

This most recent addition to the Literature Collections portfolio brings together two existing Chadwyck-Healey databases, Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Twentieth-Century African American Poetry, with over 500 volumes of newly-licensed material representing the most important and influential poems by American writers of the Twentieth Century. The collection allows the reader a survey of the most influential and important movements, schools and distinctive voices of modern and contemporary American poetry

If you would like to arrange a trial of Twentieth-Century Dramaor the MLA International Bibliography, please see our free trial information.

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