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British and Commonwealth Literary Studies

Electronic Primary Resources: Twentieth Century

• 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.
• British Periodicals
  Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. It is particularly strong in nineteenth-century resources. On completion, this resource will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages.
• Canadian Poetry
  Contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth.
• 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.
• Defining Gender
  Examines constructions of femininity and masculinity through “five centuries of advice literature.” Contains over 60,000 documents from the medieval period through the nineteenth century divided into five thematic sections: Conduct & Politeness; Domesticity & the Family; Consumption & Leisure; Education & Sensibility; The Body (available Summer 2007). Additionally, each section features concise, scholarly essays that link to referenced source material.
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
  Original editions of over 8000 pulp novels, boys' papers, and related paper materials dating from the 1850s into the 1910s.
• English Prose Drama
  The database comprises 1653 plays written in English and either acted on or intended for the stage, which are either wholly or predominantly in prose by 356 named and 42 anonymous authors. In addition to plays, English Prose Drama also covers masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas. It includes both original works, as well as adaptations and translations.
• The Faber Poetry Library
  A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of Thom Gunn, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.
• 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.
• James Joyce
  A searchable database for Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.
• LitFinder
  Contains over 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays, essays, and speeches
• Past Masters Series
  A collection of full-text humanities resources. Titles most relevant to British literary studies can be found under the categories English Letters and Women Writers. Titles in one or both of these categories include the letters of Bentham, Locke, Swift, Pope, Burney, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Dickens, Hobbes, Tennyson, Hardy, Synge, Yeats, Baillie, Piozzi, Walpole, Defoe, and Burns. Every word in each title is indexed, and search results retrieve every paragraph containing the search term. You can search more than one title in a category using the power search feature, but you cannot search more than one category at a time.
• Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
  A searchable full-text facsimile image database of the TLS from its first publication in 1902 until 1990. Users can access any page of the now more than 5,000 weekly issues by searching for a book's title, author, its subject matter, or the contributor of the review. Significantly, we can now discover who wrote the reviews, which until 1974 were typically published anonymously.
• Twentieth-Century Drama
  When complete, Twentieth-Century Drama will contain 2,500 plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present.
• Twentieth-Century English Poetry
  This collection contains the poetry of over 285 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah, Isaac Rosenberg, D.H. Lawrence and Carol Ann Duffy and many others from the lists of Carcanet, Enitharmon, Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books and other poetry publishers. It also incorporates the works from The Faber Poetry Library.

Last modified: October 3, 2007