Collections of texts by individual authors are listed below the first alphabetical listing of large, multi-author databases.
Canadian Poetry. Primarily poetry before 1900, but includes some texts from the early twentieth century. Part of LiON (Literautre Online).*
Caribbean Literature. Will have more than 100,000 pages of poems, drama, novels, stories, and related material at completion, from English, French, and Spanish language writers. Part of LiON (Literature Online). *
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. Irish literary, historical, and cultural texts; currently more than 15 million words from over 1200 texts.
Latino Literature. Contains more than 100,000 pages pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.
North American Women's Drama. Contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. More than 30% of the plays in the collection have never been published before.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial Times to 1950.
Periodical Archives Online. An archive of hundreds of journals and magaszines published in the arts, humanities and social sciences from the last two centuries. Includes many nineteenth century American periodicals, both literary and general interest as well as some technical, professional, and early scholarly journals. Links to the articles in this database are provided by UCeLinks from databases such as MLAIB.
Twentieth-Century African American Poetry. A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century. Part of LiON (Literature Online).*
Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender and the Family.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets. Part of LiON (Literature Online).*
Twentieth-Century English Poetry. A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day. Part of LiON (Literature Online).*
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels. Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960’s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform. The current release contains 289 comic series, 1,602 comic books totalling 100,975 pages.
Women's Travel Diaries. The diaries in this digital collection were written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe, including India, the West Indies, countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as around the United States. There are over 100 diaries of varying length,primarily from the 19th anc early 20th centuries.
*For further information, see the LibGuide devoted to the Literature Online database.
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