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Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories -- from hundreds of published volumes -- those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world.

Information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Includes critical essays, plot summaries, author biographies.

Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.

Full text from literary journals. Includes critical essays, plot summaries, author biographies, and more.

Full text critical analyses and plot summaries of literary works.

This international database provides an index of journal articles, books and dissertations in literature, language and linguistics, folklore, theory and criticism, etc.

Full-text journal titles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.