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Online-Service mit Zugang zu über 350.000 Werken der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur. Die Sammlung umfasst Lyrik, Drama und Prosa vom 8. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Darüber hinaus enthält sie Artikel aus Zeitschriften und einschlägigen Nachschlagwerken, Essays, biographische Informationen, bibliographische Nachweise sowie Links zu relevanten Websites. Updates: laufend.
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
"Literature Online" is the premier online resource for English and American literature. It provides both scholars and students with texts, criticism and search tools which open up new possibilities for academic research, teaching and undergraduate learning.
Accelerate research
For all forms of research, "Literature Online's" vast cross-searchable library of literary works opens up new avenues, allowing users to discover textual parallels, literary and topical allusions and patterns of influence that cross centuries and genres. Rare and inaccessible works can be tracked down without leaving your desk. Searching across the entire corpus will reveal references to, for example, classical myth, historical events, political occasions or historical figures. Powerful and flexible searching allows you to trace linguistic change and analyse the development of the English language. The facilitate research at the heart of the service is the MHRA's, The "Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature" (ABELL). ABELL provides the premier bibliography of literary criticism and scholarship from 1920 to the present day. The latest research and scholarship is available from ABELL via links to an ongoing collection of more than 70 current literature journals. Searches are performed in seconds thereby saving valuable research and study time and allowing you to find in a matter of minutes what might otherwise have taken years to uncover.
Redefine learning
"Literature Online" has been specially developed to assist undergraduates with their coursework. Thousands of journal articles and critical essays provide interpretation and help to put the study of authors into historical and critical context. Up-to-date biographies offer concise introductions to lives, works and prevailing critical approaches. World-leading dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference works assist students in finding definitions of literary terms, critical terminology and obscure language. Whether it's the difference between a metaphor and a metonym or the meaning of morphology, an authoritative source is there with the answer.
"Literature Online" transforms course design and teaching. Instructors no longer need to rely on the availability of texts in the library when deciding what to teach. They can build courses from the vast range of materials contained in the service and undergraduates can access core texts and criticism at any time.
Extend the library
"Literature Online" is a collection development opportunity for libraries worldwide, bringing access to comprehensive collections and rare books which would be impossible to obtain in print. Libraries can fill gaps and significantly extend their holdings. MARC records make texts easily accessible to everyone from an online library catalogue. "Literature Online" lets you redefine the possibilities of research and learning in the 21st century.
1. English and American Literature Collections
Poetry
Virtually the entire canon of poetry in English, represented in a continually-expanding collection of more than 280,000 poems, including English poetry from the 8th century to the present, American poetry from 1603 to the present and African-American poetry from 1750 to the present. Twentieth-century figures range from the established to the contemporary, with poets such as Eliot, Pound, Hughes, Plath, Heaney, Sexton and Baraka.
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
American Poetry
Over 40,000 poetical works by more than 200 American writers from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
English Poetry 2nd Edition
Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the second edition of the ground-breaking "English Poetry" Full-Text Database offers extensive coverage of poetry from Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and reflects the poetic legacies of writers only recently brought to scholarly attention.
Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
10,000 poems by more than 75 critically-acclaimed African-American poets.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
More than 52,000 poems from over 750 twentieth-century American poets.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry
Over 44,900 poems by over 285 major authors, from 1900 to the present day, including Yeats, Kipling, Eliot, Hughes and incorporating the poets in "The Faber Poetry Library".
Canadian Poetry
Created in partnership with the University of New Brunswick. When complete it will include nearly 20,000 poems from the 17th century through the early 20th century.
The Faber Poetry Library
The Faber list spans the seventy year history of this major publishing house and includes the poetry of James Joyce, Seigfried Sassoon, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Library contains over 8,000 poems by 50 poets.
Prose
More than 800 prose works by writers from the British Isles and America from the period 1500 to 1903, including novelists such as Austen, Hardy, Dickens, Hawthorne and Melville.
Early American Fiction, 1789-1875
When complete, will offer more than 750 complete works of fiction by more than 130 authors.
Early English Prose Fiction, 1500-1700
The largest corpus of prose fiction works of its kind available, including over 200 complete works of Elizabethan and Restoration fiction, Jest books, popular fiction, collections of short pieces and novellas.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780 by writers from the British Isles, tracing the rise of the novel as a literary genre.
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
250 complete novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.
Drama
Over 4,000 works of English and American drama by authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century, incorporating dramatists such as Marlowe, Jonson, Congreve, Sheridan and Wilde. Soon to be expanded into the 20th Century.
American Drama
When complete, this collection will contain the complete texts of over 2,000 plays from the beginning of American theatre to the present day.
English Verse Drama
More than 2,200 works by over 500 named authors and 300 anonymous works.
English Prose Drama
Over 1,600 plays by more than 350 authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.
2. Collections of criticism and reference
As well as providing scholars around the world with the finest collection of searchable, digitised primary texts, "Literature Online" incorporates an extensive collection of criticism and reference works. These materials transform the service into a complete undergraduate study centre available on every desktop with Internet access. The resources can be searched individually or as a group.
Full-Text Literature Journals
Contemporary criticism is furnished through a dynamically-updated collection of over 70 scholarly journals. All are available cover-to-cover. Coverage starts from at least 1998 or earlier, with archives available for selected publications. The journal collection covers the entire spectrum of subject matter and methodology. Content is updated every month and the full-text of journal articles can be e-mailed directly from the service.
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920 +
The MHRA's acclaimed bibliography of English studies contains full bibliographic details of journal articles, monographs, book reviews and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 to date. Now covering over 780,000 records, ABELL acts as both a comprehensive bibliography of criticism and an access tool to the full text journals contained in Literature Online. ABELL is updated every month.
Other Critical Essays
Supplementing the coverage provided by the journals are 38 volumes of critical essays, "New Essays on the American Novel", published by Cambridge University Press.
Literature Reference Works
In addition to critical works, "Literature Online" offers you a reference shelf consisting of the complete, cross-searchable texts of major reference works such as:
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford University Press, 1990)
- The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 1993)
- Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 1994)
- The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (Columbia University Press, 2000)
- The 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)
These materials can be searched individually or as a group.
"Literature Online" is a dynamic service which grows with wach monthly updat as new material is licensed and digitised. We are dedicated to the continued expansion and enhancement of the criticism and reference resources, with se addition of new reference titles and full-text literature journals.
Biographies and bibliographies
Complete biographies and bibliographies for thousands of the most-studied authors in English and American literature. "Literature Online's" biographies are continually updated and new biographies are commissioned from academic specialists. They include a concise discussion of the author's major works and critical reputation - ideal for giving undergraduates an insight into current approaches to major authors.
Dictionaries
Literature Online contains "Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged" - America's premier lexicographical work and The "Concise Oxford Dictionary", which is firmly established as the foremost authority on current English, and for decades has been the most popular dictionary of its kind.
Best of the Web
A quality-controlled compilation of thousands of relevant and useful online resources in English and American literature available from websites throughout the world.
Links to Early English Book Online
Subscribers to "Literature Online" who also subscribe to the "Early English Books Online" (EBBO) service are able to follow links into EEBO for over 4,500 works by literary figures, including works of history, religion, philosophy and politics. These provide invaluable context for the study of a writer's literary output.
Special Collections available individually
The Bible in English
20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament.
Bibliography of American Literature
Nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Literary Theory
A unique database of texts, which traces theory and criticism from Plato to the present day.
The W. B. Yeats Collection
The first digital collection of Yeats' complete works.
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