Guides and databases: English: Databases

Key databases containing works of English literature

Find complete works of literature online using these databases:

Drama Online
Drama Online introduces new writers alongside iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. This database includes the Arden editions of Shakespeare. Access is to the Bloomsbury & Faber Collection and Nick Hern Books.
Gale Literature: LitFinder
Provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more
Literature Online (LION)
Now upgraded to ProQuest One Literature. Integrating over 350,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th to the 21st century with a huge library of criticism and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
UCL has access to selected titles, including many works of literature on reading lists. For a full list please search under 'uclebkoseo' within Explore or, from within Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, select browse and tick the 'Only view full text results provided....' option.
Oxford World's Classics
Providing access to approx. 400 novels and other writings from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, expert translations such as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Émile Zola’s Germinal, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, to essential texts such as Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative. Accessibility statement for Oxford World's Classics.

Key databases containing works of criticism

Find the full text of critical works online using these databases:

Cambridge Companions Online
A collection of ebooks from Cambridge University Press. Accessibility statement for Cambridge Core.
Gale Research Complete
Gale Research Complete provides access to millions of pages of primary sources, e-reference and periodical content
JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Core resource. Accessibility statement for JSTOR.
Linguistics Database (ProQuest)
Full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). Covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Literature Online (LION)
Now upgraded to ProQuest One Literature. Integrating over 350,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th to the 21st century with a huge library of criticism and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries
Oxford Scholarship Online
Full text of over 20,000 books from Oxford University Press. Accessibility statement for Oxford Academic.

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