EnglishLit @ CUL

Ben Jonson Goes Digital

It’s hard not to be impressed with The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, offering to the Cornell community a fully searchable version of the 7-volume print edition (all the original introductions, collations, and commentary) as well as a rich array of related primary and secondary materials: old-spelling texts, several hundred high-quality […]

British Periodicals Database Is Now Available

British Periodicals, offering searchable full text and facsimile page images for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries, is now accessible to the Cornell community. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.  The complete title list and issue coverage is available on […]

Test Drive Oxford Scholarly Editions Online

The Library has initiated trial access to Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO), a searchable, digital library of authoritative Oxford University Press editions of major works in the humanities by writers active between 1485 and 1700: Shakespeare, Donne, Bacon, Sidney, Milton, Herbert and more. Please try it out via the link above and send your comments […]

Explore Victorian Popular Culture

We’re excited to announce Cornell access to Adam Matthew’s Victorian Popular Culture, a unique archival resource for four fascinating areas of 19th British century life: (1) Spiritualism, Sensation & Magic; (2) Circuses, Sideshows & Freaks; (3) Music Hall, Theatre & Popular Entertainment; (4) Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments & the Advent of Cinema.  In addition to […]

Latino Literature Online

The Library now has access to Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction. This online resource contains approximately 48 plays and 13,000 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino/a writers working in the United States. When complete this database will include 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 450 […]

Caribbean Literature Now Online

To support the growing scholarly interest in writing from the Caribbean region, the Library has acquired online access to Caribbean Literature, a searchable, full-text database of fiction, poetry, manuscripts, archival content, interviews, photographs, and other material extending from the 19th century to the present day, embracing the writing of early figures such as Ardouin Coriolan […]

Romanticism: Life, Literature, & Landscape

The Library has recently acquired access to Romanticism: Life, Literature & Landscape, a rich primary source on the Romantic period in Great Britain. “Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth […]

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