Contemporary Authors
Brief biographical information and lists of publications by and about over 90,000 authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, media, etc., active in the US and internationally.
 

Literature Online
Gateway to primary texts, secondary sources, and biographical information in English and American literature. Includes full texts of over 330,000 literary works, of key literary reference works, and of several dozen journals, and indexing for the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature from 1920 to the present.


MLA International Bibliography
A worldwide index of references to journal articles, dissertations, books, and parts of books pertaining to modern literatures, folklore, film, drama, languages, and linguistics. It excludes book, drama, and film reviews. Includes indexing from 1963 to the present, and incorporates the MLA Directory of Periodicals. 


MUSE (full-text journal articles)
Electronic full-text, full-image Journals available through the WWW to Penn State scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from 1995 to the present. 

Early American Fiction 1789-1875
Includes both images and text of early editions of more than 750 novels and short stories by more than 130 authors.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Works of 30 of the most influential writer of the British Isles in the 18th century.


Nineteenth-Century Fiction
250 complete works of prose fiction by 102 authors from the period 1782 to 1903. Includes works of well-known authors such as the Brontes, Dickens, Scott, Trollope, Mary Shelley, and George Eliot.


American Poetry Database
Contains the works of over 200 American poets from 1600 to 1900, with an emphasis on the actual text of the poems and the poet's own notes.
 

Twentieth Century American Poetry
Contains searchable texts of the works of many prominent writers from the early days of the century through the 1990s.