The Modern Language Association's index to language and linguistics, rhetoric, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, & dramatic arts.
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals & series, as well as book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international, and includes titles and full-text links from J-STOR and Project Muse, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis. This resource also contains hundreds of thousands of subject names and terms.
Subjects within the MLA International Bibliography consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
Search across our entire collection of GALE literary criticism databases.
Offers an integrated research experience by searching across Gale's premier literary databases, which have been licensed by Rowan University. These include is a Contemporary Literary Criticism Online, 19th Century Literary Criticism Online, 20th Century Literary Criticism Online, Shakespearean Criticism Online, Gale's Literary Resource Center and Gale's Lit Finder. Users will find the classic versions of the Gale resources by clicking the title Links in the E-Resource list. To search only ECCO and NCCO together (Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Nineteenth Century Collections Online, ie. to search only these two primary source databases simultaneously), use this new Gale platform link.
Online version of the reference series Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Works of poetry, drama and prose, with journal articles and criticism about them.
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Works of poetry, drama and prose, with journal articles and criticism about them.
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Includes access to content from Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and a variety of other online sources of literary criticism and biography.
Master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source.
Archive of full-text scholarly journal articles in a broad range of academic disciplines.
Coverage includes the full text from volume 1, number 1 through the current date in some cases or, more often, up to a period of embargo from six months to five years depending on the arrangements with the title's vendor.
Online version of Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. (Gale)
Directory of periodicals maintained by the Modern Language Association.
The MLA (Modern Language Association) Directory of Periodicals contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. This information has been gathered by the MLA staff with the cooperation of MLA bibliographers and the editors represented in these listings. Over 5,500 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.
The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Use this online source for the latest information as we are no longer updating our print copies.
Online version of Gale reference series Something about the Author.
Provides comprehensive online access to all volumes of Gale's™ Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people.
Search across our entire collection of GALE literary criticism databases.
Offers an integrated research experience by searching across Gale's premier literary databases, which have been licensed by Rowan University. These include is a Contemporary Literary Criticism Online, 19th Century Literary Criticism Online, 20th Century Literary Criticism Online, Shakespearean Criticism Online, Gale's Literary Resource Center and Gale's Lit Finder. Users will find the classic versions of the Gale resources by clicking the title Links in the E-Resource list. To search only ECCO and NCCO together (Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Nineteenth Century Collections Online, ie. to search only these two primary source databases simultaneously), use this new Gale platform link.
Online version of the reference series Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Works of poetry, drama and prose, with journal articles and criticism about them.
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Includes access to content from Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and a variety of other online sources of literary criticism and biography.
Archives of searchable historical primary source materials. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
Accessible Archives makes available vast quantities of archived historical information, not previously furnished available online. Primary source materials have been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy. Online full-text search capabilities and digital imaging permits the user to search and manipulate this information in ways never before possible.
Primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries. Collections include Eighteen Century Drama; Eighteenth Century Journals; Literary Manuscripts Berg; Literary Manuscripts Leeds; Literary Print Culture; Shakespeare in Performance, and Travel Writing; Spectacle and World History, among others. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
Primary source documents from the eighteenth century. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
The essential digital resource for researching the 18th Century, ECCO, contains over 184,000 English and Foreign Language titles printed in The United Kingdom in the 18th Century, including thousands of works from the Americas.
Primary source materials about the Nineteenth Century. Collections include British Theatre, Music, and Literature; Children's Literature and Childhood; European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection; and Photography: The World through the Lens, among others. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
Includes books, newspapers, periodicals, diaries and personal letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, maps and musical scores.
Three hundred multidisciplinary resources providing access to thousands of primary source documents, including archival collections, government documents, periodicals, newspapers, and video. View the extensive list of Collections under the Literature category. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
Primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries. See the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.
Fulll text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
Over 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth.
Offers exhaustive coverage of the prodigious dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality plays and mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas. In addition to works by major dramatists such as Ben Jonson, Aphra Behn, William Wycherley, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Synge.Includes the dramatic writings of many more neglected writers long inaccessible in print form.
Formerly the International Index to the Performing Arts, contains journal articles for the study of the performing arts.
Provides indexing, detailed abstracts, and full text for articles covering a wide range of subjects in the performing arts, including dance, film, drama, opera, stagecraft, comedy, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and television, from 1864 to the present. (ProQuest)
Many of the collections in this database include access to the full text of plays. See the Literature section, or see the Subcollections Guide for a list of collections.