Research Guides: ENG 211 American Literature Pre-1900: Overview

ENG 211 American Literature before 1900

Literature This link opens in a new window
Gale Literary Sources brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows users to search across these resources to discover and analyze literary content.
Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Humanities Source is a valuable full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.
Literary Reference Center This link opens in a new window
This rich full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center This link opens in a new window
This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, biographies and authoritative essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements and techniques.

Biography This link opens in a new window
Find biographical information on more than 650,000 people from throughout history.
e-Books (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Formerly Gale Virtual Reference Center. Find articles in encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. A great place to search for background information on any topic.
LitFinder This link opens in a new window
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.