English & American Literature:
Resources for Locating Books
African Writers Series Online - UW restricted
The electronic version of Heinemann's African Writers Series, which includes the key texts of
modern African literature. It has a unique importance in the history of
postcolonial writing and includes 181 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.
Early English Books Online - UW restricted
Reproduces over 125,000 works listed in: Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short title catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason tracts (1640-1661), all in full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - UW restricted
A comprehensive digital edition of the Eighteenth century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language
and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and
1800. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts; social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and
language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference.
English Short Title Catalogue ESTC - UW restricted
Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. Includes the former Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) and the two print short-title catalogues covering 1475-1640 (Pollard & Redgrave) and 1641-1700 (Wing).
Evans: Early American Imprints Online - UW restricted
Contains North American Imprints Program records for materials printed before 1801 in what is now the United States, including records for items recorded by Evans or Bristol but not filmed by Readex and records for materials unrecorded by Evans and Bristol and therefore not filmed.
OhioLINK
Because the UW Libraries Catalog and WorldCat has limited table of contents information available, use OhioLink to access chapters of recent books. Use the "Keywords" search option.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
A text database of 52 works by Afro-American women published prior to 1920. Documents are browsable by title, author, or genre (fiction, poetry, biography, or essays); browse lists can be further searched by keywords.
19th Century American Women Writers Web
A study and appreciation of 19th century American culture and women writers. A collection of poetry, novels, short stories, biographical material, etc.
International Bibliography of Translations
The Index Translationum database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books
translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since
1979 and totalling more than 1,500.000 entries in all disciplines. References registered before 1979, can be found in the printed editions of the
Index Translationum - Suzzallo Reference
Z6514.T7 I42 (1948-).
Modern English Collection
UVA's online collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations for 1500 to the present.
Patrologia Latina - UW restricted
A full-text electronic version of the Latin portion of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, published by nineteenth-century ecclesiastical publisher Jacques-Paul Migne. Its 221 volumes cover the works of the Latin Fathers, from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216.
