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The following databases provide background information on authors and/or their works as well as overview information related to the study of literature, film, and drama. For example, you can find definitions of literary terms, theories, and movements or basic entry into the literary criticism of a specific work. These are not in-depth literary scholarship or investigations of literary works. You'll find those on the "articles" tab to the left.
Beginning Literary Analysis
For critical overviews of plays, novels, poetry, and short stories see the databases below. The following resources provide basic introductions to literary analysis for many works.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - Literature Research This link opens in a new window Gale eBook editions of Concise Major 21st Century Writers, Drama for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Short Stories for Students.
- Short Stories for Students - GVRL This link opens in a new window Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance.
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- Poetry for Students - GVRL This link opens in a new window Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction. 1998 to present.
- Drama for Students - GVRL This link opens in a new window Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
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- What’s included? Digital Library containing filmed live theatre performances, film adaptations, audio plays, playtext content, and scholarly publications.
- What else should I know? URI has access to BBC Drama Films and Documentaries, the National Theatre Collection, the Oberon Books Collection, the Royal Shakespeare Company Live Collection, and Shakespeare's Globe on Screen.
- What’s included? An integrated research experience, Gale Literature brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.
- What’s included? Gale Primary Sources, an academic research environment, integrates primary source collections onto a single research platform that helps researchers search across a wide array of materials and points in time, and uncover new ways to analyze and contextualize information.
- What’s included? Original manuscripts from the nineteenth century holdings of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. Manuscripts include literary drafts, correspondence, financial documents and personal items by or relating to the Berg authors. Authors represented in this collection include Matthew Arnold, The Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
- What dates are covered? 1800's.
- What’s included? Sourced from the Lilly Library at Indiana University, this collection contains material sold and exchanged on Victorian London’s bustling thoroughfares that offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Includes fast literature; street ephemera (posters, advertising, playbills, ballads and broadsides); penny fiction; cartoons; a complete collection of Tallis’ Street Views; chapbooks; street cries; swell’s guides to London prostitution; gambling and drinking dens; tourist guides and topography; and manuscripts of George Gissing.
- What’s included? Digitized archival collection from the Wordsworth Trust comprised of William Wordsworth’s original verse manuscripts, working notebooks and some printed, annotated, editions. Other types of material include scrapbooks, autograph books, letters, diaries, travel journals, financial records and receipts, and verse manuscripts by other Romantic writers including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas de Quincey. Supplementing the manuscript collection, this resource also includes full-color digital images of over two thousand fine art pieces.
- What dates are covered? Late 18th Century - Mid 19th Century.
- What’s included? Victorian Popular Culture contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe, sourced from multiple libraries. The collection is composed of four thematic sections: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment; and Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema.
- What dates are covered? From 1779 to 1930.
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