The NHTI Library now offers Literature Online, a fully-searchable database of English literature. It includes American and English poetry, prose and drama in more than 350,000 works along with 320 journals, American, English, African-American and Canadian poetry clips and links to 5,250 web sites.
Let’s say you need to write a paper on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Locate the NHTI Library database page and find Literature Online in the right-hand column. When the page opens it shows a search box. Type in Shelley, Mary and there will be over 1600 references and 10 web sites for this writer.
Criticism & Reference:
Criticism (Combined search) (1647 results)
Reference (12 results)
Web Sites (10 results)
Criticism & Reference:
Criticism (Combined search) (1647 results)
Reference (12 results)
Web Sites (10 results)
Now look up Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s best known work. LION includes 773 articles of criticism and one website about this book.
Literature Online offers video clips of contemporary poets along with the complete plays of Shakespeare in full, unabridged audio recordings. There’s literary criticism beginning in the 1920s and coverage of almost every period and genre of literature in English.
The annual literary index, Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), with over 950,000 records, comprises part of the database.
Pretty impressive!
