The collection covers the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community. The establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. Included are registers of entries of copies which were used to establish early copyright, as well as court records, membership records, financial records, trade records, general administrative records and charities and property records. By Adam Matthew Digital.
Each volume focuses on an individual writer, with essays that consider the various contexts within which the author lived and worked - the literary, political, intellectual, social and cultural contexts.
Literature Resource Center contains biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes full text articles from many of Gale's literature series. Useful for HSC English.
A virtual library of all Greek and Latin literature covering over 550 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts. Topics include: epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians. James Loeb founded the Loeb Classical Library in 1911.
An integrated primary source collection of topic-based modules covering the vast array of nineteenth-century content in this period of industrialisation, technology, revolution, nationalism, colonialism, education and culture. Search the complete collection or choose from the following modules:
Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (19th Century Collections)
British Politics and Society
Children’s Literature and Childhood
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest 1800-1914
This 19th century John Murray Publishing archive includes correspondence, financial papers, book drafts, and advertisements. It covers biographies of key figures, commissioned essays, and an exhibition of the life cycle of the book. Key authors include: Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Eastlake and Isabella Bird, William Gladstone, Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli, Austen Henry Layard and Charles Lyell. By Adam Matthew Digital.
Includes the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and supplements, and new and revised entries. All volumes are fully searchable and provide historical information as well as the meanings of words.
Contains hundreds of specialist encyclopaedias, dictionaries, language resources, and other reference works published by Oxford University Press as ebooks. Covers all subject areas.
It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.
Periodicals Archive Online is a leading humanities and social sciences indexing service that provides access to bibliographic records of articles from more than 4,000 journals published from 1770 to 2005. It gives the full text of articles from over 700 journals indexed.
Find literary criticism, reviews, and interviews with poets and short fiction writers, both historical and contemporary. Includes analyses of individual works, poetry showcases on contemporary American poets, and selected stories and poems in full text.
The Rare Book Hub is a resource for information on rare, antiquarian, and collectible books and related ephemeral material – manuscripts, letters, maps, posters, broadsides, photographs, and prints (works on paper). It has over 11 million records of rare book transactions and 122 searchable upcoming auctions.
The prompt books tell the stories of key performances as they were put in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere. Included are a mixture of handwritten manuscripts, printed typesets, personal notes, and sketches. The eresource includes curated case studies around 17 performances (King Lear, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Covers Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth. By Adam Matthew Digital.
A yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production, published since 1948. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or a play, or a group of plays, and features the best international Shakespeare scholarship in English.
tool to help users find short stories from among more than 150,000 published in the U.S., England, and Canada dating from the 1830s to the 1980s. The index provides access by author, title, and publication, as well as topics, themes, locales, genre, and people (individuals, ethnicities, or professions).
Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference. Document supply available. Useful for HSC English.
This publication for teachers began with a focus on advocacy of educational reforms. It covered many educational themes including the history of public policy, developmental psychology, social history, women's studies, public health, literature and the arts.
A comprehensive analysis of speeches and speech making. Includes full text transcripts and multimedia of famous speeches, speakers and film dialogues.
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Signbank is an interactive dictionary of Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Auslan is the language of the deaf community of Australia.
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