Literature

For quick access to high quality information for your assignments, try the links on these pages.

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On trial until 11th July 2024: Early English Books Online (EEBO) via ProQuest - once you have a paragraph about EEBO on screen, look at the bottom line where it says Cross searchable on ProQuest and click ProQuest to get through to the books 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A project from the University of California, Davis, which makes available e-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women from 1789 to 1832


ECCO is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.
ECCO is a searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles amounting to over 32 million fully-searchable pages.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research. The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

The full text of thousands of books published in Britain from 1475 to 1900. This collection comprises Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), plus nineteenth century books from the British Library collection.

This version will cease to exist on 31st July 2024. We already have separate access to ECCO via Gale and will have EEBO via ProQuest (this is currently being trialled).


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Access 441 mainly Greek and Latin texts in English translation.


42,000 out-of-copyright books online.


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This archive preserves thousands of electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education. Texts available range from Treasure Island and Moby Dick to Tristram Shandy and Shakespeare plays.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

An international public resource that provides unified access to major works of visual and literary works that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility.

 

Your Subject Team

 Anne Worden

Faculty Librarian

email Anne.Worden@port.ac.uk

phone (023) 9284 3243

 Sharon Bittner

Assistant Faculty Librarian

email sharon.bittner@port.ac.uk

phone (023) 9284 3234