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Dartmouth Dante Project
The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A web portal directing learners to free and subscription databases of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). The portal includes a link to the Iter Bibliography, a premier bibliography, containing 1.1 million citations for secondary source material on the period.

Literature Resource Center (via Gale)
Biographies, bibliographies, and criticism. Much of the content is based on Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. Partial full-text from over 230 literary journals, 120,000+ author biographies. Includes the Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature.

Literary Index
A master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source.

MLA International Bibliography (Via ProQuest)
Citations to 1.7 million article from over 4400 journals pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Also covers relevant books, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Citations and subject headings, with some full-text.

JSTOR
Full-text archive of over 400 core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. Journals can be browsed individually or searched as a group.
The purchase of JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III was funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services by an Act of Congress, in accordance with the FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Bill.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
Definitions, history, and quotations for over half a million words, both past and present, from the OED. Includes new additions and updates.

ProQuest Research Library
This large, multidisciplinary database provides abstracts from 2,600 journals in the arts and humanities, as well as business, health, social and other sciences. Many of the titles provide full-text articles.

Seventeenth-Century News
An official organ of the Milton Society of America and Milton Section of the Modern Language Association; SCN publishes commissioned scholarly reviews covering scholarship in all fields of seventeenth-century studies -- history, art history, the history of science, English, continental and American literature, music, and philosophy.

English Literary Renaissance
A special 40th anniversary virtual issue of the journal English Literary Renaissance containing some of the most important articles from past issues of the publication.

Twayne's Author Series (via Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Over 600 books on individual U. S., English, and World authors giving an in-depth look into their life, works, and involvement in literary movements and genres.

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General and Interdisciplinary Content Databases
General content databases cover a range of subjects and may be helpful to your research in this area.

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