Research Guides: English Literature: Regions

American literature

North American Women's Drama
- Full text of plays & production info
Black Short Fiction and Folklore
- Contains oral traditions as well as modern short stories

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from 1473 to 1700, as well as works in English printed elsewhere.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Works published in English and other European languages in United Kingdom in the 18th century, including books, essays, pamphlets, and broadsides.
British Literary Manuscripts Online
Provides access to digitized copies of Medieval English literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works.
Humanities Index
- Covers many major British literature journals

Women Writers Project
- Texts by pre-Victorian women writers
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
- Reviews, letters, poems & articles from archived editions of the Times Literary Supplement
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
- Major database for criticism of British as well as other English language literature
Literature Online
This platform brings together literary criticism, primary sources, author profiles, and reference works into a single searchable database.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biographies of British as well as pre-independence Irish authors & playwrights

Canadian Poetry Online, University of Toronto Libraries
- Provides biographical information, literary criticism & a selection of poems for individual Canadian authors

CPI.Q: Canadian Periodicals
- Full text of many Canadian academic journals & magazines
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
- Indexes Canadian literature journals

Canadian Literary Centre
- Biographies, essays, and literary criticism on Canadian authors
Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
- Extensive reference source on Canadian literature & authors
Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada

Caribbean Women Writers
- Full text of short stories
Caribbean Literature
- Full text of poems, short stories & novels by Caribbean authors
Caribbean Abstracts
- Caribbean humanities & social science journal database

Black Short Fiction and Folklore
- Contains oral traditions as well as modern short stories
Black Studies Center
- Interdisciplinary database that includes archived newspapers & primary sources

Literature Online
- Contains full text collections of Irish poetry, drama & prose
- Click on 'Complete contents' under 'Browse' on the left to view text collections

Ireland Collection, JSTOR
- Includes full texts of journals, manuscripts & books on Irish topics
Irish Literature Guide, John M Kelly Library, University of Toronto
- Print resources focus heavily on items available at the Kelly Library but guide also lists import online resources
The James Joyce Scholars' Collection, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Contains manuscripts of Joyce's work & rare, out-of-print secondary sources

Literature Online
- Contains full text collections of South African, South Asian, Australian, New Zealand, Caribbean & West Indian poetry
- Click on 'Complete contents' under 'Browse' on the left to view text collections
Black Short Fiction and Folklore
- Contains oral traditions as well as modern short stories

Literature Online
This platform brings together literary criticism, primary sources, author profiles, and reference works into a single searchable database.