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1. Acta sanctorum database on CD-ROM [electronic resource]. [2002]

  • Release 4. - [Cambridge, UK ; Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey], c2002.
Description
Book — 4 CD-ROMS ; 4 3/4 in. + bibliography + quick reference guide + user guide
Database topics
Ancient Greek and Roman Culture; Medieval Studies; Religious Studies
Summary
Database contains the complete Acta sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes ... comprises the works published over a period of three hundred years by the Société des Bollandistes ... materials on the lives of the saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the sixteenth century.
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2. C19, the nineteenth century index [electronic resource]. [2005 - ]

  • [Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest information and Learning Co. c2005-
Database topics
British and Commonwealth History; American History; British and Commonwealth Literary Studies; American Literary Studies
Summary
  • Resources accessible using only C19 interface: Archives USA.
  • House of Commons Parliamentary papers (UK)
  • Nineteenth century short title catalogue (NSTC) --
  • Nineteenth century microfiche project
  • Palmer's index to the Times
  • Periodicals index online --
  • Poole's index to periodical literature
  • Resources accessed directly or via the C19 interface: American periodicals series online
  • British periodicals (Collection 1)
  • Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals.
C19 indexes publications of the Anglo-American World, 1790-1919. Collections expand with each release of the database. You may search the entire index and thus all the resources contained within it, or limit your search to one of the individual resources included in the database.
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3. The Faber poetry library [electronic resource]. [1999]

  • Cambridge, UK ; Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey, c1999.
Description
Book — 1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in. + user manual (1 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.) + bibliography (11 p. ; 22 cm.) + quick reference guide (1 folded sheet).
Database topics
British and Commonwealth Literary Studies; American Literary Studies
Summary
"This database contains the major poets from the Faber poetry list in fully cross-searchable form"--Guide, p. 1-1.
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4. Literary theory [electronic resource]. [1999 - ]

  • [Alexandria, VA] : Chadwyck-Healey, c1999-
Description
Book
Database topics
Language; American Literary Studies; British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
Summary
Among its contents, the database includes: formal treatises on criticism and aesthetics, discourses on the character or practice of specific genres, theories of imagination, genius and taste, literary biography, criticism and literary history that expresses important general, arguments and precepts, literary prefaces and dedications, rhetorical treatises, poetry which expresses or implies rules of composition or standards of judgement, theoretical works in disciplines other than English literature which have had a major, influence on literary theory.
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5. Nineteenth-century fiction [electronic resource]. [1999 - 2000]

  • Cambridge, UK ; Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey, c1999.
Description
Book — CD-ROMs ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (21 cm.) + 1 bibliography (21 cm.) + 1 quick reference guide (21 cm.)
Database topics
British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
Summary
Database of 250 complete works of prose fiction by 109 authors from the period 1781 to 1901. Each test is reproduced in full, including all prefatory material and annotation by the original author, and illustrations where available. Genres included are gothic horror, social satire, sensation, detective fiction moral earnestness, aestheticism, masculine adventure, feminist polemic, "Silver Fork" school, historical fiction, the "novel of ideas," children's stories, and the "New Woman" novel. Full text is searchable by author, title, and keyword.
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