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English Online Resources
The Modern English Collection (AD 1500-present)
New! 1,800 of these Modern English titles now available also as ebooks for the Microsoft Reader!
Browse by subject: African American, including Letters from Liberia; Native American; American Civil War; Salem Witch Trials; Colonial Currency; Early American Fiction; Alexander Hamilton; Thomas Jefferson; Edgar Allan Poe; Mark Twain; Walt Whitman; William Shakespeare; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Women Writers; Young Readers; Literature in Translation; Best Sellers, 1900-1930; UVa Special Collections; Walter Reed Collection.
9,575 titles including 203,725 manuscript, book, and newspaper illustrations (including covers, spines, book illustrations, and page images), many of which are publicly accessible.
The Middle English Collection
65 titles, most of which are publicly-accessible
The Old English Corpus
Approximately 3,000 titles (UVA only)
The English Poetry Database (AD 600-1900)
165,000 poems from about 4,500 separate printed sources (80 images -- shape poems, Hebrew phrases, printers' devices).(VIVA only)
The English Verse Drama Database (AD 1300-1900)
2,200 works by 800 playwrights (7 images) (VIVA only)
English Prose Drama
1,653 plays (167 images) (UVA only)
Early English Prose Fiction (AD 1500-1700)
200 works (285 images, mostly book illustrations) (UVA only)
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
77 works (97 images, mostly book illustations; 1,557 page images for Tristram Shandy) (UVA only)
Early American Fiction, 1789-1875
886 volumes of early American fiction (1789-1875) by 136 authors, including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Brockden Brown, and Lydia Maria Child. Each text exists as a full set of color page-images (over 124,527 in all) and a searchable XML/SGML text. The entire database is available by to UVA only or by subscription; 158 volumes by 52 authors are publicly-available in ebook and web versions.
The 20th-Century American Poetry Database
Thousands of poems from 316 works (1,393 images, including shape poems, portraits,and illustrations) (UVA only)
The American Poetry Database, up to 1900
40,356 poems from 1,288 works by 209 poets (19 images, mostly Hebrew) (VIVA only)
The African American Poetry Database
2,500 poems in 100 works (5 images, musical notation) (VIVA only)
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d edition
The 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, second edition: 291,593 main entries including 2,435,660 illustrative quotations.(VIVA only)
Shakespeare Resources
Including The Shakespeare First Folio and various other editions and adaptions of Shakespeare (many publicly-accessible works); includes 2,272 color digital facsimiles.
Religious Resources
The Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Koran (publicly-accessible)
The Bible in English
21 versions of the English Bible (UVA only)
Past Masters® Philosophy Databases
From InteLex, including works in various languages by:
Anselm (Opera Omnia -- Latin -- 5 vols) ; Thomas Aquinas (Collected Works -- English -- 48 works) ; Aristotle, (Collected Works -- English -- 50 works) George Berkeley (Collected works -- English -- 34 works) ; British Philosophy 1600-1900: Francis Bacon [4 works] , Thomas Hobbes [25 works] , L. A. Selby-Bigge [1 work] , Anne Conway [2 works] , John Locke [2 works] , Bishop George Berkeley [4 works] , David Hume [8 works] , Adam Smith [1 work] , David Ricardo [1 work] , John Stuart Mill [10 works] , Edmund Burke [1 work], Jeremy Bentham [2 works], Henry Sidgwick [2 works]; Continental Rationalists: Rene Descartes [2 works] , Benedict de Spinoza [1 work] , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz [2 works]; John Dewey (Collected Works -- 35 volumes) ; David Hume, Works, Correspondence, and History [13 works] ; Immanuel Kant, Hauptwerke [German -- 11 works] ; Nietzsches Werke [German -- 20 volumes] ; William of Ockham, Work of Ninety Days ; Ludwig Wittgenstein: [14 works, English translations of some of the works in the German-language Nachlass"] ; Charles Sanders Pierce, Collected papers [8 volumes] ; Plato, Collected Dialogues [34 works] ; Political Philospohy: Machievelli to Mill: Machiavelli [2 works], Hobbes [3 works], Locke [1 work], Hume [1 work], Rousseau [4 works], Hamilton, Madison, Jay [2 works], Burke [1 work], Paine [1 work], Bentham [2 works], Mill [5 works]; Henry Sidgwick, Collected works [217 works] (UVA only)
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
from Routledge [including links from the Encyclopedia to our full-text philosophy holdings] (UVA only)
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74.
Harper's Weekly Full-Text
Fully searchable Database and Page Images : (1857-1903).
59,002 page images (many pages with multiple figurative illustrations) (UVA only)
Harper's Weekly Index
Fully searchable Index and Page Images : The Civil War Era and Reconstruction, part 1 (1857-1871) (UVA only)
Accessible Archives Newspapers:
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The Pennsylvania Gazette. Volumes I-IV: 1728-1800.
(UVA only)
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African American Newspapers, 1827-1860.
This database currently includes the following titles:
Freedom's Journal (1827-1830) New York, New York ;
Colored American (1837-1841) New York, New York ;
The North Star (1847-1851) Rochester, New York ;
Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859) ;
National Era (1847-1860) ;
Provincial Freeman (1854-1857).
(UVA only)
- The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective. Includes text and images from The New York Herald, the Richmond Enquirer, and The Charleston Mercury published from November 1860 through May 1865. (UVA only)
Special Collections electronic texts
From the University of Virginia collections (all users)
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive
(all users). Includes:
- The S. T. Coleridge Archive
- Works by Lewis Carroll, Ann Batten Cristall, Alfred Edward Housman, Richard Polwhele, Mary Robinson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Germ, Volumes 1-4 1850
Documenting the African American Experience.
(Readex, 1995). Sample titles, two with digital images, from the Documentary Sources Database. American Multiculturalism Series, Unit One. (all users)
Michael Plunkett, Afro-American Sources in Virginia. A Guide to Manuscripts.
Revised edition, with illustrations. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1995. (all users)
Rita Dove, "Lady Freedom Among Us."
The University of Virginia Four-Millionth Volume. [Includes text, images, audio, and video.] (all users)
Michigan Early Modern English Materials
(all users)
Latin Online Resources
The Patrologia Latina
8,969 works by 2,170 authors in 221 volumes (including 5,651 images, including Hebrew phrases and line drawings).
(UVA only)
Ovid : Metamorphoses
(Latin and English versions, including 395 page images)
Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy
(Latin and English versions)
15 works : larger ones can also be retrieved by way of a Table of Contents (TOC) button:
Instauratio Magna 1620 (545 KB)*
Novum Organon 1620 (150 KB)* Conway, Anne, 1631-1679: Principia philosophiae antiquissimae & recentissimae de Deo, Christo & creatura1660 (190 KB)* De Lille, Alaine: Aniclaudianus 1955 (230 KB)* Luther, Martin: Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum 1883 (20 KB)* Ovid: Nux (15 KB)*
Metamorphoses 1 and 12 1968 (85 KB)*
Fasti (300 KB)*
Amores . Illustrations. (150 KB)*
Remedia Amoris (50 KB)*
Ars Amatoria (140 KB)* Virgil: The Georgics 1993 (120 KB)*
Aeneid 1993 (540 KB)*
The Eclogues 1993 (55 KB)* Vitalis, Ordericus:
Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis) 1853-56 (2125 KB)*
Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis), Vol. 1 1853-56 (90 KB)*
Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis), Vol. 2 1853-56 (395 KB)*
Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis), Vol. 3 1853-56 (380 KB)* Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis), Vol. 4 1853-56 (355 KB)*
Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis), Vol. 5 1853-56 (395 KB)*
Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis (Historia ecclesiastica libri Orderici Vitalis), Vol. 61853-56 (545 KB)*
French Online Resources
Chadwyck-Healey's Voltaire électronique:
1,079 works -- all texts so far published in the Voltaire Foundation's Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire (including 129 images.) New! (UVA only)
Corpus des Œuvres de Philosophie en langue française
229 works (including 651 images) (UVA only)
Miscellaneous French Texts
UVA users: search all the texts
Non-UVA users: search the publicly-accessible texts
Accented letters can be searched for in their unaccented forms; searching for tete a tete will yield tête-à-tête.
38 titles: Works larger than 100KB can be retrieved in sections by way of a Table of Contents -- TOC -- choice.
German Online Resources
In collaboration with the University of Trier:
A collection of Middle High German texts, glossaries and dictionaries
From InteLex Corporation:
20,000 facsimiles and transcriptions of the philosopher's hitherto unpublished writings (UVA only)
35 works (UVA only)
From Chadwyck-Healey:
159 works (including 621 images) (UVA only)
UVA users: search all the texts
Non-UVA users: search the publicly-accessible texts
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von: Der Tor und der Tod [Illust.]
- Kafka, Franz: Das Urteil
- Morgenstern, Christian: Galgenlieder: nebst dem "Gingganz"
- Moser, H and Tervooren, H.: Des Minnesangs Fruehling
- Storm, Theodor: Hans und Heinz Kirch*
- Strassburg, Gottfried von: Tristan *
- Various authors: Des Minnesangs Frühling *
- Various authors: Die religiösen Dichtungen des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts. Band I *
- Various authors: Die religiösen Dichtungen des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts. Band II *
- Wieland, Christoph Martin: Musarion
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Letzte Schriften *
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Bemerkungen über die Philosophie der Psychologie *
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Vermischte Bemerkungen *
- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzifal *
- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Lieder *
- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Titurel *
- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Willehalm *
*: UVA Only
Spanish Online Resources
Comedia : Golden Age Drama
Russian Online Resources
"Petropolis" Petrograd.Third Edition; First Electronic Edition (1922).
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Apache Resources Online
Japanese Resources Online
Chinese Resources Online
EText Center Collections Moving to New Site
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