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Authorized IU Bloomington Users Acta Sanctorum Database.
This is the fifth release of the Acta Sanctorum Database, containing the volumes for the ecclesiastical months of January, February, March and April. When complete, the Acta Sanctorum Database will contain the texts of the sixty-eight printed volumes published in Antwerp and Brussels, from the two January volumes published in 1642 to the Propyleum to December published in 1940.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users African American Poetry Database, 1760-1900.
Contains over 2,500 poems written by 54 African-American poets from 1760-1900. The poets and their works were selected from Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975 by William French.
African American Poetry Database QuickGuide

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Alfonso X, El Sabio. The Prose Works of Alfonso X, El Sabio

Authorized IU Bloomington Users American Poetry Database.
The works of more than 200 American poets are featured in the collection, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. The database gathers the works of the most influential American poets, from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. A separate bibliography details all the works included.
Authorized IU Bloomington Users American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL).
Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Recently added is a Provençal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Complete Works of Jane Austen
Contains electronic editions of her six novels. These editions are transcriptions of The Novels of Jane Austen (5 volumes) edited by R.W. Chapman (Oxford U P, 1933) You can search through all of the novels for words or phrases, or read any or all of the novels.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Bertolt Brechts Werke
Full text selections of Bertolt Brecht's work, including poetry, drama and major critical writings. Published by Chadwyck Healy in cooperation with Suhrkamp Verlag, this first authorized electronic edition of selected writings is based on "Bertolt Brecht, Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden, Jubiläumsausgabe um 100. Geburtstag," edited by Werner Hecht, Wolfgang Jeske and Jan Knopf.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users The Bible in English
Twenty different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Early Celestina Texts

Authorized IU Bloomington Users The Riverside Chaucer
This electronic edition of the Riverside Chaucer (Third Edition) contains the entire author's text but does not contain the notes and textual apparatus found in the printed edition.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Corpus Médico Español

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Dictionary of Old English Corpus

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Early American Fiction

Authorized IU Bloomington UsersEarly English Books Online

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700)

Authorized IU Bloomington Users English Prose Drama
English Prose Drama contains more than 1,600 plays written by more than 350 different authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The database includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Eighteenth Century (English) Fiction

Authorized IU Bloomington Users English Poetry Full-Text Database.
English Poetry Database QuickGuide.
Complete Listing of Contents

Authorized IU Bloomington Users English Verse Drama Database.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Goethes Werke.
This database consists primarily of the Weimar Edition of Goethe's works, originally published between 1887-1919 by Hermann Böhlau (and Nachfolger) under the patronage of Grossherzogin Sophie von Sachsen and hence often referred to as the Sophien-Ausgabe. It is supplemented by material not found in the Weimar Edition, namely Goethes Gespräche, edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Leipzig, 1889-1896) and all the letters discovered since the completion of the Weimar Edition: Goethes Werke, Nachträge zur Weimarer Ausgabe, edited by Paul Raabe (dtv, München, 1990).

Authorized IU Bloomington Users The Medieval Navarro-Aragonese Manuscripts

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Middle English Compendium

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Nietzsche. Collected Works of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Oxford English Dictionary Online. 2nd ed.
OED Online QuickGuide.
A Complete Listing of the Abbreviations Used in the OED

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Past Master's British Philosophers

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Patrologia Latina Database

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Unrestricted Access Victorian Women Writers Project.
Victorian Women Writers Project QuickGuide

Authorized IU Bloomington Users Women Writers Project
A growing database of womens' writings for the period from 1400 to 1850 (pre-Victorian). All of the texts can be browsed, searched, and analysed using tools which provide access to the full SGML encoding.

Unrestricted Access Wright American Fiction Collection
When completed, this collection will include almost 3,000 novels published in the United States between 1851-1875.
More information can be found at http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/about.html.

Resources from other departments and institutions

Unrestricted Access American Verse Project.
 A brief description of the American Verse Project

Unrestricted Access Die Bibel, Martin Luther translation.
This version of the Luther translation of the Bible is derived from the edition published by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (© 1984).

Unrestricted Access Bible: King James Version
The original electronic text for this version of the Bible was provided by the Oxford Text Archive. Original tagging was performed by the New Centre for the Oxford English Dictionary (Waterloo). Subsequent conversion to SGML was performed by the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.

Unrestricted Access Bible: The New Testament (Rheims 1582)
This version of the Rheims (1582) version of the Bible was prepared by Jeffery Triggs of the OED's North American Reading Program.

Unrestricted Access Bible: Revised Standard Version
Copyrighted and provided by the National Council of Churches of Christ in America and the University of Pennsylvania's Center for
Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT).

Unrestricted Access The Book of Mormon
The electronic text of the Book of Mormon was provided by Project Gutenberg.

Unrestricted Access Dartmouth Dante Project.
Complete Listing of Contents

Unrestricted Access Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Database.
Contains poetry, prose, and plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695 in Mexico), a poet nun.

Unrestricted Access The Early Church Fathers

Unrestricted Access French-English Dictionary

Unrestricted Access Glossarial DataBase of Middle English: Canterbury Tales

Unrestricted Access The Koran

Unrestricted Access Michigan Early Modern English Materials

Unrestricted Access Middle English Collection

Unrestricted Access Perseus Project: WWW version of Perseus

Unrestricted Access Public Domain Modern English Search

Unrestricted Access Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum.

Unrestricted Access Wheaton Library: Christian Classics Electronic Library
A good collection of e-texts relevant to historical and religious studies, including Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and thirty-eight volumes of writings from Early Church Fathers.
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