Essential Resources for Literary Research

Additional Literary Databases

Most of these databases will supply the researcher with literary or dramatic primary sources

Gumberg databases can be accessed from anywhere by entering your Multipass username and password when prompted

• African American Poetry
• African Writers Series
• American Drama, 1714-1915
• American Poetry
• Canadian Poetry
• Digital Theatre+
• Early American Fiction, 1789-1875
• Early English Books Online
• Early English Prose Fiction
• Eighteenth Century Drama
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction
• Eighteenth Century Journals
• English Drama
• English Poetry
• English Poetry 2nd Edition
• Faber Poetry Library
• Literary Manuscripts Berg
• Literary Manuscripts Leeds
• Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive
• Literary Theory 
• Medieval Family Life
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Modernist Magazines
• Nineteenth Century Fiction​
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
• Perdita Manuscripts
• Romanticism: Life, Literature, and Landscape
• Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books
• Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
• Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
• Twentieth-Century American Poetry, 2nd Edition
• Twentieth-Century Drama
• Twentieth-Century English Poetry

Need Help?

If you need help using Gumberg Library resources, please contact Ted Bergfelt, Humanities Librarian via email or by phone at 412-396-5351 (M-F, 8:30-4:30 pm, ET). If he is not available, Ask Gumberg