This page contains information and ordering details for both Literature Online Complete and ProQuest One Literature.

Literature Online Complete

Literature Online Complete includes the full text of more than 350,000 works of poetry, drama and prose stretching back to the eighth century and through to the present day. Accurately re-keyed texts and specialist genre indexing enable scholars to search powerfully and with confidence in the comprehensiveness of their results.

Primary Works include:

• Over 340,000 poems by poets such as Angelou, Auden, Byron, Chaucer, Dickinson, Heaney, Hughes, Pound, Sidney and Whitman
• Over 6,000 works of English and American drama from the late 13th century to the early 20th century, including works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Dunbar, Sheridan, Wilde and Synge
• Over 3,250 works of prose from 1500 to the early 20th century by authors such as Austen, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne, Melville, Woolf and Zola

Criticism and Reference

Literature Online Complete contains an ever-growing library of criticism and reference works. These materials transform the service into a complete and authoritative study centre supporting researchers at all levels, especially undergraduates.

Central to the provision is a dynamic collection of hundreds of specialist full-text journals. Users can stay informed on contemporary scholarship in a wide variety of fields from specialist literature, language or linguistic studies to cultural studies, theatre studies as well as interdisciplinary areas such as critical theory, philosophy, feminist studies, folklore and rhetoric. All journals are available cover to cover and are updated regularly. Please find a list of journal titles available in Literature Online Complete.

Literary Tools:

Online tools that enhance the research experience; including basic and advanced search options, variant spelling and variant forms searching and My Archive area for saved searches and citation management.

ProQuest One Literature

Developed in collaboration with faculty, scholars and librarians leading the call for a comprehensive literature resource this ever-growing destination helps users employ the varied content they need to examine literary topics and voices for research, critical perspectives and course planning:

Community-Centric: Collaboration with library and faculty advisory groups makes a resource of the community for the community

Diverse and Rich Content: Rare and hard-to-find texts from black and world writers introduces new perspectives

Multi-Format: Full-text journals, literary criticism, videos, dissertations, ebooks, primary texts, curated author and movement pages

Ever-Growing: Content will continue to grow to support the needs of literary students, teachers, and scholars

Why ProQuest One Literature?

Research diversity with access to hard-to-find texts from black and world writers supports diversity in scholarship and perspectives.

Selection of content including 1,200 full-text journals, 500,000 primary works, 20,000 historic literary criticism sources, 1,300 videos, and 20,000 e-books enables breadth and depth of study.

Scholarship available from 14,000 dissertations and thesis showcases the latest research in literary studies and uncovers a treasure trove of reference citations.

Teaching & Learning resources bring together the world’s largest collection of poetry, prose, and drama from the eighth century to today - ranging from the classic canon to the growing contemporary catalog of works including video and audio, allows teachers to showcase multiple performances of a work to open students to new interpretations that challenge assumptions and Literary Movement Pages enable connections across literary, cultural, and historical themes and act as a jumping off point for assignments. 

Key Benefits

Smart Search: Results point users to the most relevant content including curated author and movement pages.

Content and Indexing: The vast collection of over 3 million literature and language citations includes the power of the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).

Criticism: Over 1,200 literary journals offer the best coverage in the market for the criticism resources scholars and faculty need for deep research and comparative perspectives.

Author and Literary Movement Pages: Robust pages provide context and help users frame and study differences and similarities of primary texts and authors across topical, societal, historical, philosophical and stylistic categories.

Multiple Interpretations: Over 1,300 videos including Poets on Screen and other performances inform the research process and literary study by bringing primary texts to life

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