Literature Online Reference Resources
An 8-title collection of reference resources on poetry, the novel, and literary theory
Literature Online currently makes the following reference works searchable individually or as a group:

 

• The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 1994)
• Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (Columbia University Press, 1995)
• Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
• Encyclopedia of the Novel (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
• New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 1993)
• The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (Columbia University Press, 2001)
• The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (Columbia University Press, 1980)

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
The 351 titles in the collection include sermons on racial pride and political activism; annual reports of charitable, educational, and political organizations; and college catalogs and graduation orations from the Hampton Institute, Morgan College, and Wilberforce University. Also included are biographies, slave narratives, speeches by members of Congress, legal documents, poetry, playbills, dramas, and librettos. Other pamphlets focus on segregation, voting rights, violence against African-Americans, and the colonization of Africa by freed slaves.