Literature

Alexander Street Drama brings together thousands of plays from Alexander Street's six individual full-text drama collections and makes them accessible and cross-searchable in a single, specially priced package. It includes the full content from: Black Drama, Asian American Drama, Latino Drama, Twentieth Century North American Drama, North American Indian Drama, North American Women's Drama, as well as the reference collection North American Theater Online.

Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.

Black Drama, now in its expanded second edition, contains the full text of more than 1,460 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 250 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.

Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora. Facing both sexism and racism, black women needed to create their own identities and movements.

This collection comprises more than eighty volumes of poetry by Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842, a significant, but largely underappreciated body of work.  Most of the texts are rare, existing in print in fewer than five libraries in the world. Along with the poetic texts are biographical and critical essays contributed by the world’s foremost poetry scholars and other supporting resources.

Discover more than 200 novels, many hundreds of short stories, 20,000 pages of poetry, and more than 400 plays. The majority of the works are in English, with selected works of particular importance in Spanish. The collection begins with the works of Chicano writers in the Southwest in the early 19th century and follows through to include contemporary works. Scholars in social history, literature, and Latino studies will find value in Latino Literature.

North American Theatre Online is the largest, most comprehensive reference work in North American drama. It provides detailed bibliographic information on more than 10,000 plays – including references to works that have never been published. It contains thousands of facts about theaters, authors, theatrical companies, and individuals, as well as some 1,000 playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera. Part of the Alexander Street Drama package.

A genre-redefining online collection of Romantic-era literature and in-copyright complementary texts, Romanticism Redefined will include at completion 120,000 pages from the Pickering & Chatto catalog and 10,000 pages from The Wordsworth Circle, appearing in electronic format for the first time. Covering the years 1800 to 1830, the collection also highlights the "second generation" of writings, many of which were previously inaccessible.

South and Southeast Asian Literature displays the literary imagination and linguistic inventiveness of writers who are negotiating life in a transnational world and multiple cultural identities. Scholars of literature, anthropology, linguistics, postcolonial theory and criticism, history, politics, and culture will find the collection rich in insights into modern experiences and their traditional connections.