Research Guides: Primary Sources: Literature, Art & Music

Databases

Databases

JSTOR Images
Features over three million high-quality images from all over the world, with coverage from 7000 BCE to the present.
Letters of Charles Dickens (1820-1870)
Dates: 1820-1870
(Pilgrim Edition, 12 vols): the most accurate, comprehensive and fully annotated edition.
Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats
Dates: 1865 - 1939
Includes all of the known letters written by Yeats, an Irish poet, dramatist and statesman.
Dance in Video
Contains 500 hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Covers ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, improvisational dance, and many other forms.
Early English Books Online (1473-1700)
Filmakers Library Online
Offers documentaries on numerous topics, such as race, gender studies, human rights, global studies, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science, psychology, arts, literature, and many others.
Literary Reference Center
Secondary/peer-reviewed and primary sources.
Loeb Classical Library (700 BC-1000 AD)
Original text and English translation of the most important works from Greek and Latin literature. Covers from 700 BC to 1000 AD.
Opera in Video
Offers hundreds of hours of streaming video of and about the most important opera performances, including full staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Coverage from 1933 to 2011.
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
Dates: 1666 - 1989
Literary sources for the study of William Wordsworth and the Romantic period.
Theatre in Video
Features streaming video of full theatre performances and behind-the-scenes documentary content. Coverage from 1936 to present.
Victorian Popular Culture
Archive of primary source materials related to popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Coverage from 1800 to 1928.

Websites

Bartleby Writing
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Classic literature available for free online
Emily Dickinson Archive
An open access site for the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson
Google Books
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Some books may be available in full text via Google Books if it is out of copyright or Google has obtained permission from the publisher provide access.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Browse or search through The Met's vast collection.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Open Library
From Internet Archive
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
We carry high quality ebooks: Most Project Gutenberg ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Rijksmuseum, The Museum of the Netherlands
Repository of images of from Dutch arts and history. Maintained by the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands.
Shelley-Godwin Archive
Digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, contains over 90% of all known relevant manuscripts.