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The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography provides searchable access to bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, dissertations, and scholarly Web sites. It indexes materials from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Coverage includes literature from all over the world - Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. The MLA currently indexes more than 66,000 new items each year. (from vendor website).
Find biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods. Includes Contemporary Authors Online (biographical coverage of more than 130,000 writers); Contemporary Literary Criticism Select; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 13,000 essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.
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A bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500), providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
Materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material, essays in books, entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues.
A major online periodical archive covering historical issues of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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