Research Guides: eBook Collections: Arts and Humanities

General Arts and Humanities eBook Collections

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ACLS Humanities EBook
An online collection of high quality ebooks in the humanities. The books included have been recommended by scholars as significant contributions to their respective fields.
American Fiction, 1774-1920
Encompasses prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I, including thousands never before available online.
Art and Architecture E-Portal A project of Yale University Press, this database is an evolving collection of eBooks that feature important works of scholarship in art and art history! Many are older publications that were initially in print format, but this database of eBooks offers the ability to search images, create citations, highlight, read offline, and more! One perk is the ability to research exhibition catalogs online which are traditionally only in print format.
Berg Fashion Library
Contains ebooks, essays, encyclopedias, and images to allow the researcher to explore how clothing has influenced and been influenced by society. Covers a wide range of time periods and cultures.

Critical Studies and Performance Practice
This collection features scholarly books from Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints. Together they offer critical, contextual, and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance, and Shakespeare studies.

JSTOR Provides access to scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to journal articles, users can access book chapters, ebooks, and primary source documents. More info here: https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/
The New Oxford Shakespeare Presents a new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. The project's scope, depth, and vision provide a platform for the future of Shakespeare studies.
Oxford Handbooks Online Searches across Oxford Handbooks. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Annotated primary texts by writers active between 701 and 1901, plus Roman and Greek authors, including Aristotle, Austen, Bentham, Catullus, Dickens, and Donne through to Plato, Virgil, and Wordsworth.
Past Masters Past Masters is a collection of primary source full-text editions in philosophy. The series includes collections in the history of political thought and theory, religious studies, education, German studies, sociology, the history and philosophy of science, economics, and classics. The publisher acquires and develops definitive editions of the full corpora of the seminal figures in the history of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays, reviews, and correspondence.
Project Gutenberg
An online library of freely accessible eBooks that are not currently protected by copyright in the United States and so in the public domain.