Modern English Collection from the Electronic Text Center at UVA
This heterogeneous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest. Each text is encoded in either SGML or XML and includes a bibliographic header with details about the creation of the electronic text and its print source.
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- Texts by and about African Americans
- Texts by and about Native Americans
- Texts by Women Writers
- Texts about the American Civil War
- Texts by and about Thomas Jefferson
- Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Papers
- Texts for Young Readers
- Literature in Translation
- Best Sellers, 1900-1930
- Items from UVa Special Collections
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- Catalogs (about publications)
- Narratives, diaries, and letters
- Poetry and short stories
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