Spanish, Catalan & Portuguese Literature

Questions? Ask us! The Bibliographer for English & Romance Literatures, Sarah G. Wenzel, can be reached via email or phone -- or drop by JRL 363.

Find books (and more)

@ the U of C: Library Catalog or Lens (beta)

@ other libraries (WorldCat)

-- books & other materials in over 10,000 libraries worldwide

-- request delivery from non-U of C libraries via Find It

(or check other options, e.g., visiting Northwestern)

@ National Libraries

-- Latin America

-- Spain

-- Portugal

other options specific to Latin America or more generally

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Find primary sources (full text)

Latin American Women Writers

-- prose, poetry & drama (17th century - present)

Latino Literature

-- works of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States (19th century - present)

Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro

-- Includes front matter (preliminares), aprobaciones, censuras, privilegios, tasas & licencias

Universitat de València: Biblioteca Digital

-- over 14,000 works (including manuscripts) from 15th-19th centuries

Newspapers (current)

-- Latin American

-- Spanish or Portuguese

other options -- online & in print

Find definitions & explanations (a sample): Real Academia Español (most recent DREA and earlier editions (Nuevo tesoro lexicográfico de la lengua española)); Pocket Oxford-Hachette Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish & Spanish-English); Collins Portuguese Dictionary; Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms; Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory; other options...

Find articles (and more)

Modern Languages Association (MLA)

-- literature, languages, linguistics, folklore

PRISMA (Latin America

-- humanities & social sciences (1970-present)

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)

-- covers journals in all areas from 1970-present

Clase & Periodica (Latin America)

-- humanities, social sciences & science (1975-present)

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)

-- humanitiesÂ & social sciences (1936-present)

Chicano Database

-- covers Mexican-Americans (1900-present) & the broader Latino experience (1992-present)

CINDOC (Spain)

-- journals in all areas published in SpainÂ (1970-prsesent)

FRANCIS

-- humanities & social sciences, strong in European publications (from 1984-present); print from 1947-present)

other options...

Find articles from 18th-19th centuries

British Periodicals

-- 1690-1930

19th Century Index

-- American & British journals, newspapers, etc., from 1790-1919

19th Century Masterfile

-- American & British periodicals, 1802-1906

find more options in Early Periodical Indexes or the database finder

Find biographies (a sample): Dictionary of Literary Biography; Contemporary Authors; World Biographical Information System