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Wright American Fiction 1851–1875 <http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/>. Created and maintained by nine university libraries led by Indiana University; Perry Willett, general editor. Reviewed Dec. 16–20, 2002.

In a book note on Lyle H. Wright's American Fiction, 1851–1875: A Contribution toward a Bibliography in March 1958, an editor for the Mississippi Valley Historical Review suggested that those entries in Wright's bibliography that were accompanied by short descriptive notes would prove "of particular value to historians," citing as examples the notes "'Anti-Catholic,' or 'A temperance tale,' or 'Ridicules Lincoln's Civil War policies'" (p. 766). Four and a half decades later, a historian can now search for particular words or phrases in the full texts of nearly three thousand titles listed in Wright's bibliography on the Wright American Fiction 1851–1875 Web site. A scholar can instantly locate passages from 11 individual works that used the exact term "anti-catholic." A search for "temperance" returns, not surprisingly, over 700 results (searching for titles containing the term "temperance" returns 5 works). Using the site's proximity search feature, "Lincoln" can be found within 120 characters of "Civil War" in 6 works.

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