Selected Resources for:
English

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)   

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ABELL is part of the Literature Online database and covers all aspects and periods of English-language literature, linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies. ABELL indexes monographs, book reviews, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published worldwide. Includes material in languages other than English. Subject areas covered include:
Literature: poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory, studies of individual authors.
Language: syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics, dialectology.
Bibliography: manuscript studies, textual studies, history of publishing.
Cultural Studies: customs, belief, narrative, song, dance, material culture.
Includes links to the full text of over 100 journals.

America: History & Life   

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1954- .

Primary index to research in American history. Useful for literary studies because it includes social and cultural history. Includes abstracts (summaries) of journal articles. Limit by language, time period, and document type (articles, collections of articles, books, and dissertations).

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Historical Abstracts   

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1450- .

Primary index to materials for research in non-U.S./non-Canadian history, including social and cultural history. Includes abstracts (summaries) of journal articles. Covers world history from 1450 to the present.

Humanities Full Text   

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1984- .

Indexes the major scholarly English-language journals in the humanities (including history and literature). For prior years, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective .

Literature Online (LION)   

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1996-

Allows you to search, singly or simultaneously, both the MLA International Bibliography and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature--in addition to providing access to more than 350,000 full-text works of English and American poetry, drama, and fiction with complementary criticism, reference resources, and websites. Provides links to full-text articles from over 200 literature journals.

MLA International Bibliography   

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1926- .

The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, provides access to worldwide scholarly research in over 4,400 journals and series pertaining to literature (including drama), language, linguistics, folklore, film, radio, television, and theater. Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters from multi-author works, dissertations, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies. Does not include book reviews. MLA International Bibliography represents all national literatures.

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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism  

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Alphabetically arranged entries on literary critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, the contributions of specific countries and historical periods, and nonliterary fields of inquiry shaped by literary theory and criticism. Entries consist of a critical essay addressing the subject's historical and philosophical importance and a selective primary and secondary bibliography.

Location: Ref. PN 81 .J554 2005

Literature Resource Center (LRC)   

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Full-text biographical, bibliographical, and critical analysis of more than 100,000 world authors and works throughout history and across all literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and journalism). Enables you to search by literary movement (e.g., Harlem Renaissance), gender, or author ethnicity (e.g., African American).

Electronic version of such older print reference sources as:
Contemporary Literary Criticism: Ref. PN 771 .C59
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Ref. PN 761 .N56
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Ref. PN 771 .G27
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Ref. PN 610 .C53
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Ref. PN 86 .L53 1984
Shakespearean Criticism: Ref. PR 2965 .S43 1984
Poetry Criticism: Ref. PN 1010 .P499
Short Story Criticism: Ref. PN 3373 .S386
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature: Ref. PN 41 .M42 1995
Scribner Writers Series
Twayne Authors Series

British Periodicals   

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17th through early 20th centuries

Facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts, archaeology, architecture, and the social sciences.

Early American Imprints (Series I): Evans, 1639-1800  

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Based on the Evans American Bibliography, this collection contains the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in the United States or in the British American colonies from 1639 through 1819. It provides a foundation for research in early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, politics and nearly every aspect of life in early America. When completed, the digital collection will include every item previously published in microform by Readex, plus more than 1,200 additional works located, catalogued and digitized since the microform effort was completed -- more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)   

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EEBO contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Beginning with the first book published in English, EEBO includes works by authors such as Malory, Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo, Purcell, Shakespeare, and Aphra Behn. Besides literature, EEBO also includes prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, and calendars. The digital images accurately reflect the way the works appeared in their original printed editions. EEBO is searchable by author, title, keyword, printer, publication date, Library of Congress subject heading, and illustration type (e.g., maps, plates, coats of arms), enabling researchers to make connections between works they may never have consulted otherwise. Note: Any EEBO researcher can view the 250,000 page-image editions of EEBO titles, but only TCP partners can view these images plus the corresponding full ASCII text. That is, TCP researchers can search every word in EEBO titles that have been converted to text format rather than just the words that appear in citations to these texts. See the EEBO-TCP entry for more information.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)   

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18th century

Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Includes full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages. Covers the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Literature Online (LION)   

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1996-

Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 full-text works of English and American poetry, drama, and fiction with complementary criticism, reference resources, and websites. Includes over 800 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work. Also allows you to:
--search both the MLA International Bibliography and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, with links to full-text articles from over 200 literature journals.
--find a list of works by or about a particular author
--search simultaneously across primary works and secondary sources
--access 1,550 author biographies

Includes full-text databases such as African-American Poetry, Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Early English Prose Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, English Drama, English Poetry

Includes reference sources such as The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism, Encyclopedia of the Novel, New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, the King James Bible, and Webster's Third New International Dictionary

Shakespeare Collection  

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The Shakespeare Collection provides online access to:
--The Arden Shakespeare (full text of scholarly editions of the complete works of Shakespeare)
--Full-text scholarly journals on literary and interdisciplinary topics (e.g., Renaissance, Elizabethan studies, Early Modern English studies, film studies)
--The First Folio, key Quartos, and major editions and adaptations from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries
--Prompt books detailing productions from the 17th century onward, from The Folger Shakespeare Library Collection, The Harvard Theatre Collection, The Shakespeare Library Collection (Birmingham, England), and The Shakespeare Centre Library Collection (Stratford-upon-Avon)
--Selected works by Shakespeare's contemporaries and other works available during Shakespeare's time
--The Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diary (eyewitness account of more than 60 years of Shakespeare productions)
--Reference materials providing background and context (e.g., Scribner's Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence and Encyclopedia of the Renaissance)
--Photographs, line drawings, maps, and other illustrations of performances