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British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
Electronic Secondary Resources
- Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), 1920-
Contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical
editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published
anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
- Arts
and Humanities Citation Index
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature in the arts and humanities,
covering over 1100 scholarly journals 1975 to the present. Allows searching
by author, title word, cited author, journal title, and institution as well
as combinations of these indexes.
- Attributions of Authorship in The Gentleman's Magazine
An electronic
version of James M. Kuist's The Nichols File of The Gentleman's
Magazine is a searchable database that contains a list of nearly 14,000 attributions
of authorship of items printed in The Gentleman's Magazine, plus
the two Supplements with 6000+ more attributions.
- Biography Resource Center
Provides biographical and bibliographic information for historical
and contemporary literary figures. Sources are authoritative and
include Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series (Detroit: Gale
Research Co., 1981-). Typical entries provide an in-depth essay about
the author's life and literary career, and a bibliography of their
work.
- British Library General
Catalogue
CDs available at the Reference Desk, Green Library.
More flexible than the printed catalogues, this
comprehensive record of the holdings of the British Library to
1974 allows searching by date(s), keyword in title, place of publication,
and publisher, as well as combinations of these indexes.
- The British Library Public Catalogue
Searchable catalogue of the extensive holdings of the British Library.
Allows users to request copies of documents or arrange for loans
of materials.
- C19: The Nineteenth-Century Index
Contains ten searchable indexes covering nineteenth-century Anglo-American books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. Drawing on the strength of established indexes, such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index, Periodicals Index Online, and the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, C19 provides integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.4 million books and official publications, 64,891 archival collections and 15.6 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers. You may search the entire index, or limit your search to one of the individual resources included in the database.
- Historical
Abstracts
Indexes scholarly books and articles on world history
(excluding the US and Canada) published since 1982.
Provides
thorough coverage of Britain and the Commonwealth, allowing
access by topic and century or decade as well as by the usual author
and title indexes. Offers strong representation
of social
history and cultural studies.
- Index To English Literary Periodicals
1681 to 1914
When complete, this resource will index 233 titles published
during the seventeenth through nineteenth
centuries
in England,
including works by Defoe, Steele, Addison, Swift, Fielding,
Johnson, Smollett, Dickens and Thackeray. While primarily
literary in
focus, these periodicals deal with a wide variety of subjects,
such as
theater, art, music, history, politics, sociology, philosophy,
economics,
religion and science. Of special interest is the English
slant on life in America
and particularly the American Revolution.
- Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Contains 240 entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements,
and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical
periods.
- JSTOR
Archives and provides full-text access to back issues of participating journals,
including fifty-eight titles in the Language & Literature Collection.
- Literary
Theory
A full-text searchable database of theory and criticism ranging
from medieval treatises on aesthetics to postmodern writings on gender.
This database allows for keyword searching within the body of the text,
enabling scholars to trace the occurrence of a term across historical
periods. It should, however, be noted that it is not comprehensive
in either its coverage of all major literary theorists or the complete
works of those writers that it does represent.
- Literature Online (LION)
Contains more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and
prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference
resources.
- MLA
Bibliography
Indexes scholarly books and articles published since 1963 about all writers
and periods of literature. The 1921–1962 bibliographies are available
in print format (IC) [Z7006. M64].
- Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford DNB Includes 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the
history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to
the year
2002.
- Oxford English Dictionary
(OED) Online Edition
The OED is the definitive lexicographical resource
for tracing the etymology and history of a word. Also provides examples
of word usage in literature.
- Project Muse
Search
Provides full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences
journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
- World Shakespeare Online
Contains annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations,
theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic
media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and
published or produced between 1963 and 2006.
Last modified:
October 15, 2007
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