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English Honors College

Bing Honors College English - 2012 - Instructor: Christopher Rovee
Last Updated: 7-Sep-2012

Subject Librarians

Annette Keogh
Curator, American and British Literature
Cecil H. Green Library
(650) 725-1053

Around Stanford

American Literary Studies
British and Commonwealth Literary Studies

Databases

Biography in Context
Covers both American and British authors
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Focus is on British authors.
MLA
Primary resource for locating journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in literary studies. You can broaden your search to include other databases e.g. "International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text" and "LGBT Life with Full Text." Add other databases by clicking on the Choose Databases link immediately above the search box.
The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism
Early English books online
British Periodicals
British periodical literature from the late seventeenth to early twentieth century. Strongest in nineteenth-century studies.
Dictionary of literary biography

Special Collections

Please plan in advance of use as materials are held off site and need to be paged to Green Library.  For further information please visit the Special Collections web site.

Locate materials via Searchworks . Please note that you can do a general search and limit by location to Special Collections or by format to Manuscript/Archive.

Bibliographic Management

I would strongly recommend that you begin using one of these tools early in your project.

More Databases in American Literary Studies

› See all 57 results
  1. 19th century masterfile [electronic resource].

    Indexes nineteenth century literature, including newspapers, periodicals, books, and government publications.

  2. African American periodicals, 1825-1995 [electronic resource].

    African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans.

  3. African-American poetry [electronic resource].

    "The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1...

More Databases in British and Commonwealth Literary Studies

› See all 74 results
  1. British Literary Manuscripts Online

    British Literary Manuscripts Online presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, pl...

  2. Literary manuscripts [electronic resource] : 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

    Complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the Universit...

  3. Literary manuscripts [electronic resource] : Victorian manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library

    The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the und...

Reference Shelf

Please note that this links to our old web site, so may not be around forever. However, in the meantime, it brings together many useful reference tools.

Connecting from off campus

In order to use any of SUL's restricted databases, electronic journals, or e-books from off-campus locations, your web browser must be specially configured. These pages offer instructions for various combinations of operating systems and web browsers. You can also test your connection and report problems.