Literature Indexes and Journals | Electronic Books | Reference Sources | Film/Theater Indexes and Journals | Historical Journals, Magazines and Newspapers | General Humanities Indexes and Journals

Literature Indexes and Journals
MLA Bibliography - Some full text
References to sources on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore (1963-present).

LION (Literature Online) - Some full text
Provides texts, criticism, and search tools for the study of English and American literature. Includes over 330,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.

World Shakespeare Bibliography - Citations only
Annotated entries for books, articles, reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1969 and mid-2002.

Literature Resource Center - Full text
Critical analyses of literature and biographies of authors. LRC Database Guide

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Electronic Books
Early English Books Online - Some full text
Digital Library of the first 125,000 books printed in English from 1475-1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Full text
Searchable full-text access to works published in Great Britain from 1701-1800. Based on the English Short Title Catalog, this digital library now covers works in history, geography, literature, social sciences and fine arts. Philosophy and religion will be added in the spring of 2004.

Middle English Compendium - Some full text
Middle English resources including the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a collection of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to other electronic resources.

NetLibrary - Full text
Electronic books covering a wide range of scholarly topics including works by well-known authors and some literary criticism.

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Reference Sources
Literature Resource Center - Full text
Critical analyses of literature and biographies of authors. LRC Database Guide

Oxford English Dictionary - Full text
Full-text online dictionary with quotations.

MagillOnLiterature Plus - Full text
Plot summaries, literary analysis, and book reviews from Magill's Masterplots series and other Salem Press sources. Also includes information on over 1,500 authors, including long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers (formerly MagillonAuthors).

WorldCat (OCLC Union Catalog) - Citations only
Catalog of books, web resources, and other materials worldwide.

Books in Print (Global) - Some full text reviews
Publication information on books in print and some out of print, with some reviews. Includes titles from the U.S., Canada and the U.K.; also videos and audiocassettes from the U.S.

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Film/Theater Indexes and Journals
MLA Bibliography - Some full text
References to sources on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore (1963-present). MLA Database Guide

Project Muse - Full text
Full-text journals in literature, performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and more.

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Historical Journals, Magazines and Newspapers
American Periodical Series 1740-1900 - Full text
American magazines and journals from 1741, including over 1,100 periodicals ranging from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

New York Times Historic (1851-1998) - Full text
Full-text archive of the New York Times.

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General Humanities Indexes and Journals
Humanities Abstracts - Some full text
Citations of articles in the humanities subject area (1984-present).

JSTOR - Full text
Scholarly journal articles in the humanities and sciences.

Project Muse - Full text
Full-text journals in literature, performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and more.

Oxford Journals Online - Full text
Online access to 159 Oxford journals on a range of topics from 1998-present.

Reader's Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) - Citations only
Citations to articles on a variety of topics from the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.

Academic Search Premier - Some full text
General interest and scholarly articles on a variety of topics (dates vary, some journals back to 1975 or earlier).

Expanded Academic ASAP - Some full text
Articles in a variety of subject areas from scholarly journals and general periodicals in a variety of subjects.

Mega-Sites | Reference/Guides | Electronic Texts | Selected Authors, Literary Periods | Associations | Film

Mega-Sites
The Eserver (http://www.eserver.org)
Writers, editors and scholars publish and discuss their work in a variety of collections on this site, which started in 1990 as the English Server.

Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net (http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/)
This mega-list contains a range of literary categories, including biblical, medieval, renaissance, theory, drama and more.

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Site for Humanities Research (http://vos.ucsb.edu/)
Maintained by a team at UC Santa Barbara, this extensive site devoted to all aspects of literary research.

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Reference/Guides
Bartleby.com (http://bartleby.com)
Access to many reference sources, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), Strunk's Elements of Style (1918), the King James Bible, and The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Literary Movements (http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/litfram.html)
Brief essays on American literature, as well as resources on authors, a timeline and links to other American literature sites.

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Electronic Texts
American Verse Project (http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
Fully searchable archive of American poetry volumes published prior to 1920 and a number of works by African-American and women poets.

Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net./pg/)
Over 6000 free electronic texts, which range from public domain works published before 1920 to newly released e-books.

University of Virginia E-Book Library (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html)
1,800 publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents and others.

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Selected Authors, Literary Periods
Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/)
Classical languages and literature website with texts, dictionaries, grammar and links to other resources.

The labyrinth: Resources for medieval studies (http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu)
Directory of online resources in medieval studies through a Georgetown Web server, which allows searching by category, type of material or keyword.

Willa Cather Electronic Archive (http://cather.unl.edu/)
Collection of primary, critical, biographical and supplementary material by and about Willa Cather.

Geoffrey Chaucer (http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/)
Harvard University's guide to Chaucer provides a glossed version of the Canterbury Tales and other Middle English texts, as well as criticism, Middle English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation guide.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/)
Annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet. Resources include Shakespeare timeline and Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.

Open Source Shakespeare (http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/)
A general source and index for Shakespeare's works. The concordance is of particular interest.

Milton Reading Room (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/)
John Milton's poetry and most of his prose, often with annotations. Provides a bibliography of criticism and links to biographical, and historical perspectives of Milton.

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets (http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/kkemmerer/poets/main.htm)
Johnson's biographies of 17th century poets with selections of their poetry.

William Blake Archive (http://www.blakearchive.org/)
Multiple copies of Blake's illuminated works along with a searchable online version of David V. Erdman's Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake.

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 (http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/)
Based on Lyle Wright's bibliography, this searchable collection attempts to include every book published in the United States from 1851-1875, from well-known authors such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville to forgotten authors popular at the time.

Victorian Women Writers Project (http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp)
Searchable collection of about 100 works by British women writers of the late nineteenth century.

Contemporary Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Literature in English (http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/index.html)
Selections of contemporary literature by authors in the former colonies of Great Britain, including, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore and also selected authors in the United Kingdom. Also, background information on the authors and countries.

Postcolonial Studies at Emory University
(http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/index.html)
Introduction to major topics, authors and theories in postcolonial studies.

Victorian Web (http://www.victorianweb.org)
Literature, history and culture in the Age of Victoria. Web Content from Brown University's resources and supported by the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore.

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Associations
Academy of American Poets (http://www.poets.org/)
In order to support American poets and foster appreciation of contemporary poetry, this association sponsors many awards and events and hosts an extensive online collection of poetry and information about poets.

MLA - Modern Language Association (http://www.mla.org)
Professional organization that promotes the study and teaching of language and literature through its publications, conferences and advocacy. Site provides some information on the MLA style.

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Film
Research Guide in Film Studies (http://www.library.yale.edu/humanities/film/)
Comprehensive guide from Yale University Library.

Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com)
A database of films and television shows with information on credits, production details, plot summaries, and reviews by professionals and readers.

Guides
Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975 (PS153 .N5 A4)
Form and Style: Research Papers, Reports, Theses (LB2369 .C3 1997)
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (PN81 .J554 1994)
Literary Research Guide (PR83 .H34 1998)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (LB2369 .G53 1999) - see also MLA Citation Style Sheet (www.loyola.edu/library/ref/mlastyle.htm)
Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms (PN44.5 .D4 1974b)
A Reference Guide for English Studies (PR56 .M37 1990)
Research Guide to Biography and Criticism: Literature (PR85 .R4 1985)
Writer's Market (PN161 .W83 2003) (earlier editions in stacks)

Encyclopedias/Indexes
Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare (PR2892 .S6)
Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased… (PR19 .A55)
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (PS21 .B4 1991)
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (PN43 .B65 1999)
Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry (PN1022 .G7 1994(
Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature (PR149 .B5 D53 1992)
Dictionary of Literary Biography (PS21 .D5) (Also online: Literature Resource Center)
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (PR9080 .A52 E53 1994)
Encyclopedia of the Novel (PN41 .E487 1998)
Literary History of the United States (PS88 .L522 1974)
MLA Bibliography 1921/25-1963 Abstracts and Indexes (online 1963-present: MLA Bibliography)
New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (PN83 .N4)
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (PN1021 .N39 1993)
Oxford Companion to English Literature (PR19 .D73 1995)
Oxford Companion to American Literature (PS21 .H3 1995)

Literary Criticism
Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors Through the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (PR83 .M73 1966)
Poetry Criticism (PN1010 .P499)
Poetry Explication (PR502 .K8 1980)
Guide to American Poetry Explication (PS306 .G9 1989)

Film
Complete Film Dictionary (PN1993.45 .K66 1989)
Film Encyclopedia (PN1993.45 .K34 1998)
Motion Picture Guide (PN1995 .N3462)
New York Times Film Reviews (PN1995 .N4 1913-Present)
Variety Film Reviews (PN1995 .V34 1907-Present)