English Language and Literature

Background Information Books Journal Articles  E-Journals E-Texts Evaluating Information Websites   see also Writing and Citing Tools Background Information  Dictionaries, Thesauruses and Grammars English Dictionaries and Thesauruses Oxford English Dictionary Online PE 1625 .087 1989 REF 20 volumes The Concise Oxford Dictionary The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English Roget's Internet Thesaurus PE 1591 R73 1992 REF WWWebster Dictionary Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed. PE1628 .M36 REF English Language Reference The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar Concise Oxford Companion to The English Language Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Literature and Literary Criticism Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable PN43 .B65 1995 The Cambridge guide to literature in English PR85 .C29 1993 REF The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature Dictionary of concepts in literary criticism and theory PN41 .H36 1992 REF A Dictionary of literary terms and literary theory PN41 .C83 1998 REF A Dictionary of Shakespeare A Dictionary of Writers and their Works Encyclopedia of American literature PS21 .E53 1999 REF Encyclopedia of contemporary literary theory : approaches, scholars, terms PN41 .E63 1993 REF The Oxford companion to American literature PS21 .H3 1995 REF The Oxford companion to English literature PR19 .O94 2000 REF The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Biography Contemporary Authors.  Biographical and critical essays of contemporary authors in all fields. A paper edition of this series is located in Reference PN 771 .C62 REF. The content of Contemporary Authors is also included in the Biography Resource Center database. Dictionary of Literary Biography (Call Number varies.) - An ongoing, multi-volume work that provides detailed descriptions of an author's life and work. Covers many American and European authors. A master index is available at the Reference Desk for locating individual entries. Books Search the Five College Library Catalog by author, title, keyword or subject. Browse the following LC Call Number Locations: P Linguistics PE English Language Studies PN General Literature PR Works of or about English literature PS Works of or about American literature PZ Works of or about childrens literature English Stort Title Catalog  A  union catalogue of over 460,000 books printed in English and other languages 1475-1800, held by 2,000 libraries. Journal Articles  Modern Languages Association International Bibliography (MLA) Online 1963 - present; available in print 1921 - present in Main Reference PN 161 M3 REF. Indexes over 3,000 journals and series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It also covers relevant books, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. LION: Literature Online A collection of over 350,000 full-text works of English, American, African-American and Canadian poetry, drama and prose from the 8th century to the present, with complementary criticism and reference resources. Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975 - present. Part of Web of Science. Indexes over 1,140 arts and humanities journals. You can search by cited reference (to find newer papers that refer to an earlier known work), by author, or by title keywords. Contemporary Literary Criticism Critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study. Select Contemporary Literary Criticism from the InfoTrac Collection of databases. Year's Work in English Studies (PE 58 .E6 REF) - Annual review evaluating scholarly work on the English language and literature written in English. Book Review Digest 1983 - present; available in print 1906 - present in Main Reference Z1219 .C95 REF. World Shakespeare Bibliography Online 1961 - 2009. Provides annotated entries for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, productions and adaptations, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. Interplay: an on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals "Inter-Play is an online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals and in a variety of languages. Separately-published plays are not included. Inter-Play contains approximately 19,000 citations to plays, many of which are not included in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H. W. Wilson's Play Index. The sources indexed range from the late 19th century through the current year." The search interface is somewhat primitive and authors must be entered as last name, first name. Play Index PN1655 .P53 REF. Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry  Index of poems published in poetry anthologies; poems are indexed by author, title, first line, and last line. E-Journals Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Project Muse Electronic journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Current titles include: American Literary History, Comparative Literature Studies, ELH, Emily Dickinson Journal, Journal of Modern Literature, MLN, MLQ - Modern Language Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, New Literary History, Resources for American Literary Study, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Yale Journal of Criticism. JSTOR Electronic archive (does NOT include current issues) of core journals in several academic disciplines. Titles include: Black American Literature Forum 1976-1991, American Literature 1929-1995, ELH 1934-1994, MLN 1962-1994, Modern Language Notes 1886-1961, Nineteenth-Century Literature 1986-1996, Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1949-1986, Shakespeare Quarterly 1950-1995, Speculum 1926-1995. E-Texts African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site offers the full text of several dozen works by African American women. American Verse Project Part of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, this site provides electronic versions of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The Bartleby Project literary classics and reference sources. EEBO: Early English Books Online Full-text of literary and historical classics originally published between 1475 and 1700. Digital images reflect the way the works appeared in their original printed editions. Electronic Text Center An ambitious project sponsored by the University of Virginia to be a comprehensive depository of electronic full-texts of scholarly material. The English Server A cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. Project Guttenberg An electronic archive of literary works, letters and other documents that are in the public domain. Representative Poetry Online Includes about 1,650 English poems by about 260 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century. Scholarly Publications Links to full-text academic journals, monographs and reviews from Georgetown University's Labyrinth Server for Medieval Studies. Victorian Women Writers Project. Produced at the University of Indiana, the site offers the writings of seventeen, late 19th century British women writers. Women Writers Project early modern women writers; a Brown University project. Evaluating Information Not all information resources are created equal! Be sure you think about what kind of information you are using: Who is the audience of the article or book?  The general public or scholars? Did you get it from the library's resources and databases, or from an Internet search engine? Here are some explanations to help you out: What's the difference between a scholarly journal and a popular magazine?  (From Carleton College) Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages (From Cornell University Libraries) Selected Web Sites Academy of American Poets Provides links to poetry events, mini-anthologies and sound files of more than 100 poets from Ashbery to Yeats. Literature Resources An extensive listing of American and English literary resources available on the Internet. MIT Romantic Chronology  Covers events from the 17th through the 19th centuries and provides links to numerous sites and documents. UC Santa Barbara Voice of the Shuttle Provides links to literature texts, college course syllabi and teaching resources. UC Santa Barbara