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American 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.
- America History and Life
Indexes scholarly books and articles on
all aspects of American history published since 1982. Access by topic
and century or decade as well as by the usual author and title indexes;
thorough coverage, including strong representation of social history
and cultural studies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
Last modified:
October 15, 2007
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