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• Journal Indexes
• Reference Works
• Bibliographic Resources
• Full-Text Primary Resources
• Full-Text Secondary Resources

Journal Indexes

English Language Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)[Web of Science] Chaucer Bibliography Online Current Biography Dissertation Abstracts EBSCO: Academic Search Premier Film and Television Literature Index Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 Index to Film Periodicals (FIAF) International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) - Full-Text International Medieval Bibliography Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance JSTOR Literature Compass Literature Criticism Online Literature Resource Center Media History Digital Library MLA Directory of Periodicals MLA International Bibliography Project MUSE Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, Series 2 Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

Non-English Language French FRANCIS German Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) DigiZeitschriften IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur/ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences KLG Online: Das Kritische Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese Chicano Database Portal de Portales Latindex Portal de Revistas Electrónicas from the Complutense University in Madrid Americanismo El Colegio de Mexico: Revistas Dialnet RedALyc: La Red de Revistas Científicas de Américan Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal Scielo: Scientific Electronic Library OnlineOxford Bibliographies: Latin American Studies Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980 Revistes catalanes amb Accés Obert (RACO) Publicaciones Científicas Digitales de la Universidad Central de Venezuela  Portal Europeo de América Latina HAPI

 

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Reference Works

• Biography Resource Center

• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

• Contemporary Authors (in Literature Resource Center)

• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (in Literature Resource Center)

• Credo Reference

• Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online

• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

• Modern American Poetry (MAPS)

• Magill OnLiterature

• Middle English Compendium

• NoveList

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)

• Oxford English Dictionary Online

• Something About the Author

• WATCH: Writers and Their Copyright Holders

• William Shakspere's Small Latine & Lesse Greeke

 

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Full-Text Primary Resources

English Language 19th-Century British Library Newspapers 19th-Century Collections Online 19th-Century UK Periodicals 20th Century African-American Poetry African-American Poetry (1760-1900) American National Biography American Poetry Full-Text Database The American West Archive of Americana (READEX) Bible in English Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) Black Drama, Second Edition Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads British Periodicals The Carlyle Letters Online Confidential Print: North America DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks Defining Gender, 1450-1910 Dickens: Letters Dictionary of Old English Corpus Early American Fiction 1789-1850 Early English Books Online (EEBO) EEBO-TCP Early English Prose Fiction Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Eighteenth Century Journals ECCO-TCP Eighteenth Century Fiction English Broadside Ballads Archive (EBBA) English Poetry English Drama Everyday Life & Women in America The First World War: Personal Experiences The Grand Tour Illustrated London News Archives India, Raj & Empire Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Jewish Life in America Literary Manuscripts (Leeds) London Low Life The Making of America The Making of the Modern World Medieval Family Life Medieval Travel Writing The Modernist Journals Project MONK The On-Line Books Page PennSound Perdita Manuscripts Periodicals Archive Online Popular Culture in Britain and America ProQuest Historical Newspapers Representative Poetry On-Line Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape Sabin Americana Digital Archive Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period The Shakespeare Collection (Shakespeare) Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (Shakespeare) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Shakespeare Quartos Archive Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice The Sunday Times Digital Archive Times Literary Supplement Digital Archive Twentieth Century Drama Victorian Popular Culture Victorian Women Writers Project W.B. Yeats Collection The Willa Cather Archive Women in the National Archives Women Writers Project Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

Non-English French ARTFL Project BiblioNet: Cent classiques de la littérature française Textes & contextes: bases littéraires du XIIe au XXe siècle WESS Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature Gallica Théatre du grand siècle FT (Via ARTFL) Autour du romantisme: le roman, 1792-1886 La Critique littéraire de Laharpe à Proust Romanciers réalistes et naturalistes: 1820-1910 German Bertolt Brechts Werke: Jubiläumsausgabe im WWW Die Bibel, Martin Luther Translation Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker Die deutsche Lyrik in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek Goethe Werke Kafkas Werke im WWW Luthers Werke im WWW NietzscheSource Spanish, Iatlian & Portuguese Biblioteca Virtul del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Chicano Database Biblioteca Italiana Zanichelli Scittori d'Italia laterza Cantar de mio cid Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Libro Medieval Iberia Parnaseo PhiloBilblon

 

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Bibliographic Resources

• ArchiveGrid

• English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

• The MLA Directory of Periodicals

• World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

• WorldCat

 

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Full-Text Secondary Sources

These are electronic books on literature, language, and critical theory.

General

• After Criticism
• Basic Elements of Narrative
• Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters
• Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies
• Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
• Critical Terms for Literary Study
• A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
• The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory
• Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms
• Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
• Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography
• Generaciones' Narratives: the Pursuit and Practice of Traditional and Electronic Literacies on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
• A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires
• A History of Feminist Literary Criticism
• Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work
• In Defense of Reading
• Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature
• Literary Biography
• Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts: an Introduction
• The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
• New York Review of Books
• Technological Ecologies & Sustainability
• Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World
• Transnational Literate Lives in Literate Times
• Uses of Literature

American Literature

• Adventures in Realism
• African-American Writers: A Dictionary
• The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
• Companion to Emily Dickinson
• Companion to Henry James
• Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900-1950
• A Companion to William Faulkner
• Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900-1950
• Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
• Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
• Encyclopedia of African-American Writing
• Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
• Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature
• Herman Melville: An Introduction

Language and Linguistics

• Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy: an Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
• Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics
• Dictionary of Languages
• Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
• Word Origins
• For more, consult the Linguistics Guide

Other Literatures

• Dictionary of Italian Literature
• Encyclopedia of German Literature
• Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003
• A History of South African Literature

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