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Indexes
General
Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.
Academic Search Complete 
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Subject
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry includes Granger's The Classic Hundred Poems, The Top 500 Poems, The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8-12; The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, editions 1 and 2; and The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry. Search for poems by keyword, alphabetically, author, title, first line, last line, subject, words in a poem, and by "full-text only."
Dictionary of Literary Biography Obtain biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have written, critical essays and contextual information. Search by the author's name, the title of the work, or even by the title of the periodical or journal that is part of the database.
Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.
MLA International Bibliography, a database of citations to materials in literature, linguistics and languages.
NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location. |
E-Sources
Journals
JSTOR This is an archive of scholarly journals, including several journals covering language and literature. Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.
Periodicals Archive Online - Literary Studies Collection - An online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text) offers unprecedented access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995.
Project Muse Index of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.
SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including language and linguistics (formerly Kluwer Journals).
Reference Works
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics The Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics. Special attention is given to interrelations within these branches of the field and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines. This interdisciplinary focus makes the encyclopedia an invaluable resource not only for linguistics but also for scholars working in the fields of computer science, mathematics, philosophy, the social and behavioral sciences, and literary studies.
Literature Resource Center includes contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works. Obtain over 130,000 biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have written, over 40,000 critical essays and more than 6000 work overviews, plot summaries, and explications. Search by the author's name, the title of the work, or even by the title of the periodical or journal that is part of the database
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature This award-winning Encyclopedia surveys the vibrant terrain of American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. The Encyclopedia includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes. No mere catalog of dates, events, and synopses, the Encyclopedia's articles offer historical perspective and social context along with a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach.
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature The Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant (e.g., The Stationers' Company, the sonnet, the ‘School of Night, ’ or the Sublime).
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is a comprehensive survey of one of the Western world's oldest disciplines. Its 150 entries, written by leading scholars, bring together expertise in classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications in a comprehensive treatment of the art of persuasion. The Encyclopedia is the most wide-ranging reference work of its kind, combining theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, and communication.
The Oxford English Dictionary Online On the opening screen, at the bottom left hand corner, please click on Enter OED Online. You will enter into the Second Edition of the OED. It "traces the evolution of the English language through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources."
GaleNet Databases includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Books
netLibrary collection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.
You are allowed to print one page at a time using your Web browser's print function or the print function on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar. Printing the entire eContent item violates copyright laws and precautions are taken to protect those copyright laws.
About the Catalog
Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.
Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.
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American Literature--Southern states
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English drama--History and criticism
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English language--Rhetoric
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Poets--20th century
Internet Sites
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Portraits of American Women Writers a gallery of portraits of antebellum American women writers accompanied by short sketches of their lives. Students of literature and cultural and art historians are encouraged to use this exhibit. All works cited are in the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia. The graphic images may only be reproduced with permission from the Library Company.
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African American women writers of the 19th century is a special collection prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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The CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse Alphabetically listed by title and author intermixed from Carnegie-Mellon University.
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Continental Philosophy provides links to information and sites on critical theory, cultural theory, deconstruction, existentialism, feminist theory, Marxism, post-colonialism, post-modern thought, semiotics, structuralism and other theoretical approaches.
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Famous Quotes and Authors is a useful Quotations web resource, serving as a large collection of Famous quotations for all occasions. Browse over 25,000 quotes online from over 6,700 famous authors.
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The Fiction Collection This directory contains fiction and resources collected from English Server members and public-domain collections across the Internet and is edited by Martha Cheng and Geoff Sauer.
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Literary Kicks Links to works by the best of the Beats including Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs brought together by Levi Asher.
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Literary Resources on the Net maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.
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The Making of America Project (MOA) is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. It is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Both important journals and books have been digitized.
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The On-line Books Page Search or browse by author or title, and browse over 15,000 listings.
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The New Bartleby Full-text versions of selected reference books, anthologies, fiction, and essay collections.
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The Poetry Portal is a directory or guide to the internet poetry world, a simple-to-use and comprehensive overview of what's currently online.
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Project Gutenberg Hundreds of works in "plain vanilla ASCII" text.
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Representative Poetry Online evolved from print editions of "e Representative Poetry" published by the Department of English of the University of Toronto between 1912 and 1967.
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Romantic Circles is a Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Romantic Circles is the collaborative product of an ever-expanding community of editors, contributors, and users around the world.
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Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included.
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Undergraduate Introduction to Critical Theory covers new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism and psychoanalysis and is maintained by Dino F. Felluga, professor at Purdue University.
The Middle English Compendium The Middle English Compendium, developed at the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, provides easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. Hypertext links offer quick connections between, e.g., an MED citation, bibliographical information about its source, and an electronic version of the source, if one is included in the collection, with the hope that eventually electronic versions of all the source texts will be available.
The Speech Accent Archive The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers. This archive is potentially of interest not only to linguists but also to actors and others interested in spoken English.
About the Department
Citing Sources-
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition (LB2369 .G53 2003)
Refer to the following book on Reserve:
or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct MLA citation format.
