English Literature Resources

This selection of specialized resources in English Literature is designed to help you navigate through the wealth of information in Fondren's collections. It is not a comprehensive list. Click here to access guides in other disciplines.

Indexes & Databases

online | print & CDROM

Online Indexes

ABELL [Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature] | includes Full Text

ABELL indexes scholarly articles, doctoral dissertations, books and reviews concerning English language, literature, bibliography and folklore published anywhere in the world. (1991-)

America: History and Life

Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This extensive database indexes over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, this database indexes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. (1964-)

American National Biography | includes Full Text

Biographical treatments for significant American figures. An "American" is loosely defined as someone whose significant actions occurred during his or her residence within what is now the United States or whose life or career directly influenced the course of American history. The only invariant rule is that all subjects must have died prior to 1996.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index see Web of Knowledge

 

Dissertations and Theses - A&I | includes Full Text

Proquest Dissertations and Theses - A&I database includes citations for masters and doctoral dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. The full text of dissertations and theses (Rice, 1918- ) may also be downloaded free of charge.

Film and Television Literature Index | includes Full Text

Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Historical Abstracts | includes Full Text

Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.

Humanities International Complete | includes Full Text

Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. The database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.

International Medieval Bibliography (Note down-loadable IMB-fonts for non-Arabic characters in indexed literature)

The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America, with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies. (1981-)

Iter Gateway to the Renaissance

Includes a journals database, which includes approximately 135,000 records from scholarly journals pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and Middle Ages (400-1500), as well as a monographs database (under construction), which acts as a bibliography of monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, the Middle Ages (400-1500).

JSTOR | includes Full Text | Source List

JSTOR provides online, fulltext access to over 300 core scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)

Modern Language Association Bibliography (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text

This bibliography covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide between 1926 and the present. The MLA Bibliography is updated ten times per year. (1926-)

Nineteenth Century Index - C19 | includes Full Text

C19 Index is the bibliographic spine of 19th century research, providing integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives. Users of C19 Index can query its 9 collections simultaneously, or can conduct more detailed research using collection specific search screens. The database includes the following indexes: ArchivesUSA, American Periodicals Series [journals on microfilm], House of Commons Parliamentary Papers [fulltext available], Nineteenth Century [books on microfilm], Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, Palmer's Index to the Times, Periodicals Index Online, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals. (1800-1899)

Nineteenth Century Masterfile (Series I and V)

Within Series I are the main multi-title, periodical indices, spanning nearly all Anglo-American periodicals of the late eighteenth through early twentieth century. PP reproduces the indexing from: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1907), Index to Periodicals (1890-1902) (Ed. William T. Stead), Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals, Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1890-1899), ... and many more. Series V provides online access to the Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U.S., 1774-1882, Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons (1803-1830) and Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords (1803-1830).

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Paratext) Index to nineteenth century U.S. periodicals. See Nineteenth Century Masterfile

Reader's Guide Retrospective | includes Full Text

A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of late 19th through 20th century America. (1890-1982)

Royal Historical Society Bibliography

The Royal Historical Society's online bibliography provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. All titles in the Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliographies of British and Irish History for the years 1993-2002 are included in the online data. (55B.C. -)

Web of Knowledge previously known as Web of Science | includes Full Text

The Web of Science is an integrated database of three citation indexes: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). SCI and SSCI have searchable author abstracts and each database may be searched by a variety of other accesses including who the author cites. WOS permits searching one or more of the three databases. SCI on WOS coverage is from 1900 to date. SSCI indexes material from 1956 to date. AHCI indexes materials from 1975 to date. Includes ISIHighlyCited: a directory of over 250 eminent researchers in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences. (minimum 1975- (see description))

Women's Studies International

Includes over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts (1984-), Women's Studies Database, New Books on Women & Feminism, WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies, Women, Race, & Ethnicity: A Bibliography, The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines, European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography and Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research. (1972-)

WorldCat (courtesy of Texshare) (via FirstSearch)

WorldCat is a combined catalog for over 18,000 libraries worldwide. The information is updated daily. [See also Worldcat.org which presents the same data with an interface similar to familiar search engines, and which is freely available to any internet user.]

Print & CDROM Indexes

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog (CDROM)

Call Number:  Z2013 .N573 1996  STACKS

A record of the books printed from 1801-1919 in Great Britain, its colonies, and the US. The full texts of the sources listed are on microfilm--get location information by searching by title in WebCat.

(Other available formats:  Printed volumes at Z2013 .N56 1984 (reference).)

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 (CDROM)

Call Number:  AIe.W45 1999  REFERENCE DESK

An index to the contents of Victorian periodicals.

(Other available formats:  Z2005.H5 (5 volumes in Reference stacks))

Newspapers

New York Times

Print Holdings:  current issues retained until microfilm received

Call Number:  AN2.N4 N4

Microform Holdings:  1851- on microfilm

Online Coverage for Rice:  1851-1999 full-image via Historical NYTimes; 1980-current full-text via Academic Universe

Times (London)

Print Holdings:  current issues retained until microfilm received

Call Number:  AN3 .T5

Microform Holdings:  1785- on microfilm

Online Coverage for Rice:  currently 1785-1985 full-image via Times Digital Archive; 7/1985-current full-text via Academic Universe

Notes: Further indexing: microfilm index covers back to 1790; Palmers Index (CDROM) covers 1790-1905 (Ref-Desk)

Online Text Collections

African American Poetry: 1750-1900

Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century

When complete, this archive will contain the full text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Coverage includes: The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder. (database description)

American Drama

When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. At present, American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.

American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 : Early 1500s - Early 1900s

Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.

American Poetry Database

Contains the complete works of more than 200 American writers, from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century. The database contains over 35,000 poems, and is based on the Bibliography of American Literature, Yale University Press, 1955-1991.

American Verse Project: pre-1920

The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

Black Drama: 1850 to Present

Black Drama contains 207 plays by 64 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,200 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before. The database will also include many more resources and related material.

British Poetry 1780-1910

An Internet-accessible electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780-1910.

Early American Fiction

Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 440 titles by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library.

Early American Imprints: Series I, Evans (via publisher): 1639-1801 | Early American Imprints: Series I, Evans (via University of Michigan)

Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Early American Imprints: Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker: 1801-1819

Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this rich primary source collection provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.

Early English Books Online (page images only) | Early English Books (full text searchable)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). The Early English Books Tract Supplements will also be added to EEBO soon. The works in this collection are presented as images, which may be viewed online, or downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line. To view the images online, you will need the DjVu plugin. Downloaded files are in Adobe Acrobat format.

Early English Prose Fiction

The Early English Prose Fiction collection contains over 200 works of prose fiction dating from 1500-1700. It includes Elizabethan fiction, Jest Books, collections of short pieces and novellas, Restoration fiction and works of popular fiction.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare: 1591-1911

Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online: 1701-1800

Guide

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is one of the largest sources of rare materials ever collected in microfilm and electronic formats. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.

Eighteenth Century Journals & Newspapers: 1699-1812

A selection of materials from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. The titles chosen from HRC for this project have been screened carefully against Early English Books Online, Early English Newspapers, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online so that there is no duplication whatsoever with these projects. The material reproduced in this new digital project covers many rare items not held by the British Library.

Empire Online: 1492-1962

This project is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007 offering over 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field. These are: Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (March 2003); Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire (March 2004); Section III: The Visible Empire (Winter 2004/5); Section IV: Religion and Empire (Winter 2005/6); and Section V: Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969 (Winter 2006/7).

English Poetry Database

Guide

The English Poetry Database offers a comprehensive, searchable anthology of English poetry from 600 to 1900. Both well-known and lesser-known poets are represented, including: Matthew Arnold, Anne Bradstreet, George, Lord Byron, William Cowper, John Donne, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Christina Rossetti, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, and Oscar Wilde.

English Prose Drama: 1280-1915

English Prose Drama contains more than 1,600 plays written by more than 350 different authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The database includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas.

English Verse Drama

Guide

A searchable database of more than 1,700 dramatic works in verse, authored by approximately 450 authors, from the late 13th century through the end of the 19th century.

Godey's Lady's Book: 1830-1885

Published from 1830-1880 in Philadelphia, Louis Antoine Godey's publication initially included extensive fashion descriptions and plates, biographical sketches and articles about a variety of subjects. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine and contained works by significant 19th century authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

HarpWeek (Civil War and Reconstruction Units): 1857-1877

Electronic access to Harper's Weekly 1857-1877.

LION: Literature Online

Literature Online combines hundreds of thousands of fully-searchable texts, with reference works, bibliographies and catalogues on a single site, and provides hypertext links to relevant resources on other websites. Collections include: African-American Poetry (1750-1900), American Poetry (1600-1900), American Drama, Early American Fiction, Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700), Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911), Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780), English Drama (1280-1915), English Poetry (600-1900), Faber Poetry Library (20th century), Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Twentieth Century African American Poetry (1901-1997), Twentieth Century American Poetry, and Twentieth Century English Poetry.

Literary Theory

Literary Theory traces the history of literary theory and criticism from Plato to the present. It contains over 800 works by more than 350 writers. Among the works included are: formal treatises on criticism, essays and manifestos, literary prefaces, theories of imagination, taste and aesthetics, and major examples of contemporary theory.

Nineteenth Century Fiction

250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950

Release 1 (2001) includes the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years.

Past Masters

Rice's access to this collection includes works by the following authors and the following packages: Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Jane Austen, A.J. Ayer, Jeremy Benthem, George Berkeley (Bishop of Clyne), Robert Boyle, British Philosophy: 1600-1900, Charlotte Brontë, Fanny Burney, John Calvin, Samuel Coleridge, R.G. Collingwood, The Continental Rationalists, Anne, Conway, Charles Darwin, Donald Davidson, John Dewey, René Descartes, John Dewey, Charles Dickens, The Eighteenth Century, Frederick Engels, Adam Ferguson, Johann Fichte, William Gladstone, Thomas, Hardy, Georg Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanual Kant, Kierkegaard, G. W. Leibniz, John Locke, Martin Luther, Katherine Mansfield, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, Modern Era (1800-1950), Nietzsche, William of Ockham, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Charles Sanders Peirce, Plato, Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill, Alexander Pope, Romantic Age, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henry Sidgwick, Adam Smith, Herbert Spencer, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Max Weber, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wordsworths (Letters of) and William Butler Yeats. See the database for specific titles.

Renaissance Electronic Texts

A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works.

Sabin Americana

"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere."

TIMEA - Travelers in the Middle East Archive

Between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, Europeans and Americans traveled to the Middle East to conduct archaeological expeditions, tour religious sites, explore foreign cultures, and pursue geopolitical aims. A rich body of literature and images documents these travels, providing invaluable resources for scholars and students in disciplines ranging from English literature and Women's Studies to Classical, Middle Eastern and Medieval archaeology, religion, and history. By building an archive focused on the Middle East, TIMEA will provide greater access to rare materials, offer sophisticated analytical tools, and enable new modes of scholarship focused on textual, visual, and geographical information. (Via Rice Dspace)

Twentieth Century African American Poetry

A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Features 10,000 poems by around 70 of the most important African-American poets of the last century.

Twentieth Century American Poetry

An ever-growing database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 12,000 poems drawn from 133 volumes by 104 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song.

Twentieth Century English Poetry

A collection of 594 volumes of poetry by 282 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

Victorian Women Writers Project: 1800-1900

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

Women Writers Online

A product of the Women Writers Project, this "textbase" includes the several hundred texts from women authors from 1400 through 1850. Introductions to the works, contextual and topical essays also are available.

Microform Sets

Early English Books (Pollard & Redgrave) 1475-1640

Call Number:  PR 1105.U5  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series & individual titles

Guide:  Reel guides & comprehensive catalog; Also refer to Pollard and Redgrave. A Short-Title Catalog… Z2002.P77 1976 Ref.

Received as published. Also available online (on proxy) as EEBO at http://www.rice.edu/fondren/collections/electr/restricted/bkshld_eebo.html See record at http://www.rice.edu/fondren/collections/electr/etexts.html

Early English Books (Wing) 1641-1700

Call Number:  PR 1105.U51  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series & individual titles

Guide:  Reel guides & comprehensive catalog; Also refer to Wing. Short-Title Catalog… Z2002.W5 1994 Ref

Received as published. Unit 108 missing. Also available online (on proxy) as EEBO at http://www.rice.edu/fondren/collections/electr/restricted/bkshld_eebo.html See record at http://www.rice.edu/fondren/collections/electr/etexts.html

Eighteenth Century 1701-1800 (English language)

Call Number:  PR 1105.U52  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series & individual titles

Guide:  comprehensive guides through unit 106

Received as published.

English and American Drama of the Nineteenth Century: American; English

Call Number:  PN 6111.N5  microprint

Library Catalog Access:  microprint titles

Guide:  cumulative

Continued in microfiche by Nineteenth Century Drama

Nineteenth Century Drama (Continues English and American Drama of the Nineteenth Century

Call Number:  PN 6111.N5  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  Author-title checklists through July 1995

Received as published. Variant titles; Nineteenth Century English Drama, Nineteenth Century American Drama

Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts

Call Number:  PR 1304.N55  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title w/ contents

Guide:  Detailed reel guide & notes

Three Centuries of English and American Plays

Call Number:  PN 6111.W4  microprint

Library Catalog Access:  series & individual titles

Guide:  Checklist of plays by author & title

For information on these and other microform sets see List of Major Microform Sets. All microforms are located in the Government Publications and Microforms Department, Fondren basement.

Reference Works

American National Biography. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. Oxford University Press: 1999.

Available Online

Call Number:  CT213 .A68 1999   REFERENCE

Biographical treatments for significant American figures. An "American" is loosely defined as someone whose significant actions occurred during his or her residence within what is now the United States or whose life or career directly influenced the course of American history. The only invariant rule is that all subjects must have died prior to 1996. (Online version updated quarterly with new articles and illustrations.)

Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

This abridged and updated edition of the acclaimed Oxford Companion to African American Literature presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works.

Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature

This concise version contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

This comprehensive guide spans sixteen centuries of the literature and literary culture of Ireland. From the ogam alphabet in the 4th century, to contemporary writers.

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this book gives clear explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. It is fully updated to include terms that have become prominent in the last few years, including antanaclasis, cohesion, focalization, log-rolling, and raisonneur. Terms from languages and literature other than English are given, as are pronunciation guides for over 200 difficult terms.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Criticism on the works of authors alive between 1960-current time. Each entry includes a biographical essay on the author's life, works and importance and a selection of reviews and critical essays.

Other available formats:  Print version: PN771 .C59

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Lengthy essays on literary figures that integrate information on authors' lives with critical discussion of their works. Until recently, only authors writing in English were included. Print volumes are worth looking at for illustrations of authors, their homes and haunts, and their manuscripts.

Other available formats:  Print: PS21.D5

Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: 2004.

Available Online

Call Number:  DA28 .O95 2004   REFERENCE

50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.

Dictionary of National Biography. (CDROM) Oxford University Press: 1995.

Call Number:  DA28 .D5 1995    REFERENCE DESK

Biographical information on dead individuals in Great Britain and its colonies.

Other available formats:  Print: Ref DA28 .D47 1949

Dictionary of Old English Corpus

The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.

Dictionary of Shakespeare. Revised ed. ed. Stanley Wells. Oxford University Press: 1998.

Available Online

Call Number:  PR2892 .W44 1998    STACKS

Lexikon des Mittelalters online

The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Users can perform automatic bibliographic searches in the International Medieval Bibliography Online.

Literary Research Guide. 4 ed. Harner, James L.. The Modern Language Association of America: 2002.

Call Number:  REF PR83.H372002   REFERENCE

Lists and describes reference sources in literary research and its various subdisciplines.

Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Iam Hamilton. Oxford University Press: 1994.

Available Online

Call Number:  PR601 .O9 1994    STACKS

Oxford English Dictionary

This database contains the entire text of the 22-volume Oxford English dictionary, second edition, which merges the original OED with the supplements prepared through this century. Revisions to the second edition continue, with new entries and data added to the online version as identified.

Other available formats:  Paper (PE1625.O87 1982 REFERNCE)

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 2 ed. George Watson and I.R.Willison. Cambridge University Press: 1969-1977.

Holdings:  vols. 1-5

Call Number:  PR83 .C35 1969    REFERENCE

Bibliography of works by and about British authors writing from 600-1950. A new edition of the bibliography is being published--so far the only volume is Vol. 4, covering the years 1800-1900. In Fondren reference at PR83 .C35 1999.

Websites

English Language Resources (U. Va. EText Center)

A miscellany of digitized texts from Virginia's Electronic Text Center. Some are for UVa users only, but many are available to all.

Literary Resources on the Net

Jack Lynch, assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, maintains this exhaustive web site. Topics covered include: Medieval Renaissance, eighteenth century, Romantic, Victorian, Twentieth Century British & Irish, American Literature, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism, Ethnicities & Nationalities, Bibliography & History of the Book, and Hypertext.

Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English

Part of a massive web site that covers the humanities and related subjects. Coordinated by Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara