English Resources

Books and Media

Earlham Libraries Catalog
Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).

Early English Books Online
Full text of almost 100,000 books published between 1475-1700.

WorldCat
The world's largest library catalog, covering books and other materials available in OCLC member libraries around the globe.

Articles

MLA International Bibliography
Modern Language Association's index to international journal and books on literature, linguisitics, languages, folklore, and film studies, 1926 to present.

Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.

JSTOR
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Periodicals Archive Online
Full text of 425 journals and magazines covering all topics dating back to the 1800s. Coverage ends at 1995.

Project MUSE
Full text of over hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities dating back to the 1990s.

The Year's Work in English Studies
Review articles of scholarly books and articles dealing with English-language literature published in a given year.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
Review articles of scholarly books and articles that deal with "theory", for want of a better word, including chapters on film studies and queer theories.

American Periodicals Series (APS) Online
Full text of over 1100 magazines that began publishing in the USA between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary journals, children's and women's magazines, and more. Coverage extends to 1940 at the latest. The material herein can usually be considered "primary documents."

British Periodicals
Full text of over 70 magazines published in Britain from the 1680s to the 1930s. The material herein can usually be considered "primary documents."

 

Reference

Literature Resource Center
A database containing reference works, book reviews, and articles from over 100 scholarly journals. For general articles from the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the Gale Criticism sets, see the "Biographies" section under each author.

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Online version of the Oxford University Press title (2006).

Blackwell Reference Online
Contains the complete texts of nearly 300 Blackwell Publishing reference books arranged by subject. Literature examples include Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Companion to the Victorian Novel, and Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. History examples include Companion to American Women's History, Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages, and Companion to Postcolonial Studies.

Literary Index
Indexes the printed bio-bibliographic and literary criticism sets in Lilly Library's reference collection published by Gale Research, Inc.

LitFinder
Consists of two databases, PoemFinder and StoryFinder. Use them to locate where individual poems or stories are collected in published works. Includes the full text of thousands of poems and stories, as well.

Oxford English Dictionary
Current, online version of the famous dictionary.

Oxford Reference Online
Contains the complete texts of over 100 Oxford University Press dictionaries and reference titles, including 16 titles in literature.

See also the Resources by Subject page for History, for links to reference works that can provide historical and cultural background for literary study.

Web Sites

eChaucer
Texts, translations, concordances, links, and other resources by Gerard NeCastro at the University of Maine.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Harvard's page of resources for the undergraduate study of Chaucer. Includes interlinear translations and sound files.

Literary Market Place
The online directory of the book publishing industry, with information about publishers, agents, wholesalers, etc.

The Poetess Archive: Writing by Men and Women, British and American, 1750-1900
Access to the creative work of popular "sentimental" poets (frequently women), whose poems were often overlooked by both academics and the literary establishment. The site also includes criticism and scholarship concerning these poets.

Wright American Fiction
Attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors. Courtesy of Indiana University.