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ENGLISH LITERATURE RESEARCH GUIDE

SELECTED ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

SELECTED LIBRARY RESOURCES

Books

Databases*

General Sources

Journals*

Medieval Literature

Online Literature

 

 

Renaissance & 17th Century Literature

Restoration & 18th Century Literature

Romantic Period

20th Century Literature

Victorian Period

 

 

Books

Journals

 

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SELECTED ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

BOOKS

The electronic books listed below are available through the CCM Library Catalog.
 

Carter, Ronald.  The Routledge History of Literature in English : Britain and Ireland.  London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
eBook PR83 .C28 2002eb

 

Gay, David.  The Endless Kingdom : Milton's Scriptural Society Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 2002. 

eBook PR3592.P7 G39 2002eb

 

Gothic Literature : a Gale Critical Companion.  Detroit, Mich. : Thomson/Gale, 2006. 

eBook PR408.G68 G675 2006eb

 

Henry, Nancy.  George Eliot and the British Empire.  Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. 
eBook PR4692.I46 H46 2002eb

 

Justice, George.  The Manufacturers of Literature : Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England.  Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 2002.  

eBook PR448.E36 J87 2002eb

 

Morgan, Rosemarie. Cancelled Words : Rediscovering Thomas Hardy  London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. 

eBook PR4745 .M6 2002eb

 

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2006.  eBook PR19 .O95 2006eb

 

Sondergard, Sidney L.  Sharpening Her Pen : Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers.  Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 2002. 

eBook PR428.F45 S66 2002eb

DATABASES

Contemporary Authors
Literature Resource Center
Literary Reference Center
MagillOnLiterature Plus
MLA International Bibliography

Twayne's Authors Series

GENERAL SOURCES

Author Guides
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit/authors.html
Contains pointers to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers.  International in scope and alphabetical arrangement by author.

English & Scottish Literature & Language Links
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/links.htm

English Literature on the Web
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html#General

Individual Authors in English Literature
http
://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/hum/english/E_individ.html
Searchable site by author, which leads to the sites of an individual author.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Contains 3810 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Literature (in English)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
Probably the most extensive meta sites of humanities internet resources, including pages for English literature.  For individual authors, search this site by period of the author.

Literature Webliography
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit/lit.html
Contains resources for the study of literature and bibliography, library catalogs, newsgroups, periodicals, style guides, electronic books and numerous literary links.

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

JOURNALS

Languages & Literatures: English: English Literature

http://wc5ca4yl9r.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WC5CA4YL9R&N=100&S=SC&C=080219

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Anglo-Saxon & Medieval
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2740

Very extensive meta site for the study of Medieval English literature.

Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/
Good source for English Medieval literature. Includes the major works of this period, the criticisms, and other sources.

Labyrinth Library: Old English Literature
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html


Selected Major Authors

Arthur

Arthuriana
http://smu.edu/arthuriana/


Beowulf

Beowulf
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/browse-mixed?id=AnoBeow&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm

geoffreychaucer.org: An Annotated Guide to Online Resources
http://geoffreychaucer.org/
Excellent guide to Chaucer-related Web sites.

ONLINE LITERATURE

American and English Literature Online Books for Educators
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/online.htm                       
Literature collections in online book format from the Internet School Library Media Center.

Bartleby.com                                  
http://www.bartleby.com/                                                    
"Great books online".

Bibliomania
www.bibliomania.com/ 
"Extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction".

Classic Reader   
http://www.classicreader.com/  
Extensive collection of fiction, short stories, drama, and poetry.

English Language Resources
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html                          
Collection of online English language texts from the University of Virginia.

EServer.org                       
http://eserver.org/                                                                 
A varied collection of original and classic poetry, short fiction, and classics from the University of Washington.

Great Books Index
http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html      
"An index to online great books in translation."

Major Works of Literature                                             
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/works.html            
Texts of original editions from the University of Toronto English Library.

The Online Books Page  
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/    
More than 15,000 English works in various formats from the University of Pennsylvania.

An Online Library of Literature
http://www.literature.org/         
Online texts of selected classic authors.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.net/  
A web site of classic books which can be browsed by either author or title.

Reading Room
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/
The University of Maryland provides links to drama, fiction, historical documents, nonfiction, and poetry.

SearcheBooks.com                    
http://www.searchebooks.com/           
Provides links to web pages that contain online books.

RENAISSANCE AND 17TH CENTURY LITERATURE

English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/

Literary Resources -- Renaissance
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ren.html

16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

Renaissance & 17th-Century
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749


Selected Major Authors

Donne, John

John Donne (1572-1631)
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/

Marlowe, Christopher

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowe.htm

Milton, John

John Milton (1608-1674)
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/index.html

The Milton-L Home Page
http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton/

Spenser, Edmund

Edmund Spenser
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/ren.htm#spen

The Edmund Spenser Home Page
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE

Eighteenth-Century Resources
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

Restoration & 18th-Century
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2738        


Selected Major Authors

Johnson, Samuel

Samuel Johnson
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlynch/Johnson/

Swift, Jonathan

The Jonathan Swift Page
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/swift.htm

ROMANTIC PERIOD

Romantics
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750


Selected Major Authors

Austen, Jane

Jane Austen Information Page
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

Blake, William

William Blake (1757-1827)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/BLAKE.htm

The William Blake Archive
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake

Burns, Robert

Burns Country
http://www.robertburns.org/

Byron, Lord

Byron, George Gordon, Baron (1788-1824)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/BYRON.htm

Coleridge, Samuel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/COLERIDGE.htm

Keats, John

John Keats (1795-1821)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/KEATS.htm

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Percy Bysshe Shelley
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/179

Wordsworth, William

The Wordsworth Circle
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/journal/wordsworth/

20TH CENTURY LITERATURE

Contemporary
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2741

Modern
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2747


Selected Major Authors

Hardy, Thomas

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Hardy.html

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/HARDY.htm

The Thomas Hardy Association
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm

 

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/HOPKINS.htm

Joyce, James

James Joyce: From Dublin to Ithaca
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/joyce/introduction/

Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1457/

Lawrence, D. H.

D H Lawrence Resources
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/dhlawrence/

Wilde, Oscar

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/WILDE.htm

Woolf, Virginia

The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/index.html

VICTORIAN PERIOD

19th Century British and Irish Authors
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/19th-authors.html

Literary Resources - Victorian British
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlynch/Lit/victoria.html

Victorian
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2751

Victorian Studies on the Web
http://www.victoriandatabase.com/
"Indispensable resource for students and scholars of Victorian Studies."


Selected Major Authors

Arnold, Matthew

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/ARNOLD.htm

The Brontes

The Bronte Sisters Web
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/BRONTEC.htm

Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/BRONTEE.htm

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1881)
http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/Elizabeth-Barrett.html

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/DODGSON.htm

Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/DICKENS.htm

The Dickens Page
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html

The Dickens Project
http://dickens.ucsc.edu/

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (see Lewis Carroll)

The Rossettis

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/ROSSETTIC.htm

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/ROSSETTIDG.htm

Tennyson, Alfred

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/TENNYSON.htm

SELECTED LIBRARY RESOURCES                                                                             RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE

BOOKS

British Writers Classics.  New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003- .  

Reference PR85 .B75 2003

 

Elizabethan Drama.  Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004. 

Reserve PR421 .E44 2004

 

Ingledew, Francis.  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter.  Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 

PR2065.G31 I54 2006

 

Literature and Its Times.  Detroit : Gale Research, 2003. 

Reference PN50 .L574

 

Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition : Essays on the Ancient Antecedents.  Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2006. 
PR2065.G31 S567 2006

 

The Victorian Novel.  Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2004. 

Reserve PR871 .V533 2004

JOURNALS

Contemporary Literature  (1968-1994)
ELH  (1934-1993)
Essays in Criticism  (1951- )
The Explicator  (1942-1994)
Journal of Modern Literature  (1970-1993)
Modern Fiction Studies  (1955- )

Nineteenth-Century Fiction  (1945-2003)
Notes on Contemporary Literature  (1971- )
Papers on Language & Literature : PLL  (1965-1993)
The Review of English Studies  (1956- )
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900  (1961-1993)
Victorian Studies  (1957-1994)
Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature  (1960-1967)

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