Research Guide: English Literature
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English Databases
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Literature Resource Center
- Critical analyses, biographies and bibliographies of literary authors. (more info)
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MLA Bibliography
- Literature, language, linguistics, folklore. (more info)
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Year's Work in English Studies
- YWES surveys the current scholarship in the field of English Literature.
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Early English Books Online - EEBO
- EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 (more info)
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online - ECCO
- ECCO delivers the full-text and page images of every significant English-language and
foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with
thousands of important works from the Americas. (more info)
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Granger's World of Poetry
- Locate a poem in an anthology published after 1981; search by title, first or last line, author or subject. (more info)
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Literature Criticism Online (a Public Library database)
- Contains series such as: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review. (more info)
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LitFinder
- LitFinder includes full text poems, stories, plays, essays, and speeches. (more info)
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Novelist
- Uses readers' favorite author, title, plot or series name to suggest the next book to read. (more info)
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Oxford Scholarly Editions (trial lasts until mid- November 2012)
- Oxford’s scholarly editions provide trustworthy, annotated texts of writing worth reading. The launch content includes hundreds of poems, plays, and prose works, written by writers active between 1485 and 1660. (more info)
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is an on-line, searchable compilation and extension of Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1878-1985, Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1985-1991, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1992-1995, including material located since publication of the last printed volume. Most material was obtained and examined by the compiler; the remainder was verified in a reliable secondary source.
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English-Related Databases
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Academic OneFile
- Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. (more info)
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Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive, scholarly, and multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. (more info)
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ARTFL Project
- nearly 3,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. (more info)
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Cambridge Histories Online
- Instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. Covers economic, political, literary, social history as well as the arts and philosophy. (more info)
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Dissertations & Theses
- Link to abstracts or citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1861 to the present day. Also includes full text of dissertations and theses produced by graduate students at Lewis & Clark. (more info)
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Essay and General Literature Index
- Indexes essays in books and anthologies. (more info)
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International Medieval Bibliography
- An interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 300-1500 A.D. (more info)
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- A citation database for journal articles and books pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for reviews of books, review articles, collections of essays, and many other types of resources are included. Updated daily. ITER also provides access to other databases, such as the Early Theatre database and the Medici Archive Project. (more info)
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JSTOR
- Use the advanced search function to search within the folklore discipline. (more info)
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Project Muse
- A unique collaboration between libraries and the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, providing 100% full-text, online access to over 400 titles from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals and nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Browse by discipline and select folklore under social sciences (more info)
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Theatre in Video
- Streaming video of 250 performances of leading plays. (more info)
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Specific Authors and Genres
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William Blake Archive
- An exhaustive and scholarly site about William Blake and his works.
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Dickinson Electronic Archives
- Devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work. The DEA is produced by the Dickinson Editing Collective, with an executive editor, a general editor, two associate editors, a project manager, and a technical editor working collaboratively with one another and with numerous coeditors, staff, and users.
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Romantic Circles
- An excellent site devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
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Literary Gothic
- The Literary Gothic is a Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-20th century.
