Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (Electronic Databases)
- Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature (xreferplus)
- Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (xreferplus)
- Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
- Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
- Literature Resource Center
- Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Dictionary of Writers and their Works
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (Internet Resources)
- Allibone"s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Searchable digital copy of 1859-71 edition from the Making of America project.
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Searching the Library Catalogue
Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - Canada, Canad?, histor?, etc.
Search tips
| Truncation symbol: | ? | e.g. histor? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words history, histories, historical, etc. |
| Phrase searching: | "___" | e.g. "United Nations" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase United Nations |
| Boolean operators: | (), AND, OR, NOT default: AND | e.g. history AND (Canada OR "United States") will retrieve catalogue records containing the word history AND either Canada OR the phrase United States |
Get more catalogue search tips.
Searching Using Subject headings
Often keywords--natural language terms--are too diverse to round up everything in the catalogue on your topic.
To overcome this problem, once you have found some relevant items by searching using your own words, click on the title and examine the full view of each, especially the section called "LC Subject", where you will find the uniform subject heading used for your topic, and then redo your search using the "Subject begins with ..." option.
Core and Additional Databases
Periodical Indexes, Bibliographies, Full-text Databases
- ABELL Online (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
- British Humanities Index
- Essay & General Literature Index Online
- JSTOR
- Literature Resource Center (Gale)
- MLA Bibliography
- Project MUSE
- Waterloo Directory of English Periodicals and Newspapers 1800-1900
- Humanities Full Text (Wilson)
- English Short Title Catalogue
- Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 2001-
- Year's Work in English Studies, 2001-
Multidisciplinary Databases
Including literature-related material.
- ArticleFirst (OCLC)
- Electronic Collections (OCLC)
- ProQuest Research Library
Selected Internet Sites
Accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
- McGill University Department of English
- Internet for English
A tutorial from the Virtual Training Suite designed for UK higher education. - Literary Resources on the Net
Maintained by Jack Lynch, Asst. Prof. of English, Rutgers University.
- Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature
- EServer: Accessible Online Publishing
Links to a variety of resources in field of English literature (among other subjects): full texts, journals, literary theory, gender criticism, etc.
- Literary Index (Gale)
Master index to every literary series published by Gale, many of which are located in the McLennan Reference collection and/or at the Literature Resource Center (Gale) and including Contemporary Authors , Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Something About the Author, Shakespearean Criticism, and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. - Romantic Chronology
Database searchable by date and/or topic, of historic and literary personnages, events, and movements in the romantic period (17th - 19th century), with links to online articles, bibliographies, web pages, historical and literary sources, etc. - Online Literary Criticism
- Twentieth-century Authors
- Luminarium: Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
- Online Chaucer Bibliography
Includes materials from the Annotated Chaucer Bibliography published annually in Studies in the Age of Chaucer. - Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
- Old English at the University of Virginia
Includes Old English Aerobics, a series of texts and exercises for students of old English. - Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
Ca. 20 consecutive years of Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Concordances (Internet Resources)
- Web Concordances
For selected works by Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. - Victorian Literary Studies Archive: Hyper-Concordance
To works of over 100 authors.
Other Resources
Library Guides
- English Literature: A Selective List of Reference Sources
- Literature and the Bible: A Selected List of Reference Sources
- English Language books Printed Before 1700: A Guide to Their Location (ed. 1974; corrected 1977)
Print copy only, available at the McLennan Reference Desk. - English Literature: A Guide to Serial Bibliographies (1981)
Print copy only, available at the McLennan Reference Desk. - English Literature Reference Sources (1992)
Print copy only, available at the McLennan Reference Desk.
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