English and American Literature

The major index of research pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, folklore, and film. Coverage is international. The MLAIB connects with the MLA Directory of Periodicals. (1926 to present)

This component of Literature Online (LION) indexes books, articles, book reviews and doctoral dissertations on British, American and Commonwealth literature. (1920 to present)

A range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres, offering tens of thousands of hard-to-find critical essays.

Includes selections from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Novels for Students, and Literature and Its Times.

Provides full-text access to scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. Many journals go back to their first issue. Check the issues available for individual titles.

Project MUSE offers online access to scholarly humanities, arts and social sciences journals. (Variable coverage: 1993 or later to the present.)

Academic OneFile covers a wide variety of subjects, including literature. Most of the journal articles are available in full text.

The Corpus contains all surviving Old English material, excluding some variant texts. The texts have been divided into meaningful units, usually editorial sentences.

All American imprints from the 17th and 18th centuries identified in the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and in the supplement by Roger Bristol. For Series 2 (Shaw-Shoemaker) titles, see Microfiche no. S269.5.

Contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640 (STC I) and Donald Wing's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641 to 1700 (STC II), as well as the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661.

Descriptions of English or English-language letterpress materials published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English anywhere in the world from 1473 to 1800.

The interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa in the period 400-1500.

Includes Iter Bibliography, Iter Italicum, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (e-journal), Early Theatre (e-journal), REED (Records of Early English Drama), New Technologies and Renaissance Studies, Aestimatio, Electronic Capito Project, Medici Archive Project and Baptisteria Sacra Index.

The HyperBibliography includes Middle English materials cited in the Middle English Dictionary.

High-resolution copies of every imageable page in the Corpus Christi College Library’s collection of manuscripts spanning the sixth to the sixteenth centuries as well as other resources.

Searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals, 1680s-1930s, based on the microfilm sets Early British Periodicals, English Literary Periodicals, and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles.

Simultaneously search a number of important databases related to the 19th century, including books, periodicals, archival collections, and government documents.

Works published during the 18th century, Parts I and II.

A unique archive of almost every play submitted for license between 1737 and 1824, and hundreds of documents that provide social context for the plays, including The London Stage, 1660-1800.

Monographs and periodicals, 1543-1945, collected by Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen, reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women’s rights.

A vast database covering source material dating from 1106 until 1960 (varies by source). Eight Centuries aggregates indexes, catalogs, collections, and other finding aids, and includes citations to 9,000 periodicals. Combines a number of 19th-century indexes, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature.

Aims to index all printed works published in Britain, its colonies, and the United States, all printed works in English wherever published, and all translations from English from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War.

An index to international journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, 1665-1995.

The vast majority of articles written for Victorian periodicals were published anonymously, or under pseudonyms. The index identifies the authors of articles and provides a bibliography for each contributor.