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Reference Book

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by David Scott Kastan (Editor)
Call Number: Online in Oxford Reference
ISBN: 9780195169218
Publication Date: 2006-03-03
This five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.

Literature Specific Databases

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and around the world.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Coverage is international and includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
In addition, the MLA Directory of Periodicals and their proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors within the Bibliography are included.

British Periodicals
British Periodicals offers facsimile page images and searchable full text for approximately 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries (1681-1920). Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences and the fine arts: music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. The collection includes over 5 million pages.

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824 - 1900 This link opens in a new window
Index, with citations, to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century.

Multidisciplinary Databases

These multidisciplinary online sources include journals useful for your literature-related research.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering the Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to the full-text of over 300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.

Browse the Stacks

Want to just browse the stacks? Browse the following sections for books related to British Literature:

PN 45-245 - Theory. Criticism. Authorship
PN 441-1009.5 - Literary History
PN 1010-1525 - Poetry (theory, philosophy, treatment of, etc.)
PN 1600-3307 - Drama (treatment of, technique, etc.)

PR 1-9680 - English Literature
PR 171-236 - Anglo-Saxon
PR 251-369 - Medlieval. Middle English
PR 421-488 - Elizabethan
PR 431-439 - 17th century
PR 441-449 - 18th century
PR 451-469 - 19th century
PR 1490-1799 - Anglo-Saxon Literature
PR 1803-2165 - Early English. Middle English
PR 2199-3195 - English Renaissance (1500-1640)
PR 3291-3785 - 17th and 18th centuries (1640-1770)
PR 3991-5990 - 19th century (1770/1800-1890/1900)
PR 6000-6049 - 1900-1960
PR 6050-6076 - 1961-2000
PR 6100-6126 - 2001 -
PR 8309-9680 - English Literature: Provincial, local, etc.