Guides: ENG 201 English Studies: Other Resources

Electronic Resources

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
Doctoral dissertations and master's theses, from 1743 to the present. Full text for most dissertations since 1997.
ProQuest E-Book Central This link opens in a new window
Includes e-books formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Foundational books in the humanities and social sciences, selected by scholars.
E-Book Collection (EBSCO)
A collection of e-books from EBSCOhost.
Overdrive
Borrow and read free e-books using your phone, tablet, or computer. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This link opens in a new window
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a service provided by the OAPEN Foundation, is a discovery service that points to open access books. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books that meet academic standards.
OpenDissertations
Open-access database of dissertations and theses from the early 20th century to now.

Poetry Foundation
The publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in culture. Includes poems, articles and biographical information on poets.
Internet Archive
Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
Literary Resources on the Net
pages maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers
Project Gutenberg
Free full-text access to thousands of electronic books on a wide variety of topics. Includes books in English as well as many different foreign languages.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
"Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing." Arranged chronologically, and includes an index to the chapters in each volume, as well as an index to the bibliographies in each chapter.

Studying English by Robert Eaglestone; With Jonathan Beecher Field
ISBN: 9781135043179
Publication Date: 2015-11-06
Presents the ideas and debates that shape literary studies in America today. This overview of the discipline explains not only what students need to know, but how and why English came to be the way it is. The book covers arguments about criticism and theory, value, the canon, Shakespeare, authorial intention, figural language, narrative, writing, identity, politics and the skills that are learned from studying English for the world of work.