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Articles (from journals)
MLA International Bibliography (Gale)
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore... [more info]
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Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Literature Criticism Online (LCO) provides access to 9 individual titles that represent a range of modern... [more info]
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Articles (from magazines)
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States... [more info]
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Books / Book Chapters
African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature. [more info]
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Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications... [more info]
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Primary Sources
ArchiveGrid (OCLC)
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories... [more info]
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19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
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Reference Information
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Gale's Literature Resource Center provides selected biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on various literary figures.... [more info]
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete (Gale)
Essays outlining the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres, and summarizes the critical response to their work... [more info]
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Biography
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Gale's Literature Resource Center provides selected biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on various literary figures.... [more info]
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete (Gale)
Essays outlining the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres, and summarizes the critical response to their work... [more info]
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Dissertations
Dissertation Abstracts Online with Digital Dissertations (ProQuest)
Indexing, abstracts, and full text for doctoral dissertations and master's theses... [more info]
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Drama
Alexander Street Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender... [more info]
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American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press)
Full text database of over 1,000 film scripts digitized and thoroughly indexed... [more info]
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Letters & Diaries
Alexander Street Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender... [more info]
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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs... [more info]
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Literary Criticism
MLA International Bibliography (Gale)
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Literature Criticism Online (LCO) provides access to 9 individual titles that represent a range of modern... [more info]
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Manuscripts
Dictionary of Old English Corpus (University of Michigan)
A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts... [more info]
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News Articles
19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state... [more info]
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Poetry
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900... [more info]
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Alexander Street Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender... [more info]
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Reviews
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (HW Wilson)
Indexes articles on linguistics and literary criticism that were published between 1907 and 1984. [more info]
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JSTOR
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics... [more info]
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Videos
LEO Library Catalog (JMU)
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Internet
Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)
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Campus/Remote, PN1657 .T4 Internet
Websites
English Short Title Catalogue
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In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Alexander Street Press)
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials... [more info]
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Related Subjects
( 428-1100 ) Old English/Anglo-Saxon
(1100-1500) Middle English
(1500-1700) Early Modern
16th Century Literature
17th Century Literature
18th Century Literature
19th Century Literature
20th Century Literature
21st Century Literature
American Literature
British Literature
Linguistics
World Literature
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Articles (from journals)
Articles (from magazines)
Biography
Books / Book Chapters
Dissertations
Drama
Letters & Diaries
Literary Criticism
Manuscripts
News Articles
Poetry
Primary Sources
Reference Information
Reviews
Videos
Websites
Literature Librarian's Lists of Resources:
English 235 - English Lit I
English 236 - English Lit II
English 239 - The Novel
English 239 - World Literature
English 247 - American Lit I
English 248 - American Lit II
English 248 - Martin
English 260 - African American Lit.
English 299 - Rebhorn
English 299 - Writing about Literature
English 315 - 17th c. poetry
English 334 - Contemporary Drama
English 362
English 381 - Intro to Film
English 383 - Film
English 393 - The Rebels
English 396 - Advanced Composition
English 432 - African Literature
English 457 - Shakespeare
English 512E - The Novel
English 620 - Shakespeare
GHUM 200 - Martin
Honors 300N - Lit & Psychoanalysis
IDLS 400 - Latin Am. Families
Contact the Literature Librarian:
Melissa Van Vuuren