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Articles (from journals)
MLA International Bibliography (Gale)
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore...
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Campus/Remote
Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Literature Criticism Online (LCO) provides access to 10 individual titles that represent a range of modern and historical views on authors, poets, dramatists.
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Articles (from magazines)
19th Century UK Periodicals (Gale)
Full text journals, magazines, and specialty newspapers that portray British life in the Victorian Age. Subscription includes
Series 1: New Readerships
and
Series 2: Empire.
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Campus/Remote
Essay and General Literature Index (EGLI) (EBSCO)
Indexes over 86,000 essays in the humanities and social sciences.
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Books / Book Chapters
African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature.
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Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications...
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Primary Sources
ArchiveGrid (OCLC / Firstsearch)
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories...
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Campus/Remote
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale)
A collection of English news media in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides from the United Kingdom collected by Reverend Charles Burney.
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Reference Information
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
New 'In Context' interface coming soon!
Gale's Literature Resource Center provides selected biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on various literary figures....
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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...
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Biography
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
New 'In Context' interface coming soon!
Gale's Literature Resource Center provides selected biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on various literary figures....
[more info]
Campus/Remote
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...
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Dissertations
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (ProQuest)
Indexing, abstracts, and full text for doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Drama
Alexander Street Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender...
[more info]
Campus/Remote
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]
Campus/Remote
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs...
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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 10 individual titles that represent a range of modern and historical views on authors, poets, dramatists.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
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Manuscripts
Dictionary of Old English Corpus (University of Toronto)
A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts...
[more info]
Campus/Remote
News Articles
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale)
A collection of English news media in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides from the United Kingdom collected by Reverend Charles Burney.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
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.
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Internet
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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...
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Alexander Street Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender...
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Reviews
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (EBSCO)
Indexes articles on linguistics and literary criticism that were published between 1907 and 1984.
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JSTOR
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, literature, etc.
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Videos
Films on Demand
A streaming video resource containing thousands of educational videos in 8 subject areas. Includes access to archival films and newsreels.
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JMU Library Catalog (LEO) (JMU Libraries)
JMU Library Catalog
(LEO) is the online catalog of materials in James Madison University Libraries.
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Internet
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Websites
English Short Title Catalogue
Indexes over 460,000 that were published between 1473 and 1800 primarily in Britain and North America.
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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.
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( 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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English 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 English Librarian:
Elizabeth Haworth
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