ENG 251 - Major American Authors: Colonial to 1865
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MLA
International (Modern Language Association) Bibliography (1926
to present)
- Indexes books, essays in books, articles from nearly 4000 journals, proceedings,
dissertations as listed in Dissertation Abstracts International, and other
materials; excludes book reviews. Is the most comprehensive index covering
modern languages (including computer and invented), literatures, linguistics,
and folklore since 1000 A.D.
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ABELL
(Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) (1920
to present)
- Index to books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works,
book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations on language
and literature; produced by the Modern Humanities Association (Great Britain)
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Literature
Resource Center
- Provides the fulltext of biographical and critical materials from Contemporary
Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography and portions from Contemporary
Literary Criticism and other Gale literary criticism sets covering the classical
period to the present; also provides links to author websites.
- More info
Literary Reference Center
- Provides the fulltext of literary criticism, author biographies and interviews, book reviews, plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, poem, short stories, and definitions of literary terms.
- More info
Articles (Journals, Magazines, Newspapers)
Academic Search
Premier (1984 to present)
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are
peer-reviewed).
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Academic One File (InfoTrac) (1980 to present)
- Provides indexing and abstracts to over 10,000 general periodicals and
scholarly journals
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ProQuest Research
Library (1971 to present)
- Indexes and abstracts a few thousand journals and general periodicals.
- More info
For additional resources, see English Resources.
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