English Literature

Indexes literary criticism from over 4,000 journals, along with some book chapters and dissertations. Coverage from 1920 to present.

Provides biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

Secondary/peer-reviewed and primary sources.

Scholarly essays about literature, religion, history and other topics in the humanities. It covers from the Bronze Age (3000 BCE) to the present.

Drama Online combines exclusively available playtexts, audio plays, filmed live performances, and film adaptations with scholarly publications about theatre craft, criticism, and playwrights.

Features scholarly articles and book reviews from over a thousand journals pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought across all fields of the humanities.

Scholarly articles on literary works, writers, cultural movements and historical events around the world.

Online, continuously updated version of the multivolume Oxford English Dictionary which traces the historical development of English words.

Dates: 1666 - 1989
Literary sources for the study of William Wordsworth and the Romantic period.

Archive of primary source materials related to popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Coverage from 1800 to 1928.

Dates: 1526 - 1850
Full text collection of writings of early women writers in English.

Ulrichsweb is a source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types, from academic and scholarly journals to newspapers and more. A good resource for determining if a journal is peer-reviewed.

A good place to start for most topics with a wide range of scholarly journals and articles, along with some newspaper and newsmagazine content.

Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.

Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.

Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.