Resource Guide:
English Literature
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- African American Authors
- American Fiction
- American Literature
- American Poetry
- American Wit and Humor
- English Literature
- English Literature 19th Century
- English Literature Bibliography
- English Literature Old English
- English Literature Early Modern
- Poetry
- Poetry History and Criticism
- Indians of North America in Literature
- Literary Movements
- Authorship
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- American Literature
- American Litarary History
- American Poetry Review
- Contemporary Literature
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- English Literary History
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Modern Fiction Studies
- New Literary History
- Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Review of English Studies
- Shakespeare Quarterly
- Studies in American Fiction
- Yale Journal of Criticism
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill | PS 310 .D42 V46 |
| Six poets from the mountain south | PS 261 .L36 2010 |
| Winds of will : Emily Dickinson and the sovereignty of democratic | PS 1514 .Z5 C755 |
| Actions and objects from Hobbes to Richardson | PR 448 .P5 K73 |
| Narratives and narrators : a philosophy of stories | P 302.7 .C87 |
| Unoriginal genius : poetry by other means in the new century | PN 1271 .P47 |
| The reconstruction of Mark Twain | PS 1342 .S58 F853 |
| The nets of modernism : Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce | PR 888 .M63 E45 |
| The Routledge companion to children's literature | PN 1009 .A1 R68 |
| Chasing the white whale: the Moby-Dick marathon ; or, what Melville means today | PS 2384 .M62 D69 |
| The Cambridge history of American literature | PS 92 .C34 |
| A glossary of literary terms | PN 41 .A2 |