INDEXES



INDEXES

INDEX Literary Index

Gale’s Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale, including Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Poetry Criticism.

INDEX Lexis Nexis

Lexis Nexis will provide you with full-text from newspapers around the world for up to ten years.

INDEX MLA International Bibliography

The premier scholarly index for literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from the Modern Language Association.

Electronic Resources:

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Waldo CiteSite

Serves as an aid for students who need guidance citing electronic documents in their papers using MLA, APA, Turabian, or the Chicago Manual of Style.

Academic Search Premier

The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,650 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

REF PR 19.019 1985 The oxford companion to English literature.6th ed. 2000.

REF 820.9 Ox 2000 (Bailey & Wilson)

REF 398.03 J71 1996 Larousse dictionary of world folklore. 1996

(Bailey)

REF 820.9 Sco 8 British writers. 8 vols.

(Bailey)

REF 823.809 N Victorian Novelists before 1985.

(Bailey)

REF 800.9 Ox2 The oxford companion to classical literature. 2nd ed. 1989.

REF DE 5.H31 1984 (ATS & Bailey)

REF 032.B75 Brewer’s dictionary of modern phrase and fable. 2000.

(Bailey)

REF 398.22 J13 Encyclopedia of traditional epics. 1994.

(Bailey)

REF PS 21.H3 1983 The oxford companion to American literature. 6th ed. 1995.

REF 810.9 H25 1995 (Bailey & Wilson)

REF 809.92M 27 Masterplots cyclopedia of literary characters. 2 vols. 1963.

(Bailey)

REF 803.C 89 A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory. 4th ed. 1998.

(Bailey)

BIOGRAPHIES

REF 928 ca2 Contemporary authors. vols. 1-44, 52, 54.

(Bailey)

REF 928 W89 World authors. 1950-1970

(Bailey)

On-line Resources:



The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.



Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Founded in 1970, it is the nation's largest nonprofit literary organization.



Writer's Digest is the world's leading magazine for writers, founded in 1920. Writer's Market, the bible for writers seeking to publish their work, was first published in 1921. Together, they form the foundation of a wide range of informational, instructional and inspirational offerings for writers. Today those offerings include a variety of books, magazines, special interest publications, educational courses, conferences, Web sites and more.



Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host an annual convention and other meetings, work with related organizations, and sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For over a hundred years, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.



The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.



This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,883 unedited, 1,004 fully edited and encoded) by 1,450 authors.



This site combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Nothing replaces a quality library, but hopefully this site will help fill the needs of those who have not access to one.

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