--Annual Bibliographic Essays
American Literary Scholarship--annual bibliographic essays covering "current critical analysis of American literature." Online from 1998.
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory--annual "narrative bibliography of works in the field of critical and cultural theory." Online from 1996.
Year's Work in English Studies--annual "narrative bibliographical reviews of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English." Online from 1996.
--Journal Collections
ProjectMuse—collection of over 300 journals primarily from over 60 scholarly publishers. Beginning date of holdings varies—some as early as 1995. Includes over 100 literature journals.
E-Duke Scholarly Collection—includes the Duke titles (e.g.,American Literature) that left ProjectMuse in 2005.
JSTOR—back issues of well over 700 journals including over 75 in language and literature. Holdings usually begin 1 to 5 years ago all the way back to volume 1. Brand new (as of winter 2009): Now includes the Ireland Collection and 19th Century British Pamphlets.
Modernists Journals Project--growing collection of fulltext journals aiming to cover the Modernist period, 1890-1922. Some journals have only a few issues, but Poetry (1912-1922), New Age (1907-1922), and Wheels (1916-1921) include issues from several years. There are also single issues of over 20 journals published "on or about December 10." Links on the page are hard to find--they are under the picture/masthead on the left.
--Online Books
Cambridge Companions Online--more than 160 volumes containing specially commissioned essays. Volumes cover specific literary periods (British Romanticism), genres (crime fiction), and authors (Arthur Miller, Dickens, Chaucer). We also have access to around 100 volumes dealing with philosophy (Nietzsche, Kant). Collection describes itself as "written by experts and designed for student readers."
Brand New (as of summer 2009): Early American Imprints, Series 1: Evans, 1639-1800--This full-text historical collection contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.
--Reference Works
Oxford English Dictionary
Contemporary Authors
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Credo Reference--a collection of reference books including several for literature. Examples include Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Dictionary of Literary Symbols, Dictionary of Shakespeare. Also includes many other titles--such as Reader's Companion to American History, Dictionary of British History, How We Talk: American Regional English Today. (To find these titles specifically and many others, click on "Find a Book" from the Credo Reference search page.)
New York Times Historical —1851-2006
Brand New (as of winter 2009)--Dictionary of Literary Biography
--Current Trials (click here for list)
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