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English Language and Literatures Guide

Literary Research Guide by James L. Harner
Call Number: Ready Reference PR83 .H34 2008
Publication Date: 2014
This handy work lists the basic reference tools for all sorts of literary research. In the online version you can sign up for a free account and collect the resources that will help you with each research project. We have most, although not all, of the tools listed in the Guide.

MLA International Bibliography Full Text
Indexes critical scholarship in the modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
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Date Coverage: 1963-date
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Literature Online
Provides access to English language literature in reference works, bibliographies, web pages and journals.
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Formerly known as LION
Date Coverage: Varies by section
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Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than an abundance of journals and covers extensive academic disciplines and provides comprehensive content, including PDF back-files, videos, and searchable cited references.
Contains 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Date Coverage:Varies; primarily 1970s-present with some titles covering earlier dates

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Reference Collections & Portals

Encyclopedias & Handbooks

The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture
DA560 .A18 1993
A Companion to Nineteenth Century Britain
DA530 .C76 2004
The Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s
DA529 .E53 1992
Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
DA550 .V53 1988
Literary Research and the British Romantic Era: Strategies and Sources
PR457 .K44 2005
Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910: Strategies and Sources
PR461 .V35 2011
The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction
PR871 .S87 1989

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