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Research Resources for British Literature*

Journal Articles

EBSCO Academic Search Premier

A multidisciplinary database with full-text articles. You can find scholarly articles by checking the box to the left of the option, "Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals". Academic Search Premier contains many major peer-reviewed journals in British Literature, including: Studies in Philology, Studies in English Literature, Translations and Literature, and many others. 

 

Identifying Books in the library catalog


To find items on a specific aspect of British Literature topics, do a Word search for and keywords related to your topic. For example:

  • British Literature and woolf

  • British literature and forster

Reference Books

Available online through Oxford Reference Center

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer. Oxford university Press, 2007. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 

A well-established bestseller, this indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature has been fully revised and updated for the third edition. It covers world fiction, historical context, writers, works, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. 

The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drabble. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 

In addition to the extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters, there are sixteen featured essay-style entries on key topics including black British literature, fantasy fiction, and modernism

Web Sites

Literary Index of Vanderbilt University
Good assessment of significant literary resources available on the WWW with connections to recommended sites. A Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature.

Voice of the Shuttle
A major site listing connections to literary sites concerned with English and American Literature, Minority Literature, and other English literary classifications by genre or country. Compiled by Professor Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara.