Warren Hunting Smith Library: English: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | ENGLISH

Keywords and Phrases

The success of your search will depend, in large part, on the keywords and phrases that you select. You can search them in combination or use the advanced search features and Boolean AND, OR & NOT to expand or narrow your results. For more savvy search tips, see the guide: How To: Begin Your Research Here. Hint: put phrases in quotations!
Here are some sample search combinations for English:

Shakespeare AND "literary criticism"
"narrative theory" OR storytelling
"Charles Dickens" AND "Victorian England"

Scholarly Articles

MLA Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles on literary criticism, languages, linguistics, film, and folklore.
Humanities Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text access to scholarly articles in the humanities discipline.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text articles in interdisciplinary subjects such as literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, and gender studies.

Ebooks

Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Ebooks from the British Isles and North America printed from 1400-1700.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of ebooks. Most (not all) are unlimited in usage.

Hathitrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository providing long-term preservation and access for public domain and in copyright content from research libraries worldwide. Hathi offers over 10 million volumes with 33% available full-text.

Oxford University Press Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Full text ebooks from university press publishers.
Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
This collection has a plethora of titles devoted to literature.

Fiction and Folklore

American Periodical Series, 1741-1940 This link opens in a new window
Full text coverage of early popular American magazines published from colonial days to the early 20th century.
Atlantic Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Back files of the Atlantic Magazine from 1857 - 2014.
Black Short Fiction & Folklore This link opens in a new window
Texts of short fiction by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Streaming Video

English in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The online version of the classic OED is a great source for the study of words and their usage.

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