Subject Resource Guide for English Literature

Selected and updated by reference librarians in support of the TC3 English Program. Selection criteria include quality, content, reliability and currency.

Electronic Databases

Tompkins Cortland Community College Library subscribes to a number of Electronic Databases which provide access to abstracts or full-text articles from journals and newspapers. Those that would be useful for locating material on English literature include Literature Resource Center, Proquest, InfoTrac OneFile and WilsonSelectPlus. You can also consult our list of Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings. To request books through interlibrary loan use WorldCat, a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

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Electronic Text Archives

These are full-text resources available on the web.

• Athena: Authors & Texts
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
• Celebration of Women Writers
• Douglas: Archives of American Public Address
• EServer
• Hypertexts
• Internet Classics Archive
• Literature @ SunSITE
• Making of America (Cornell)
• Making of America (Michigan)
• National Academies Press
• Online Books Page
• Online Medieval & Classical Library
• Oxford Shakespeare (1914)
• Oxford Text Archive
• Perseus Digital Library
• Project Gutenberg
• University of Toronto English Library
• University of Virginia Electronic Text Center

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Authors

• Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page

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Literary History & Criticism

• Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–21)
• Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
• Literary Resources -- Theory
• LitLinks - Has sections on Critical Theory and Literary Periods.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Outline of American Literature
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
• Voice of the Shuttle - Has a Literary Theory section.

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Writing

• American Heritage Book of English Usage (1996)
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (2000)
• Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• Citation Guides: How to Cite Sources
• Elements of Style (1918)
• How to Cite InfoTrac and GaleNet Sources
• Guide to Library Research
• Merriam-Webster Online
• New Guide to Writing Research Papers
• Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• Poets & Writers Online
• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (1995)
• Writing Center
• Writing Guides
• yourDictionary.com

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Reference

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Internet Movie Database
• Movie Review Query Engine
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988)

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Locating Books, Reviews & Publishers

• AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
• AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
• AddALL - Book searching and price comparison.
• Abebooks - Used, out-of-print and rare books. See also Bibliofind and BookFinder
• Amazon.com
• Library Journal
• Library of Congress Online Catalog
• New York Review of Books
• New York Times: Books - (Free registration.)
• Washington Post Book World

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Journals & Literary Magazines

• Arts & Letters Daily
• Atlantic Online
• Cortland Review
• New York Review of Books
• New Yorker Magazine
• NewsLink: Magazines

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Subject Guides

• English Literature on the Web
• Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
• LitLinks
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Voice of the Shuttle
• Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource

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Poetry

• Academy of American Poets
• American Verse Project
• Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry, 1250-1920
• British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive
• Canadian Poetry Archive
• Chaucer Metapage
• Dickinson Electronic Archives
• Digital Dante Project
• Electronic Poetry Center
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Internet Poetry Archive
• John Milton Reading Room
• Milton-L Home Page
• Modern American Poetry
• Poetry Daily
• Representative Poetry On-line
• Web Concordances
• William Blake Archive

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Multimedia Resources

• Academy of American Poets Listening Booth
• Assistive Media: Expanding the World of Reading
• Atlantic Online Audible Anthology
• Barnes & Noble: Behind the Words
• Booknotes
• Book TV
• Chaucer Metapage Audio Files
• Cortland Review
• Favorite Poem Project
• Great Speeches
• History and Politics Outloud
• Internet Poetry Archive
• National Public Radio - With audio archives for the Diane Rehm Show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Talk of the Nation and All Things Considered, among others.
• New York Times Audio Interviews and Readings - Free registration

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