Research Guide for: English

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Research Resources for ENGL 3300

Essential Resources

• America: History & Life
       Index to articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada
  
  
• American Periodical Series (APS) Online
       Full-text of 1,100+ periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900
  
  
• American writers before 1800 : a biographical and critical reference guide / Levernier and Wilmes
       3 volumes / INGRAM LIBRARY REFERENCE COLLECTION: PS185 .A4
  
  
• Annals of American History
       Full text of over 2000 primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, etc.
  
  
• Early American Digital Archive
       Collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820
  
  
• Digital Library of Georgia
       Georgia history and culture in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials
  
  
• Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
       Definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, including literature, music, religion, and much more.
  
  
• Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
       Primary source collection with full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early years of the 19th century
  
  
• Library of Congress: American Memory Project
       Full-text from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicling historical events, people, places, and ideas that have shaped America
  
  
• Library of Southern Literature (Univ.of NC)
       Full-text for a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924
  
  
• The Making of America: Cornell Collection
       Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
  
  
• The Making of America: Michigan Collection
       Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
  
  

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
       Index to books, articles, reviews, collections, and dissertations in English studies
  
  
• Cambridge History of English & American Literature: American
       Wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
  
  
• Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800 / Todd
       INGRAM LIBRARY REFERENCE COLLECTION: PR113 .D5 1985
  
  
• GALE Literary Databases
       Dictionary of Literary Biography + literature reference database with biographical, bibliographical, and critical content.
  
  
• Google
        Very comprehensive index to the web.
  
  
• JSTOR
       Full-text scholarly journals covering Language, Literature, and many other subjects. Includes literary criticism of short stories, plays, poems, poetry, and novels
  
  
• Literature Online Reference Edition
       Criticism and reference works for British and American poetry, drama and prose.
  
  
• MLA International Bibliography
       Index to books and articles on language, literature, folklore, and linguistics. Includes literary criticism of short stories, plays, poems, poetry, novels
  
  
• Project MUSE
       Full text of over 220 journal titles from 37 scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others
  
  

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