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Specialized Databases

20th Century Poetry (American and English)  Provides an overview of poetry and the works of most major twentieth century English and American poets, from the traditionalists to the modernists. Includes the Modern Poetry collection and The Faber Poetry Library as well as covering major U.S. movements and schools (the New School, the Southern School, the Confessionals, the Beats, and the Black Mountain Poets). (Proquest-TexShare) Remote Access with University Network Account.

Literature Resource Center  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. (Gale-TexShare)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

MLA International Bibliography  The Modern Language Association of America indexes critical literary & language scholarship internationally. Includes case studies, dissertations, essays, journals, proceedings, & working papers. (EBSCO)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

MLA Directory of Periodicals  The Modern Language Association of America Directory of Periodicals list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines of the periodicals indexed in MLA. (EBSCO)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Contemporary Authors  Search biographical details of journalists, novelists, poets, & script writers with translated English works. Covers early 20th century to the present. (Gale-TexShare)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Contemporary Literary Criticism  Contains literary history & criticism of novelists, poets, short story writers, playwrights internationally from the 20th century to the present. (Gale-TexShare)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Dictionary of Literary Biography  Contains literary topic, periods and genres of American and English authors. May be used in conjunction with the print series. (Gale-TexShare)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Related General Databases

Literature Criticism Online Provides access to online editions of Contemporary Literary Criticism, 20th Century Literary Criticism, 19th Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Literature Criticism, and Short Story Criticism. The critical analyses are about authors throughout the ages of literature derived from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers. (Gale - Direct) Remote Access with University Network Account

Directory of Open Access Journals This service provides full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly, peer reviews journals in many subjects and languages. It includes academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources. (Lund Universities/TexShare) Free Web Access

JSTOR  An archive of scholarly journals in full text, starting with the first issues. Covers material from the 1800s up to between 1 and 8 years before current publication. (JSTOR)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Encyclopaedia Britannica The Encyclopaedia Britannica is the largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. Its broad scope includes statistics, classics, definitions, articles in journals, and maps. (Britannica - Direct) Remote Access with University Network Account.

Project Muse  Online collection of full text peer-reviewed journals from scholarly publishers. This collection complements JSTOR. (Muse)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Humanities International Complete Scholarly research material from a diverse humanities subject area. Covers dissertations, books, & journals. (EBSCO) Remote Access with University Network Account.

Academic Search Complete  Includes more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals; in addition to full text, offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Wilson Select Plus  Contains citations & abstracts from: Readers Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts & Wilson Business Abstracts.  (Extended FirstSearch) Library access only.

WorldCat  Locate books and other materials, such as musical scores & internet resources, in libraries worldwide, including the University of Dallas. Coverage is from 1200 to present. (FirstSearch-TexShare)  Remote Access with University Network Account.

Google Scholar Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts & articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities & other scholarly organizations. (Google) Free Web Access

Electronic Books

NetLibrary  A collection of full text reference, scholarly, and professional electronic books (eBooks) available for 24 hour electronic use. (OCLC-TexShare)  Remote Access with NetLibrary Account.

eScholarship Editions From the University of California, the eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. (Univ. of CA) Free Web Access

Online Journals (Current Subscriptions Only)

Atlantic Monthly
College English
Classical Review
Critical Quarterly
English Studies
Modern Language Review
Nineteenth Century Literature
Review of English Studies

Websites

American Verse Project  This site provides full-text poems for American poetry written before 1920. It includes the works of both well-known and little-known poets.

LiteraryResources on the Net  This comprehensive site provides links to literature resources categorized by broad literary periods and genres.

Poetry Society of America  Includes information on various contests and awards and lists of poetry journals, poetry publishers, and literary organizations and conferences.

The Victorian Web  This hypertext resource of Victorian literature source materials is maintained at Brown University.

Voice of the Shuttle Literature  Literature resources are included in the categories of Literature (in English) and Literatures (other than English) on this award-winning academic research site.

The Works of the Bard  This resource includes the capability of searching the text of Shakespeare's plays and poetry and a list of additional Shakespeare links.

Print Books (Selected List)

Specialized

Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works  Ref PN 1021 .G78 
Contemporary Poets  Ref PR 603 .C6
Guide to American Poetry Explication  Ref Z 1231 .P7 G85 
Last Lines; An Index to Last Lines of Poetry  Ref PN 1022 . K55 
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics  Ref PN 1021 .N39 
Poetry Handbook; A Dictionary of Terms  Ref PN 1021 .D3 
Words to Rhyme With: for Poets and Song Writers  Ref PE 1519 .E87  

General

Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia  Ref PN 41 .B4 
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism    Ref PN 86 .C573
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms  Ref PN 41 .C67 
Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series  Ref Z 1224 .C762
Contemporary Authors; a Bio-Bibliographical Guide  Ref Z 1224 .C76
Contemporary Literary Criticism    Ref   PN 771.C59
Contemporary Novelists    Ref   PR 881.C69 
Critical Heritage Series (individual volumes of criticism of major writers)  various call numbers
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters  Ref PN 44 .M3 
Dictionary of Literary Biography  Ref PN 501 .D5
Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms  Ref PN 41 .D4794
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism  Ref PN 81 .C97 J67 
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800  Ref PN 86 .L56
Modern Black Writers  Ref PN 841 .M58
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism  Ref PN 761 .N56
Research Guide to Biography and Criticism  Ref Z 2011 .R47
Survey of Contemporary Literature  Ref PN 44 .M34
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism  Ref PN 771 .G27

American and British

Bibliography of British Literary Bibliographies  Ref Z 2011 .A1 H68
Modern American Literature  Ref PS 221 .M53
Modern American Women Writers  Ref PS 151 .M54
Oxford Companion to African American Literature  Ref PS 153 .N5 O96 or Electronic Book available in NetLibrary
Oxford Companion to American Literature  Ref PS 21 .H325
Oxford Companion to English Literature  Ref PR 19 .D73
Reference Guide to American Literature  Ref PS 21 .R43

International

African Writers  Ref PL 8010 .A453
Contemporary Foreign Language Writers  Ref PN 771 .C585
Dictionary of Mexican Literature  Ref PQ 7106 .D53
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century  Ref PN 771 .E5
European Writers  Ref PN 501 .E9
Guide to French Literature  Ref PQ 41 .L48
Handbook of Russian Literature  Ref PG 2940 .H29
Great Foreign Language Writers  Ref PN 524 .G74
Latin American Writers  Ref PQ 7081 .A1 L37
New Oxford Companion to Literature in French  Ref PQ 41 .N48
Oxford Companion to German Literature  Ref PT 41 .G3
Oxford Companion to Irish Literature  Ref PR 8706 .O88
Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature  Ref PQ 6006 .O93
Spanish American Authors; the Twentieth Century  Ref PQ 7081 .3 F57

Shakespeare

The Essential Shakespeare: an Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies  Ref Z 8811 .C53
Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare  Ref PR 2892 .S63
Quotable Shakespeare: A Topical Dictionary  Ref PR 2892 .D37
Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare  Ref PR 2892 .C3
Shakespeare A to Z; the Essential Reference….  Ref PR 2892 .B69
Shakespeare Glossary  Ref PR 2892 .O6
Shakespeare Survey  Ref PR 2888 .C3

Print Journals (Current Subscriptions Only)

American Scholar  Per AP 2 .A5s3
Atlantic Monthly  Per PN 2 .A8m6
Ben Jonson Journal  Per PR 2638 .B465
Bulletin of the Comediantes  Per PQ 6098 .C64
Christianity and Literature  Per PN 49 .C49
College English  Per PN 2 .C3e5
Comparative Literature  Per PN 851 .C6L5
Conradiana  Per PR 1 .C6
Contemporary Literature  Per PN 2 .C6L5
Christianity and Literature  Per PN 49 .C49
Critical Quarterly  Per PN 2 .C7
Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos  Per AP 60 .C8h5
Dickensian  Per PR 1 .D5
Eighteenth Century Theory & Interpretation  Per DA 506 .B9B8
English Language Notes  Per PN 2 .E5L2
English Studies  Per PR 1 .E8s5
Esprit Createur, L': A Critical Quarterly of French Literature  Per BX 4700 .T5 A3 1925
Essays in Criticism  Per PN 2 .E8i5
Explicator, The  Per PN 2 .E9
Georgia Review  Per PN 2 .G4r3
Hispanofila  Per PQ 6001 .H55
Hopkins Quarterly  Per PR 4803 .H44Z649
Insula  Per PQ 6001 .S2i5
James Joyce Quarterly  Per PR 1 .J3j5
Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP)  Per HC 79 .E5 J678
Kenyon Review  Per PN 2 .K4r3
Literary Imagination  Per PN 2 .L56
Medium Aevum  Per PN 2 .M3a3
Midwest Quarterly  Per PN 2 .M5q8
Milton Quarterly  Per PR 1 .M5
Mississippi Quarterly  Per PS 1 .M5q8
Modern Language Review  Per PN 2 .M7L3
Modern Philology  Per P 1 .M5p5
Moreana  Per BQ 6727 .M6
Nineteenth Century Literature  Per PN 2.N5 C3
Notes and Queries  Per PR 1 .N5A5
Nouvelle Revue Francaise, La  Per PN 3 .N5r3
Papers on Language and Literature  Per PR 1 .P3
Philological Quarterly  Per PN 2 .P5q8
Poetry  Per PN 1010 .P6
Renascence  Per PN 2 .R3
Review of English Studies    Per PR 1 .R5o4
Revue de Litterature Comparee    Per PN 1 .R3
Revue des Deux Mondes    Per PN 3 .R6d3
Revue d'histoire Litteraire de France    Per PQ 2 .R4h5
Romance Notes    Per PC 1 .R58
Romance Quarterly    Per P 1 .K4
Sewanee Review    Per PN 2 .S3r3
Shakespeare Newsletter    Per PR 1 .S2n3
Shakespeare Yearbook    Per PR 2885 .S647
Southern Humanities Review    Per PN 2 .S6h8
Southern Review    Per PN 2 .S7r2
Southern Studies    Per PS 1 .L6s6
Studies in Romanticism    Per PN 2 .S8r6
Twentieth Century Literature    Per PN 2 .T8c3
University of Toronto Quarterly    Per PN 2 .U5t5
Victorian Newsletter    Per PR 1 .V5n4
Yale French Studies    Per PQ 1 .Y3

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