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This guide is designed to help you find information and resources for English Literature.

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Key Databases for English

Novanet allows you to search for articles across many but not all library databases. Certain key databases, including MLA, are not searchable using Novanet.

Novanet can be a good place to start searching for articles on some topics but it does not replace searching individual library databases.

MLA (Modern Language Assocation) International Bibliography
Index to scholarly research in several languages covering topics in language, literature, linguistics, folklore and film. Includes citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers as well as series, proceedings, theses.

Years Indexed: 1920s - present
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Index to Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide.

Years Indexed: 1960 - present.
JSTOR
Expanded access until June 30, 2021
Full-text archive of journals in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Current and recent volumes (last 2 to 5 years) not available for most titles.
Literature Criticism Online
Literature Criticism Online provides full-text access to Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) beginning with volume 325 (2012) to volume 393 (2016)(no new volumes will be added as this title was cancelled in March 2016). Older volumes are available in print in the library (Basement Reference, PN 771 .C59). CLC provides full-text or excerpted criticism reproduced from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

These are just a few of the library databases you can search to find scholarly information in the field of English Literature. For a complete list of key databases for English, please see:

Full List of English Databases

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Drama Online
Includes the Core Collection, which features over 1,775 playtexts, including Arden Shakespeare play editions, Methuen Drama imprints, and “a diverse and rich catalogue of plays by the world's leading dramatists,” and the Playwrights Canada Press Collection.

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New Books & E-Books

Just a few titles recently added to our collections:

An Anthology of Indigenous Literatures in English: Voices from Canada by Armand Garnet Ruffo, Katherena Vermette, Daniel David Moses & Terry Goldie, eds.
Call Number: PS 8235 .I6 A56 2020
ISBN: 9780199031719
Publication Date: Oxford UP, 2020
“Emphasizing the importance of the oral tradition, the newly revised and expanded anthology offers a diverse selection of graphic and short stories, songs, poems, plays, letters, and essays by exceptional writers from First Nations, Inuit, and Metis communities across Canada."
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer by Suzanne Conklin Akbari & James Simpson, eds.
Call Number: PR 1924 .O94 2020
ISBN: 9780199582655
Publication Date: Oxford UP, 2020
Addresses "Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion."
Mary Wollstonecraft in Context by Nancy E. Johnson & Paul Keen, eds.
Call Number: PR 5841 .W8 Z756 2020
ISBN: 9781108416993
Publication Date: Cambridge UP, 2020
"Leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre.”
Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Geneva Cobb Moore
Call Number: PS 3563 .O8749 Z779 2020
ISBN: 9781643361000
Publication Date: University of South Carolina, 2020
“Explores how Morrison uses parody and pastiche, semiotics and metaphors, and allegory to portray black life in the United States, teaching untaught history to liberate Americans."
American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse by Dan Sinykin
Call Number: PS 228 .A65 S56 2020
ISBN: 9780198852704
Publication Date: Oxford UP, 2020
“The varieties of neoliberal apocalypse – [including] horror at the nation's commitment to a racist, exclusionary economic system; resentment about threats to white supremacy; apprehension that the nation has unleashed a violence that will consume it […] - together form the discordant chord that hums under American life in the twenty-first century."

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