Literature and Language  

 
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 Other Local Library Catalogs

The following databases have been recommended for full text journal articles, articles in peer reviewed journals, citations & abstracts in English/Literature & Language. To access these databases go to the Journals & Databases A-Z list.

• MLA Bibliography
• Digital Dissertations
• Academic Search Complete
• JSTOR
• Oxford English Dictionary
• ProQuest

Internet Resources

Click below for web resources recommended by your subject area librarian.

• English / Literature & Language Resources

Writing a Research Paper

Click below for access to style manuals, dictionaries, thesauri, grammar sites and the GSU writing center.

• Writing a Research Paper

Literary Reference

• Glossary of Literary Terms by Robert Harris
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices by Robert Harris
  Definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices
• Literary Market Place: Home Page
  Access to listings of publishers, literary agents, trade services, and trade resources.
• A Literary Index: Making Sense of Literature on the Internet
A Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature.

Literary Texts

• PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL HOME SITE - INDEX 
  More than 10,000 titles in ASCII format.
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  Electronic texts of American and British literarure as well as Western philosophy.
• HTI List of Unrestricted Resources 
  Unrestricted electronic literary texts.
• English Online Resources -- Electronic Text Center
  Online literary texts.
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
  Electronic literary texts.
• The On-Line Books Page 
  Search for online texts.
• Shakespeare
  Complete works of William Shakespeare.
• Renascence Editions 
  Electronic texts of Renaissance classics.
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
  Thirty volumes of 19th-century African American women's literature.
• British Women Romantic Poets Home
  An electronic collection of texts.
• Bibliomania - Fiction Library - Contents
  Electronic texts of fiction classics.
• European Literature - Electronic Texts
  Literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
• EServer Fiction: Novels - This site offers works of and about fiction.

British and American Literature

• Literary Information Super Sites  
• Special Collections  
• Literary Criticism  
• Period or Movement  
• Theme

Literary Electronic Jourbals

• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  1990 to the present
• CTheory
  1993 to the present
• Currents in Electronic Literacy (Currents in Electronic Literacy replacesComputer Writing, Rhetoric, and Literature as the official e-journal of the CWRL.)
  1994 to the present
• Cultronix
  1994 to the present
• Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century
• EBR: Electronic Book Review
  1995 to the present
• Electronic Antiquity
  1993 to the present
• Hypermedia Joyce Studies
• New York Review of Books
• Nineteenth-Century Literature
  1990 to the present
• Postmodern Culture
  1990 to the present.
• Romanticism on the Net
  1996 to the present
• The Shakespeare Quarterly
• The Stanford Humanities Review
  1994 to 2000.

Style Manuals and Guides

• MLA ONLINE
  Authoratative information on MLA style.
• Governors State University - Online Writing Lab
  Resources and assistance in writing at GSU.
  Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Writing
  A comprehensive guide for grammar and basic writing.
• Purdue Online Writing Lab
  Valuable information for anyone involved in writing.

Ready Reference

• Reference Resources 
  Almanacs, Associations, Calculators, Calendars, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Maps, Phone Books, Quotations, Statistics, Style Guides.
• IPL Ready Reference Collection: Reference
  Almanacs, Associations, Biographies, Calculators, Calendars, Census Data, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Periodical Directories, Phone Books, Quotations, Style & Writing Guides.