English & American Literature

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Contains citations to books, journal articles and dissertations published on literature, modern languages, linguistics, and folklore. In addition to English and American literature, it also covers European, Asian, African, and Latin American literatures. The database has millions of citations from thousands of journals and series published worldwide from 1926 to the present. More Info

ABELL

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) as found on Literature Online. Contains over 750,000 citations leading to monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. ABELL also includes links to the full text of over 60 journals from 1998 to the present. (ABELL) as found on Literature Online. More Info

Literature Online

A set of databases which provide access to full-text, fully searchable electronic versions of poetry, fiction, drama, and reference works, as well as links to additional relevant web resources, and selected secondary sources. More Info

Academic Search Complete

Provides coverage of articles from thousands of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Subject coverage includes literary topics. More Info

Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)

Provides full-text access to over 9,000 critical and biographical essays on British and American authors from all eras and genres. DLB can be searched in conjunction with Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticism. More Info

Twayne Authors Series

The Twayne Authors Series is an online literary reference resource comprising Twayne's Unites States Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. This database offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature--from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee. It provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres. More Info

Literature Resource Center

A complete literature reference database designed for undergraduate students. Electronic version of biographical, bibliographical and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). More Info

Scribner Writers Series

Provides access to more than 2,000 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world. More Info

Databases & Other Web Resources

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

As a part of Web of Science, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database indexing more than 1,100 arts and humanities journals. A good resource for retrieving scholarly book reviews. More Info

Early English Books Online

Contains over 22 million digital page images of virtually every work printed in the English language as well as works printed in Great Britain and its dependencies from 1473-1700 in any language. More Info

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues). More Info

JSTOR

Presents the full text, in facsimile form, of the complete back files of important scholarly journals, generally from the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent three years. More Info

LLBA

linguistics & language behavior-related research More Info

Magill's Literary Annual

Covers recent works of fiction and nonfiction across subjects, genres, and countries. Each year, Magill's Literary Annual critically evaluates 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar year. Coverage of works reflects the publishing trends of a given year. More Info

Periodicals Index Online

Indexes over 3,000 academic and popular periodicals published from as early as 1770 to the present in the humanities and social sciences. Full-text images are available for over 100 journals. More Info

Project Muse

Provides full-text journal articles , largely in the disciplines of Cultural Studies, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion and Theater. More Info

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

A listing of dissertations back to 1861 including many full-text dissertations from 1997 to the present, including those done at UB. More Info

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book chapters, reviews, dissertations and more related to Shakespeare. It is international in scope and is searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, language, publisher, and/or periodical title. Dates covered include 1972-2001. More Info

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875

Online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. More Info

Encyclopedias, Directories, Handbooks

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

This Guide is a full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. More Info

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

A historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. More Info

WorldCat

A mega-library catalog containing more than 55 million records contributed by 20,000 libraries around the world. More Info

University at Buffalo Libraries