English literature

Liaison Librarian

Lonnie Weatherby 514-398-5031 Humanities and Social Sciences Library

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McGill users only
Open access resource
Free resource
In-library-use only
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Sources for Background Information

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

Searching the Library Catalogue

Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - Canada, Canad?, histor?, etc.

Search tips

Truncation symbol:	?	e.g. histor? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words history, histories, historical, etc.
Phrase searching:	"___"	e.g. "United Nations" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase United Nations
Boolean operators:	(), AND, OR, NOT default: AND	e.g. history AND (Canada OR "United States") will retrieve catalogue records containing the word history AND either Canada OR the phrase United States

Core and Additional Databases

Periodical Indexes & Full-text Databases

Indexes

English Short Title Catalogue (1473-1800)
(an index but the backbone to EEBO & ECCO)
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919)
ArchiveGrid
C19, the nineteenth Century Index
Nineteenth Century, in association with the British Library

Full-text Primary Sources

British Literary Manuscripts Online
Victorian Manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library
Literary manuscripts. 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
Perdita manuscripts: women writers, 1500-1700
Gerritsen Collection of women’s studies
Orlando, women’s writing in the British Isles from the beginnings to the present
Early European Books: printed sources to 1700
EEBO (Early English Books Online), 1473-1700
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), 1701-1899
Early American Imprints. Series 1, Evans (1639-1800).
Early American Imprints. Series 2, (1801-1819).
Eighteenth Century Journals II: Newspapers and Periodicals, 1699-1812.
American Periodicals Series Online (1740-1900).
Nineteenth Century Collection Online
Victorian Popular Culture
17th-18th century Burney Collection Newspapers
Defining Gender, 1450-1900: Five Centuries of Advice Literature Online.
Past Masters - (Full text material from Antiquity to Modern).
Electronic Enlightenment - (17th-18th Century letters, documents, and correspondence).
North American Theatre Online - (Texts and production info).

Secondary Sources

Newspapers

Selected Internet Sites

Accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

McGill University Department of English
Internet for English
A tutorial from the Virtual Training Suite designed for UK higher education.
Literary Resources on the Net
Maintained by Jack Lynch, Asst. Prof. of English, Rutgers University.
Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature
EServer: Accessible Online Publishing
Links to a variety of resources in field of English literature (among other subjects): full texts, journals, literary theory, gender criticism, etc.
Literary Index (Gale)
Master index to every literary series published by Gale, many of which are located in the McLennan Reference collection and/or at the Literature Resource Center (Gale) and including Contemporary Authors , Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Something About the Author, Shakespearean Criticism, and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.
Romantic Chronology
Database searchable by date and/or topic, of historic and literary personnages, events, and movements in the romantic period (17th - 19th century), with links to online articles, bibliographies, web pages, historical and literary sources, etc.
Online Literary Criticism
Twentieth-century Authors
Luminarium: Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
Online Chaucer Bibliography
Includes materials from the Annotated Chaucer Bibliography published annually in Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
Old English at the University of Virginia
Includes Old English Aerobics, a series of texts and exercises for students of old English.
Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
Ca. 20 consecutive years of Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Concordances (Internet Resources)

Web Concordances
For selected works by Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Victorian Literary Studies Archive: Hyper-Concordance
To works of over 100 authors.

Other Resources

Library Guides

English Literature: A Selective List of Reference Sources
Literature and the Bible: A Selected List of Reference Sources
English Language books Printed Before 1700: A Guide to Their Location (ed. 1974; corrected 1977)
Print copy only, available at the McLennan Reference Desk.
English Literature: A Guide to Serial Bibliographies (1981)
Print copy only, available at the McLennan Reference Desk.
English Literature Reference Sources (1992)
Print copy only, available at the McLennan Reference Desk.

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