Subject Guide
** New Book Lists, February 1-20 **
General Literature, PN
English Literature, PR
American Literature, PS
Non-PN, PR, or PS Call Numbers
** New Book Lists, January 12-31 **
General Literature, PN
English Literature, PR
American Literature, PS
Non-PN, PR, or PS Call Numbers
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Frequently-Used Article Databases
- Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowAn index to literary, linguistic, and folklore scholarship (books and articles) published throughout the world. Indexes material published from 1926-present.
- Project MUSE Premium collection This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers and prestigious scholarly societies.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals
Looking for journals published about a particular subject? One way to browse is through the MLA Directory of Periodicals. It lists and briefly describes the scope of all publications indexed in the MLA International Bibliography database.
- Modern Language Association (MLA) Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new windowEntries include the editorial contact information, submission guidelines, circulation frequency, and subscription prices for 5,500 journals, 4,400 of which are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. Updated ten times per year.
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- Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to books in the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series. Essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an inter-disciplinary audience. NOTE: WU Libraries do not subscribe to Shakespeare Survey. Please ignore those references in your results; you will not be able to get to the full-text.
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism This link opens in a new windowIncludes almost 300 alphabetically arranged entries and subentries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Updated annually.
- Literary Encyclopedia This link opens in a new windowOver 5100 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics, written by over 2000 specialists from universities around the world. Also lists over 22,000 works by date, country and genre. Covers canonical literature originally written in English, French, German and Russian, and is extending its coverage of Italian, Spanish, Latin and Greek. Data can be arrayed by date, country and genre.
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowA guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of many English words. Second edition, updated quarterly.