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English Literature


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Databases 

ABI/INFORM Complete ProQuest

Academic Search Elite EBSCO

Contemporary Authors Online GALE

CREDO Reference

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete GALE

eBook Academic Collection EBSCO

eBook Central ProQuest

eBook Collection EBSCO


Gale Literary Sources GALE

Learning Literature ProQuest

Literary Index GALE

Literature Criticism GALE

Literature Online (LION) ProQuest

MagillOnLiterature Plus EBSCO

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text EBSCO

More Databases



On the Web

Early Modern Literary Studies

English Literature Research Guide

English Literature: Restoration and 18th Century(1660-1785)

Intro to Neoclassicism

Lost Poets of the Great War

Shakespeare Resources

Twentieth-century Poetry in English

The Victorian Web



Books & eBooks These eBooks require EBSCO login info. Many more eBooks about English literature are available through the Library’s EBSCO and other databases.

The adventures of Robin Hood: an English legend by Paul Creswick. Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest
                  Association,c1991. Call #: PR2127 .G7

The Alice behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, c2011.
                  Call #: PR4611.A73 W56 2011

The American Historical Association’s guide to historical literature, general editor, Mary Beth Norton;
                  associate editor,Pamela Gerardi. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Call #: Z6201 .A55 1995

The Anglo-Saxon warrior ethic reconstructing lordship in Early English literature by John M. Hill. Gainesville:
                   University Press of Florida, c2000.

Archipelagic English literature, history, and politics, 1603-1707 by John Kerrigan. Oxford; New York: Oxford
                  University Press, 2008.

Bartlett’s familiar quotations: a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient
                  and modern literature by John Bartlett. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002. Call #: PN6081 .B27 2002

Beowulf edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1996.
                   Call no: PR1585 .B57 1996

Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript by Kevin S. Kiernan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996..
                   Call no: PR1585 .K5 1996

Brewer’s dictionary of phrase and fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
                  Call #: PN43 .B65 1989

Buddhist scriptures edited by Donald S. Lopez. edited by Donald S. Lopez. London: Penguin, 2004.
                  Call #: BQ1012.B836 2004

Charles and Emma: the Darwins’ leap of faith by Deborah Heiligman. New York: Holt, 2009.
                  Call #: QH31.D2 H42 2009

A companion to Old and Middle English literature edited by Laura Cooner
                   and Robert Thomas Lambdin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

The complete works of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll; illustrated by John Tenniel; introduction by Alexander
                  . New York, Modern Library [1936]. Call #: PR4611 .A1 1936

The Edinburgh introduction to studying English literature edited by Dermot Cavanagh et al. Edinburgh [UK]:
                  Edinburgh University Press, c2010.

English literature of the 1920s by David Ayers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c1999.

Familiar quotations: a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and
                  modern literature
by John Bartlett. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992. Call #: REF PN6081 .B27 1992

Fantasy and your family: exploring The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and modern magick by Richard Abanes.
                  Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications, c2002. Call #: PN56.F34 A54 2002

The fringes of belief: English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 by Sarah
                   Ellenzweig. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, c2008.

Grendel by John Gardner. New York: Vintage Books, 1989, c1971.. Call #: PS3557.A712 G7 1985

The grounds of English literature by Christopher Cannon. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Henry V: a concordance to the text of the first folio. Oxford, Clarendon Pr., 1971. Call #: PR2812.A79 H4

A history of the English Bible as literature by David Norton. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University
                  Press, 2000.

The importance of feeling English American literature and the British diaspora, 1750-1850 by Leonard
                  Tennenhouse. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2007.

Irish alphabet by Rickey Pittman. Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub., 2011. Call #: DA906 .P48 2011

Jonah and the big fish by Mark Ammerman. Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour Pub, c2000. Call #: BS580 .J55 2000,

The language of the eyes science, sexuality, and female vision in English literature and culture, 1690-1927 by
                   Daryl Ogden. New York: State University of New York Press, c2005.

Learning language through literature in secondary schools a resource book for teachers of English edited by
                  Peter Kennedy and Peter Falvey. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, c1999.

Literary terms: a dictionary by Karl E. Beckson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.
                  Call #: PN44.5 .B334 1975

The ludic self in seventeenth-century English literature by Anna K. Nardo. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New
                  York Press, c1991.

The Mabinogion translated with an introduction by Patrick K. Ford. Call #: PB2363.M2 S37 1997

The magical worlds of Narnia: the symbols, myths, and fascinating facts behind the Chronicles by David
                  Colbert. New York: Berkley, 2005. Call #: PR6023.E926 C53244 2005

Medieval writers and their work Middle English literature, 1100-1500 by J. A. Burrow. Oxford; New York: Oxford
                  University Press, c2008.

One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.New York: Harper & Row, [1970]
                  Call #: PQ8180.17 .A73

The Oxford companion to Chaucer edited by Douglas Gray. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
                  Call #: REF PR1903 .O94 2003

Oxford companion to English literature by Margaret Drabble, and Sir Paul Harvey. Oxford; New York: Oxford
                  University Press, 1985. Call no: REF PR19.D73 1993

The Oxford handbook of medieval literature in English edited by Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker with the
                  assistance of William Green. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English edited by Jenny Stringer; with an introduction
                  by John Sutherland. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

The portable Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde. New York: Penguin, 1981. Call #: PR5811 .A4 1981

The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770 by Scott Paul Gordon. Cambridge, UK ; New
                  York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Psychology of the unconscious: a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido: a contribution to
                  the history of the evolution of thought
by C. G. Jung. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1991.
                  Call #: BF173 .J8 1995

Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi. New York: Random House, c2003.
                  Call #: PE64.N34 A3 2003

Reference guide to English literature edited by D.L. Kirkpatrick. Chicago: St. James Press, c1991.
                  Call #: REF PR19 .R3 1991

Satan unbound the Devil in Old English narrative literature by Peter J. Dendle. Toronto, Ont.: University of
                  Toronto Press, c2001.

William Shakespeare, the complete works: illustrated. by William Shakespeare. New York: Avenel, c1975.
                  Call #: PR2754 .G73 1975