Research Resources for Literatures in English
Penn State resources
- The CAT: Penn State University Libraries Catalog
- Microfinder: Index of Collections Available in Microforms
- Theatre Research Guide
- Zembla...Vladimir Nabokov
- English Department
Guides, metapages, general resources
- Literature Online
- Oxford Reference Online
- The Labyrinth: Sources for Medieval Studies
- Anglistik Guide at the State and University Library at Göttingen, Germany
- Harner, James L.Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies. 4th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2002.
Z2011.H34 2002 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
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Primary works
General catalogs of books and other materials
- WorldCat
- COPAC
- English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
- The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries. [London]: Mansell, 1968-76.
Z881.A1N2 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor, Paterno Humanities Reading Room
Literary bibliographies
- A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-98.
PR255.M3 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1969-77.
Z2011.B313 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection [3rd ed., 1999 -, PR83.N45 1999 v.4 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Blanck, Jacob. Bibliography of American Literature. New Haven: Yale UP, 1955.
Z1225.B55 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Howard-Hill, T. H. Index to British Literary Bibliography. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1987-.
Z2011.I5 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection. Supplement
Full-text literary databases
- African-American Poetry
- American Drama 1714-1915
- American Poetry
- American Verse Project
- The Bible in English (990-1970)
- Black Drama--1850 to Present
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
- Canadian Poetry
- Dictionary of Old English/ Old English Corpus
- Early American Fiction 1789-1875
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
- Early American Imprints Text Creation Partnership
- Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700)
- Early English Books Online
- Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online Text Creation Partnership
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction
- English Drama (1280-1915)
- English Poetry, Second Edition
- Literary Theory
- Middle English Compendium (Dictionary, HyperBibliography, and Corpus)
- Modern English Collection
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- Past Masters English Letters Series
- Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between...1477 and 1799
- Representative Poetry On-Line
- TEAMS Middle English Texts
- Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry
- Twentieth-Century English Poetry
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- W.B. Yeats Collection
- Women Writers Project
- Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
Indexes to short works: poetry, stories, plays
- Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
- Index of American Periodical Verse. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1971-.
Z1231.P7I47 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Play Index. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1949-.
Z5781.P53 / Arts and Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - Inter-play
- Short Story Index. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1953-.
Z5917.S5C61 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
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Critical and secondary works
Electronic journals and newspapers
- American Periodicals Series 1740-1900
- British Newspapers 1600-1900
- British Periodicals
- Eighteenth Century Journals
- JSTOR
- Literature Online Full-Text Journals
- Periodicals Archive Online
- Project MUSE
- New York Times Historical (1851-2004)
- Times [London] Digital Archive 1785-1985
Indexes to articles and current literature
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
- Web of Science
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
- Index to Theses...Great Britain and Ireland
- FIAF International Film Archive Database
- MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
- Chaucer Bibliography Online
- World Shakespeare Bibliography
- James Joyce Checklist Online
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- International Medieval Bibliography
- Periodicals Index Online
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1966-89.
Z2005.H6 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection (New ed. on CD-ROM, AI3.W452 1999 / Arts & Humanities Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference)
Surveys of criticism
- American Literary Scholarship. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1963-.
PS3.A47 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. Philadelphia: American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 1978-.
Z5579.E38 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - The Year's Work in English Studies. London: Blackwell, 1919/20-.
Z7036.E53 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, for the English Association, 1994-.
PN80.Y43 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
Book reviews
- Book Review Digest. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1905-.
Z1219.C96 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Abstracts & Indexes - Book Review Index
- ChoiceReviews.online
- TLS Centenary Archive
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Reference works and compilations
Dictionaries of terminology
- Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 8th ed. Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.
PN41.A184 2005 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.
PN81.J554 2005 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Harmon, William. A Handbook to Literature. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
PN41.H355 2003 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - Cuddon, J.A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 4th ed., rev. C.E. Preston. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
PN41.C83 1998 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.
PN1021.N39 1993 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Glossary of Poetic Terms
Encyclopedias and handbooks
- The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 6th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
PS21.H3 1995 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 6th ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
PR19.O94 2000 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
PR471.O94 1996 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
PS147.O94 1995 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
PS21.E537 2004 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
PR19.O95 2006 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
PR9080.A52E53 2005 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - Dictionary of Native American Literature. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.
PM155.D53 1994 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
PS316.E63 1998 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
PS323.5.E53 2001 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
PS153.N5O96 1997 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - Dictionary of Irish Literature. Rev. and expanded ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
PR8706.D5 1996 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.
DE5.O9 2003 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
Dictionaries and language resources
- yourDictionary.com
- The Oxford English Dictionary
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary of The English Language Unabridged
- Middle English Dictionary
- Dictionary of Old English
- Dictionary of the Scots Language
- The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1992.
PE31.O94 1992 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.
PE1072.C68 1995 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Garner's Modern American Usage . 2nd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
PE2827.G37 2003 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference
Histories and chronologies
- The Chronology of American Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
PS94.C48 2004 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - The Cambridge History of American Literature . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994-.
PS92.C34 1994 / Pattee - Stacks 3 - The Oxford English Literary History . Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2002-.
PR85.O96 2002 / Pattee - Stacks 3 - The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2002.
PR87.O95 2002 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
Directories
- AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
- Libweb: Library Servers via WWW
- MLA Directory of Periodicals
- PMLA [annual Directory issue]. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1922-.
PB6.M6 / Pattee, Stacks 2A - WATCH: Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders
- A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers
Style manuals
- The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.
Z253.C5701 15th.ed. 2003 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2003.
LB2369.G53 2003 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008.
PN147.G444 2008 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference - Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style
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Biographical compilations and indexes
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Contemporary Authors
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- American National Biography
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Academy of American Poets
- American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present
- The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven: Yale UP, 1990.
PR113.F45 1990 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Contemporary Novelists
- Contemporary Poets
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Guides to archives and manuscripts
- ArchiveGrid
- Archive Finder
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
- A2A: Access to Archives
- Archives Hub
- British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
- Index of English Literary Manuscripts. London: Mansell; New York: R.R. Bowker, 1980-.
Z6611.L7I5 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. London: British Library, 1995.
Z6611.L7L625 1995 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection - Location Register of Twentieth-Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: A Union List of Papers of Modern English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Authors in the British Isles. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988.
Z6611.L7L63 1988 / Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
William S. Brockman
Paterno Family Librarian for Literature
W329 Pattee Library
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
uxb5@psu.edu
814-865-9718