English Literature: January 2008 Archives

 

 

TU Libraries has recently added Literature Criticism Online to its suite of electronic resources!

Literature Criticism Online is an outstanding reference literature database, offering biographical and bibliographical information on over 3,000 20th century and contemporary literary figures (novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and literary theorists), in addition to scholarly and popular commentary from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers.

This collection contains the scanned pages of every single volume from two of Gale's popular, print literary series: Contemporary Literary Criticism (245 volumes currently) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (196 volumes currently).  Just think how much shelf space that would be!  Users can search by known author, text, critic, or source title, as well as by keyword.

Literature Criticism Online is a valuable literary resource and complements well with the Libraries' subscription to Literature Resource Center which contains select collections of critical material from Gale's other literary resources: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Short Story Criticism.

Be sure to check it out!

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature is now available online via Credo Reference.

The encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to literature written between 500 and 1500.  While primarily devoted to the early literature of England, the volume also includes Islamic, Hispanic, Celtic, Mongolian, Germanic, Italian, and Russian literature and culture of the Middle Ages.

Entries provide thorough coverage of major English authors, such as Chaucer, and of entire genres, such as drama, ballad, and saga.  Literary works, key individuals, and important themes of the period are also covered.

TU Libraries is currently trialing 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection.

The Burney Collection is the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period – including English provincial, Irish, Scottish and a handful of papers from British colonies, in the Americas and Asia – relating political, educational and economic situations.

The trial lasts through February 2nd.  Let us know if you believe this resource should be added to our eResource collection permanently.

Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month.

• New American Literature Materials

• New English Literature Materials

• New Film & Media Arts Materials

Literally hundreds of new journals were recently added to Periodicals Index Online.  Select indexed titles include:

• American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 (1967-1995)
  
• Communication Yearbook (1977-1995)
  
• Doris Lessing Newsletter (1976-1995)
  
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1988-1995)
  
• European Journal of Communication (1986-1995)
  
• Political Communication (1980-1995)
  
• Studies in Scottish Literature (1963-1993)
  
• Victorian Literature and Culture (1973-1995)
  
• Yeats Annual (1982-1995)
  

Be sure to check them out!

Twenty-three new journals were recently added to Periodicals Archive Online.  Select titles include: