Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include British and Irish authors, works, themes, genres, and history.
Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include literary theory, literary theorists, social and intellectual movements that influenced literature and literary criticism.
Offers authoritative, scholar-developed research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include Victorian authors, works, themes, genres, and history.
The definitive dictionary of the English Language. Provides timelines of when words entered the language, sources for words, and audio pronunciation guides.
Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Literature. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.
Search across literary biography, literary criticism, genre studies, reviews, and primary sources across thousands of Gale publications. Good starting point for doing any kind of research in English literature.
Provides content and tools to support the study of literature from a variety of sources including primary texts, criticism, full-text journals, book reviews, dissertations, eBooks, reference material, audio, and video.
Archive of almost every play submitted for licence in England between 1737 and 1824. Also includes The London Stage 1660-1800 which is a searchable database of every performance in London during those years and the Biographical Dictionary of Actors etc. 1660-1800.
A readers’ advisory tool to find books of fiction based on books already read or on topics of interest. Searchable by reading level (adult, young adult, child, and easy), author, title, subject, and plot.