Subject Guides

Databases

• Authors
• Book Reviews
• Essay/Research Paper Resources
• Literature

Authors

American Writers Collection
Biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers

British Writers
Critical and biographical analysis of writers of British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th-century-present.

Something About the Author *
Provides comprehensive online access to all volumes of Gale's award-wining reference set, Something About the Author (the main series), and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series.

Book Reviews

Book Review Digest Plus
More than 1.3 million reviews on more than 550,000 books.  Updated daily with retrospective coverage back to 1983.

Books in Print
Includes books in print and forthcoming from more than 44,000 North American publishers.

Essay/Research Paper Resources

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. Over 500 journals are related to literature.

CQ Researcher
Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Can be read in its entirety or by section, which includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Google Scholar
Use this link to have Google Scholar recognize you as a George Fox user, and link you to our full text subscriptions. Google Scholar indexes a broad array of scholarly literature.

LexisNexis Academic.
Comprehensive news, business, and legal information, entirely full-text.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Covers current hot social issues, such as Terrorism, Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research and Gun Control. Provides pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more.

Literature

America: History and Life
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge is a full text database which includes prominent journals about language, linguistics, and Victorian as well as other areas of literature.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
CMMC contains full text journals in the subject areas of journalism, rhetoric, linguistics, and literature. In addition, the database contains over 3,000 author profiles of scholars whose articles are included within the database.

JSTOR
A full-text archival database providing access to 88 journals in the fields of the language, literature, and folklore.

Literature Criticism Online
Includes the Gale print sets of Nineteenth-Century, Twentieth-Century, and Contemporary Criticism from 1971-2011 as well as the print set of Something about the Author from 1970-current. This is an extensive collection of scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.

Literature Resource Center
Gales’ mega-database containing information on almost all facets of literature.  It provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

MLA Bibliography
This database indexes literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from 4,400 journals and series worldwide.

Oxford Reference Online
Online collection of Oxford Reference resources including dictionaries and companions to many literary subjects.

Dictionaries

• General
• Thesauri
• Topical
• Visual

* electronic resource

General

Concise Oxford English dictionary*

Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary

Oxford American dictionary of current English*

Oxford English Dictionary* -- definitive record of the Engish language.

Shorter Oxford English dictionary (Shorter OED)

Thesauri

Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus*

Oxford American writer’s thesaurus

Roget's 21st century thesaurus in dictionary form*

Topical

Bloomsbury dictionary of English literature*

Cambridge dictionary of American idioms

Cambridge guide to English usage

Facts on file dictionary of classical and biblical allusions

Facts on file dictionary of clichés

Hutchinson dictionary of quotations*

New Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English

Oxford dictionary of quotations*

Oxford dictionary of rhymes*

Twentieth century literary movements dictionary

Visual

DK illustrated Oxford dictionary

Firefly visual dictionary

Visual English dictionary*

Encyclopedias

• World Literature - Histories
• World Literature - Current
• Topical Encyclopedias
• Criticism
• Gender Theory
• Poetry
• Children's Literature

* - electronic resource

World Literature - Histories

Cambridge guide to teaching English to speakers of other languages *

Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature (Vols. 1 and 2)  *

Cambridge history of American literature (Vols. 1-8) *

Cambridge history of Arabic literature *

Cambridge history of Classical literature *

Cambridge history of Early Christian literature *

Cambridge history of Early Modern English literature *

Cambridge history of English literature *

Cambridge history of English poetry *

Cambridge history of English Romantic literature *

Cambridge history of French literature *

Cambridge history of German literature *

Cambridge history of Irish literature *

Cambridge history of Latin American literature *

Cambridge history of Medieval English literature *

Cambridge history of Russian literature *

Cambridge history of Spanish literature *

Cambridge history of the American novel *

Concise encyclopedia of Latin American literature *

Continuum encyclopedia of American literature *

Continuum encyclopedia of British literature *

Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003 *

Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century

Oxford chronology of English literature

World Literature - Current

Concise encyclopedia of Latin American literature *

Continuum encyclopedia of British literature *

Hutchinson encyclopedia of literature *

Oxford encyclopedia of American literature *

Reference guide to world literature

World literature and its times

Topical Encyclopedias

Cyclopedia of literary characters

Cyclopedia of world authors

Encyclopedia of American war literature *

Encyclopedia of postmodernism *

Encyclopedia of the novel

Encyclopedia of rhetoric

Facts on file encyclopedia of word and phrase origins

Shakespeare's theatre: a dictionary of his stage context *

Who's who in classical mythology *

Criticism

Cambridge history of literary criticism *

Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory *

Encyclopedia of literature and criticism *

Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory and criticism

Gender Theory

Cambridge guide to women's writing in English *

Encyclopedia of feminist literature

Encyclopedia of women and gender *

Feminist philosophies A-Z *

Gender and education: an encyclopedia *

History of feminist literary criticism *

Poetry

Encyclopedia of American poetry

World poets

Children's Lit

Continuum encyclopedia of children's literature *

Oxford encyclopedia of children’s literature

Web resources

Bartleby.com
Literary site with access to reference sources like Bartlett’s Quotations and older classics in fiction, non-fiction and verse.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
Links to critical and biographical sites for various authors and their works

Literary Resources on the Net
Maintained by Rutgers’, Jack Lynch, this is a collection of scholarly resources in English and American literature useful to academics.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
An annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet maintained by Terry Gray at Palomar Community College

Project Gutenberg
Electronic copies of many literary works and some sheet music in the public domain

Representative Poetry Online Project
From the University of Toronto, good poetry resources and an especially strong glossary of poetic terms

Voice of the Shuttle
Excellent gateway for scholarly English Literature resources maintained by Alan Liu, Professor of English University of California at Santa Barbara along with his development team

Writing and Research

Critical Evaluation of Resources

OWL – Online Writing Lab
Sponsored by Purdue University - online reference for scholarly writing

Literature Review Tutorials

Getting started on your literature review (The U. of New South Wales)

Conducting a literature review in education and the behavioral sciences (Adelphi University)

List of Literature Review Resources

Writing the literature review (Empire State College)

Grammar Resources

Elements of style (web resource)

University of Minnesota’s Online Grammar Handbook

C. S. Lewis Web Resources

C. S. Lewis Foundation
This is the website of the organization that is restoring the C. S. Lewis home ("The Kilns") in Oxford. It includes a concise timeline of Lewis' life and a thorough list of books by and about Lewis.

C. S. Lewis on War

The C. S. Lewis Reviews
This site is maintained by a respected Lewis scholar at Bowling Green State University. Good, reliable information not only on Lewis, but also on the other Inklings, especially J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.

Into the Wardrobe
This site is maintained by an amateur Lewis afficianado who lives in Seattle, Washington. It contains lots of interesting features. Check out the audio clips of Lewis reading from The Four Loves and the Photograph album. There are links to reviews of Shadowlands and other scholarly articles about Lewis.

Narnia
This site is devoted exclusively to Lewis' great fantasy work, The Chronicles of Narnia. It includes detailed maps of Narnia as well as illustrations and descriptions of all the characters (humans, talking beasts, and mythological).

Style guides

APA

FAQ's about APA citation

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

Chicago

A manual for writer's of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago style for students and researchers

Chicago manual of style

MLA

MLA handbook for writer’s of research papers

MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing

Market guides

Christian writer’s market guide

Literary market place

Novel and short story writer’s market

Poet’s market

Writer’s market

Professional organizations

Academy of American Poets
An organization dedicated to the support of poets at all stages of their careers

American Comparative Literature Association
A scholarly organization created to support cross-cultural literature and its study

American Folklore Society
Association of people who study and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world

American Humor Studies Association
The association goal is to foster and to promote study, criticism, and research in American humor

American Literature Association
An association created to support scholars in their study of individual authors

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Dedicated to supporting the professional development and skills of teachers of technical writing

Children’s Literature Association
The association is to encourage high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children's literature

Modern Language Association
MLA is dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. 

National Council of Teachers of English
Dedicating to the advancement of teaching, research, and student achievement in English language arts at all scholastic levels.

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Authors

Authorship

Authors and Publishers

Bibliography

Black Authors

Book Reviews

Children’s Literature

Christian Literature

Classical Literature

Creative Writing

Criticism -- 28 Related Subjects

Dramatists

English Language – Rhetoric

Epic Literature

Folklore

Humor

Journalists

Literature

Literature - Comparative

Novelists

Plagiarism

Poetry

Poets

Publishing

Quotations

Religion and Literature

Screenwriters

Shakespeare

Style, Literary

Technical Writing

Writing

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

Google search: English

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.

Shakespeare Searched is a search engine from Clusty that provides quick access to Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.  Search by topic, work, or character.