British Literature
FIND BOOKS
URSUS, available on Mariner, is the University of Maine System’s shared online catalog.
FIND ARTICLES
MLA International Bibliography [Mariner] Index to scholarly research in literature.
Academic Search Premier [Mariner] Full-text articles and index for scholarly and popular periodicals.
JSTOR [Mariner] Digital archive of core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, general science and social
sciences. Historical collection covering complete run of each journal from its inception to generally
2-5 years ago.
New York Times Historical [Mariner] America’s newspaper of record with important articles on architecture. Exact reproductions of entire issues of The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 up to the last two to three years. For current coverage, use LexisNexis Academic, ProQuest Newspapers, or the New York Times link.
New York Times [Mariner] Index to and full text coverage from 1999 to the present.
LexisNexis Academic [Mariner] Complete articles and indexing to many US and international newspapers.
ProQuest Newspapers [Mariner] Like LexisNexis Academic: full-text articles and indexing to US and international newspapers.
New York Times Index 1952-2002 [Index tables] NYT is available in full-text online 1851+ (see above New York Times Historical) and 1955-2003 in microfilm or paper.
New York Times Article Archive [Mariner] Indexing for The New York Times from 1851 to the present.
Literature Resource Center [Mariner] Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Scribner Writers Series and Twayne Authors Series.
Humanities Index 1974-2003 [Index tables] Previously Social Sciences & Humanities Index (1965-74) and International Index toPeriodicals (1907-65).
Essay & General Literature Index 1975-2002 [Index tables] Indexes essays and articles found in books.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature 1932-59; 1970-73; 1978-2003 [Index tables] Popular magazines. July 1939-June 1941 and April 1953- February 1955 unavailable at UMA.
Cumulative Index to Periodical Literature 1959-78 [Index tables] Fills gaps in Readers' Guide holdings.
Book Review Digest 1965-2003 [Index tables]
Short Story Index 1976+ [Index tables]
RESEARCH GUIDES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Book Review Index 1969-84 [REF Z 1035 .A1 B59]
Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) [REF PS 21 D5] Lengthy essays on life and work of literary figures as well as literary history and movements.
British Writers [REF PR 85 B688] Similar to DLB with long biographical and critical essays.
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) [REF PN 771 N5] Excerpts from criticism and brief biographical portraits of authors who died between 1800 and 1899.
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) [REF PN 771 T8] Excerpts from criticism and brief biographical portraits of authors who died between 1900 and 1959.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) [REF PN 771 C59] Portions of criticism on authors now living or who died after Dec. 31, 1959. Topical essays.
Contemporary Authors (CA) [REF Z 1224 C595 and C6] Personal information and statements by writers about their work.
New Moulton's: Pre-Twentieth-Century Criticism[REF PR 85 N39]
Continuum Encyclopedia of Modern Criticism and Theory [REF PN 94 C695]
Contemporary Critical Theory: A Selective Bibliography [REF Z 6514.C97 M37]
Critical Perspective: Twentieth-Century Criticism of British and American Literature 1904 [REF PR 85 C76]
Poetry Criticism (PC) [REF PN 1031 P64]
Critical Survey of Poetry [REF PN 1021 C7] Biographical and analytical essays covering 698 poets. Includes bibliographical sources for further study.
Contemporary Poets [REF PR 603 C6] Biographical sketches, criticism and bibliography.
Short Story Criticism (SSC) [REF PN 3373 S386]
Critical Survey of Short Fiction [REF PN 3321 C7]
Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication [REF Z 5917 S5 W33] Bibliography of criticism of short stories published after 1800.
Something about the Author (SATA) [REF PN 451 S6] Children’s literature; personal information and statements of writers.
Masterplots: 2,010 Plot Stories & Essay Reviews… [REF PN 44 M33]
Masterplots II. Short Story Series [PN 3326 M27]
Mystery and Suspense Writers [REF PR 830 D4 M97] A survey of authors and topics in mystery novels.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS & DICTIONARIES
Oxford English Dictionary [REF PE 1625 O87] Historical and changing meaning of words.
A Glossary of Literary Terms [REF PN 41 A184]
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms [REF PN 41 C67]
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory [REF PN 41 C83]
Common Knowledge: A Reader's Guide to Literary Allusions [REF PN 43 G68]
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [REF PN 44 M34]
Dictionary of British Literary Characters: 18th- and 19th-Century Novels [REF PR 830 C47 D5]
Dictionary of British Literary Characters: 20th-Century Novels [REF PR 888 C47 D53]
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia [REF PN 41 B4] Brief articles on various topics and people; international coverage.
Oxford English Dictionary [Mariner] Comprehensive dictionary of the English language.
Oxford Reference Collection [Mariner] Searchable collection of 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works.
Reader’s Guide to the Twentieth Century Novel [REF PR 888 P53 R43] Entries include critical assessments and plot summaries of English-language fiction.
Dictionary of Writers and Their Works [REF PN 451 C99]
Reader’s Guide to Twentieth Century Writers [REF PR 471 R43] Biographical outline, brief assessment and bibliography for each author entry.
Oxford Guide to British Women Writers [REF PR 111 S48] Writers in various genres from medieval times to the present. Brief outline of the writer's life and career, major publications and significant features of her work. Places writer in context of her times.
Feminist Companion to Literature in English [REF PR 111 B57] Biographies and topics important to the development of women writers.
Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists [REF PR 888 W6 W44] Introduction to women writing fiction in English; discussion of their work.
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics [REF PN 1021 N39] History, theory, technique and criticism. Surveys of national poetries.
Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms [REF PN 1042 W514]
Oxford Companion to English Literature [REF PR 19 D73] Works and authors as well as clubs, coffee houses, literary societies, printers, publishers, booksellers, theory, etc.
Oxford Dictionary of Plays [REF PN 1625 P38] Accounts of 1000 significant plays.
Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature [REF PR 871 S87] Discussions of novelists and synopses of novels.
Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature [REF PN 3435 S58]
John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism [REF PN 81 J64] An encyclopedia style guide with entries written with historical perspective.
The Concise Encyclopedic Guide To Shakespeare [REF PR 2892 M39]
Shakespeare A-Z [REF PR 2892 B69]
The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare [REF PR 2892 S62]
RESEARCH & WRITING MANUALS
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers [REF LB 2369 G53]
Chicago Manual of Style [REF Z 253 U69]
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations [REF LB 2369 T8]
A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature [REF PR 56 B34]
Undergraduate’s Companion to Women Writers and Their Web Sites [REF PR 111.W65 D43]
Women Poets of the World and Their Web Sites [REF PR 1024.D43]
A Short Guide to Writing about Literature [REF/RESERVE PE 1479 C7 B3 2003]
Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies [REF PR 83 H37]
The Columbia Guide to Online Style [REF PN 171 F56 W35]
Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information [REF PN 171 F56 L5]
WEB SOURCES
Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Organized by period and theorist or specialty, this is a varied collection of texts, electronic journals, articles bibliographies, and theory/theorist home pages.
The Electronic Text Center http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html A collection of texts in English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin.
Online Literary Criticism Collection http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/ The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 2504 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Romantic Chronology http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/projects/pack/rom-chrono/chrono.htm A vast source of information about English literature from the 17th to the 19th century.