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English Honors College

Bing Honors College English - 2012 - Instructor: Christopher Rovee
Last Updated: 16-Mar-2015

Subject Librarians

Christopher Matson
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Cecil H. Green Library
(650) 736-8341
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Rebecca Wingfield
Curator for American and British Literature
Cecil H. Green Library
(650) 787-5283

Around Stanford

American Literary Studies
British and Commonwealth Literary Studies

Databases

Biography in Context

Covers both American and British authors

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Focus is on British authors.

MLA

Primary resource for locating journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in literary studies. You can broaden your search to include other databases e.g. "International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text" and "LGBT Life with Full Text." Add other databases by clicking on the Choose Databases link immediately above the search box.

The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism
Early English books online
British Periodicals

British periodical literature from the late seventeenth to early twentieth century. Strongest in nineteenth-century studies.

Dictionary of literary biography

Special Collections

Please plan in advance of use as materials are held off site and need to be paged to Green Library.  For further information please visit the Special Collections web site.

Locate materials via Searchworks . Please note that you can do a general search and limit by location to Special Collections or by format to Manuscript/Archive.

Bibliographic Management

I would strongly recommend that you begin using one of these tools early in your project.

More Databases in American Literary Studies

› See all 61 results
  1. 19th century masterfile [electronic resource].

    Indexes nineteenth century literature, including newspapers, periodicals, books, and government publications.

  2. African American periodicals, 1825-1995 [electronic resource].

    African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans.

  3. African-American poetry [electronic resource].

    "The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1...

More Databases in British and Commonwealth Literary Studies

› See all 84 results
  1. 19th century masterfile [electronic resource].

    Indexes nineteenth century literature, including newspapers, periodicals, books, and government publications.

  2. Annual bibliography of English language and literature [electronic resource] : ABELL

    Lists English-language articles, books, doctoral dissertations and reviews published anywhere in the world pertaining to bibliography, En...

  3. Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine [electronic resource]

    Emily Lorraine de Montluzin. 1997

    Over 5000 attributions of authorship for the first English magazine, searchable as a single database.

Connecting from off campus

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