English and Literature

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Key databases
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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High impact journals
Web sites and Internet resources

Key databases

The databases listed below (in alphabetical order) contain thousands of journal articles that are relevant to your assignments. You can do keyword searches to find information that can be quoted in your essays.

JSTOR gives reliable access to full text articles, MLA Bibliography is the standard guide to literary criticism of world authors and use AustLit for Australian material.

APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995.
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AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource Selected Full Text
Authoritative information on Australian literature.

Chaucer Bibliography Online
This bibliography includes Chaucer studies from 1975 until the present.

Duke Scholarly Collection Full Text
Covers humanities and the social sciences.
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Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

Literature Resource Center Full Text
The Center includes bibliographies, information, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers.

MLA Bibliography
MLA is the standard guide to literary criticism of world authors. It also includes coverage of folklore and linguistics.
Individual Literature Collections Help

Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

The Source Selected Full Text
Covers children's literature awards and prizes worldwide. Includes a subject, author, genre and title guide to books, short stories and poetry for children.

Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

American History Through Literature 1820-1920
Australian National Dictionary
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.

There are a number of English language dictionaries, companions, encyclopedias and thesaurii. Literature titles include Oxford dictionaries and Companions for American, Australian, Canadian, Classical, English, Irish and New Zealand literature. There are also items on science fiction, mythology, poetry, children's literature and Shakespeare.

Assignment help

ENCO310 Children's Literature: Picture Books and Fantasy. 'Charlotte's Web' by E B White
ENCO329 Publishing and Editing
ENGL101 An Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL102 Literature and Society
E NGL351 Victorian Literature and Culture

High impact journals

The following English and Literature journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Literary Studies:

Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities 1997-
Australian Literary Studies 1994- and in print at Call Number PA820.5/A9386
Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance is in print at Call Number P805/BIB
Colloquia Germanica is in print at Call Number P830.05/C714
Critical Inquiry 1974-2002
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte is in print at Call Number P830.5/DEU
ELH (English Literary History) 1934-1994, 2002- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print at Call Number P820.5/ELH
English Studies 1997- and in print at Call Number P820.5/ENG
Euphorion: Zeitschrift fur Literaturgeschichte is in print at Call Number P830.5/EUP
Fabula 2002- (3 year delay for most current issue)
German Quarterly 1928-2004, 1999- and in print at Call Number P430.5/GER
Huntington Library Quarterly 2000-
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 1939-2002
Medium Aeveum 1995-, 1992- (Gale databases)
Milton Quarterly 2006- and in print at Call Number P821.4/M662
Modern Fiction Studies 2002- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print at Call Number P809.305/MOD
Modern Italy 1997-
Modern Language Quarterly 2000- and in print at Call Number P805/M6892
Neophilologus 1997-
New German Critique 1973-2004, 2006-
New Literary History 1969-1994, 2002- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print at Call Number P809/N532
Nineteenth Century Literature 1986-2004, 2002-
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 1889-2002 and in print at Call Number P805/P738
Rassegna Della Letteratura Italiana is in print at Call Number P850.5/R228
Renaissance Quarterly 1967-2004, 1994- (Gale databases)
Representations 1983-2004, 2002- and in print at Call Number P700.5/R425
Revue d'Histoire Litteraire de la France is in print at Call Number P840.5/REV
Romantisme is in print at Call Number P840.5/R759
Seventeenth Century 1999-2007, 2002- and in print at Call Number P909.6/S479
Shakespeare Quarterly 1950-2002, 1988- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print at Call Number P821.3/SHA.S
Shakespeare Studies 1997-
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 1996- (Gale databases)
Weimarer Beitrage is in print at Call Number P830.5/W422
Wirkendes Wort is in print at Call Number P830.5/WIR

Web sites and Internet resources

Australian Literature

ASAL The Association for the Study of Australian Literature provides a directory of postgraduate research on the topic of Australian literature, as well as publications and a newsletter.
Australian Journals Online Provided by the National Library, this database searches hundreds of e-journals online.
Australian Literature Links to websites maintained by the National Library of Australia
Australian Literary and Historical Texts Sydney University Library's SETIS (Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service).

Children's Literature

Children's and YA Literature on the Web Links to useful resources about awards, book reviews, and collections of literature for children and young adults.
Children's Literature Web Guide Links to internet resources related to books for children and young adults provided by the University of Calgary.

English Resources

The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Resource Thousands of letters written by Scottish author and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801 - 1866) provided by Duke University Press.
Early Modern Literary Studies This full text e-journal with holdings dating back to 1995 concentrates on sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature.
Eighteenth Century Resources This portal page has sites arranged in categories such as eighteenth century authors, theatre and drama, gothic resources, romanticism, women writers, French, German and Italian literature, and includes scholarly works written about the eighteenth century.
English Literature Resources Compiled by the London School of Journalism, this resources site offers free electronic texts, general and author-specific web sites on English literature, and includes a section titled "Help for Students".
JAC A peer reviewed journal publishing theoretical articles on a variety of topics related to rhetoric, writing, multiple literacies, and the politics of education. Articles date from 1980 to the present.
Labyrinth Library Old English and Anglo-Saxon literature resources and e-texts from Georgetown University.
Paris Review interview archives published since the 1950s, interviews with literature's major writers
Victorian Database Online Search over 100,000 records listing books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to 1999 on every field of nineteenth-century British studies. This is a bibliographic database only — it does not provide full text documents.